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A first look at Gaim 2.0

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:38:12 -0400

The Gaim 2.0 release is nearing its home stretch. The Gaim team released beta4 last week, with a number of new features and UI improvements. Gaim 2.0 is shaping up as a net improvement over Gaim 1.5, though some features have not changed for the better, and voice support for Google Talk is still missing in action. More here.

Gaim Beta 3 released

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:48:13 -0500

Great day in the park, we've released Gaim 2.0.0 beta 3. You know the drill--you can find assorted builds on our sourceforge page. We'd like to note that none of the beta 3 RPMs include a Gadu-Gadu protocol plugin. So if you need Gadu-Gadu then you should stick with beta 2. And as my pappy always used to say: don't hitch your wagon to a stump if it has eyes. We never did know what he was talking about.

Gaim Website

Gaim Beta 2: The Sequel to Beta

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:43:47 -0500

We're basically refining crude oil into a usable product. Only instead of refining crude oil, we're making Gaim better. But it's really the same thing. Really.

Please grab beta 2 and let us know what you think. With any luck we won't need to make any major changes, and Gaim 2.0.0 final will be out before you can prove the theory of special relativity.

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Latest Gaim Beta Arrives

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:03:46 -0500

After several months of delay, the first beta of the popular open-source IM client Gaim is now available.

This new beta, Gaim 2.0beta1, now includes support for several IM (instant messaging) protocols, such as the SIP/SIMPLE protocols, Apple Inc.'s Bonjour, the older Zephyr protocol, Novell Inc.'s GroupWise Novell protocol and several more obscure protocols such as the Polish Gadu-Gadu.

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Gaim development

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:37:31 -0400

A lot of you have noticed that while we typically release every three weeks, we haven't had a release in a while. We've shifted all our efforts to finishing Gaim 2.0.0. Gaim 2.0.0 has a ton of great features, fixes every problem you've ever had with Gaim, makes drastic changes to huge parts of Gaim---especially status, includes three new protocols, and does a bunch of other amazing stuff. We're looking to feature freeze at the end of this month and release a month or so later, so be sure to get on our cases and make sure we get it finished...

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Gaim 1.2.0, and You Don't Even Need a Four-Leaf Clover!

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:59:20 -0500

Here go the next version of Gaim. May your March Madness be both full of March, and full of Madness.
Download tarball, bzipped source, and other packages... Changelog available.

Gaim 1.1.4

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:32:18 -0500

Gaim 1.1.4 is available.
Turns out 1.1.3 wasn't perfect. A lot of you using GLib 2.6 hit a crash on startup. Also, we missed a potential security bug identical to one fixed for 1.1.3. So, after one week, we bring you 1.1.4. Enjoy.
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Gaim 1.1.0 Released

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:05:52 -0500

The 1.1.0 version of gaim has been released... finaly they have removed the "switchboard" error :D. You can see screenshots and sources and binaries from their page

Gaim 1.0.3 released

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:04:14 -0500

The 1.0.3 version of Gaim has been released. You can grab the latest sources from the
homepage. This is a bug-fix release.

Gaim 1.0.2 released

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:57:24 -0400

Gaim is an Instant Messaging application written in GTK2+

You can grab gaim from Gaim home page

Gaim 1.0.1 released

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:10:30 -0400

Gaim is an Instant Messaging application written in GTK2+

You can grab gaim from Gaim home page

Gaim 1.0.0 Released

Sat, 18 Sep 2004 08:21:05 -0400

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks. Gaim has divided into two branches, "oldstatus", and "newstatus" (HEAD). This releases is based on "oldstatus", which doesnt include the away system rewrite found on CVS HEAD. For more information refer to FAQ on the new versioning scheme

Changelog attached

Gaim 0.82 and 0.82.1 released

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:50:20 -0400

Gaim is an Instant Messaging, Multi Protocol, application written in GTK2+.

These new versions of Gaim have been released to address various security holes. The authors recommend that Gaim users upgrade to this latest version...

You can grab the all the details and the latest release from the Gaim homepage.

Gaim: 0.81 Released

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:24:48 -0400

Gaim is an Instant Messaging, Multi Protocol, application written in GTK2+.

From the news page: "0.81 doesn't have too much in the way of new features, but we closed about 240 bugs since the last release."

You can look at the Screenshots

The complete changelog is here

And you can grab it from here

Gaim 0.80 Released

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:36:49 -0400

Gaim is an Instant Messaging application written in GTK2+.

From the news page: "Key features include better browser support, improved way of initiating file transfers, support for the Epiphany web browser, and support for the GTK+ 2.4 file chooser. Go grab it. "

You can get it at http://gaim.sourceforge.net and it is already in Debian unestable