Changes in Adium X 1.0

Selected Major Changes

• Added global user profile and buddy icon settings. (Personal Preferences)
• General Account improvements. Accounts can now be disabled when not in in use, and friends can now sign on from your Adium without saving their information.
• Added an Xtras manager for better browsing and removing of Xtras.
• Major improvements in privacy settings.
• Improvements to the default look and feel of Adium.
• iTunes integration is much faster, and updates as soon as the song changes.
• Redesigned Chat Transcript (Log) Viewer
• Optional dock-like hiding of the contact list
• Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later (Universal Binary)

Xtras

• A new Xtras Manager has been introduced (#1459, #539)
• New default Xtras (#3134):
  • Stockholm (message view)
  • Tokyo Train Station (soundset, now default) (#1614)
  • iBubble (status icons) (#1997)
  • Aqualicious (contact list)
  • Chat Bubbles (status icons) (#2084)
• Fixed the MSN sunglasses emoticon (#1579)
• Improved the preview and menu for emoticons (#2522)
• Fixed installation location on case-sensitive file-systems (#2178)
• Updated Eclipse message style (#627, #729, #999)
• Resolved problem where "Show Headers" would crash Adium (#2473)
• Implemented graceful upgrading of existing Xtras where possible (#3980)

Events

• Dock icon now stops bouncing/flashing properly (#205, #269)
• Added a Contact Requests Authorization global event (#2291)
• Added preferences to control dock icon movement (#1707)
• Added preference to control Dock icon animation (flapping) (#541)
• Removed output device preference (#1442)

Privacy (#19)

• Added Privacy Settings window, with more flexible blocking options (#913, #129, #920)
• Displays a visual indication of blocked users (#344)
• Block Contact Toolbar Item (#1117)
• Fixed blocking a person on only one account when you had them listed on multiple accounts (#2051)
• ⌘⌥B is now a shortcut for block contact (#3739)
• Closing the authorization request window will dismiss the request with no answer (#3479)

User Interface

• Awesome new application icon and Preferences toolbar icons from Adam Betts
• Added integrated Help system
• Add Buddy button in the message window toolbar (#2)
• Disabled "New Chat" when offline (#2265)
• Clarified "Add account" menu in Accounts prefs (#421)
• Removed title from the About window (#3901)
• Dialog box to authorize contacts now has the affirmative, not the negative, answer as the default button (#112)
• Confirm quit if file transfers or unread messages are present (#3087, #2733, #4231)
• Fixed an odd flickering issue on several scrollbars (#2111)
• Improved the contrast of text entry cursors with nonstandard background colors (#2262)
• Fixed the title of the Contact Info window for metacontacts (#1055)
• Alert boxes no longer steal keyboard focus (but do still come to the front so that you can read them) (#270)
• Added key commands like Safari's for switching tabs (#280)
• Made error messages non-gender-specific (#2623)
• The background color for profiles can now be changed (#922)
• Background colors can now be added and read in profiles and statuses.
• Improved the wording of the delete group dialog (#2017)
• Fixed an overlapping button (#2933)
• Added more popcorn to the general preferences.
• Added a contextual menu for tabs (#1595)
• Added a contextual menu to make sandwiches tastier. for tabs (#1595)
  • Clarified naming for Close Chat menu item (#759)
• Showing an encryption fingerprint does not open multiple windows when clicked more than once (#2580)
• Added global keystroke to activate Adium (#1958, #3727)
• Added a "Show Offline Group" item to the View menu (#2366)
• Contact notes can now be cleared (#2398)
• Scroll bar in Info window sometimes didn't appear when it was supposed to (#97)
• Reworded Send Later dialog (#2278)
• File transfer Window no longer requires AppleGothic font (#2300)
• Corrected spelling of emoticon name "Sticking out tongue" (#3235)
• Get Info on groups no longer shows Info or Accounts tabs (#2788)
• Links with .eu in them now work (#2987)
• Fixed a bug when setting buddy icon and getting incorrect size (#793)
• When switching the active tab by clicking on a tab's icon, we now update the icon to the close icon, since that's what a second click will do (#2791)
• Display Growl notifications when invited to a group chat (#3276)
• The status window now works correctly on single and dual monitor systems (#3079
• Can now delete own buddy picture (#3325)
• Status icons in the status window now update when you change the active status icon pack (#4325)
• Improved keyboard support for Join Chat dialog (#2853)

Messages

• Resolved issue where the Mockie display truncated the protocol name (#2014)
• Message view window can now be transparent (#131)
• File transfer requests are now displayed inline in the message view. The exact appearance can be customized by the message style (#2197)
• Added support for Kopete additions to the message style format such as %senderColor%, %messageDirection%, and %senderStatusIcon% (#3132)
• Improved handling of /me (#1162, #2920)
• Improved automatic linking in messages (#249)
• Added replacement tokens (aka keywords) for MSN display names (#239)
• Dragging and dropping .textClipping files into the message view now works (#1689)
• Fixed ⌘-keys for cursor movement in custom status window (#255)
• Fixed an issue for when a tab inside the message window wouldn't change width to represent a changed alias (#1056)
• Improved support for the Webdings font in messages (#3048)
• Direct-IM images may now be scaled firefox-style by the message style
• XHTML styles now accepted from incoming messages (#440)
• Message view windows won't reopen doubly when an incoming message is received at the exact moment of the close attempt (#460)
• Buddy icons displayed in the message view now update when changed (#3440)
• "No icon" setting (#483)
• Emoticon text equivalents are not expanded to emoticon images inside of URLs (e.g. the ":/" in "https://www.adium.im/") (#2761, #721, #2634)
• Now with 200% more cowbell
• Added client.debugLog() javascript function, logs messages to Console
• Template.html now uses the HTML4 strict doctype
• Images are now scaled down in the input area (#611)
• Dragging & dropping text or a URL onto a buddy in the contact list now sends the text or URL to the buddy (#860)
• We no longer auto-reply to messages sent while you were offline (#4174)
• A horizontal ellipsis after a link is now separated from the link (e.g. https://www.adium.im...) (#1183)
• Paste retains bold/italics/underline/font/size etc. but strips colors, alignment, images, etc. (#1740, #2880)
• Added a new paste item, Paste with Colors and Images, which does a traditional paste with rich text operation (#2880)
• Language for spelling checker is now remembered for each contact (#2409)
• Fixed a bug where the contact and account pop-ups got cut out if the window is too small (#1015)
• Dragged URLs from Safari and OmniWeb now appear with the window's title (#1739)
• Support messaging contacts not present on your contact list from any account (#701)
• Italics are no longer sticky (#2904)
• Improved the Edit Link contextual menu item on 10.4 (#3169)
• You can now paste a link into the inputline, without the URL being stripped (#532)
• Improved handling of incorrectly made message styles

Contact List

• Fixed an issue that would cause the contact list to shrink (#296)
• Group names are now truncated in the middle (e.g. “Adium users”→“Adiu…sers”) rather than the end (e.g. “Adium …”) (#2589)
• Add Buddy button in authorization dialog (#2)
• Added a dock-like autohiding ability for the contact list (many tickets)
• The highlight color of the contact list is now customizable (#102)
• Your buddy icon and display name can now be changed via the contact list (#543, #1701, #2345)
• Empty and new groups are now shown as intended (#21, #26)
• Offline contacts are now displayed by default (#1665)
• Buddy icons in the contact list are now slightly rounded (#3460)
• File transfers can now be initiated by dragging folders/files onto a contact (#1747)
• Made the scrollbar on the contact list narrower
• Fixed a bug where a custom buddy icon wasn't properly saved after quit (#1934)
• Improved the appearance of dragging contacts on the contact list (#3232)
• With no contacts online, borderless windows correctly hide themselves (#296)
• Increased the spacing for group bubbles styles (#2025)
• Selection in the contact list is now maintained when the list changes (#2281)
• You can now hide the display name, buddy icon, and status selection at the top of regular styles (#450)
• Keyboard focus is no longer stolen when the contact list unhides (#612)
• Improved repositioning when the screen resolution changes (#2172)
• Contact list was off-screen in multiple-monitor configurations (#93)
• Fixed issue when showing offline contacts with auto-resize (#1080)
• Borderless contact list now closes if no contact are online (#1139)
• When moving a metacontact, all the contacts therein really do move now (#2077)
• Fixed disappearance of the standard contact list on launch or immediately after opened when Adium was in the background (#2320, #1995)
• Adding a contact who is already in the contact list is now verboten (#50)
• Fixed issue saving color opacity of theme colors (#3316)
• Metacontacts no longer mess up contact list sorting (#3751)
• Corrected an issue that could cause status message not to be updated in the contact list (#665)
• Added ability to see yourself in the contact list (#2887)
• Added a tooltip explaining that background images only work in the regular window and borderless (i.e. non-bubble) contact list styles (#431)
• Searching for contacts in the contact list is easier (#3163)
• Maximum contact list width now refers to the inside portion, not the entire window including scrollbars (#640)

Status

• Resolved performance issues when adding or changing statuses (#716)
• Statuses can now be grouped in folders and sub-folders (#101)
• Standard keyboard shortcuts in the custom status window (#255)
• Mute checkbox now works with all statuses (#2449)
• Added the ability to mute by status, without using the status window (#1165, #1738, #2509)
• Fixed auto-reconnection on wake (#1420)
• Fixed a crash when returning from away (#2137)
• The menu duck now indicates current status with a badge (#1445, #2015)
• Restored ability to keep the Away Status Window visible when Adium is in background; added other options (#615, #708, #2118)
• Added ability to enable and disable accounts; disabled accounts won't automatically connect (#1415, #1641)
• Sound for “You connect” now won't play again after < 5 seconds since the previous time (#2915)
• Fixed overlapping problem due to Apple Graphics update (#1522)
• Added the ability to pick a random status (#3336)
• Automatically set Idle status once the screensaver becomes active (#577)

File transfer

• Folders are compressed automatically (#86)
• Automatically rename incoming files whose desired filename is already taken (#734)

iTunes Integration

• Improved the speed of the iTunes integration (#2352)
• Improved integration of iTunes with status settings
• Added an eighth note (&#x266b;) which functions as an iTunes music store link in statuses.
• iTunes scripts no longer have an impact on CPU usage (#2352)

Chat Transcripts

• Redesigned Chat Transcript Viewer (previously called Log Viewer) with grouping of combined contacts and better search capabilities
• New XML-based logging format (#38, #13, #265, #1224, #4332, #4334, #4271, #4272, #4273, #4274, #4277, #4321, #4323)
• Message history is now faster and draws directly from logs, rather than being stored separately
• Transcript Viewer now defaults to Context based searches

Misc

• Adium now only supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later.
• New software update system (SparklePlus, a version of Andy Matuschak's Sparkle modified by Tom Harrington)
• First-run Setup Assistant (#9)
• "Check spelling as you type" preference is saved (#768)
• Added the auto-linkification of the notes:// protocol (#3622)
• Added tooltip to "-" button (removes a contact from the currently-viewed metacontact) (#201)
• Consulted the Vorlon
• "Contact Icon" toolbar item now updates when it should (#230)
• Improved support for case-sensitive HFSX filesystems (#2178)
• Improved support for screen names with spaces in them (#2231)
• Can now Get Info on contacts who aren't on your contact list (#193, #2424)
• Improved Insert Link From Safari to recognise other browsers (#1099)
• Crash Reporter no longer submits crash reports if a newer version is available (#65)

Dock

• The dock icon now has the preference to display the number of unviewed messages (#730)
• Fixed a bug with dock icons not showing up (#3056)

Protocol Additions and Fixes

AIM (generally includes .Mac and ICQ)

• File Transfer improvements (#4)
• Direct Connect improvements
• Fixed an Address Book related rate limiting error (#1770)
• Fixed sending circumflex accents over AIM (#1601)
• Added support for group chat invitation messages
• Fixed sending group chat invitations to iChat (#798)
• Fixed "(null)" in Get Info when viewing a metacontact (#1055)
• Fixed blocking (#1136, #2051)
• Fixed "malformed data message" error when sending circumflex accents (#1601)
• Fixed viewing profiles (#2413)
• Fixed ability to select which account messages a non-meta contact (#2573)
• You can now block more than one user at a time (#536)
• Fixed a bug where Adium didn't view the spaces, if any, in a screenname that's not on your buddy list when you're having a conversation with them (#2231)
• Properly display the online time of contacts (#2488)
• Similarly named AIM and .Mac accounts now no longer confuse accounts when adding contacts (#3157)

.Mac

• “@mac.com” suffix is no longer required when creating accounts (#2132, others)
• name@mac.com is no longer displayed as a link in tooltips (#869)
• Fixed a bug where Adium asked for a password even when it had the correct one (#2319)

Bonjour

• Login as Invisible works now (#2296, others)
• Bonjour no longer disconnects when a contact sends a message with a line-break (#48)
• A reasonable default name is filled in for new Bonjour accounts (#1182)
• Events are squelched for awhile after connect (18 seconds, to be exact) to avoid floods of notifications (#1996)

ICQ

• Improved handling of non-ASCII character sets (#505, #1426)
• Improved handling of messages coming from iChat (#3166)
• IP address no longer publicly displayed (#3740)

Jabber (includes Google Talk and LiveJournal Talk)

• Fixed bug where authorized contacts couldn't see your status (#61)
• Now saves the last server used in the join group chat dialog (#802)
• Added buddy icon support for Jabber (#1632, #1330, #1632)
• No longer need to restart Adium when changing resources (#1355)
• Fixed messages from yourself in group chats not appearing in logs (#1881)
• Fixed typing notification for GTalk (#1993)
• Fixed a situation in which the tag <html> could appear in messages (#3058)
• Fixed a bug where Adium did not disconnect from the server (#3441)
• Now prompts to register the account if authentication failed (#3752)
• Fixed a parsing error in sent messages where there was a <html> tag inside the <body> tag (#3814)
• Added the ability to set priority (#3882)
• Fixed a bug which prevented registering accounts on Wildfire-based Jabber servers (#4216)
• New mail notifications checkbox now disabled on Jabber, respected on GTalk (#1301)

Meanwhile/Sametime

• Contact list did not keep added users (#2060)

MSN

• Deleted MSN contacts remain deleted (#1778)
• Adium now fetches the MSN display name from the server (#196)
• Removed preference for MSN "Conversation closed" notices (#37)
• Adium can now receive custom MSN emoticons
• Fixed "%0D" after a URL when a newline character comes after it (#1085)
• MSN display name no longer preferred over real status messages from other accounts (#1022)
• Display name, rather than account name, used in message view (#1628)

Gadu-Gadu

• Fixed a crash when using gadu-gadu (#2455)
• Status support (#3803)

Yahoo!

• Yahoo account names can now be entered with an @yahoo.com suffix
• Yahoo! users can now return from idle status (#2453)
• Added support for ymsgr://im?to= links (#3107)
• Added Stealth (semi-invisibility) support (#1349, #4006)
• Now able to log in as invisible (#2296)
• Incoming message colors are properly ignored (#4184)

Zephyr

• Added configuration notes at https://trac.adium.im/wiki/Zephyr (#2079)

Localization

• Australian English localization added (#2585)
• Finnish localization added
• Updated and improved all existing localizations (Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Czech, Icelandic, Polish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese)
• Fixed localizability of the OTR error message when attempting to message in a chat in which the other side has already ended encryption (#2623)
• Allow localization of shared dock icon images (#2843)
• Allow non-ASCII characters in the "insert link" dialog (#2362)

Address Book

• New contextual menu items in Address Book for sending IMs with Adium. Scripts to accomplish this are automatically installed to ~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins (#2353)
• Adium now looks in the Yahoo! field of Address Book contacts for Yahoo! Japan accounts (#2469)
• Clarified and explained option to consolidate buddies from Address Book (#139)
• New contextual menu item on contacts: "Add To Address Book" (#345)
• Don't clobber picture in My Card with some account's buddy icon (#1683)
• Improved performance of Address Book updating (#1751)
• Middle names are now imported (#1118)
• We now set contacts' icons back to their real icons (from AB images) when “Use Address book images as contacts' icons” is unchecked (#91)

AppleScript

• Improved AppleScript support (#574)
• Fixed a crash (#485)
• Fixed lockups caused by AppleScript (#634)
• Fixed typing latency caused by AppleScript (#202)

OTR

• OTR now works for .Mac accounts for which the @mac.com isn't listed (#2132)
• Fixed gender neutrality of the OTR error message when attempting to message in a chat in which the other side has already ended encryption (#2623)
• Fixed a bug where the OTR status did not update after switching to a different contact of a meta contact (#2895)

Performance and Memory

• Fixed a leak of an NSColor (#2258)
• Emoticons are now preloaded in a background thread
• Fixed a rare threadlock on startup (#1980)
• Fixed a memory leak in AIKeychain (#692)
• Fixed a potential threadlock at launch (#1980)
• Fixed the crash when hitting Return in the away status window when accounts are not all in the same status (#2137, #2420, #2626, #2692)
• Fixed some unnecessary memory use