Adium 1.4 was in development for over two years (after the release of Adium 1.3 on 8/25/2008) and sports many new features. Just a few of the major improvements are listed below. We hope Adium makes instant messaging wonderful for you.

Twitter support

Timeline messages appear in a group chat. Direct messages as a one-on-one chat with a contact Adding and removing contact list buddies follows and unfollows them, respectively. Also includes support for StatusNet servers, such as Identi.ca

IRC support

Execute commands on connect. Display of operator status in chats, as well as user's /away status Mass-modify attributes of user list members from the group chat's action widget below the user list.

Greatly improved group chats and group chat bookmarks

Joining large group chats now works a lot faster. Many improvements to the user list. Support for topics. (Note that message styles must support the feature for them to show up.)

New Authorization Requests window

Authorization requests no longer create one alert panel per request The authorization requests window has add, ignore, and deny toolbar and context menu items.

New and updated default message styles

Updated to take advantage of new features such as topics and mentions. Adium 1.4 also adds yMous as an entirely new style.