Adium Version History
You can find a list of older release's binaries and sources on the previous releases page.
Version 1.3.10 (01/12/2010)
Mercurial Revision: b84454d2b44f
- Disabled the Facebook CAPTCHA, updated the Facebook plugin.
- Updated libjson-glib, fixing some 64-bit issues.
Version 1.3.9 (01/11/2010)
Mercurial Revision: dc7b2aa2a2de
- Updated libpurple to fix a security issue with custom emoticons.
- Corrected user icons not updating correctly on Snow Leopard.
Version 1.3.8 (11/04/2009)
Mercurial Revision: 2e287469fe16
- Updated pidgin-facebook chat, fixing login.
- Corrected the Events preferences not displaying the correct list on Snow Leopard.
Version 1.3.7 (10/16/2009)
Mercurial Revision: a76981b42330
- Updated libpurple
- Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't understand on ICQ.
- Fix blocking and other privacy lists on AIM/ICQ.
- Fixed CAPTCHA not working properly on Facebook.
- Fixed iChat emoticons on Snow Leopard.
Version 1.3.6 (8/20/2009)
Mercurial Revision: feaca9408bef
- Updated to libpurple 2.5.9
- Fix a crash via a specially crafted MSN message (CVE-2009-2694).
- Fix a crash in Bonjour, MSN, and XMPP when trying to transfer files with NULL names.
- Numerous fixes from libpurple 2.5.8
- Updated to pidgin-facebookchat 1.6.0 from 1.5.1
- Fixed issues with dropped & missed messages
- Fixed retrieval of profile information
- Fixed retrieval of buddy icons
- Fixed messaging with Facebook users whose user IDs are very large
- Numerous other fixes; see pidgin-facebookchat changelog for details
- Note: Facebook contact group support is currently disabled
- Added option to control Facebook mail checking
- Merged down the space dust
Version 1.3.5 (6/22/2009)
Mercurial Revision: 708bedafdc3a
- Updated to libpurple 2.5.7
- Fixes for problems connecting to Yahoo.
- Only display the AIM “Unable to Retrieve Buddy List” message once per connection.
- Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.
- MSN fixes for adding/removing and getting disconnected.
- Updated to pidgin-facebook 1.5.1, fixing several issues
Version 1.3.4 (5/17/2009)
Mercurial Revision: 8d7ab9d0f614
- Facebook fixes
- Updated to pidgin-facebook 1.5.0, fixing a major bug in which massive amounts of data could be continuously sent and received under certain situations as well as several minor bugs
- Fixed a bug in which the Facebook numeric ID rather than name could be shown in the contact list (#11676)
- Improved proxy support.
- Fixed a crash when loading Jabber/XMPP account preferences when the computer's host name is not set (#11246)
- Fixed a display issue in message windows when running Safari 4.
- Updated to libpurple 2.5.6
Version 1.3.3 (2/19/2009)
SVN Revision: [25960]
- Major changes
- Fixed a crash when using XMPP gateways and removing contacts
- Switched to the pidgin-facebook plugin for Facebook connectivity, which should resolve several issues with Facebook and improve the interaction between Adium and Safari when both are logged into Facebook.
- Automatically send messages to offline contact when offline messaging is supported rather than prompting to send now / send later (#11127)
- Fixed updating the list of users in a groupchat in many situations (#183, #10727)
- Tweaked the behavior of standard contact list type-to-search (#11496)
- Fixed ICQ aliases storage on the server (#9890)
- Fixed problem of events being recorded with wrong contact (#10436)
- Fixed visual glitch that made creating a SameTime account impossible in some localizations (#11675)
- Tab completion of names in groupchats is now case-insensitive
- Updated from libpurple 2.5.2 to 2.5.5mtn
- Fixed several MSN problems introduced by WLM 9: icons not showing up (#11529, #11532), file transfers failing (#11396)
- Fixed publishing of ICQ (available and away) status messages (#3085)
- Fixed publishing of ICQ icons (#10597)
- Fixed a crash when a Yahoo user messages an MSN contact (#11256)
- Fixed a QQ hang/crash (#11290)
- Fixed a Sametime crash on login (#11381)
- Fixed display of Gadu-Gadu user icons (#4702)
- Fixed "Unable to add user - Unknown error (205)" when connecting to MSN (#11126)
- Fixed duplicated buddies on authorization (#7171)
- SASL PLAIN or IQ Auth passwords are no more in debug logs
- includes many, many more fixes, especially to MySpace and MSN
- Chat Transcript fixes
- Chat window fixes
- Fixed scrolling to the bottom of the chat when it loads for certain message styles (#10541)
- Fixed several message styles (#10921)
- Fixed alignment of the message display after clicking an emoticon (#11602)
- Fixed some internal bugs related to historical and notification messages (#10152, #10174)
- Fixed Renkoo's image-click handling and added proper image-click handling to Renkoo Naked (#11561)
- Other minor bug fixes
- Fixed setting XMPP status messages, AIM available, and Gadu-Gadu status messages which contain characters normally escaped in HTML (#11215)
- Properly hide iTunes Now playing information when appropriate (#11585)
- Fixed referencing chat windows from AppleScript (#11352)
- Fixed a code signing error when launching Adium after not changing list layouts since pre-1.0
- Fix unpaired external enclosure characters around strings to be linkified. (#11175)
- Localization changes
Version 1.3.2 (10/9/2008)
SVN Revision: [25330]
- Updated to MSNp15 via libpurple (from MSNp12 via msn-pecan)
- Display pictures on MSN now work again
- Full offline messaging support
- iTunes status (Now Playing) support
- The Custom Status window now shows your current status message when opened, making it easier to change your status without changing the status message
- Fixed contact visibility issues in 1.3 and 1.3.1 (#10917)
- Fixed frequent disconnections on the Yahoo! service (#11097)
- Fixed a crash when parsing DNS-lookup responses from certain routers
- Fixed 1-2 pixel overlap of contact list by its toolbar (#10074)
- Fixed contacts showing in incorrect group after combining them (#11033)
- Fixed problems when linkifying URLs that contained an unescaped % character (#11059)
- Fixed escaping of the ' and ? characters for IPv6 Addresses (#11031)
- Fixed MSN personal messages being set to the status (ie: away, busy) (#10814)
- Fixed OTR messages to use the display name rather than UID (#10070)
- Fixed 'Lips Are Sealed' emoticon in the Adiumy emoticon set (#10996)
- Added new Add Group Chat Bookmark and File Transfer icons (#11030)
- Fixed drop shadow in Stockholm and Gone Dark message styles (#9178, #9480)
- Fixed visual artifacts in Smooth Operator message style (#10101)
Version 1.3.1 (9/7/2008)
SVN Revision: [25133]
- Fixed import wizard failing during import of inline images (#10912)
- Fixed a crash when Adium tries to update an account password (#10792)
- Fixed show offline contacts not working when groups are disabled (#10420)
- Fixed messages for multiple MSN group chats showing up in the same chat (#1583)
- Fixed syslogd consuming resources due to invalid requests via Facebook (#10588)
- Fixed German Localization of „Eingabetaste“ in General Preferences (#10801)
- Fixed display issues Appearance Preferences (#10803)
- Fixed a security vulnerability discovered by the Zero Day Initiative
- Fixed a crash during DNS resolution when trying to connect to MSN (#10808)
- Fixed local user's Avatar not updating in open message windows after change (#10210)
- Fixed aliases changing to nicknames following sign-in (#10550)
- Fixed Facebook timing out when attempting to connect (#10718)
- Fixed spellcheck defaulting to systemwide default (#10752)
- Fixed offline bg color being mis-applied to metacontacts with online accounts (#10784)
- Fixed invisible dock icon continuously flapping its wings (#10786)
- Fixed contact inspector opening on wrong tab (#10825)
- Fixed a crash when using Sametime/Meanwhile (#10830)
- Fixed a crash when searching logs via the Transcript Viewer (#10866)
- Fixed "Connected: Offline" when MSN contact connects with no personal message (#10873)
- Fixed checkboxes jumping around in the status window (#10790)
- Existing logs are no longer world readable (#1834)
- Edges between multiple displays no longer trigger showing hidden contact list (#10204)
- Removed $$ emoticon (#10949)
- Update Danish, German, and Hungarian localizations
Version 1.3 (8/25/2008)
SVN Revision: [24946]
Major Changes
- Complete redesign of the Contact Inspector (formerly the Get Info Window) (#1148)
- Complete interface overhaul (#1148, #9373)
- Profiles for combined contacts now display in a unified fashion
- Combined contacts' contents are now managed in the contact list; they automatically expand in the contact list when inspected
- Increased buddy info retrieval speed
- Fixed management of serverside group associations from the Contact Inspector (#1872)
- Added Facebook Chat service to Adium (#9607)
- Known limitation: logging into Facebook Chat via Adium will log you out of the Facebook website.
- Added a search field to the Standard Contact List window (#6444)
- This can be accessed either from the Edit menu (⌘F) or by blindly typing into contact list (the previously-existing type-ahead find feature).
- Switched to MSN-Pecan, a new MSN library for libpurple. Notable changes with MSN-Pecan:
- Support for personal messages
- Improved error handling for networking issues
- Improved http method support
- Major performance improvements, most notable when signing on multiple accounts simultaneously and when chatting while other applications are making heavy use of your hard drive.
- Tons of improvements and fixes, big and small - see below for all the details!
General Changes
- Improved management of contact and account icons:
- Fixed setting “Use no icon” in personal preferences not updating with no icon (#7778)
- Fixed images in Image Picker showing up too large (#8911)
- Fixed Address Book icons not overriding user's icon when set to do so (#8260)
- Fixed Address Book image being copied/overwriten every time (which caused troubles with Sync Services) (#9122)
- Significant memory usage and performance improvements related to icons
- Fixed behavior which determines which contact in a combined contact to message (#9619)
- Added “Save opened chats when quitting” option to the General preferences (#8360)
- Added menu item for “Add Group Chat Bookmark” to the Contact menu (#8772)
- Improved the dialog when sending a message to a contact who appears offline (#9568)
- Choosing a status from a status menu which is already globally set will now present the state editor window
- Added option in the Advanced Status Prefs to change “Number of unread messages” to “Number of unread conversations” (for the Dock icon and Status Menu Item) (#8599)
- Fixed reconnect behavior in certain situations (#9355) (#9309)
- Fixed combined contacts with Bonjour accounts staying online (#9862)
- View menu now changes “Show” menu items to “Hide” and back again, instead of using check-marks (#4740)
- Fixed checking of account in the Add Contact window with only one account (#9871)
- Fixed empty space in the Window menu's list of open chats when using tabs (#9621)
- Fixed issue that could cause sounds to stop working when Adium was upgraded if a default sound set was in use
- Updated Zephyr Options preferences page (#9776)
- Keychain items now contain the name of their account (#7773) (#8777)
- The New Message prompt no longer requires specifying the source account for the new chat
- Fixed an issue which could make newlines disappear when copying and pasting from Safari, Word, and other applications in certain situations (#10474)
- Fixed duplication of newline characters in chat message history (#10496)
- %n, %d, and %t are no longer substituted in the middle of a word (#10500)
- Fixed many memory leaks (#10448, #10449, #10450, #10451, #10452, #10453, #10454, #10455, #10456, #10466, #10468, #10470)
- Improved baseline memory usage of Adium
- Updated default Xtra packages
- Added Renkoo and Renkoo Naked message styles
- Added Invisible and Busy Adiumy Dock icons (#3962)
- Added blocked status icon to the iBubble set (#4383)
- Added status icons for DND/Busy status (#8329)
- Updated service icons for ICQ, Yahoo!, Gadu-Gadu, MySpace IM, Sametime, and QQ (#6338)
- Updated MSN emoticons to include a more comprehensive default set (#3647)
- Added "MobileMe" service (#10399)
- Fixed storage of ordering within metacontact and groups in certain situations (#10028)
- Removed some invalid sender colors in message windows (#10219)
- Fixed moving a contact from one metacontact to another (#10188)
- Worked around a Firefox 3 problem with retrieving the current webpage's information. The bug is 427448.
- Fixed a crash when disconnecting if a Send Message action were applied to the "Contact No Longer Seen" event (#10181)
- Fixed issues with applescript and modifying statuses (#8809, #10118)
- Fixed 'go online with message' applescript command (#10082)
- Added a 'name' property for single-user chats (#8825)
- Fixed the contextual menu items for Address Book integration within the message window
- Added Italics support in the chat transcript viewer (#10086)
- Fixed problems with manually assigned address book cards and combined contacts
- Updated to libpurple 2.5.0
Contact List
- Combined contacts can now be expanded and collapsed in the contact list (#5545)
- Contacts within a combined contact can now be reordered within the contact list
- Dragging a contact to another group will remove it from the combined contact
- Dragging a contact into an existing combined contact will add it to that combined contact
- Removed ability to drag groups to detach them, as many of you did that by accident
- You must now right-click on them and choose “Detach from Window”
- You can still drag and drop between detached groups
- Idle time display improvements
- Added an “idle right, status below” option for idle and status message display in list layouts
- “Size to Fit Horizontally” no longer ignores idle time when set to display beside the name (#1631)
- Group display improvements:
- Changed Contact List to expand or collapse groups on the first mouse click
- Changed group headers to show the number of contacts in the group on the right side when left-aligned, or the left side otherwise
- Group bubbles now display at maximum width when using “Contact Bubbles (To Fit)” (#3366)
- Groups now break up the alternation of contact row colors in the Contact List (#1127)
- Changed minimum opacity for the Contact List to 0% from 5% (#5104)
- Adium is now Psychic: Contacts which are typing a message to you without a chat open are displayed as “typing”
- Added “Blocked Contacts” to the set of contact list filters (“Hide Certain Contacts”) (#8045)
- Removed the empty white contact list when using the standard contact list window (#9445)
- Added ability to drag-and-drop URLs onto the Contact List (#8901)
- Added ability to drag-and-drop songs from iTunes onto the Contact List to send them as file transfers (#5114)
- Fixed contact list becoming super-glued to screen edges after resolution change (#9322)
- Pressing Enter with multiple selection in Contact List now opens a chat with all of the selected contacts, not just one (#9575)
- You can now expand multiple selected groups with the right arrow key, and collapse them with the left (#7540)
- Moving a contact from one group to another on one account will now move the same contact on all other accounts (#9209)
- Fixed display issues that would arise if you deleted the font that you were using for the Contact List (#6587)
- Fixed dragging the Contact List between vertically-stacked displays (#6637) (#7412)
- Fixed scroll bar momentarily appearing when buddy list un-hides (#7292)
- Contact List now glows in the dark
- Fixed hidden Contact List becoming inaccessible upon connecting another display (#8051)
- Groups with no contacts do not hide after detaching and re-attaching groups (#8829)
- Added a delay before showing a contact list which is hiding on screen edges (#6225)
- Fixed which information is displayed for combined contacts (#8730)
- Fixed Contact List tooltips breaking on launch (#7937)
- Fixed the clickable area of the Contact List being larger than it looked (#9738)
- Drag & Drop
- Fixed drag & drop to the bottom of groups (#10257)
- Greatly improved drag & drop aesthetics
- Fixed persistent drag highlights after finishing a drag & drop operation (#10195)
- We now recollapse items automatically expanded in the contact list during a drag & drop operation (#10254)
- Fixed issues with contact list ordering, including a 10.4 bug in which contacts could not be ordered immediately below combined contacts (#10255)
Chats and Messages
- Multiple consecutive status messages in the message view will now only display the latest update for your account or your contact (#8904) (#8957)
- Added ⌘⌥⇠/⌘⌥⇢ (Firefox-style) tab switching shortcuts. (#9611)
- Clearing the message view
- Added a “Clear Display” contextual menu item to the message view
- Added a “/clear” command (like IRC clients have)
- Group chats
- Added ability for message styles to look different for group chats (#8435) (#87)
- Fixed group chat userlists not updating after waking from sleep (#9858)
- Fixed slowness in joining large group chats (#9358)
- Groupwise: Fixed duplicate messages in Groupwise conferences (#9838)
- Yahoo!: Added sending of text attributes (color, font) in Yahoo! Group Chat (#7919)
- Fixed message windows losing saved position on Tiger (#9745)
- The contact information tooltip now hides when you begin typing into a message window (#9803)
- Added option to scale the message window background image (#7399)
- Made the “Send File” dialog a sheet, rather than a separate window (#5159)
- Added left/right swipe gestures to change tabs on multi-touch Macs (e.g., MacBook Air) (#9432)
- Adium now automatically aligns text in inputline based on writing direction (#9079)
- /me
- Changed /me command to not alter the action text being sent (#8934)
- Changed display of /me to be dependent on message view style
- Prevent closing tabs that are inactive (#7603)
- Fixed printing from the message view
- Fixed incorrect display of status messages (#7401)
- Fixed Font Panel for “Text Display” in Messages pane of Preferences not allowing changes (#7797)
- When switching message styles, the “Text display” field is now updated to the default font of the new style (#7766)
- Fixed consecutive message divider lines in Mockie message style (#8966)
- Fixed repetition of user icons in the Mockie message style (#662)
Status menu item
- Added controls for the status menu item to the Status section of the Advanced pane in Preferences
- Added “Options” submenu with some menu items that we removed in 1.2 (#9169)
- Moved Contacts submenu above Accounts submenu
- Made right-clicking the status menu item show the Contact List menu, for starting new chats (#8436)
- Fixed status menu item repositioning improperly when unread count was zero (#9502)
Events and Notifications
- Added new event type: “Name Mentioned” for when your name is said in a group chat (#1606)
- Added “Silence Growl” option for custom statuses (#7481)
- Fixed Growl notifications to use icons from the Address Book when you've set Adium that way in the Preferences (#9892)
- Fixed awkward nudge/buzz event text when sending (#9559)
- Updated Growl to 1.1.4. Adium will prompt you to automatically upgrade as appropriate.
Jabber/XMPP
- Fixed authentication on XMPP in cases where GSSAPI fails (#9492)
- Fixed bug where you couldn't join a group chat after trying and failing once (#1874; #7388)
- Fixed not updating the userlist for nickname changes in group chats (#479)
- Fixed bug that would allow you to try to message contacts from accounts that don't have the contact on their contact lists (#5152)
- Fixed offering to unregister GTalk accounts when you delete them (#9798)
- Fixed error when trying to log into Wildfire Jabber server (#9801)
- Fixed passwordless login on broken Jabber servers (#9748)
- Fixed a crash when finishing a file transfer (#8979)
AIM / ICQ
- Fixed redisplay of the away message when an away contact goes idle on AIM (#10056)
- AIM DirectConnect now respects the “automatically accept…” option in the File Transfer preferences
- Fixed an intermittent crash after sending an image via AIM Direct IM
- Fixed lengthy delay before sending messages after connecting an AIM or ICQ account with a large number of ICQ contacts on its contact list (#10350)
Encryption
- Update to libotr 3.1 (#7485)
- Socialist Millionaire protocol is not yet functioning in Adium
- Fixed infinite loop caused by pasting rich text into an encrypted chat (#7960)
- Fixed infinite loop caused by messages that were too long for one message (#2528)
- Fixed per-user encryption settings not being set properly (#9366)
- Fixed inability to enable automatic encryption (#9193)
Chat transcripts
- Adium chat transcripts are now bundles. Third party software will need to be updated accordingly.
- Reduced time spent writing log files when sending or receiving a message, providing a significant performance boost in many settings (#9386)
- Added option to hide timestamps in transcript viewer (#8633)
- Added left/right and up/down swipe gestures for users of multi-touch Macs (e.g., MacBook Air) (#9432)
- Fixed combined contacts' transcripts for GTalk and .Mac chats not displaying within the combined contact (#9725)
- Fixed hang when opening the transcript viewer (#9722)
- Fixed one case where transcripts listed in the Transcript Viewer would have an empty Date column (#9950)
- Added a very small delay to changing which logs are displayed when your selection changes, making keyboard-based navigation much easier.
- Added display of the contact's name along with the alias in the transcript viewer
AppleScript
- Exposed mutabilityType of statuses to AppleScript (#7656)
- Exposed unread-messages count in AppleScript (#9925)
- Added ability to add contacts through AppleScript (#9128)
- Added ability to re-order contacts through AppleScript (#9127)
- Added ability to block contacts through AppleScript (#9875)
- Added ability to delete contacts through AppleScript (#9061)
- Added ability to list the contacts of a group, and find the group of a contact, through AppleScript (#9109)
- Added ability to toggle proxies on and off through AppleScript (#750)
- Added ability to get the account of a contact through AppleScript in Tiger (#8972)
- Fixed bug where, if you turned off Show Groups, some (most) contact group elements would be contacts, mixed in with the actual groups (#9131)
- Fixed Address Book plugins, which were broken in 1.2.x (#9879)
- Fixed %_adiumbuild in certain situations (#9472)
URL detection
- “B.Sc.” (Bachelor of Science) is no longer detected as a link (#7910) (#9955)
- Fixed actions (/me) that ended with URLs rendering the asterisk (*) as part of the link (#8459)
- Fixed linkification of enclosed URIs with trailing punctuation (#1031) (#9795)
- Fixed linkification of URIs with user/password information (#9796)
- Fixed linkification of IPv6 addresses (#7491)
- Fixed linkification of URLs containing underscores (#7959)
- Spotify URI hyperlink detection (#9200)
Address Book
- Fixed setting your Bonjour display name to the name on your Address Book “Me” card (#2855)
- Fixed “Overwrite Address Book images with contacts' icons” feature working sporadically (#4935)
- Fixed “Search in Address Book” not adding the contact on the correct service (#8256)
- Fixed ignorance of email address field when looking up names in Address Book for GTalk and MSN contacts (#9018)
- Fixed “Add to Address Book” causing Adium to lose the Address Book name information for all your contacts (#9303)
- We now respect the 'last name first' per-contact setting from the Address Book (#10327)
Crash fixes
- Fixed a crash when moving around groups in contact list or moving them in and out of it (#9447)
- Fixed a crash when the Adium User Profile window is shown at startup *and* a 3rd party plugin needs confirmation at startup (#9953)
Localization
- Added a Commonwealth English localization
- “Show x recent messages” (in the General pane of the Preferences) was translated as number of days, not number of messages, in Chinese (#9792)
- Provide separate strings for “Get Info” menu item and “Get Info” button (#8570)
- Added Italian-localized Dock-icon overlays for Away and Idle (#9975)
- Updated all localizations
Previous Version History
See PreviousVersionHistory for the version history from Adium 1.2.7 back to Adium 1.0.
See PreviousVersionHistory2 for the version history from Adium X 0.89.1 back to Adium X 0.50 (initial release).