Adium Update Brings Fixes for MSN, ICQ Chat

Adium, a free instant messaging client for Mac OS X, has been updated to fix numerous issues with MSN and ICQ.

It includes, among other improvements, fixes for the following major problems:
● a frequent MSN crash
● an MSN issue adding contacts
● an MSN connection problem involving the error “Signed in from another location”
● ICQ losing connection without showing
● Hang when opening a chat window to a contact with a malformed log

Message style improvements
We have also addressed the complaints about the focus indication we added to the bundled message styles for the 1.4 release. They are now only shown in group chats and the indicators for Mockie have been redone.


Libpurple tradeoff
However, you will find that on MSN the following features do not work in Adium 1.4.2:
● direct file transfers
● user icons
● receiving custom emoticons

We had to decide whether we wanted to update libpurple, the library which provides network-level connectivity for most services in Adium, to fix the major three MSN issues mentioned at the top and we decided that is was worth it despite these feature regressions it brings.

Where’s Facebook migration?
We originally intended to offer a migration path from the old to the new implementation of Facebook Chat in Adium 1.4.2. However, the implementation isn’t ready yet and with the many major issues already fixed in 1.4.2 we decided to push Facebook migration to 1.4.3. So for now, if you have problems with Facebook, you’ll have to manually switch as outlined here: http://trac.adium.im/wiki/FacebookChat.

You can download Adium 1.4.3 from the link below...


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