I hope everybody likes the new site design! We’re still ironing out a few issues but overall things are complete.

The good news is that we have Trac going now (On the support & dev tab), which should help us keep all our information organized and up to date. It’s also got a bug and request ticketing system which I’m sure may of you will be happy to see, and a wiki for documentation. The wiki is brand new, but I expect it to flesh out nicely in time and hopefully contain enough information to answer any question that comes up.

If you haven’t noticed, the site is less orange now too. Which, depending on the health of your retinas, could be considered a good thing. 🙂

There are currently problems connecting via Adium to the default Yahoo server, resulting in the error “Unable to read.” A temporary workaround is to change the Login Server to scsdcntest-c.msg.yahoo.com in the Options tab of each Yahoo account’s preferences.

This minor update to Adium 0.80 primarily fixes issues for non-English users, including resolving crashes when working in the Events preferences and when initiating OTR sessions. Localization isn’t easy! Other notable fixes include dock icon updating to reflect status, minor improvements to blocking support, and automatic compression of folders for file transfers. See the version history for all the details.

The Adium team is proud to announce the availability of Adium X 0.80, a major update to its multi-protocol instant messaging application. Adium 0.80 brings a completely new status system with available messages and invisibility on supported protocols, built-in secure encrypted messaging via Off-the-Record Messaging, the long-awaited file transfer progress interface, customizable built-in Growl notification system support, blocking, customizable service and status icons, full OS X 10.4 compatibility, and much, much more.

See the Version History for a summary of changes, or the full change list for a mind-boggling look at just how much we’ve accomplished in terms of new features and bug fixes since work began on Adium 0.80 in October 2004.

An exciting highlight: Adium 0.80 is now officially multilingual! Adium is now translated into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese. This is the first translated release, so please remember that translations are a work in progress; there are still some small parts of Adium which remain in English. The Adium forums now have an Adium Localizations subforum where you can help if you’re so inclined.

We’d like to thank our hosting providers for their donated bandwidth, storage space, and time. The Adium 0.80 download is hosted by Cache Fly whose high speed and low latency we’re sure you’ll appreciate. The Adium code repository and email accounts are hosted by Penguin Militia Networks who will donate $5 to Adium for every new account which lists us as the referral. And, if you enjoy Adium 0.80, please consider showing your support directly.

A lot has changed; we’ve made every effort to migrate preferences from Adium 0.7x, but some components — notably the Events system — were so completely rewritten as to make that impossible, so please explore the redesigned preferences before reporting issues. 🙂

Hello Blogger users! Many thanks to Blogger who not only featured us on their official blog, but added us to their Blogs of Note blogroll (visible to all logged-in Blogger users). A big ducky thanks goes out to the folks at Blogger for helping to power the Adium website.

Much thanks to AppleGeeks for making Adium the featured site of the day.

A lot of people are coming into the Adium and Growl IRC channels asking how to enable Growl in Adium 0.7x. Here’s how to do it:

1. Quit Adium.
2. Get Info on Adium in the Finder.
3. Expand the ‘Plugins’ section (if it isn’t already expanded) by clicking on the disclosure triangle.
4. Check the box for Growl.AdiumPlugin.
5. Launch Adium.

Also, we’re seeing a lot of crash logs from ancient versions of Adium – as far back as 0.6x! If it’s a random crash, that’s OK, go ahead and submit it. But if it’s reproducible, make sure you have the latest version, and if you don’t, PLEASE update first, and then try the same steps with that.

The last release of the Adium X 0.7x series is now available for download. It is primarily a security release, although it also brings a respectable set of other bug fixes; Adium 0.77 is a recommended upgrade for all users. See the version history for details of the security issues addressed as well as the other changes.

While work continues on the next major release of Adium X, 0.80, another bugfix release is out the door. Today’s biggest fixes are for OS X 10.2 users, as we have corrected a crash on quit in 10.2.x and a crash on launch in 10.2.0 through 10.2.6 sans Safari. For the short but solid list of other improvements, see the version history. Enjoy 🙂

Adium 0.75 is now available for download. It finally squashes one of our oldest crashes related to retrieving passwords stored securely in the Apple Keychain, and brings the usual collection of other bug fixes and improvements.

See the version history for the full list.