Version 0.28 Release Notes

0.28.b

Services
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- Reverted libyahoo back to it's original state in Fire 0.27.[ab].  Proxy
  auth appears to be causing connection problems for many users.
- Any yahoo buddy logging off will take you offline with it :-(  This is now
  fixed.

Application
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- Application icon should restore itself on quit if you are showing the
  number of buddies in the icon.
- If your preferred font wasn't available, but you were trying to use it
  to overwrite another person's font, then the message was lost (You ended
  up with a blank message, but user and time still showed).

0.28.a

Services
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ALL
- Fixed problems in ICQ, IRC, MSN and Jabber where an unreproducible font
  on OS X was causing no text to display in fire.
- Updated to latest msn, firetalk/aol/irc

AIM
- Logging on in AIM/ICQ with lots of buddies will now be slower, but you
  should be able to have a lot more buddies without Fire timing out and
  crashing on you
- AIM fonts now seem to be recognized far more clearly.
- Fire now loads your buddy list from the server for AIM.  Buddies are
  not loaded up to the server.  It will create groups as needed and if the
  buddy does not already exist in your list, it will add him in.  Deleting
  the buddy from your Fire buddy list does not delete them from the server
  buddy list.
- The ability to change your server in aol/toc and icq/toc has been removed
  for now.
- AIM users who "always" crashed on fire (with a crash report ending in
  strcmp) should now *finally* be able to use their real screen name again.

YAHOO
- Fixed problem while translating yahoo messages to an unavailable font

MSN
- MSN no longer makes the console window key when it's just putting up
  the "someone is typing to you" message.

IRC
- The irc service now supports /me actions.
- The irc service is now aware of nick changes and kicks.
- Fixed annoying glitch when you don't send a password to servers running
  NickServ.

ICQ - Serious Fire/ICQ changes
- ICQ now uses the aol/toc service to communicate.  This should lead to
  much easier time logging on and a much better user experience "overall".
- ICQ should now attempt to work from behind firewalls much better than it
  did before.
- ICQ will not communicate correctly with Mirabilis ICQ/OSX users.
- ICQ will no longer notify you of offline messages.
- ICQ will no longer notify you of user status.
- Please read the ICQ dialog available on first connection to icq for an
  explanantion of these changes.

Application
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- Now localized in 5 additional languages.  Spanish, Dutch, French,
  Brazilian Portuguese and German.
- Sped up application startup.  Loading the service bundles is what takes
  all of the time.  The first service bundle takes approx. 1.4 seconds. 
  Each additional bundle takes about .1 seconds.  This leads to an almost
  2 second startup time.  Still not fast enough, but much faster.
- There is now an option in the Application preferences tab to reconnect
  after a forced disconnect (the server side went down).  It's dangerous
  because it *could* lead to infinite loops and the user having to kill
  the app themselves, but too many people have asked for it.  It's now
  there.  This is OFF by default.
- There is a new option to reconnect after sleep.  This is ON by default. 
  (Fire will disconnect you before sleep now as well.)
- Fixed a crasher when the speech preferences were set above 450, or
  below 50, accidentally and you tested the values.
- Fixed a crasher where away item removal crashed fire
- Fixed the enabled invisible button on the chat windows
- Fire can now speak the initial message or all messages.  Check out the
  new preferences in the notification preferences.
- Added in support for 10 more smileys, bringing the total to a
  whopping 13 :-)
- You can now log your buddies coming on and offline to the console. 
  New preference to turn this on.
- Fixed the annoying context menu problem in the online list view
- You can now control the application sound volume in the new sounds
  preferences tab.
- You can now set custom sounds for the different Fire events in the
  new sounds preferences tab.  Any quicktime recognizable sound should
  be "okay".
- The application icon will bounce and the icon will flash when their
  are new incoming messages.
- The application icon bounce can be set to bounce continuously, bounce
  once, or not to bounce at all.
- "Bring Application to Front" and "Bring Window to Front" global
  preferences have been replaced.  The behavior of chat windows to come
  to the front can now be set globally, per-user, and per-window.
- The Edit menu is now next to the File menu.
- Preferences keyboard shortcut
- The frequency with which Away Messages are sent can be throttled back.
- Searching for a buddy has been completely removed (it didn't work in
  any service any longer).
- New preference to display the number of online buddies in the
  application's dock icon.
- New preference to use Aquafied service icons.
- Fire will now use the system highlight color (instead of yellow)
  for notification dialogs and selected items in the Buddy List
- Application dock menu shows number of services and buddies online
  (more functionality will come soon)
- Firetalk patched to fix incompletely initialized callback headers
  -- may clean up some random crashes
- You can now use your default font for incoming messages as well

Source Code
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- Fire is now a sourceforge project.
  http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fire.  You can file enhancements
  requests, bugs and get access to the latest source code from that page.
- Made glib an integral part of the Fire application.  All source ands
  files are included.  This should make building fire *significantly*
  easier for people other than me.
- Eliminated compile warnings and generally tried to start cleaning
  up the code

Special thanks to Colter Reed <colter@mac.com>. Colter has become
the first sourceforge Fire developer and has added a significant number
of features to this version of Fire.app.