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Subject: Psi 0.11-RC2 released
It’s release candidate time.
Psi-0.11-RC2 is out there to be tested, please grab your copies from
Source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.11-RC2.tar.bz2
Mac: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/Psi-0.11-RC2.dmg
Windows: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.11-RC2-win32.zip
We also have a new Linux build, available from
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.11-RC2-linux-x8…
If untarred in / it'll go into /opt/psi-0.11-RC2, but it's of course recommended to untar somewhere safe, and move it yourself. It can then be executed with /opt/psi-0.11-RC2/psi. This is still slightly experimental, so please report any issues.
Please test this to destruction. If no show-stopping bugs are revealed in the next few weeks, we’ll go gold. The changelog is as follows:
Psi-0.11-RC2 is out there to be tested, please grab your copies from
Source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.11-RC2.tar.bz2
Mac: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/Psi-0.11-RC2.dmg
Windows: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.11-RC2-win32.zip
We also have a new Linux build, available from
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.11-RC2-linux-x8…
If untarred in / it'll go into /opt/psi-0.11-RC2, but it's of course recommended to untar somewhere safe, and move it yourself. It can then be executed with /opt/psi-0.11-RC2/psi. This is still slightly experimental, so please report any issues.
Please test this to destruction. If no show-stopping bugs are revealed in the next few weeks, we’ll go gold. The changelog is as follows:
- Reworked account registration process (including proper support for XEP-0077 (In-band registration))
- Finished support for XEP-0004 (Data Forms) by supporting forms in messages. (thanks to Roelof Naude)
- Added support for JEP-0070 (Verifying HTTP Requests via XMPP).
- Customizable shortcuts (thanks to Ephraim)
- Added spell checking (thanks to Ephraim). Currently only aspell is supported on non-Macs.
- Added option to automatically set the resource (using the hostname)
- Added new default Stellar3 iconset
- Added support for JEP-138 (Stream Compression)
- Added support for using JEP-33 (Extended Stanza Addressing) to multicast messages to multiple users. Use option.enable-multicasting to enable it.
- Added ‘Show status message’ toggle. There is a hidden option to put status messages under the nickname (at the cost of 2 extra pixels when no status message is shown)
- Support for Bookmark Storage (JEP-0048), where bookmarked conferences are auto-joined. No UI is provided for creating bookmarks (yet).
- Better error messages, including error condition mappings (JEP-0086)
- Support dynamically changing priority
- Improved PGP error messages
- Hiding the deprecated protocol selector for service discovery by default. Use option.ui.show-deprecated.service-discovery.protocol-selector to re-enable it.
- New options system (see options.xml)
- Receiving support for vCard-Based Avatars (JEP-0153)
- Support for Multi-User-Chat (JEP-0045)
- Preliminary support for User Nickname (JEP-0172)
- Preliminary support for Roster Item Exchange (JEP-0144)
- Psi now uses the Qt4(>=4.2.3) and QCA2 libraries, replacing the Qt3 and QCA1 requirements.
- “Privacy List” support in the account dialog.
- Support for JEP-0050 (Ad-hoc commands)
- Preliminary support for JEP-0163 (Personal Eventing Protocol)
- Preliminary support for JEP-0146 (Remote Controlling Clients)
- Large parts of the codebase have been restructured.
- Fixed a chat room bug where subject/topic changes were not shown.
- Mac OS X builds are now universal binaries, supporting the new Intel based Macs.
- Support for JEP-85 (Chat State Notifications).
- Support for JEP-0115 (Entity Capabilities).
- There is now a config.xml option to make some windows use the brushed metal theme on Mac OS X.
- Window opacity support is now present for all three supported platforms.
- Fixed Unicode URL opening bug #510
- Auto-reconnect accounts on wakeup
- Copy-pasting with emoticons now works
- Fixed issue #263 where emoticons would disappear in a reply or quote
- History index is rebuilt faster
- Configure toolbars merged into main preferences dialog
- Moving tooltips
- MingW32 compiler support (Coupled with the open source Qt4 Windows library this now allows completely free building of Psi on Windows)