Software Update: Adium 1.5.7

Version 1.5.7 of Adium has been released. Adium is a multi-protocol instant messaging program for OS X that allows chatting over the networks of Jabber, ICQ, Live Messenger, and Bonjour, among others. The program is open source, can be used in more than twenty languages ​​and has OTR encryption. The program requires at least version 10.6.8 of OS X and offers, among other things, an alternative to Growl notifications, since Growl is no longer free since version 1.3. Below is what has changed in this release:

Changes in version 1.5.7:

• Updated Twitter support. (#16118)
  • Retweets (RTs) now properly display the original author.
  • t.co links are now expanded.
  • Fixed parsing to conform to the standard. (#13947)
• Removed StatusNet support, see ​http://adium.im/blog/2013/07/adium-1-5-7-released.
• Fixed a crash when redrawing the contact list. (#16119)
• Fixed a bug that could cause SSL connections to be closed prematurely. (#15405, #15411, #15741, #16356)
• Fixed the following weaknesses in the SSL code:
  • Removed all anonymous ciphers from the list Adium tries, these are insecure and would crash Adium.
  • Removed SSL_RSA_WITH_NULL_MD5 from the list of ciphers, if it doesn’t use encryption.
  • Removed the caching of untrusted certificates, as the implementation would make it easy to replace it with a different certificate when reconnecting.