Software update: GAIM 0.77

There are now a number of different Instant Messaging networks. As a result, it is possible that a number of friends or acquaintances use an IM network that you do not use. Therefore, IM programs have been developed that support multiple IM networks.

GAIM is one such program and provides support for AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. The development team recently released version 0.77 with the following changelog:

New Features:

• The System Log returns (Ka-Hing Cheung)
• Added a conversation-drag-ended signal (Etan Reisner)
• Reorganized and cleaned up the MSN protocol plugin (Felipe Contreras)
• Added the -c option to specify location of the .gaim directory, removed the outdated -f option that no longer had any effect (Daniel Atallah)
• Novell GroupWise protocol support added (Novell)
• WYSIWYG improvements (Tim Ringenbach)
• WYSIWYG editing for user info (Jon Oberheide)
• Rich text copy and paste
• Plugins can now add menu items to the buddy context menu (Christopher O’Brien)
• Plugins can now add preferences (Gary Kramlich)
• The TOC protocol is no longer built by default. The plugin is not being properly tested and is no longer officially supported.
• Bumped up the plugin API version number, and added version numbers for loader plugins and protocol plugins. Authors will want to update their plugins, and possibly use GAIM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION, GAIM_PRPL_API_VERSION, and AIM_LOADER_API_VERSION constants.
• Zephyr error reporting works (Arun A. Tharuvai)
• Zephyr deals with non-utf8 characters (Arun A. Tharuvai)

Bug Fixes:

• Formatting in the Log viewer is fixed (Kevin Stange)
• Save Conversation Works Again (Kevin Stange)
• The Clear button in privacy works (Robert Mibus)
• MSN error reporting works again (Stu Tomlinson)
• MSN email notifications should no longer cause Gaim to crash (Felipe Contreras)
• Fixed an infinite loop bug that would sometimes cause MSN to lock up (Nickolai Zeldovich)
• All away messages should now show up in tooltips
• Removing zephyr buddies no longer crashes (Arun A. Tharuvai)

[break]The following downloads are available:
Windows
Fedora Core 1
Red Hat 9
Mandrake 9.2
Mandrake 9.1
Source Tarball
Source RPM