Hold on tight,

We’re about to hit a downhill on our rollercoaster of stability. It’s been smooth sailing up until now, but the increased rate and severity of changes, combined with the introduction of new protocol code (Yes, libgaim account preferences will be available in tomorrow’s binary) will most likely have a negative impact on our stability and reliability over the upcoming weeks.

We’re working hard on some built in crash reporter code, and hopefully it will make an appearance before the end of the week. The crash reporter, combined with your patience and persistance, will get us through this unscathed 🙂

To keep things calm, please take extra time searching the forums before starting a new thread, and try your hardest to post replies in any relevant threads that already exist. If there are issues it’s very likely that someone else has already experienced them, and finding their posts will be of help to you.

Also keep an eye on this news page. I’ll try my hardest to keep up to date info here.

Well, the protocols thread survey, along with my constant harrassment of users in #adium on irc.freenode.net, and also people I know who use macs, and use instant messengers, has paid off. With a total of 121 votes, here is a nice pie chart of the results:

here.

I’ve changed the way accounts are stored in the upcoming binary.

Your existing accounts should be automatically update. However, once you move to this binary, previous binaries will no longer be able to see your accounts.

The binary is shrinking, aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!

*runs in horror*

🙂

New Xcode is really there now! 🙂 Yay for it fixing the precompiled headers madness.

New Xcode is up in Software Update! 🙂

[If it’s not there yet it should be in the next few days]

If you’re getting pre-compiled symbol warnings when trying to debug Adium after updating, you might need to refresh your symfiles by running (in terminal):

sudo /usr/libexec/gdb/cache-symfiles

Thanks everyone for voting on the protocols thread. I should have some results later on this week. Please keep in mind that the poll did not mean much, I just wanted to get a general idea of what everyone uses.

10.3.2 is out and updates a number of system frameworks. If you’re building Adium from source, it’s a good idea to open console and run:

sudo fixprecomps -force -all

This will stop any pre-compiled symbol warnings and should keep your compile times fast.

We had a bad binary go up this morning.

Anyone who downloaded before 9:00 AM EST (And is not seeing aliases on their contact list) should download again.

A new binary is up now and should be all good 🙂

I’ve revamped the object specific preference system. This means that plugins can now easily add preferences specific to an individual contact (or all the contacts within a specific group). The contact alerts already had a system for this, but the support is now in Adium’s core and easier to access 🙂

I’ve added some temporary code to upgrade your preferences to the new system as they’re read. Don’t be alarmed if some contact-specific preferences are lost, however (aka. Aliases, Contact alerts, and custom voice settings). Sorry for the inconvenience.