Ducks Gone Wild: Adium X 0.87
I was under the impression it was an early Hanukkah gift, actually, Colin, but whatever you’re celebrating — even if it’s just the end of the year — here’s our present to you: Adium X 0.87 is now available for download.
Besides a slew of tasty bug fixes [including such popular ones as blocking/unblocking behavior, proper display of the current rather than the previous away message in message windows, and ICQ nickname retrieval], Adium 0.87 brings improved Off-the-Record encrypted chatting with OTRv3 and better fingerprint verification handling and welcomes Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian English, and Polish users to join the international Adium community.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our site and AdiumXtras host Network Redux, our Trac and Subversion host Penguin Militia Networks, and our download host CacheFly. All three are thoroughly awesome 
Enjoy!
December 15th, 2005 at 7:22 PM
Will .87 save my .86 preferences? Namely, if I upgrade it asks me if I want to replace the old Adium (when I drag the duck into my Applications folder). Will I be starting from scratch or will it remember all my friends, settings ‘n such?
Gracias!
December 15th, 2005 at 10:13 PM
It should. That said, I already had one bizarre, random crash (absolutely no idea what caused it, alas) and switched back to .86. :-\
December 16th, 2005 at 2:38 AM
Unfortunately, after upgrading from .86 to .87 Adium now just sits there trying to connect but never gets there. I tried putting .86 back over .87, but no dice. My very quick look in the forums didn’t seem to indicate this is a widespread problem, though. Hmm.
December 16th, 2005 at 7:32 AM
Great job… keep it up like this!
BTW, does anyone knows where I could follow libgaim development? oO
December 16th, 2005 at 11:34 AM
Still can’t accept files via AIM…
Other than that this is the best chat software I have ever used. Tabbed chat is a stroke of genius in itself…
ms@marcsteel.us
December 16th, 2005 at 3:32 PM
Instructions for following libgaim development are listed here, on our support website.
December 17th, 2005 at 2:55 AM
Just DL’d the new .87 version and now my user icons are all screwed up. They aren’t the ones that I had in .86 and they won’t change.
December 17th, 2005 at 7:45 PM
Looking at the road map, are you going to skip the .9 all together and go straight to 1.0?
December 17th, 2005 at 8:11 PM
This version crashes constantly. First time I used it it crashed. The longest it stayed up was about 5 hours. I started it and 5 hours later I typed my first message. As soon as I tried to send it: Boom, down goes the app. I have a sound set from Adiumxtras that I’ll try to remove. Other than that, it’s a vanilla setup.
I still love this progam and will continue using it. I’ll just have to use the last version for the moment, that’s all.
December 18th, 2005 at 2:12 AM
Funny, 0.87 works fine for me. How many silly hacks do you guys have installed?
December 18th, 2005 at 5:06 AM
THIS IS NOT A SUPPORT FORUM.
Please see the Support & Development tab for help, bug reports, and feature requests.
December 18th, 2005 at 8:09 AM
Evan, we’re not looking for support.
We’re posting FYIs to any potential new users to be careful of this new version.
December 18th, 2005 at 12:29 PM
Yeah, because writing a Trac ticket is just too much trouble for us!
December 19th, 2005 at 11:55 AM
Is this the same built, which was posted a few days ago on the beta page?
December 19th, 2005 at 3:41 PM
Happy Chanukah! Merry Xmas! And Joyous whatever other holidays you celebrate.
0.87 works great for me.
~MacMom
December 20th, 2005 at 4:45 AM
Happy Thankschristmahannuramadanakwanzaaboxingdaynationalpigdaynewyearsolyulepiphanymas!
Now what else did I forget?
taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holidays
December 21st, 2005 at 10:07 PM
Well done, only blocking function still not working at all on my G4/Tiger. Becomes urgent. Thanks
December 22nd, 2005 at 10:18 PM
Happy Holidays to all. Weso³ych Œwi¹t to all the polish Adium users. Thanks to all the Adium developers. Looking forward to Adium X’s implementation of Gaim 2.0 and its newer and better implementation of gadu gadu. Can’t wait for the MacTels to come out in January. Once again, keep up the good work
December 28th, 2005 at 5:20 PM
I have a question.. and if theres a better place to post this… like a forum of some kind which I can’t seem to find, please let me know!
With the future advent of GTK for OS X (native) can we expect to see superior IM encryption with gaim-encryption? I understand that gaim-encryption relies upon the gtk library which OS X is bereft of and therefore even applications that are based off of gaim libraries would not have the benefit of using gaim-encryption.. but once it -is- possible… will there be any work in that direction?
Thanks,
ShaBot
December 28th, 2005 at 8:44 PM
my .87 been crashing like a MS application….. now, even i replace it with an older version still crashs
will there be an update soon?
jc
December 30th, 2005 at 7:12 PM
Adium 0.87 crashing and crashing recently when logging in MSN, I must try more times to connect it. But at same time, MSN on PC can log in at once. All Mac users in China are said so. Even Microsoft MSN for Mac can’t log in too. I am wondering MSN China have done something BLOCK to mac users…
December 31st, 2005 at 3:18 AM
Hey, congrats on the v0.87 release! Will we have to wait until 2006 New Year’s Eve to see 1.0 final?
There is one minor visual flaw that I’d like to see corrected: in the Contacts window, you can click the Pill to bring down the toolbar. The “Add Contact” button looks a bit strange, almost like the duck is sucking on a green pacifier, because the tiny size renders the green symbol impossible to interpret, especially on a less-than-stellar monitor.
Might I suggest rendering a new version with a simple green + symbol off to the side of the duck? Or, you can keep the circle but make the “plus” a bit thicker so we can actually see what it is!
January 3rd, 2006 at 10:39 PM
“Adium 0.87 crashing and crashing recently when logging in MSN, I must try more times to connect it. But at same time, MSN on PC can log in at once. All Mac users in China are said so. Even Microsoft MSN for Mac can’t log in too. I am wondering MSN China have done something BLOCK to mac users…”
yeah, this is true, Adium just crashed almost everytime MSN was logging. must be some unexpected command or string from the server which adium can not handle. Please double check this bug. thanx!!!
January 5th, 2006 at 5:45 AM
I was just checking to see if anyone else was having problems with constant crashes and discovered, lo and behold, andy d and some others are having problems with constant crashes, having something to do with MSN. I’m traveling in China right now and am having this problem, but will be back in the US in 10 days or so, so can see if it’s happening there too. Glad it isn’t just me! And you should have plenty of crash reports to work off of too
January 5th, 2006 at 7:21 PM
are you going to update the sourceforge page w/ the .87 source?
ths
January 6th, 2006 at 5:21 PM
I’m also experiencing crashes all the time, especially when i’m chatting in a group-chat.
January 20th, 2006 at 11:50 PM
I have also the same bug in China, MSN can’t connect and it’s not an issue of the .87 version I had the same problem with .86… I still can connect to MSN after trying many times to connect; many crashes but after some tries it connects and stay connected for a long time…
Thanks for this great software anyway!
Maxime