Several issues have been addressed since beta3, including fixing a great many of the connection problems. Also added since beta3 are customisable shortcuts and spell checking support, as well as automatically setting the account resources to the hostname of the system. As such, we’re releasing beta4 into the wild, as always, please go forth and test (and report).
Links first, then an extract from the release notes:

Mac OS X universal binary:
http://psi-im.org/files/beta/0.11/beta4/Psi-0.11-beta4.dmg
Win32 build:
http://psi-im.org/files/beta/0.11/beta4/psi-win32-0.11-beta4.zip
Source tarball:
http://psi-im.org/files/beta/0.11/beta4/psi-0.11-beta4.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 may cause ASSERT errors in some versions of Qt. *
- 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
- Customizable shortcuts (thanks to Ephraim)
- Added spell checking (thanks to Ephraim), currently only aspell is supported.
- Added option to automatically set the resource (using the hostname)
- Added new default Stellar3 iconset (thanks to Jason Kim)
- 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)

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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)

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