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Psi 0.11-beta4 released

October 31, 2006, 10:42 am

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)

Categories: Jabber, Psi

14 Responses to “Psi 0.11-beta4 released”

urs wrote on October 31, 2006

Great news :-)

Waiting for version with working gpg, which is essential to me and it’s only reason why I’m not testing beta version.

Kev wrote on October 31, 2006

Urs: we hope it’ll be back and working soon.

Vladimir wrote on October 31, 2006

How soon there will be RC?

Cath wrote on October 31, 2006

Blimey - lots of new stuff, thanks to all those involved :)

Kev wrote on October 31, 2006

A release candidate (RC) is really the last step in development and won’t be released until we think that everything is in a state that it’s ready to be released. So, there’ll be an RC when there are no more known issues :)

doo wrote on November 5, 2006

I’d like to watch your posts on Psi, so plz make me happy by adding an RSS feed for it’s category :)
btw there is a nice wp plugin: http://www.arunrocks.com/blog/

Kev wrote on November 5, 2006

There’s already a feed for my Psi category at http://www.kismith.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/category/computers/coding/psi/rss
There’s also
http://planet.psi-im.org which covers all the team’s Psi posts, together with an rss feed for that.

Fix wrote on November 7, 2006

GnuPG support is of greatest importance, I think.

Jeremy wrote on November 13, 2006

Still no GIF support compiled into QT it seems? Not that it’s overly important though some of my emoticons are GIF. Would do my own build but might take all day on my iBook G4. :)

Other than that seems fairly stable. Except CPU usage can get fairly high at times. Ones of these times is when the Send file dialogue is open and waiting for the other end to except (must be the animation) though I think it also goes high at times.

Kev wrote on November 22, 2006

Oh, no GIF support on OSX?
I think there should be, so if there isn’t in the nightlies either, please poke me!

urs wrote on November 28, 2006

Couldn’t resist. Just installed nightly from 26 Nov.
Now I’m depressed that I have to switch back to my old 0.10 ;)

Andy wrote on December 5, 2006

Great release.

Thanks for the ability to show status in the roster alongside the nickname.

Q1: When will PSI support being able to put nicknames into more than 1 group ? (instead of having to go into jabber to do it)

Q2: Will PSI ever be able to support nested groups ?

Thanks
Andy

Fog wrote on January 18, 2007

Greetings!

Good release.
Can I ask a question?
When you plan feature of colour chat window?

Kev wrote on January 23, 2007

@Andy:
1) Sometime after we have the new roster code.
2) Sometime after we have the new roster code.

@Fog:
Your chat window can already be coloured, it should pick up the colouring from your system settings.

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