Software update: Gaim 0.59

a casema user writes to us about a new version of Gaim, the instant messenger for Linux. As we are used to from Gaim, there are a lot of improvements to be admired in the new release, to be precise this concerns the following:

• Hungarian translation added (Thanks, Sutto Zoltan)
• Swedish translation updated (Thanks, Christian Rose)
• Spanish translation updated (Thanks, Alex)
• Traditional Chinese translation updated (Thanks, Paladin Liu)
• Czech translation added (Thanks, Honza)
• Polish translation updated (Thanks Przemyslaw Sulek)
• Squashed a bug in buddy right-click menu handling that crashed Gaim. In the process: found and eliminated some memory leaks.
• Fixed a significant applet leak
• Can now change Jabber password on server (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
• Certain types of Jabber presence errors no longer falsely show a buddy on-line. Instead now a “broken light-bulb” icon is shown and the error status is available via “Get Away Msg” (Thanks and a tip o’ the hat to Christian Hammond for the graphic)
• Conversation struct has pointer to toolbar (thanks Brent Priddy and Paul Miller)
• Zephyr fixes (thanks, Arun A. Tharuvai)
• Aliases in buddy ticker
• Perl scripts can play Gaim sounds (thanks Andrew Rodland)
• Internal sounds can be played by commands (thanks Lex Spoon)
• Auto-login item in applet menu (thanks Chris Boyle)
• Fixed MSN “Unkown Error Code”, “Already there”, and “Already in opposite list” errors
• Changed “Play sound” button to “Mute” button
• You can now have “reserved” chars in IM and proxy passwords
• Jabber now has typing notification (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
• Improved support for Jabber resources (Thanks, Nathan Walp)
• Fixed problem with Gaim crashing on non-ASCII Jabber buddy aliases (Jabber “name” attribute) chars (Thanks, Ho-seok Lee)
• Plugged memory leaks in Jabber plugin
• Fixed problem with Jabber away status not being propagated to conference rooms for jabberd (server) v1.4.2 and above
• Chat room buddy lists are now sorted independent of case
• Added capability for protocol-specific edit buddy menu entries
• Can now remove a Jabber buddy roster item from the server entirely
• Gaim can now handle messages from Mac ICQ and Miranda ICQ (Thanks, Mark Doliner)
• Added Mozilla to browser options and changed KFM to Konqueror.
• Can now set the server and port for MSN and Napster
• MSN Internationalization (Thanks Felipe Contreras and countless, countless others)
• Email addresses are no longer truncated when there is a ‘.’ at the end.