Download Trillian Astra 4.1 build 24

Cerulean Studios has released an update to version 4.1 of the instant messaging program Trillian Astra. Trillian Astra allows chatting with users of many instant messaging and social networks, including Windows Live, ICQ, Skype (text only), Twitter and Facebook. Currently, Trillian Astra is available for Windows and as an app for Apple’s iPhone, and there is a version that runs in a web browser. A client for Mac OS X is in development. The release notes for version 4.1 build 24 can be found below:

Trillian for Windows 4.1 build 24

Build 24 is now available to all customers. Since the gold release of Trillian 4.1 a few weeks back, we’ve been watching our crash reports and fixing them whenever we found them! If you’ve experienced the “stuck troubleshoot” button in your chat windows or have crashed when connecting to AIM or Google Talk, Build 24 should address these issues.

Additionally, Facebook recently started to support XMPP (the same communications protocol used by Jabber and Google Talk, among others) in their Facebook Chat product. As they’re not running a “true” XMPP server, a few things they do were incompatible with our existing plugin and we’ve made the necessary workarounds in Build 24. If you’d like to try the new “Facebook through XMPP” support, simply add a new Jabber/XMPP account with a username of “[email protected]” and your normal Facebook password. Note that you will need to have bound a Facebook Username to your account before this will work.

If you’re not sure what your Facebook username is, visit to set or view your username. Your username will appear on the right-hand side of the link shown on this page. For example, if your username is “johndoe”, create an account named “[email protected]”. Your username is NOT a full email address!