[Gaim-commits] SF.net SVN: gaim: [17731] web/htdocs

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Revision: 17731
          http://svn.sourceforge.net/gaim/?rev=17731&view=rev
Author:   thekingant
Date:     2006-11-10 02:02:00 -0800 (Fri, 10 Nov 2006)

Log Message:
-----------
New posting for beta 5.  Could someone cool please build some
Windows packages?  Once that's done we should svn up the website
and make this public.

Modified Paths:
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    web/htdocs/ChangeLog
    web/htdocs/news.txt

Modified: web/htdocs/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- web/htdocs/ChangeLog	2006-11-10 09:06:39 UTC (rev 17730)
+++ web/htdocs/ChangeLog	2006-11-10 10:02:00 UTC (rev 17731)
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 Gaim: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client that's good for the soul!
 
 version 2.0.0:
+	Build Changes:
+	* With the Core/UI split completed, it is now possible to build Gaim
+	  without any UIs, creating a libgaim library upon which other UIs
+	  may be constructed
+	* A new ncurses-based console UI called gaim-text is now available
+	  (Sadrul Habib Chowdhury, Google Summer of Code)
+	* Reorganized the source tree to split apart the code for the UI
+	  changes and libgaim targets
+	* libxml2 is now required.  We switched from gmarkup to libxml2 for
+	  more correct XML parsing.
+
 	Status System:
 	* The code dealing with buddy and account status, away messages,
 	  away states, online/offline, etc has been completely rewritten.
@@ -12,6 +23,8 @@
 	  becomes idle, load the "Buddy State Notification" plugin
 
 	Buddy List:
+	* Performance when manipulating and displaying the buddy list has
+	  been significantly improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
 	* Buddy icons are now shown in tooltips (Felipe Contreras)
 	* Tooltips now contain additional information about a "Person" that
 	  contains multiple online buddies
@@ -20,6 +33,11 @@
 	* If Gaim is exited with the buddy list hidden in the docklet, it
 	  will remain hidden when Gaim is started again (Scott Shedden)
 	* Improved buddy list searching with CTRL+F
+	* Ability to set a buddy icon for all of your accounts at once via
+	  the buddy list (You can still set per-account icons via the
+	  account editor)
+	* The space wasted by the group expanders has been eliminated and
+	  the expander setting in .gtkrc-2.0 is no longer needed
 
 	Conversations and Chats:
 	* Timestamps honor the locale.  To use the traditional style,
@@ -53,10 +71,12 @@
 	  (There are known issues with pasting formatted text.  Either use "Paste
 	   as Plain Text", hit Ctrl-R after pasting, or use the Clear Formatting
 	   button on the toolbar.)
+	* Performance while joining large chat rooms has been significantly
+	  improved (Aaron Sheldon, Google Summer of Code)
 
 	Sounds:
 	* Beautiful new default sounds (Brad Turcotte)
-	* Use libao for playing sounds via NAS instead of accessing NAS directly
+	* Use GStreamer for playing sounds, instead of libao
 	* A volume control in the preferences (Casey Harkins)
 
 	Log Viewer:
@@ -99,6 +119,13 @@
 	  removed.
 	* 'Highlight when nick said' option added to Message Notification
 	  plugin.
+	* The system tray icon is now transparent (Dan Winship)
+	* New Log Reader plugin that can read and display logs from Adium,
+	  MSN Messenger, and Trillian in the log viewer
+	* New Contact Availability plugin that attempts to predict the
+	  times when people in your buddylist will most likely respond
+	  to you, based on times in the past when they have responded
+	  (Geoffrey Foster, Google Summer of Code)
 
 	MSN Features:
 	* Custom smiley receiving support (Irving Cordova & Francesco Fracassi)
@@ -130,6 +157,7 @@
 	  channel or change your nick
 	* Added /nickserv, /memoserv, /chanserv and /operserv
 	  commands (Joao Luís Marques Pinto)
+	* Added CTCP VERSION via /version (Andrej Krivulčík)
 
 	Jabber Features:
 	* Support for SRV lookups
@@ -151,6 +179,8 @@
 	* SIP/SIMPLE support (Thomas Butter, Google Summer of Code)
 	* Sametime protocol support
 	  Requires the meanwhile library: http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net
+	* QQ protocol support (Mark Huetsch, Google Summer of Code)
+	* Removed support for the Napster and TOC protocols
 
 	Other Noteworthy Changes:
 	* UPnP and NAT traversal support (Adam J. Warrington, Google Summer of

Modified: web/htdocs/news.txt
===================================================================
--- web/htdocs/news.txt	2006-11-10 09:06:39 UTC (rev 17730)
+++ web/htdocs/news.txt	2006-11-10 10:02:00 UTC (rev 17731)
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2.0.0beta5
+November 10th, 2006 - 8:27AM PST
+Annyong!  We fixed a bunch of buglets from the last beta.  We recommend this release to anyone using the earlier betas, and to anyone having problems with a Gaim 1.x.x release.  You can <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235&package_id=253&release_id=462444">download packages from here</a>.
+#
 2.0.0beta4
 October 18th, 2006 - 4:06 PDT
 Hey, party people. Today we put out Gaim 2.0.0beta4. This one has a whole slew of cool new changes. I've written about some of them at the new <a href="http://gaim.sf.net/planet">Planet Gaim</a> I announced in the previous post. All sorts of packages can be found <a href='http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235&package_id=253&release_id=456679'>here</a>. Enjoy!


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