Adium 1.3 Beta!
We are thrilled to announce the availability of Adium 1.3 Beta. You can download it from the beta page or enable “Update to beta versions when available” in the Adium General preferences.
New in Adium 1.3: A brand new, gorgeous Contact Inspector which brings together all a contact’s information in one place – coalescing combined contacts’ information and accessing your Apple Address Book to give you at-a-glance information; Facebook Chat; iPhone 2.0-style filtering search in the Standard Contact List; major performance improvements; and well over 150 enhancements and bug improvements from the Adium team alone, plus major updates from our friends at libpurple and Growl. See the Beta page for the full details.
Please test, enjoy, give us feedback and help further refine Adium 1.3, and get involved! 
June 9th, 2008 at 23:30
Fantastic! I’m glad to see Facebook Chat get built into Adium, that’s really awesome. One feature request I do have though is for more granular notifications. I used to want to be notified through Growl whenever a contact signed on but with Facebook Chat… it becomes Growl spam! Or am I missing something?
June 10th, 2008 at 00:58
you guys rock. as others have mentioned in the trac, i hope the facebook efforts weren’t too strenuous considering the announcement of jabber support. is there a reason why you still can’t uncheck a ’show window shadow’ preference for the message window? Would make for much nicer transparency (no blurred text). I’ll go through the source this weekend and try to compile a test version if it’s a trivial/cut n paste thing.
June 10th, 2008 at 01:55
http://img.skitch.com/20080610-cmemt65utq4a4yip88hp81kpe.jpg
June 10th, 2008 at 02:38
I can’t seem to be able to sign into facebook chat at all, it just constantly tells me it’s ‘Connecting’. Are there any other settings other than email address and password that should be input?
June 10th, 2008 at 07:55
Arvind: Notifications overhaul is scheduled for 1.4 – so you could very likely see that soon! The objective is to subject just about everything to users choice via the notification preferences – at the moment there are some events that are non-configurable (as you have noticed).
June 10th, 2008 at 09:45
I’m sorry i know that’s not the right place, but I’m only a visotor and want to give a cool link:http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0126.html#invis-select-jid
There you can see how to go unavailable(shown offline) to specific contacts by using the xml console. i would be great if adium could implement a list, where only the wanted contact can’t see you. so i needn’t to do it every time in the console.
(sorry for my bad english, i’m german
)
dave
June 10th, 2008 at 12:23
a few of my contacts got randomly sorted to other groups (within the same hotmail acc) after i installed this update. might be a bug here?
June 10th, 2008 at 12:35
I am astounded that the Adium team has not added the feature that I hear asked for constantly: remembering group chats (not “groups”) in the contact list. This can’t be that hard, can it? Many of us are on multiple Jabber group chats a week, and it’s a pain in the butt to have to add these by hand each time.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:35
If I log into Facebook Chat in Adium, it automatically logs me out of Facebook.com, which is kinda annoying since I don’t want to log out of Facebook Chat through Adium everytime I visit Facebook.com.
Clearly a bug, but has Facebook even openly supported this development of adding Facebook Chat to a 3rd Party app? (The technology is obviously there, but do they endorse it?).
June 10th, 2008 at 12:53
I am trying to download the beta package for 1.3b2, but the download keeps crapping out around 6mb and the DMG is not recognized. What gives?
June 10th, 2008 at 13:07
@Mark Jensen:
Are you using Safari? I am using Firefox 3.1 nightly and do not have the problem of being logged out.
June 10th, 2008 at 13:10
Paul Hoffman: It’s been there for a while now. If you look at the contact menu you’ll see that there is an “Add Group Chat Bookmark” option. There is also an icon in the toolbar of the message window to do the same (if you don’t have it you may have to right click and choose “customize toolbar” to add it to the visible icons).
Mark Jensen: This is something we’re aware of but, at this point in time, have no control over. In the future it may be possible to work around it but for now it’s something that Facebook does. No, they haven’t supported third-party efforts (to my knowledge) other than the announcement that they’ll be switching to XMPP at some point in the future.
June 10th, 2008 at 15:10
[...] Nos encontramos con algunas mejoras como son: se incorpora el chat de Facebook va bien si es que sigues usando Facebook (yo ya dejo que actualice mi estado Friendfeed), ha copiado alguna cosilla del iPhone como es el filtrado de contactos y mejoras en su rendimiento entre otras muchas más. [...]
June 10th, 2008 at 16:26
[...] Adium 1.3 (IM-Client für den Mac) unterstützt den Facebook Chat, auch wenn Facebook anderer Meinung ist: Derzeit wird die Nutzung der Chatfunktion von Facebook mit Anwendungen Dritter nicht unterstützt. [...]
June 10th, 2008 at 17:51
It’s possible I’m missing something, but this release refuses to work for me. When I start it, most of the top menus are blank, I have no way of setting up new accounts…I can’t even access the preferences (it just gives me a message saying they are unavailable) I’m using a Powerbook G4 with 10.5.3. Any ideas?
June 10th, 2008 at 20:49
Gotta admit, i absolutely hate the new “Get info” window.. Its not pretty, its bloated. go back to the old tab style pleasee.. Also i don’t think the Status menu needs nearly as much stuff in it as it currently does.. ie: contacts, accounts, options.. I absolutely love adium, but i feel like these two things are mars on the software. everything else is amazing, the new contacts search is great and the performance has improved dramatically! keep up the good work
June 10th, 2008 at 21:40
I like the new Contact Viewer window… I think it’s much easier to use then the old one. To each his own, I guess?
June 10th, 2008 at 21:56
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June 11th, 2008 at 00:13
[...] (my favorite chat client) just released the Adium 1.3 Beta. As implied by “beta”, it’s not quite ready for prime time yet, but I decided to [...]
June 11th, 2008 at 00:46
Anybody having their facebook chat buddies not coming up as of recently?
June 11th, 2008 at 00:58
Chris:
Yes, actually. Logs report that Adium failed to parse the page that shows up after login, apparently.
So far, facebook chat has only worked one time for me, and that was the second time I tried to sign on. Since then it’s been no go. However, it does log me out of facebook in my browser, so I’m sure it’s logging in.
June 11th, 2008 at 01:36
Yeah I had it working a couple times, I stated playing with the Growl notifications for when buddies sign on, and I thought that might have triggered something or just pure coincidence?
June 11th, 2008 at 04:52
The new beta is great. I have one problem that I don’t understand. Randomly new message window tabs will be blank where I cannot see the information the other party has typed. I hear it come on with notifications and can see it in chat transcripts. Then eventually if I move to other chats when I click on their tabs every window goes blank. Is this a common problem. I’m using the new beta on OX 10.4.11
June 11th, 2008 at 07:22
Hey guys. Glad to see so much interest in the beta. Please note that the comments section of the blog is the wrong place to report problems; we will *not* respond to and or follow up to bug reports here (and none of the reports here have enough information for us to investigate). The correct place is Trac. Please see ReportingBugs, whcih also details the crash or bug data we need.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:32
Questo programma spacca!!! peccato che manca la possibilità di scrivere e leggere le frasi personali di MSN. che aspettate a mettercelo???
June 11th, 2008 at 14:18
Guys! I real love how do you develop and always make ADIUM better! The Beta is great I’ve tried it in SL (You know what I mean), it’s works well!
Adium & Webkit are the greatest OSS in the MacWorld!
Congratulations for the great stuff.
June 11th, 2008 at 17:52
When Or Will Adium Support Video Chat?! I Was Excited To See Meebo Now Supports It But Its Only An Online Client.
I Love Adium And Hopefully It Comes Soon!!!!
June 11th, 2008 at 18:05
Is there anyway to have Growl notify you on the new psychic ability?
June 11th, 2008 at 18:10
Nevermind, that would be stupid. Disregard that last message.
June 11th, 2008 at 18:29
I love adium, but lacks only of the personal message of MSN
June 11th, 2008 at 19:25
[...] Aside from already being able to connect to all your AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google, Skype, and other contacts through one application, they just added Facebook support in the latest beta release. [...]
June 11th, 2008 at 22:02
Alright, understand I am not too bright (and rather new to Adium), but where is the contact search feature? I can’t figure out how to find it.
June 11th, 2008 at 22:35
I found it. I have to start typing for the search box to appear. Duh!
June 12th, 2008 at 01:03
“Contact list now glows in the dark” Humor? Or am I missing a new option/feature?
June 12th, 2008 at 03:13
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June 12th, 2008 at 08:41
Whenever I have to use Windows, I miss Adium…:’(
June 12th, 2008 at 12:38
I still cant get the contact search box to appear.
June 12th, 2008 at 15:55
I had problems finding it too, Pedro. You have to be using the regular style window (set in preferences). Command-f should work, but what worked for me was just clicking on the contact list and starting to type. The search box automatically opened.
June 12th, 2008 at 17:27
Niiice. just one thing…you wrote pidgin.info on your blog post. It’s pidgin.im
June 12th, 2008 at 19:49
hi , i love this ware,
if u can make is works with webcam will be awesome
June 12th, 2008 at 21:02
well there seems to be a lag in getting im’s some as great as 10hrs, kinda of annoying, anyone else had this happen? this was on the yahoo service if it means anything
June 13th, 2008 at 06:34
Thanks Joey, I was using contact bubbles.
June 13th, 2008 at 17:20
Yes, if you’re logged into Facebook Chat on Adium, it continually logs you out of Facebook Web.
This is why it’s a beta! Good Work so far, though.
June 14th, 2008 at 09:39
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June 15th, 2008 at 07:48
I still want the option to NOT CHECK my gmails mails. HATE that popup. :/ Can do it with hotmail / MSN, where is the option for gtalk ?
June 15th, 2008 at 08:43
I didn’t know it could automatically download beta versions. So I activated it right now. Hope to see some improvements on the MSN service
June 16th, 2008 at 07:02
I haven’t downloaded b3 yet, but at least with b2 then you (at least I) get only logged out of facebook when I use Safari, works great with Firefox RC3 (still for me, can’t say if it is like that for others too)
I will not download b3 because I was like one day too late to upload the language changes in norwegian so I will wait to b4
I blame AOC for me being late ^^
June 16th, 2008 at 07:35
I really appreciate you work… But I’ve got a little question. I know that the MSNP14/15 branch of libpurple isn’t ready yet, but is it possible to implement an option, to “experimental enable” this functionality? I must apologize, I haven’t looked at the architecture of libpurple… But if it is possible, it would be really nice…
Thanks a lot for your great work!
June 16th, 2008 at 14:25
Martin: check out the UNOFFICIAL MSNP15 build at http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17585 .
It seems quite stable to me. (It’s NOT SUPPORTED though, so don’t go the the Adium developers for help.)
June 16th, 2008 at 16:03
Is it possible in adium to save a custom emoticon from a conversation and then use it in every other conversation?… just like in msn messenger…
This is the only reason I use msn over Adium..
June 16th, 2008 at 23:15
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June 18th, 2008 at 00:06
Me parece positivo las actualizaciones que presentan. Sin embargo, hace un año aproximadamente que comunicaron sobre la implementación de Video en Adium y es la hora que no se sabe absolutamente nada… existe la posibilidad que podamos contar con video para este año?
June 18th, 2008 at 07:40
Love the facebook implementation, but sadly it stopped working today. It was working perfectly up until now..
June 18th, 2008 at 09:48
Me too with the facebook, I can receive messages, but can’t see my contact list. weird.
June 18th, 2008 at 14:31
Same here with Facebook – Can’t see my contact list. Ever since I updated to 1.3b3, which was today.
June 18th, 2008 at 19:22
I can’t see the contact list either for facebook chat, but its not because of b3 as I still run b2. So most likely did the facebook devs change something
June 18th, 2008 at 21:56
i cant see my facebook list either as of today, facebook must have changed something
June 19th, 2008 at 00:19
Also have the facebook chat problem, bummer that it’s not working so great, I was so happy to see facebook chat in adium! Hope it’s up and runing again soon!
June 19th, 2008 at 02:25
Was anyone else enjoying observing the facebook habits of other people while at work? :p Adium registered 49 different people logging in during work-hours in a day
June 19th, 2008 at 13:54
[...] arguably Pidgin’s counterpart on Mac, also received support for Facebook Chat in the recent 1.3 beta release, though, the feature is absent from the most recent official update. If you’re a risk-taker [...]
June 19th, 2008 at 14:24
[...] arguably Pidgin’s counterpart on Mac, also received support for Facebook Chat in the recent 1.3 beta release, though, the feature is absent from the most recent official update. If you’re a risk-taker [...]
June 20th, 2008 at 22:39
I checked out and built the latest from SVN and found Facebook working again. http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/GettingNewestAdiumSource
June 21st, 2008 at 05:23
Facebook chat is still broken, facebook obviously changed something recently (it worked until a few days ago). Awaiting new beta build!
June 21st, 2008 at 23:42
yeah that sucks that the facebook chat pooped out
i am dying for a new beta =)
June 23rd, 2008 at 23:03
I don’t get the technical stuff, but here’s a plugin a guy wrote that fixes the problem – http://rasmuskr.dk/adiumx/Facebook.AdiumPlugin.zip
Found here – http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=17566
June 25th, 2008 at 10:21
I dont like that I can select the group-title-item itself. I only want to select buddies, but not the groups
But it’s great that you now only have to click a group title once to expand it !!
great beta release, I love it.
June 25th, 2008 at 15:22
For those with facebook logout problems, you should register 2 emails in facebook, use one in your browser and use the second in adium….. that works for me.
June 26th, 2008 at 02:40
What do you think about the new search function? I really liked it at first, but it’s also causing me some problems. Before, when I wanted to message someone I’d just click in the buddy list and type in the first letter or two of their name and press enter to open a message window. Now, I’d have to type in the first few letters and arrow down to the user. It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it’s sort of a hassle and requires more time than before, so I’m not sure that I like it.
June 26th, 2008 at 07:09
@Kevin
When you type something to search and hit enter without arrowing down, it opens the first person on the search list.
I don’t know if it’s the place to ask for something like this, but it could be nice that the online person came first in the search list and then the offline ones.
BTW, great work and thanks a lot
June 28th, 2008 at 17:20
does the facebook plugin communicate securely with the facebook servers? (https or not, I suppose)
June 29th, 2008 at 16:15
Cool, msn status works
June 29th, 2008 at 16:36
The 1.3b4 download is corrupt every time I download it. Is it just me?
June 29th, 2008 at 16:46
Actually, it seems the download is stopping at around 17mb.
June 29th, 2008 at 18:30
@Tyson: Worksforme. Try clearing your browser’s cache
June 29th, 2008 at 20:00
Thanks, Evan. That worked. Still, Facebook chat isn’t working for me. Online contacts don’t show up in the list but if someone sends me a message, it will pop up and the window has a number instead of the contact’s name.
June 29th, 2008 at 20:43
facebook eventually plans to release a jabber gateway for their chat system but the current implementation in adium must be spoofing their javascript client so you can count on things breaking periodically… it will be more reliable when there is official support for 3rd party applications
June 30th, 2008 at 01:25
b4 and b5 are awesome; no more “so and so came back”!
June 30th, 2008 at 07:10
Wow! finnaly, ive been saying that MSN PECAN was the best way to implement MSN on Adium, yeah, finnaly personal messages, can wait send to Custom Emoticosn!
June 30th, 2008 at 15:05
Since updating to beta5 today, I’m getting almost constant crashes in Adium. Anyone else seeing this behavior?
July 1st, 2008 at 01:53
@Elias yep, mine was crashing yesterday as well. Seems fine so far today though *touch wood*
July 1st, 2008 at 02:38
@Elias Israel: http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/ReportingBugs <— please report your crashes. Otherwise, they probably won’t get fixed.
July 1st, 2008 at 08:54
My MSN connection has been failing since going from beta3 to beta5 with the following “Error: Error on notification server: Invalid friendly name” I reported my crash in a ticket as Evan mentioned above, but I also notice there are over 1,000, yes one THOUSAND, open tickets so I’m a little concerned. I think I’m going to have to downgrade to the previous release version so I can at least use my MSN Messenger for now.
July 1st, 2008 at 09:10
I’ve got problems with msn http connection. It doesn’t work!
July 1st, 2008 at 11:35
Well I downgraded to 1.2.5 and now ICQ Doesn’t work! It says “Error: The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/” Very Frustrating! Now I’m trying to go back to beta3 because I know that works!!
July 1st, 2008 at 11:49
I’m back on beta3 and MSN is now working correctly but the ICQ error is still there.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:17
Hello!
After updating to 10.5.4 I cannot connect to ICQ. It Says “Error: The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/“
July 1st, 2008 at 12:59
I got Adium 1.2.5 and Mac OS X 10.5.4 since several days. But today since 5 PM I’m not able to connect to ICQ getting an error like: “The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/“….Upgraded to 1.3.b5 and am still not able to login
ICQ Servers crashed? ICQ Protocol changed?
July 1st, 2008 at 13:17
OS X 10.5.3 or 10.5.4 -no matter . it is merely a coincidence ( 10.5.4 OUT ) . I have 10.5.3 and the same error. Other ICQ clients normally works. I think developers won’t force us to wait
July 1st, 2008 at 14:20
OS X 10.4.11 with Adium 1.2.5 and the same problem since 6PM. Other ICQ client is working…..what is this all about???
July 1st, 2008 at 14:46
same here, icq is outdated. i think that ICQ have changed something this night…
July 1st, 2008 at 21:27
404 error when trying to download from beta page for b6.
July 2nd, 2008 at 01:33
Hi there!
Adium people, I think this “The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/“….” problem is somehow related to Adium only, and as far as I know it’s only you who could help us to solve it. I guess it could be some kind of a bug or a virus or something like this… Just an opinion… Thanks a lot in advance!!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 06:47
Thanks guys! Well done! Everything works fine now!
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:58
Facebook isn’t working at all for me. It just hangs there trying to connect. Hope they fix this up, it’s major league cool.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:01
I had the same issue “The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im/” running Adium X 1.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.5.4. With the new update to Adium version X 1.2.6 everything works fine again
. Thanks a lot!!!
July 2nd, 2008 at 17:23
In the version 1.3b6 also still have problems with the display and editing user information…
July 3rd, 2008 at 05:13
Are some of the fancy features like search and drag and drop ever going to get incorporated with contact and group bubbles.
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:01
I’m having problems with disconnects in 1.3b6 which are sufficiently annoying to others that I need to discontinue its use. (I have filed a ticket regarding this.) Can someone tell me if there is a way to simply download an earlier beta version of Adium? I’d rather avoid setting up a complete Adium development environment to accomplish this. Some of my colleagues have switched to other clients out of necessity but this is really not appealing to me. Call me lazy, but I am not keen on trying to set up my 8 accounts in a new client which I do not intend to stay with.
July 3rd, 2008 at 18:53
Finally! MSN personally message! I love you guys *HUG* THANKS!
July 6th, 2008 at 01:44
There’s still alot of memory leak issue. i couldn’t pin point them but it once uses 200+mb of physical memory after running for a few hours. i’m using beta 7 btw
July 28th, 2008 at 08:57
I am running 1.3b9. Did the new facebook break FB chat again?
July 30th, 2008 at 07:09
I’m with JR Rozko. It seems the Facebook chat integration with Adium stopped working when they switched over to the redesigned Facebook website.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:28
@JR Rozko I’m using Beta 1.3b9, and couldn’t log into facebook chat until I disenabled the new facebook.
August 3rd, 2008 at 04:17
some problem in the last day with facebook… somebody has a response?
the problem born with the new facebook’s interface…
i hope the problem will solving
Frank
August 6th, 2008 at 10:24
i think you guys should add Tokbox intergration of some sort it would be really handy!
August 18th, 2008 at 16:05
I am STILL having troubles with my AIM account not switching to “away” when I set a status message. This is really getting annoying. Everything was working fine until the problem started this morning. Thought downloading the beta might fix it, but it didn’t. Any other suggestions? Is anyone else having the same problem?
August 26th, 2008 at 03:09
Leopard 10.5.4 Adium 1.3
STILL not able to connect to MSN, whats going on? Is there a fix for this? No-one wants to use any microsoft product, so is there a fix for this?
August 30th, 2008 at 10:00
mobile os version ?
September 1st, 2008 at 14:23
My AIM still isn’t setting away when I tell it to. All of a sudden, my MSN won’t connect. This program is really pissing me off.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:11
I do have a problem: I don’t get the messages if someone writes me when I am offline. Normally, when I come back online I get them, but with the latest version 1.3.1; I don’t!
Could someone help me?
December 18th, 2008 at 11:32
Will it be possible to set up growl notifications if someone does start typing to me? Such notification lacks among others now. Thank you!