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What's new in Beta 6?

SteveO
2007-01-20
2013-01-14
  • SteveO

    SteveO - 2007-01-20

    Is there a user-friendly list of all the significant changes made from Beta5 to Beta6?  I can't find such a thing anywhere.
    Thanks!

     
    • CWAL

      CWAL - 2007-01-20

      The things I have noticed:

      Some useful plugins are now part of Gaim which were previously only available through the guification plugin pack

      Seems to have less memory leaks.  After multiple days of running is still under 40Mb with 21 accounts connected.  beta5 would take up >100Mb

      Other than that, I haven't noticed anything specifically.
      It does seem much stable and faster, sometimes on beta5 it would randomly freeze up when opening an IM to a buddy.

       
    • Ares

      Ares - 2007-01-23

      Release Name: 2.0.0beta6

      Notes:
      Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be the final beta release before 2.0.0. This has a bunch of cool UI changes, some Google Talk features, a bunch new plugins, and other goodness.

      Nathan: Beta6 rocks.  That is all.

      Gary: Long time no news.  My silence will end soon ;)

      Evan: My first news! I knocked out a nice collection of crashes, thanks in part to my ever-patient Adium beta testers. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to be delicious. :)

      Ps.  Does anyone know exactly what Google Talk features were added?  I can't find any diffeerences.

       
    • JiveMasterT

      JiveMasterT - 2007-01-23

      I noticed that you can get mail notifications on your jabber accounts now... gmail notifications from gaim FTW.

       
    • dan

      dan - 2007-01-23

      Not sure if this is actually a new gtalk feature but I am finding that gaim is pulling *all* of my gmail contacts in as entries under group "buddies"...spent a fair while sorting them and deleting them (for non-gtalk entries) only to have them all pulled in again today when the account logged on today.

      Otherwise, I'm very pleased with b6 as I haven't experience various crashes and hangs as I did occasionally with the last couple betas.

       
      • Sean Egan

        Sean Egan - 2007-01-23

        Dan, please IM me: http://gaim.sf.net/contactinfo.php. I'm trying to debug this problem.

        -s.

         
    • Nameless Voice

      Nameless Voice - 2007-01-24

      I'm curious what happened to the updated MSN protocol support that was mentioned as being worked on during the Summer of Code?

       
      • craig h

        craig h - 2007-01-29

        Yeah, I'd be interested to know about this, too. Is this going to be added to the final version, and is there work to speed up file transfers as a result?

         
    • Carl

      Carl - 2007-01-25

      I keep hoping against hope for Bonjour on Windows. :)

       
    • Paolo M. Grossholz

      Dear friends,
      what about mail notification warning or panels or popups like in the previous versions ???
      I can see them only if I have the contact list open...
      What I have to do to have them working again ???
      Thanks a lot !!! Paolo

       
    • petersaints

      petersaints - 2007-01-29

      Yeah! MSN File Transfer is the main issue that keeps away from using Gaim because it's too slow to be usable :(