More branch news:

Further to Remko’s post where he announced the opening of our Qt4 development branch, we’ve now merged the Qt4 port into our mainline branch. While there are still some unresolved issues, as listed at http://psi-im.org/wiki/Qt4_Issues, several of us are now using this just fine for our day to day IM.

Our progress towards 0.11 can be seen at our bug tracker progress page at http://psi-im.org/flyspray/?do=roadmap which is Hal and Tony’s new toy.

Lastly we’ve released yet another development branch of Psi in a darcs repo at http://dev.psi-im.org/darcs/psi-ng. The purpose of this branch is to allow us to develop features due in a future version which won’t be in the next release. Since our next planned release is 0.11, which is purely a Qt4 port, all new features we work on before the release of 0.11 will be going into the psi-ng repo. We’ll then be able to easily bring these features back into mainline after 0.11 has been released. The first new feature in the psi-ng branch is ad-hoc commands and remote-control, great features that Jabber has over other networks, and particularly timely as more Jabber servers are having ad-hoc admin interfaces added.

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The Psi team is proud to announce the release of Psi-0.10.

First off, here are the download links

Mac binary
Source tarball
Windows binary (with installer)
Windows binary (zipped)

New in 0.10
- Psi will now sign out before Windows or Mac OS X machines go to ‘sleep’
- The default text input line in the chat dialogs starts at one line tall, and grows as necessary.
- The Roster can now be automatically resized to fit all contacts.
- The Roster now has a menu bar available on Windows and Linux
- Chat windows can be collected together using tabs
- On Windows and Mac OS X, selected text may be automatically copied to the clipboard.
- Mac OS X builds now enjoy Growl(.info) support
- Photos are now available in the VCard dialog
- New default colour scheme
- Roster and chat dialog opacity is now configurable on Windows and Mac OS X
- The colour scheme is now slightly more configurable
- Assorted minor feature additions and bug fixes
- Number of unread messages is now visible in the dock on Mac OS X
- GPG passphrases are now cached during the entire Psi session
- ‘Authorization received’ messages can now be ignored
- Roster and chat windows can be made transparent

Thanks to all those who have contributed either code or support for this release and here’s looking forward to more Psi in the new year.

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Hopefully the final chapter in the continuing saga of Psi-0.10, the fourth test release, is ready. Apart from some bugfixes, the only commentable change in this release is the removal of some of the legacy iconsets which we were concerned about the copyright of. We will not have a new iconset/logo for 0.10 (Which I hope to put out next week), but will make a minor release soon after, as soon as they’re ready.
Once 0.10 is out of the door, development will concentrate on the Qt4 port and Jingle support, which is pretty much what’s been happening anyway.

Files for Psi-0.10-test4 are available below:
Source (.tar.bz2)
Mac (.dmg)
Windows (.zip)

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As reported by myself at midnight ( http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.jabber.psi.devel/4865 ) and Remko this morning ( http://el-tramo.be/blog/psi-qt4-unleashed ) we decided to launch the Qt4 development branch of Psi as a new year’s present to the Psi development community. For more details, please read Remko’s post but a summary of what we’ve done so far follows, please note that this is development code, it *is* buggy and even the Qt4 (and Qt4.1) libraries are still pretty raw.

* We use the qt3 compatability library at the moment, although the amount we do is lessening over time.
* We now use QCA2.
* Mac users now get brushed metal dialogs if they want them.
* Some code has been cleaned up, classes split into more sensible locations and our file structure cleaned up a bit.
* The chat dialogs and options dialogs which were broken in our initial port have been fixed up by Fran (thanks Fran).

There are still plenty of outstanding issues, including
* No GPG support yet.
* Segfaults.
* Missing roster functionality.
* The compatability library is quite unpleasant in places
So please don’t use this code for production environments, or share with your less computer-savvy friends as the user experience is not ideal.

All in all though, there’s been a lot of work put into this branch already, especially by Remko, Misha, Fran and myself and I hope that before too long, with the community’s help, we’ll be seeing a stable Qt4 release.

Happy New Year.

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