[Psi-Devel] 0.12-RC1 released

[Hal Rottenberg]

Website upldated.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Kevin Smith <kevin at kismith.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
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