MSN server problem

Microsoft’s MSN servers are currently having problems. Like the official MSN client, Adium is therefore unable to reliably connect to MSN. The issue is temporary, and Microsoft’s support page will be updated when the problem is fixed.

(My first post to the Adium blog. W00t!)

On the IRC channel, we’ve been hearing that some people are encountering a crash on startup in 0.74 relating to metacontacts. This crash has already been fixed for the next version of Adium, but that’s no comfort to the people having it now. And I’m figuring that many of you don’t want to go to the IRC channel to ask for help with it.

I’ve released a program (independently of the Adium project) called Metacontact Fixer which prunes bad entries that cause the metacontact crash. It currently requires Panther (sorry, Jaguar users) and it should only be used with 0.74 – I’m not aware of earlier versions having the crash, and later versions definitely will not.

Adium 0.74 available

Adium 0.74 has a short list of changes but is a strongly recommended upgrade for MSN users. A mistake during the libgaim update for 0.73 led to major stability issues while connected to MSN; this is now corrected.

Don’t forget that our source code host, penguinmilitia.net, will donate $5 to Adium for each new customer who mentions Adium when signing up. We’re thankful to them as always for the generous space and bandwidth they donate to the project.

Adium X 0.73 Available

Another solid bug fix release, Adium X 0.73 (version history) fixes several crashes, resolves a couple long standing problems with away messages on various protocols, significantly improves MSN connectivity, and generally makes you feel good. We hope so, anyways 🙂 Enjoy, and happy holidays.

The Forums have moved!

The Adium forums have moved to CocoaForge. As before, the direct link is http://forums.adiumx.com/. We look forward to seeing you there!

Adium X 0.72 available

Adium X 0.72 fixes problems with Applescript filters, contact list autosizing, and auto-away after idle; it also fixes a common crash when connecting to the MSN network. As always, check out the version history for a full list of changes. 🙂

MSN crashing issues

Serverside MSN changes are causing a fairly common crash in Adium X 0.71. Version 0.72 is forthcoming early next week and will fix this problem; thanks for your patience. 🙂

Adium 0.71 is now available. The 0.71 update corrects several issues including errors with proxy settings, minor issues with the log viewer, a crash involving Tic Tac Toe, and more. See the version history for a complete list of changes.

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Happy Halloween!

Have a fun, safe Halloween (and Samhain)… if anyone tells you that you’re too old to dress up, make ’em give you candy 🙂

If you’re theming All Hallow’s Eve style, check out the Halloween Adiumy dock icon, second in spookiness only to the Evil Menu Duck.

Adium 0.7 multi-IM application released

The Adium team has updated Adium, its free multi-service instant messaging client for Mac OS X. The 0.7 update includes a major revamp of the contact list, improved group chat support, contact grouping, Rendezvous support and numerous other additions and improvements. Adium supports all the major instant messaging services — AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, ICQ, and more — and features an attractive, customizable interface.

Screenshot of the new contact list in Adium 0.7:

Additional Screenshots: Bubbles, Group Bubbles.

A lot has changed in this release, so be sure to take a few moments to explore the new options and adjust. The contact list has gained a ton of new features, including the ability to display user icons, service icons, away messages, group gradients, and more. We’ve also added a new style of list called “Group Bubbles” which we’re very happy with. Because of the extent of the contact list changes, your current list layout & theme settings won’t transfer over into the new version, and old theme files will no longer work. We look forward to seeing the cool layouts and themes our users will create with the new options in 0.7 🙂

Another major new feature in 0.7 is contact grouping (also known as meta-contacts). Contact grouping allows you to group multiple contacts into a single entry on Adium’s contact list. This is extremely useful when someone on your contact list has multiple user names spread across several services. With contact grouping, simply hold down option and drag their multiple names onto eachother, and Adium will treat them as a single ‘contact’ on your list. You can see the contents of a contact group in the “Get Info” window or in the contact list tooltip. Adium will also honor any contact grouping already set up in your address book.

In addition, Adium 0.7 brings greatly improved multi-user chat support on AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo. Now we can create our own chats and join chats without an invite via “Join Group Chat…” in the file menu. A large number of multi-user chat bugs have been fixed as well.

Add to this 18 crash fixes and over 50 corrected bugs and you’ve got an Adium release that’s certainly not worth missing 🙂

Complete list of changes in Adium 0.7

Additionally, our code repository hosting and email provider, penguinmilitia.net, will be donating $5 to Adium for every year-long subscription by an Adium user. If you want, check them out and be sure to let them know you appreciate what they do for the project. 🙂