Website: http://www.adiumx.com/ Software Provider: Adium X Development Team Current Version: Adium X 1.3.6 Operating Systems: Mac OS X Licence: Freeware
Adium will no longer unhide when new messages are received
New message windows now appear behind existing windows
Improved window position saving when not using tabs
Added emoticon, edit link, bookmarks, and safari link toolbar items
Improvements to tab auto-grouping and auto-arranging, including performance and visual improvements
Improvements to status display when not using tabs. Typing and new content are now displayed in the window titlebar
User icons no longer animate in the message window, improved user icon updating
Improved sound code. Better performance, wider support for formats, finer volume control, and output device selection
Improved typing support. We now correctly support the \'entered text\' state that occurs when a user stops typing
Improved support for installing Xtras. Preferences now update when new Xtras are installed
Cleaned up contextual menus, window menu
Added a preference to turn off contact list tooltips
Aliases can now be set from the add contact window
Improved and simplified the theme preferences
The close buttons on tabs now only display when hovered
Added contact icons to the window menu
Added service icons to the account preferences, file menu
Added an Xtras site menu item to Adium menu
Added an Adium status menu to the menubar (Off by default, check the advanced preferences)
Technical
Added support for styles to specify an image mask for user icons
Optimized emoticon preferences
Added importer for old custom soundsets
Added importer for old custom dock behavior
We now display the status of strangers if it becomes available
Auto-replies now only send over AIM
Fixes
Fixed option-return to correctly insert newlines
Fixed issue with idle clearing when sending messages
Fixed issue with sounds not playing if system-wide alerts were disabled
Fixed an issue with dock bouncing and rapid single bounces
Fixed an issue with the custom colors sheet in 10.2
Fixed several link parsing errors
Fixed an issue with systemwide proxy settings
Fixed issues with < and > in display names for WebKit
Fixed issues with %n,%d not processing in auto-replied away messages
Fixed bug with sort options window resizing
Fixed issues with the contact list forgetting multiple selections
Fixed file transfer global contact alerts
Fixed crash with protocol request dialogs
Fixed crash loading invalid soundsets
Fixed crash on file transfer error
Fixed several theme preference crashes
About:
Adium is an instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple protocols through the libgaim library. It is written using OS X's Cocoa API, and it is released under the open source GNU General Public License. Adium was originally created by a college student named Adam Iser, and the first version, 1.0, was released in September 2001.
The next version-originally slated to be called Adium 2.0, but then renamed to Adium X-is a complete rewrite of the code of the 1.x series. Its largest improvement was switching to libgaim to add support for IM protocols other than AIM; supported protocols now include ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and Jabber. Most of the work on libgaim itself is done by the gaim team; the Adium team mostly works on the Adium X graphical user interface (GUI).