[Psi-Devel] 0.12-RC1 released

[Kevin Smith]

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