Thursday, September 06, 2012

emesene 2.12.9

After a really hot european summer here comes the new emesene release, with the usual load of new features and bugfixes.


All emesene users stuck with older versions must upgrade!



  • New in-development QQ backend and session through libwebqq (Xiang Wang)
     
  • Updated SleekXMPP for XMPP backend
     
  • Fixed msn transfers
     
  • Improved msn endpoints handling
     
  • Fixed messages not being received or rendered with weird fonts
     
  • Added infrastructure for allowing plugins to hook into events (at the moment only  send and receive message events are handled, we will add hooks on request) with priority lists
     
  • Added new options for exporting conversation history (now HTML, CSV, JSON, XML and TXT are supported)
     
  • Improved history dialog
     
  • Fixed many, many, many bugs in the gtk gui and added a few new features
     
  • Better OSX experience (Josh Fradley)
     
  • Improved Qt4 gui (not suitable for daily usable yet, development only)
     
  • Improved plugins and themes updates
     
  • Updated translations

Note about gtk3:
It's not perfect yet, and there's a blocker bug in Ubuntu Precise 12.04 so this release sticks with gtk2 as the default and only supported gui.
However we're looking forward improving the Qt4 gui since other os-es could be supported easier (e.g. see gtk2/3 bugs in windows/osx).
Any help is appreciated.


Packagers:
If you package emesene for any OS please take a look at the updated requirements (in DEPENDS). Let us know once a package is ready so we can update the download page!

Download:
[ Tarball | Zipball ]

OS-specific packages (windows, osx, linux) coming soon.