[Psi-devel] Psi-0.11-beta3

[Kevin Smith]

As we're still sitting with our hands tied waiting for some of the  
libraries we depend upon to advance a little before we can really  
address 0.11 release candidates, we've tidied up a few issues and  
made a new beta release to (approximately) coincide with the release  
of Qt 4.2, which is now required for Psi builds.
Links first, then an extract from the release notes:

Mac OS X universal binary:
http://psi-im.org/files/beta/0.11/beta3/Psi-0.11-beta3.dmg

Win32 build:
http://psi-im.org/files/beta/0.11/beta3/psi-0.11-beta3-win32.zip

Source tarball:
http://psi-im.org/files/beta/0.11/beta3/psi-0.11-beta3.tar.bz2

Known Issues
------------
This is a beta (preview) version of Psi and is not intended to be  
release
quality or used in production environments.  Particularly, the following
issues are known (those issues which are believed to have originated in
external libraries are marked with a *):
   - GnuPG is temporarily not supported. *
   - Mouse actions on tabbed chat windows have been temporarily  
disabled.
   - Proxy support is broken in some, if not all, circumstances.
   - On Mac, the menubar is only populated when the roster is the  
current
       selected window. *
   - Roster tooltips are a little ugly currently, more whitespace  
will be
       added again later.
   - When receiving multiline messages in a chat, sometimes some  
lines will
       not be visible until another message is received or sent. *
   - Clicking on Psi popups sometimes causes a crash.

Notes
-----
   - This beta release includes a patched version of QCA2. Although  
it is
       possible to link against another self-patched QCA2, it is  
strongly
       recommended to use the provided tree, which is now default when
       using ./configure on unices, or by default on Windows.

New in 0.11
-------------
   - 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) 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)

Enjoy,
/K

-- 
Kevin Smith, PhD Student, Computer Science, Exeter University
http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/people/kismith
Psi XMPP client project leader - http://psi-im.org