Adium 1.0b1 Released

Wow these guys move fast! 1.0b3 just came out! This is why I love OSS. Finally, with the fixed file transfers, I can switch back to adium. Plus, the nightlies of Camino now have inline spell check which is a great plus.

Words.. fail me...

should've sent... a poet!

"The current release is Adium 0.89.1.
Do not post this beta to version tracking sites like MacUpdate or VersionTracker."

On the page you have linked to, therefore 1.0b2 (now on that same page) isn't released, it's just available. This is also why Adium's check for updates feature is not claiming an update is available.

on second thought, i can't even stay connected to AIM with this! i got to look around the preferences and menus and it looked great but if it's not functional i have no idea what to do. it logs in and out until i get locked out for too many attempts. i submitted a ticket, hopefully the issue will be resolved soon. until then, i've reverted back to .89

Trashing the preferences fixed my MSN problem...

Then I simply copied my logs back into place and 1.0b2 is better than the old version in every way.

They released 1.0b2 today, just so you know.

Much more coming since Adium is a Google Summer of Code project...

if you don't like the duck there are a ton of dock and menu bar variations. my dock icon is an ichat-esque speech bubble which changes colors with status. it's pretty cool actually.

looks like a ton of cool fixes on the full list. i shall download now!

I use the 12" PowerBook weilding duck myself:
http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=1100

But alas, this new version although much better in many ways doens't work with my old MSN account. My Windows luser friends will be silenced until this is fixed!

I hear the issue only affects some MSN accounts not all of them:
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/4446
(Someone else's bug report, exactly the same as I see.)

i think the best thing about adium is it's incredibly customizable. it seems most people don't realize it, but aside from downloading extras you can actually rearrange the format of your buddy list, along with colors, iconsets, among other things.

if you dont like the default duck (which i dont blame you for), i recommend vectory duck:
http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=2222

they're beautiful