Jason Terhost of theappleblog.com recently interviewed me about Adium… if you’re interested, you can read all about it. 🙂

Adium X 0.84 is now available. It’s just like 0.83, but without the whole “not loading your buddy list properly” thing. We’d like to extend a big ‘thanks’ to all the users who helped with testing builds as we resolved the problem. 🙂

In a showing that runs thoroughly contrary to all appearances in our month and a half of beta testing, Adium 0.83 has provided us with some unanticipated difficulties. The result is that a number of people are not seeing their entire buddy list after updating. An updated, working release of Adium 0.83 will be available shortly. In the meantime we have reverted the site to provide Adium 0.82 which should continue to work as expected. Adium Trac ticket #1272 is the releveant issue ticket for the problem. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

We’re proud to announce that Adium X 0.83 is now available!

It’s a recommended upgrade for all users, as it has many bug fixes and improvements as well as security fixes. The huge list of changes can be found in the version history. The executive summary is that after over 2 months of development past 0.82, this is the most stable version of Adium yet. Enjoy 🙂

forum user shorshe sent me the following:

File:   /SourceCache/DevToolsBase/DevToolsBase-515/pbxcore/Target.subproj/PBXBuildSettingsDictionary.m 
Line:   111 
Function:   PBXBuildSettingsDictionary_getValueForKeyPath 

value should be a string, but it is <NSCFArray:0x03a69c80> 

Couldn't open /Users/[deleted]/Desktop/adium-0.82/Adium.xcodeproj/Adium.xcode. 



Reason: *** -[NSCFArray length]: selector not recognized [self = 0x3a69c80]. 

------------------ 


Uncaught Exception: 
*** -[NSCFArray length]: selector not recognized [self = 0x3a69c80] 

Stack Backtrace: 
The stack backtrace has been logged to the console.

looks like that array in the build settings was an issue after all. I wonder, though, if it wouldn’t still be trivial to write an Xcode 2.0↔2.1 translator. thanks, shorshe.

I notice this in the project.pbxproj file in Adium.xcodeproj:

/* Begin PBXBuildStyle section */
  342E171507284F310054D77A /* Deployment-Debug */ = {
   isa = PBXBuildStyle;
   buildSettings = {
    COPY_PHASE_STRIP = NO;
    DEAD_CODE_STRIPPING = YES;
    DEBUGGING_SYMBOLS = YES;
    GCC_DEBUGGING_SYMBOLS = full;
    GCC_DYNAMIC_NO_PIC = NO;
    GCC_ENABLE_FIX_AND_CONTINUE = NO;
    GCC_ENABLE_OBJC_EXCEPTIONS = NO;
    GCC_OPTIMIZATION_LEVEL = s;
    MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.3;
    OTHER_CFLAGS = (
     "-DCRASH_REPORTER",
     "-DDEBUG_BUILD",
     "-g3",
    );
    PRECOMP_DESTINATION_DIR = $SYMROOT/PrecompiledHeaders;
    ZERO_LINK = NO;
   };
   name = "Deployment-Debug";
  };

other than the value of OTHER_CFLAGS being an array rather than a string like it was in Adium.xcode in [12214], I can’t see any significant differences here. would somebody who still has Xcode 2.0 please try the following, and tell me whether it works? (you can get the answer to me through IRC, or PM me on the forum.)

1. mkdir Adium.xcode
2. cp Adium.xcode{proj,}/project.pbxproj (copies the project.pbxproj file from Adium.xcodeproj to Adium.xcode)
3. open Adium.xcode
4. click Build.

Adium X 0.82 is now available for download. It sports several significant improvements – including an OTR Encryption advanced preferences pane, better MSN display name handling, and ignore support in group chats – and nearly 40 bug and crash fixes. See the version history for all the details; there you can also see what a huge success the Trac bug reporting system has been, for which we’d like to thank you! We’ve updated to Growl 0.70, a major release from the Growl team, and to libgaim 1.3.1 which brings important security fixes.

Translation continues at a fast pace as well: Adium X 0.82 adds Catalan, Czech, Icelandic, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, and Swedish translations. The About Adium page has the full list of current translations.

The Adium team would like to thank Apple for the special mention of Adium X in the WWDC 2005 Apple Design Awards in the Best Use of Open Source category. This is truly an honor and we appreciate their recognition of Adium! 🙂

Yes, it’s been longer than expected for www.adiumxtras.com to be available again. We’re still working through some domain transfer issues, or so those who actually know about such things tell me 🙂 In the meantime, the site is up at xtras.adiumx.com… it’s effectively read-only, though, as the login function isn’t working at the new site yet so new submissions are not possible.

As many of you know, blocking is currently not functioning very well. Some fixes that jmelloy introduced, which I backported to the 0.8, should clear this problem up. Hopefully. We’ve also added some console logs to help us debug any problems you’re having.

By the way, anyone in Hawaii looking for a programmer? I’m currently looking for a job out here. I’ve worked as a web developer in the past, but, ideally, I’d like to do something OS X related. Feel free to contact me directly.