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At last ! Aapje Messenger Beta 0.0.1 has been released !

The beta is finished at last :-) A beta still though, which
is most certainly true after a quick glance at TODO ;-)
Nevertheless, Aapje has matured enough for it to be considered
beta software(By me at least ;-)), and has become pretty
useable over time, in fact, I use it for everyday conversations
now with hardly any crashes(Or maybe that's because I know hos
to avoid them ;-)).

Anyways, what's new:

- It's _much_ more stable
- I dare say it's become faster, at least on certain points
- Lots of broken things have been fixed and deprecated garbage
and cruft(such as the managewindow mode) have been removed
- We've got a nice privacy tab for AL/BL management, a log
viewer and full message parsing(Fonts, colors, effects)
- The look has been given some work, we now have an nice help
window, an about box, nice Monkey menu's, a Nick+Status screen
above the contact list, and more generic window layouts
- Full group support, groups can now be turned off, only show
online contacts, be edited, and users moved from and to them
- Aliasses for your contacts, no more annoying nicks ! ;-)
- Hotmail inbox checking and mail-sending using your browser
of choice
- Improved autoconf/automake functionality, like make distcheck
for RPM builds
- It compiles on Solaris, OpenBSD and FreeBSD now(Tested)

There's still quite a lot to do before we can start thinking
about a stable version, and as Alex has been pretty busy
lately(He hasn't been able to contribute pretty much anything
for the past 2 months or so, leaving me responsible for most
of the work on the beta), but I'm sure we'll pull through and
get it done in a fair amount of time for you :-) For now,
enjoy this release, test it well, and send us your feedback !

- Jasper

Posted by Jasper van Veghel 2003-01-24

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