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Subject: Psi 0.12-RC1 released
Hi all,
After only a little over four months since 0.11's release, the Psi team are delighted to announce that we've got the first release candidate prepared for the 0.12 release. This is a great step towards a more regular release cycle, which we're sure everyone will appreciate, but this does not mean that 0.12 will be lacking in the new and cool. Recognising that Psi's user interface could be more usable at times, the majority of our changes for 0.12 revolve around usability. Please see the README for full release details, but probably the most important are:
Tabbed MUCs.
Tabbed chat has been very well received in previous releases, but has only gone to highlight just how badly tabbed groupchat/muc was needed, so we've gone ahead and implemented this. Those of us who've been using this new feature for a while can't understand quite how we did without it, and various options are available for you to tweak exactly whether mucs and chats are tabbed together, or seperately, or not at all.
Improved roster search.
The roster search function has been improved, and will now filter the roster down to only matching contacts, making it much easier to find your contacts in the list.
Bookmarked conferences.
MUCs/groupchats can now be bookmarked (subject to server support, which almost every server has), so the user interface provides quick access to favourite mucs, and also to autojoin settings at login time.
Advanced option exposure.
While we're confident our default settings will work for most of our users, we know how much many of you like to tinker with settings and to tweak Psi to be uniquely yours. Now all the options in Psi have been converted to a new internal format which allows us to provide access in the UI to every option. Those of you familiar with Firefox's about:config will no doubt feel at home here, and will find the options in the Advanced tab of the options window (be warned that, of course, these options are only intended to be changed if you're sure of what you're doing and with a recent config backup, some of these may not be for the faint of heart).
We'd like to thank all the contributors, including those who've submitted patches for us, tested for bugs, fixed bugs, supported other users and translated Psi, and anyone else who helps the project in any way.
Now, please, go forth and test:
Mac: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/Psi-0.12-RC1.dmg
Windows: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-win32-0.12-RC1.zip
Source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.12-RC1.tar.bz2
Yours in Psi,
/K
After only a little over four months since 0.11's release, the Psi team are delighted to announce that we've got the first release candidate prepared for the 0.12 release. This is a great step towards a more regular release cycle, which we're sure everyone will appreciate, but this does not mean that 0.12 will be lacking in the new and cool. Recognising that Psi's user interface could be more usable at times, the majority of our changes for 0.12 revolve around usability. Please see the README for full release details, but probably the most important are:
Tabbed MUCs.
Tabbed chat has been very well received in previous releases, but has only gone to highlight just how badly tabbed groupchat/muc was needed, so we've gone ahead and implemented this. Those of us who've been using this new feature for a while can't understand quite how we did without it, and various options are available for you to tweak exactly whether mucs and chats are tabbed together, or seperately, or not at all.
Improved roster search.
The roster search function has been improved, and will now filter the roster down to only matching contacts, making it much easier to find your contacts in the list.
Bookmarked conferences.
MUCs/groupchats can now be bookmarked (subject to server support, which almost every server has), so the user interface provides quick access to favourite mucs, and also to autojoin settings at login time.
Advanced option exposure.
While we're confident our default settings will work for most of our users, we know how much many of you like to tinker with settings and to tweak Psi to be uniquely yours. Now all the options in Psi have been converted to a new internal format which allows us to provide access in the UI to every option. Those of you familiar with Firefox's about:config will no doubt feel at home here, and will find the options in the Advanced tab of the options window (be warned that, of course, these options are only intended to be changed if you're sure of what you're doing and with a recent config backup, some of these may not be for the faint of heart).
We'd like to thank all the contributors, including those who've submitted patches for us, tested for bugs, fixed bugs, supported other users and translated Psi, and anyone else who helps the project in any way.
Now, please, go forth and test:
Mac: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/Psi-0.12-RC1.dmg
Windows: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-win32-0.12-RC1.zip
Source: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/psi/psi-0.12-RC1.tar.bz2
Yours in Psi,
/K
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