Software update: Trillian for Mac 1.2 build 40

Cerulean Studios has a new version of Trillian for Mac OS X released. This multiplatform instant messaging program is primarily developed for Windows, but there are also versions Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android and BlackBerry. In addition, there is a cross-platform version that runs in a web browser running. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

New features:

• General: Added ‘offline mode’.
• Image preview: Built-in image preview window.
• Login: Ability to disable auto login.
• Twitter: Native retweet as the default option.
• Twitter: Updated backend to a newer API.
• Twitter: Userstream.
• Twitter: Saved searches now synchronize with server.
• Twitter: Reply to all.
• Twitter: Private/public list support and changing.
• Twitter: Newsbot replaced by list.
• Twitter: Keyword ignoring.
• Twitter: More inline image previews.

Fixes:

Contact List

• Add delay when showing contact list when autohidden.
• Autohide breaks Lion swiping between screens.
• Autohide breaks when connecting/disconnecting a secondary monitor.
• Clicking dock does not show the contact list in certain situations.
• Deleting an item in a search result does not update the search results.
• Docking fixes under Spaces.
• Fix autohidden contact list getting stuck under Spaces.
• Fix flickers in contact list and various sheets.
• Fix visual issues on empty display name.
• List can be ‘sucked’ off screen when dragging around in autohide.
• Remember/save/restore last status message on quit and restart.
• Search by medium.
• Support Spotify for ‘Current Music’.

General

• Audit to fix a memory leak.

History

• Improvements to performance and reliability.

Message Window

• Can save an image with right-click from in conversation.
• Conversation action gap can become ‘stuck’.
• Conversation action pane no longer flickers.
• Fix drag and drop of an image leaking file handle.
• Fix for ‘frozen gray window’ issue.
• Show pending actions as status line in chat tabs.
• Synced windows can be hidden by default.

Preferences

• Bounce dock on incoming messages’ option.
• Hide new message windows on open’ option.
• Fix issue where tabs ‘jump’ back to the initially-selected tab when window loses focus.
• Fix issues saving connection-specific proxy settings.
• Fix setting of connection-specific preferences when connected on more than one machine.

proxy

• Added proxy override sheet to login window.
• Allow manually-written changes to preferences file to have port as an int instead of a string.
• Don’t barf on password being set without username in proxy settings.
• Don’t override non-HTTP connections with HTTP proxies.

Social Windows

• Autocomplete not working on Lion.
• Autocomplete results showing :numbers after usernames on Lion.
• Fix for ‘frozen’ timelines.
• Incorrect character remaining count after inserting a pic.
• Pasting URLs and images in works properly on Twitter.
• Removed groups can hang around.
• Reply box input area doesn’t focus on Lion.
• Some group names causing an error.
• Twitter trend fixes.
• While replying, any fresh updates could cause loss of focus or list movement.

facebook

• Commenting not stripping HTML.

MSN

• Offline messages sent with wrong encoding.
• Support security exception error.

Twitter

• Automatically re-request auth if DMs fail.
• Don’t reshort already shortened urls.

XMPP

• Binding resource fails with old-style auth.
• Compatibility fixes for LiveJournal.
• File transfer not working with Spark.
• Problem blocking Google contacts.
• Workaround for Gmail’s usage of ID for sort.