Ok, to keep everyone up to date on what’s happening in psi as I’ve been far too quiet recently:
Current is still 0.9.3, and the next version will be 0.10, which probably won’t be happening in the next month or two, so no worries about breaking our usual 6month release plan yet.

Important things for 0.10 include:

• MUC; this is being done by sneakin (Nolan) and I believe is Almost Ready(tm).
• Tabbed Chats; these are being done by me and a couple of minor bugs prevent it being Ready. The code’s not pretty, so a rewrite is in order, possibly post-0.10.
• A shiney new line-edit that expands as necessary/autosizing rosters; these are both done by Mblsha and are pretty much complete
• Growl notifications; coded by Remko and finished.
• Adding photos to the vcard; done by Francisco Rodríguez
• Lots of generic UI improvements, done by various people including Remko and Kris Vandebroek, which are currently underway.
• Global Keyboard Shortcuts; an early version has been supplied by GreyCat, which I’ll probably rewrite to be release-ready.

Things on the horizon that might not, probably won’t, or won’t make it in for 0.10, but which are assigned/planned are:

• xhtml-im; Fran and I are going to look at this soon
• pubsub; Remko is probably going to look at this after 0.10 for 0.11
• Status in roster; Remko has adapted one of Skazi’s patches to display contact’s status messages in the roster, but an unfortunate consequence is wasted space between entries, which needs to be resolved first.
• Plugins; Initially only output plugins, both Remko and I have an interest in doing this but haven’t started yet

There’s many other things that I haven’t listed here that need to be done/will be done etc, as discussed on the mailing list.

In the near future; once I’ve tracked down the bug in tabs that I’m searching for tonight, I’ll make a preview release (hopefully in the next week or so) that will give people a taster of what’s to come, while hopefully being stable enough to use.

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