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A VoIP application is often used to maintain good contact with your teammates while playing online games. ventrilo is one of these applications, along with Teamspeak, and is available for Windows and Mac OS X. Although the original developers have stated that they have been working on a Ventrilo client for Linux since 2005, it has not been released to this day. Eric Kilfoil and Daniel Sloof are therefore in September of this year started developing Mangle, an unofficial Ventrilo client for Linux. At the beginning of December, version 1.0 of this program was released, which was sold with the following announcement:

Mangler 1.0 officially released!

Today marks the end of an interesting period full of research and development. On October the 4th, we promised to have a fully functional native Ventrilo client for Linux on the 1st of December. Now that the day has come, our users can finally decide if we have lived up to those expectations.

As always, our latest release can be downloaded from our download page. There is also an (incomplete) list of fixes and enhancements to be found on trac.

For the people that are wondering what’s next:

• We will be working hard on our next version of Mangler which will bring several more enhancements and bug fixes. A release date for Mangler v1.1 will be announced in the near future.
• We have been experimenting with the Android platform and are successfully able to run our libventrilo3 library on top of an Android phone. Your feedback on this idea is always appreciated!

You may also be interested to know that we have (mostly) documented the libventrilo3 library. This should make it a lot easier for developers to build their custom software for the Ventrilo 3 protocol.

Last but not least, we would like to give credits to:

• All the people that reported bugs and made suggestions for improvements.
• Idlers in our IRC channels that gave us great company, feedback and debugging assistance.
• People involved in earlier research to the Ventrilo protocol, namely; the Spux Project and Luigi Auriemma. Mangler would not exist today if it wasn’t for these previous efforts.
• Package maintainers, designers, wiki editors, patch submitters, and anyone else that in any way contributed to Mangler!