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-=[ Gaim ]=-  The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client That's Good For The Soul!

1.4.0 (7/7/2005):
        Mark: The last month or four we've promoted a bunch of the Gaim
        Crazy Patch Writers to developers, so there is now an even larger
        team of brilliant and amazingly sexy committers working around
        the globe for your instant messaging pleasure.  Also, we have
        what I believe to be our first contribution from a Summer of Code
        student in this release: Jonathan Clark enabled the sending of
        files to certain ICQ users.  Support is still a bit     rough, but
        he'll be working on it throughout the summer.

        Luke: Exciting times this summer as our Summer of Code interns
        start their projects.  This is mostly a bug fix release, with the
        ICQ file transfer that Mark mentioned and some buddy icon work
        being the only real new code.  Hence the extra week delay.  A
        big thanks to our translators who keep churning out updates even
        when we give them short notice as well.  Enjoy!

1.3.1 (6/9/2005):
        Sean: It's been a while since I've done one of these. Welcome to
        Gaim 1.3.1, "New Hyde Park." This is, again, another bugfix release
        but it comes with two keen announcements. First, I'd like to welcome
        Christopher O'Brien to the Gaim team. He has integrated his work on
        the Meanwhile project into Gaim, ensuring that Gaim 2.0.0 will include
        Sametime support. Also, we're participating in Google's Summer of
        Code, which you all should check out at 
        http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/

1.3.0 (5/10/2005):
        Luke: This release fixes SILC for multiple accounts.  HOWEVER, you
        may lose your buddy list (for SILC only) upgrading.  This is
        rather unavoidable as the previous code did not keep track of
        which account each buddy belonged to.

        Stu: I'm glad we're finally getting this out, if fixes a number of bugs
        ranging from minor to not so minor. I'd also like to welcome Gary to
        the team - he's done a great job with Guifications, I'm sure he'll do
        good stuff here too.

        Gary: Well I got pretty much nothing done for this release.  Although I
        do have quite a few things in the works that will come to fruition when
        I find some more free time.

1.2.1 (4/3/2005):
        Luke:  Several important fixes this time around.  Big thanks to 
        Robert McQueen, Stu, Nathan, Ethan, and everyone else who has helped 
        with this effort.  Maybe next time we can get a decent chance to fix the 
        problems *before* they go public to have a normal release process.

        Nathan: Jabber got some updates this release (finally).  I've got
        more planned, but simply haven't had the time to anything about it.

1.2.0 (3/17/2005):
        Luke: Happy St. Patrick's Day all.  Sean scheduled a release for
        today, we'll see if we can pull it off. :-)  This release
        features somewhat more than just bug fixes, some improvements
        have been made to the conversation API which may affect plugin
        developers.  Yahoo users should also thank Tim and Bleeter for
        their efforts.

        Etan: I'm going to NEWS since I actually did something this time.
        Jabber will allow you to unsubscribe to someone's presence
        without logging out and in again, this does break seeing yourself
        on your buddy list, but hopefully we'll fix that again for the
        next release.

        Stu: Happy St. Guinness^wPatrick's day.

1.1.4 (2/24/2005):
        Sean: Another bug fix release. A big thanks to Rob McQueen, Ari
        Pollak, Don Seiler, and Warren Togami: some packagers who helped
        debug a nasty glib 2.6 problem. Also thanks to our own Stu who
        found and destroyed an MSN crash and an HTML parsing error

        Luke: Early release to handle the MSN and HTML crashes, as well
        as the glib crash.  Maybe that makes up for having had a 4 week
        period before the last release.  This one should be the nice
        stable release we meant 1.1.3 to be. Enjoy!

        Stu: I cleaned up the whitespace in this NEWS, it was bugging me.

1.1.3 (2/17/2005):
        Luke: Yet another bug fix release, many thanks to everyone who has
        helped to make gaim more stable!

        Stu: I fixed too many Yahoo HTTP proxy bugs, I should just go and
        write some core HTTP support that works better. A good all round
        bug fix release otherwise.

1.1.2 (1/20/2005):
        Luke: Another Bug fix release. This one featuring a fix to the HTTP
        Method for MSN users and other MSN fixes. A big thanks to Stu and
        Felipe Contreras for those. Stu also spent a long time in valgrind
        and so this brings you a Gaim release with fewer memory leaks. This
        release is on time primarily because I want to see the MSN fixes
        make it into Debian and Fedora before freezes. Expect further bug
        fix only releases to come at longer intervals, at Mark's request.

        Daniel: This is my first NEWS! (YaY) I didn't really do too much for
        this release.  There are a few bugfixes, mostly wingaim stuff. Oh, and
        I like the new XP System Tray icons.

        Sean: I'm down here today. I haven't really been paying too much
        attention to these boring bugfix releases, but I'd like to thank
        David and welcome him to the team. I'd also like to thank Steven
        and Nathan from Silverorange who redid the webpage.

        Tim: Another bug fix release. I didn't really fix any bugs, so
        I didn't exactly do much for this one. The autopackage will now
        work with mozilla-nss, if anyone has that, and not gnutls11. (It
        works with either gnutls11 or mozilla-nss, but not gnutls10)
        I started working on Gaim-vv again though, and I merged someone's
        custom msn smiley patch into the 2.0.0 tree, so expect good things
        whenever that's released (no, don't try it now, you won't like it).
        Oh and welcome to the team Daniel. Of course, he was already on my
        Gaim-vv team.

        Stu: Welcome Daniel! you've done some good stuff already. Felipe did some
        good work on MSN yet again, so you can all use the HTTP method now. I
        didn't do all that much, other than let valgrind tell me what to fix, and
        a couple of easy bug fixes from the bug tracker. Hopefully Ethan will get
        well soon, so he can get back to merging patches and fixing things.

        Nathan: I think I made some Jabber fixes, at least one of which is
        ChangeLog'd.  I will continue to make empty promises about new features,
        especially for 2.0.0.  Until then, welcome Daniel!

1.1.1 (12/28/2004):
        Luke: This bug fix release features msn improvements, drag and drop
        improvements, and some translation stuff. Thanks for everone who has
        helped with it, and hopefully we can get 2.0.0 out soon. On a side
        note, i'm still looking for someone to look at the perl plugin loader.

1.1.0 (12/02/2004):
        Luke: Another in our series of bug fix releases, with a slight twist.
        Everyone thank Ethan for implementing a fall back encoding for IRC,
        it has been much requested and should make a number of users very
        happy. See the ChangeLog for details on other fixes.

        Stu: Much thanks to Miah Gregory and Felipe Contreras, a bunch of
        memory leaks have been fixed. Felipe also fixed a good number of
        other MSN bugs. I didn't do much except apply these guys fixes. It's
        good to see fixes from Gary coming in again too ;-). I like the
        docklet adjustments Christian made. Btw, we have a new MSN protocol
        icon, and I think you'll love it.

        Tim: I made Gaim binary relocatable this release, so Gaim can find
        itself if it gets lost, and I'm going to try to make autopackages
        for this release, if the autopackage guys release their new version
        soon like they're talking. I also "fixed" a scrolling bug, by
        realizing it was all Gentoo's fault. The IRC encoding thing Ethan
        did is pretty nice, no more encoding error messages!

        Ethan: Rumor has it that I did some work this release, but it's just
        that, a rumor.  I think Luke started it.  I did lay the hammer  down
        on  bogus  word  wrapping in the NEWS, so you can thank me for that.
        Keep your powder dry.

1.0.3 (11/11/2004):
        Luke: Not much to see here, some bug fixes that you all will enjoy as
        the semester draws to a close and everyone still in school gets bogged
        down with projects, papers, and exams. Enjoy! Oh, and if you are interested
        in the perl or gadu-gadu functionality, please step up to help write
        patches, as both of these code blocks are currently unmaintained.

        Tim: I fixed a couple bugs this time. In other news, Kim wants to get
        a pet cockatiel or two.

        Nathan: I was gonna put a new feature in this release, but decided
        not to because I found a bug in it today, and I'm tired.  Also, I haven't
        consulted the powers-that-be about putting new features into oldstatus.

        Stu: I'm writing this at 11:11:11pm on 11/11. Eleven. It's 3 really. Or B.
        It's the 5th smallest prime number. Himalia is the 11th moon of Jupiter.
        Hendecagon. There are 1011 players on a football team. XI. 16 hours. Eleven
        is the smallest positive integer requiring three syllables in English. This
        entry is my 11th lie for today.

1.0.2 (10/19/2004):
        Stu: I'm new around here. I tried to reduce the number of bugs in the bug
        tracker, but it turns out that the only way to achieve that is to actually
        _fix_ the bugs. So I fixed a couple, and then sneaked some patches out of
        the patch tracker to fix some others. Sadly the bug tracker was not
        significantly affected, maybe if I learn C I'll be able to make more of an
        impact.

        Luke: Don't let Stu fool you, he has done a marvelous job on this release,
        and deserves a lot of credit for it. And a number of those bug fixes are
        critical ones that he discovered and fixed himself. So go update. Now.

        Nathan: On the other hand, Nathan has done nothing for this release.  Why
        do we keep him around again?

        Tim: So, I'm married now, and in Huntsville. I don't remember if I did
        anything for this release or not, probably not. Bleeter has been more
        active lately though, perhaps we'll see lots of cool things from him
        soon.

        Sean: I'm down here with the "didn't do anything" guys.

1.0.1 (10/07/2004):
        Congratulations to Tim & Kim on their wedding!

        Sean: So, if you're playing along at home, you're aware that
        incrementing the micro version number means that the API has
        not changed at all.  Although that itself is insignificant to
        most everyone but plugin developers, but users won't find too
        many significant changes.  Consult ChangeLog.  We're currently
        branched for some major changes, so expect a really great 2.0.0
        sometime relatively soon.

        Luke: Nothing much to see here, some bug fixes. Most of the work
        is going towards the 2.0.0 release. We aren't quite sure when
        that will be, and will keep the bug fix releases coming untill
        all is ready.

        Christian: I would call this a ground-breaking release, but it isn't.
        It seems like a good one, though. I dunno. I've been too busy at VMware,
        unfortunately, but have some work that's just waiting to be finished up
        for Gaim. Gaim 2.0.0 is going to rock. Gaim 3.0.0 will rock more.
        Do you see a pattern? Thanks go out to Henry Jen for fixing up parts of
        the gevolution plugin to support multiple addressbooks, and to all our
        moms, for believing in us. Or something.

        Nathan: I got a new computer.  It's fast.  And has twice the bits!

1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
        Nathan: Hah!  Bet you weren't expecting this!  OK, if you were
        paying any attention to the flame^H^H^H^H^Hthread on gaim-devel,
        you might have been expecting this.  But here it is, 1.0.0.  Our
        new versioning scheme has slightly more meaning than the older
        one (expecially for plugin authors), but our 1.0(.0) release is
        just as meaningless as we could have hoped.  Enjoy!

        Luke: We've changed our pattern for version numbers with this
        release, we are no longer simply counting versions. This release
        then marks, not something traditionally "1.0" but the current
        version of the api.  When backwards compatability with that breaks
        you'll see 2.0, more details in the faq.  As a side note, if you
        are reading this and are good with proxy code or with perl's XS C
        bindings, please get in touch with me, my contact info is on the
        website.  Gaim could use your help.

        Mark: I love a circus.

0.82 (08/25/2004):
        Rob: Woah, where did I come from?

        Mark: Lately I've been doing a lot more code maintenance/patch
        accepting/bug fixing type of work.  And I think that's a really
        good thing.  I feel like Gaim is becoming more stable.  It
        seems like we're lacking fewer features.  It makes me warm.
        Quick Robin!  To the traverse wall!

        Nathan: Well, it looks like we stuck to the schedule again.  Had
        we taken our dear sweet time, I might have had a chance to do
        something cool for this release, but instead I stuck to the minor
        stuff.  <insert empty promises for the cool stuff i'll code for
        next time here>

        Tim: Lately I've been doing a lot more patch accepting, and a
        lot less actual coding. Unfortunately it has more to do with my
        laziness than Gaim's progress. Like Nathan, I'm going to blame
        our on time release schedule. But that didn't stop our Crazy
        Patch Writers, or cpw's as grim now calls them, from writing
        some good patches. So, instead of promising to code something
        cool for next release, I'm going to promise that the cpw's will
        code cool things for next release, and I might apply some of them.

        Luke: I've been doing what I always do, committing patches, some
        better than others, and bugging other people to code stuff. Oh
        and closing some bugs. Thanks to Dave West for joining the cpws
        in helping to handle triage. This is mostly a bug fix release,
        so PLEASE upgrade to it before submitting new bugs.

        Kevin: Herman's been away, so Daniel Atallah and myself were given
        the task of preparing 0.82's Windows packages. After some feverish
        plotting, we decided to update GTK and Daniel prepped an update to
        libpng to address recent security advisories. Besides plotting and
        a little bit of testing, this NEWS is all I really did. Oh, I also
        rerefixed the transparency plugin... again! Our beloved Hermanator
        should be back next time around, for 0.83.

0.81 (08/05/2004):
        Sean: Three weeks again!  Sticking to schedules is awesome!  Just
        like Gaim v0.81.  This is what we in the industry call a "bugfix
        release."  We closed over TWO HUNDRED bugs since 0.80.  That's
        awesome.  Thanks to everyone who helped report, triage, fix, and
        test.

        Christian: Yay for three weeks working so well. Boo for me not
        doing much of anything this release, aside from a small memory
        leak fix. I'm starting a new job and leaving my current one, so
        when the dust settles and my schedule is a bit better, the very
        cool status rewrite will be finished up. Especially now that I have
        some help! I'd like to second Sean's thanks to all the people who
        helped with this bug fix release. Gaim should be a bit more stable
        for a lot of you. For those experiencing MSN problems still, we'll
        get that nailed for you soon, promise.

        Mark: I was going to point out that we closed an insane amount of
        bugs for this release, but Sean already did that.  I feel like
        we've had some really talented new contributors contributing
        recently.  I won't say names... but watch your backs.  Or something.

        Nathan: I did next to nothing for this release.   I am however
        settled in to my new job, and in a couple days, I should be settled
        into my new domicile.  If the DSL gods are in a good mood, I'll
        have a connection there shortly, and can start being useful again.

0.80 (07/15/2004):
        Sean: Three weeks!  Hooray for timeliness!  I didn't do much here
        but drag-and-droppable file transfers.  Drag something into a
        conversation window, and it will be sent.  Kinda neat.

        Mark: We have a small ant problem here.  I can't help but think
        I somehow brought this upon myself.

        Tim: I don't really have any news, but at least I don't have an
        ant problem either. You might think I've been hard at work on
        Gaim-vv, but I haven't, I've just been lazy. I plan on doing
        some cool things "soon" though, both with Gaim and Gaim-vv.
        Bleeter sent me some nice dumps I need to implement yet.

        Luke: We have a nice timely release, with a Changelog that seems
        small, but remember, this is summer, and people have lives. SILC
        and Zephyr are making good progress from our Crazy Patch Writters,
        and everyone begging to send files to people not on their buddy
        list will be happy. good stuff. No, the msn buddy icon scalling
        problem isn't fixed yet, maybe next release

0.79 (06/24/2004):
        Sean: We've moved to a three-week release cycle which we'll
        hopefully be able to keep up more realistically than a two-week
        cycle.  Yahoo! went and broke last night, but it's fixed now thanks
        to a quick fix sent in by Cerulean Studios this morning. Reports say
        they'll continue to try to break us, though, so don't be surprised
        if your Yahoo cuts out again.

        Luke: I was really distracted this cycle, I want to thank my co-
        developers and our crazy patch writers for keeping things going.
        We have a fairly long changelog for you this release, including some
        nice bug fixes and some much-requested new features, the ChangeLog
        has all the details there of course. Enjoy!

        Christian: Great release! MSN buddy icons and file transfer. A big round
        of applause to Felipe! Too bad about the Yahoo thing, but.. eep! I have
        to go! Movie with the girls and Farmer's Market.

        Tim: This release brings us /commands in the core, which hopefully
        works better, and Yahoo! buddy icons. Thanks to all the people I
        bugged for packet captures, like Simguy, Bleeter, and odl. Yahoo!
        broke again, so I did a little last minute work on the web
        messenger stuff, but then Cerulean Studios was cool and fixed the
        problem already, so all that code's disabled. I also finally added
        the Yahoo! Japan support, for those of you with Yahoo! Japan
        accounts.

        Mark: I fixed that icon animation thing that caused Gaim to lock-up.
        I also stepped on something at the beach and I think there might be
        a little rock or something in my foot now.

        Nathan: I've been really busy, what with having a new job and all.
        I didn't think I had done anything, but apparently I fixed some
        Jabber stuff, and some IPv6 stuff.  I must have been sleepcoding
        or something, because I haven't had time for such things.  Ah well,
        enjoy this release.  We'll see what I can get to in the next 3 weeks.

0.78 (05/30/2004):
        Luke: A very long time, once again, since the last release. I think
        its mostly worth it. A few of you will still have trouble with msn
        but we've worked out a number of bugs even there.  Thanks to heroic
        efforts on the part of Mark, we closed 400 some odd reports this
        month.  We are also welcoming Tim to the project, a very active
        crazy patch writer who has brought massive improvements to WYSIWYG
        and direct im this release. Again, it still won't work for every
        one, but it will work for more people than it used to. Most
        noticably, this release brings a LARGE simplicfication of the
        preferences available. Please don't complain if your favorite
        preference is no longer there. Take some time to think about
        how and if it could be useful to a majority of people who use
        Gaim in ways nothing like you. You'll find that the answer will
        usually be that the preference isn't all that important.

        Tim: I continued with the other crazy patch writers in fixing those
        WYSIWYG bugs. Then they went and made me a developer. Which is cool.
        They told me I could commit WYSIWYG and Yahoo! changes. So I went
        and fixed IM Image and Direct Connect in AIM for some reason. I also
        added some new Yahoo! smileys at least. Also you change your link
        color in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file now. I might work on some of those
        new Yahoo! features for next release, like buddy icons. But don't
        count on it. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. And thanks
        to all our Crazy Patch Writers, who now expect me to apply all their
        Crazy Patches.

        Christian: First of all, congrats to Tim! He's our latest Gaim
        developer, and we're all glad to have him on board. He's been a
        valuable contributor for awhile now. Thanks again to Felipe Contreras
        for all his MSN work this release. He has some exciting stuff that
        we'll be seeing in 0.79. And last, but not least, thanks to all our
        crazy and not-so-crazy patch writers. There's been a lot done this
        release.  I've been taking a small break, first due to school and now
        work, but I'll be coming back strong in the next couple of releases. In
        the meantime, enjoy.

        Gary: Congrats to Tim, no more competing for most ChangeLog entries.
        This means you _should_ be winning every release.  Anyways, I didn't
        finish nearly as much as I wanted to for this release but all of that
        and then some should appear in 0.79.

        Sean: I'll write my entry down here tonight.  Removing preferences
        was my big crusade this week, and the team did a great job at it,
        but I still have a nagging feeling that our preferences are still
        overwhelming.  Everyone's been doing a real great job; it's entirely
        my fault we keep failing to meet our three-week schedule.  Send your
        complaints this way.

        Nathan: I really didn't do much thanks to exams, and graduation, and all
        of that fun stuff.  For next release, I'll have all new excuses, like my
        new job, or maybe something I haven't even thought of yet.  Oh yeah, and
        a big warm welcome to Tim!

0.77 (04/22/2004):
        Sean: We're back to a somewhat regular release cycle now.  Hooray!
        WYSIWYG is much improved in this release, and you can now copy and
        paste rich text to and from Gaim and other applications (see: Mozilla,
        Evolution OpenOffice).  Also, Novell has released their first release
        of their GroupWise plugin, included in this release.  Good stuff all
        around.

        Luke: Only a week "late" this time around, much nicer than the delay
        before the last release.  Anyway, this release sees a HUGE number of
        improvements to the WYSIWYG support, much thanks to all involved. If
        you weren't impressed before, you should be now!  This release also
        sees the end of our TOC support, no one has been working on this in
        some time and its causing problems. DON'T USE IT!.  Also plugin
        authors will want to take note of the fact that the plugin api version
        changed. A nice solid release for you all :-)

        Ethan:  Once  again  I  thought  about doing some things and committed
        things that other people did.  This development model is  awesome.   I
        helped  Mark  refactor  some  stuff  and our collective code ownership
        helped us utilize a coherent system metaphor during our pair  program-
        ming  sessions.   It was extremely extreme.  Look for some hard crypto
        lovin' from yet another crazy contributor in the near future...

        Ka-Hing: I actually did something for this release... or rather, the
        previous release, but LSchiere2 didn't commit that until this release.
        So blame him. System logging is back, so you can log people's signon/
        off/away/idle-ness again. There may be bugs with it, I don't know, not
        like I use it. I will try to work on something that I will actually use
        for the next release.

        Etan: Looking for someone to pair program with.

        Christian: A round of applause to our crazy patch writers! Their
        contributions this release is impressive. WYSIWYG has come a long way
        since 0.76 thanks to them. Also, thanks to Felipe Contreras for his
        MSN contributions. We should see some good stuff going into there soon.
        I myself didn't do a huge amount, aside from breaking everybody's
        plugins, although I have some work going on in the background that will
        hopefully make it into release soon.

0.76 (04/01/2004):
        Sean: Yeah, it's been a long time since the last release, and despite
        what others may tell you, we were just really lazy.  This is pretty
        much just 0.75 again, but, like, someone changed the "Info" icon and
        I think, like, the Chinese translation may have been updated.  We did
        nothing interesting on it at all.  Others may tell you "we haven't just
        been lazy," or "you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat
        stuf in this one."  They lie.  All of them.

        Luke: Okay, normally I wait for Sean to go first, but he said to commit.
        Its been a few months since the last release, but we haven't just been
        lazy. A very long ChangeLog for you all. Most notably of course is the
        addition of WYSIWYG input for chats and conversations. Many thanks to
        DAYS of long work by Sean, Gary Kramlich, Kevin Stange, Tim Ringenbach,
        and Stu Tomlinson for their efforts writting, fixing, and testing
        this.  Without the dedicated support of our crazy patch writters, this
        release would have taken yet longer. Sean also has yahoo working again,
        with some assistance from our friends over at Trillian, you may all
        officially rejoice. We also have a large number of bug fixes, closing
        more than 200 bug reports this month alone.

        Christian: It's been a long time between the last release, but I think
        you guys will find that we've managed to do some neat stuff in this one.
        So many bug fixes and new features. It's enough to drive a wombat mad!
        The new WYSIWYG input is cool stuff. You'll either love it or hate it,
        I guess. I'm working on some stuff that some of you are going to love,
        but I'm not promising it for a few more versions. It's a secret!

        Mark: Our crazy patch writers rock.  Gary Kramlich, Tim Ringenbach,
        Kevin Stange, and Stu Tomlinson did an amazing job of tying up
        loose ends and helping get this release out the door.  Thanks guys!

        Rob: My birthday is in a few days.  I like cool stuff.  Buy me something
        grand!!

        Tim: Luke said write a NEWS, so I thought I would.  There's a room
        list dialog now. And Nathan and I doubled the number of protocols that
        can transfer files.  After that I got lazy/busy and let Gary, Kevin,
        and Stu fix all the bugs.

        Nathan: Rob happens to share a birthday with my sister.  So far she's
        been very vague about what she wants.  She's not an easy person to shop
        for.  As for things you probably care more about, this release has so
        much in it that I've forgotten about most of it.  The stupidest of the
        bugs from 0.75 are fixed.  Jabber has a first pass at file transfer
        support (no proxy support yet).  SOCKS 5 proxy support may have gotten
        a little better as a side-effect.  Twinkies and penguin points to all
        of the crazy patch writers, who did more than their fair share this
        release.

        Ethan:   My   birthday  was  yesterday, and not on the same day as Rob
        and Nathan's sister.  And I don't mean that Rob and  Nathan  have  the
        same  sister.   For this release, I thought about making IRC better, I
        thought about making Tcl better, and I committed patches from  several
        others  who  actually   did  these  things.   And  probably some other
        things, too.  Let's hear it for crazy patch writers, and for the  open
        source philosophy that lets them get so CRAZY.

0.75 (01/09/2004):
        Rob: Woah, what's this? Me? Making a NEWS post!? Say it ain't so!
        That's right, kiddos, I'm finally coming out of my reclusiveness.
        I had a pretty shitty few months, and also just needed a break from
        things.  But, I'm back, and that's good.  Right?  Yes.  And now,
        a little word from Eric Warmenhoven.. :P

        Eric: Ah, Rob and Eric.  Just like the good ol' days.  Now, if
        you'll excuse me, I have to go make some commits with Led Zeppelin
        lyrics as my commit logs.  heh.  What do you mean, I look a lot
        like Sean Egan?  I'm... oh fine, you got me.  It's really just Sean
        in an Eric Warmenhoven costume.

        So, Yahoo! works again, and that's good.  And 0.76 is going to have
        something _very_ neat.

        Nathan: You're running out of excuses to not use Jabber.  Our chat
        support is now bar-some, quickly approaching bar-none!  Everything
        else in Jabber got neat improvements too.  I'll leave it up to you
        to figure out what they were.

        <boilerplate promises for cool features in $version++>

        Christian: I've been a bit absent this release, due to life stuff
        and working on some other projects. Some MSN goodies are going to be
        available in an upcoming version, and I have some neat Gaim-related
        stuff I'm working on that will hopefully see the light of day. I'd
        like to say good job to the other developers. Good release. (Of course,
        every time I say that, something breaks horribly right after we
        release it.)

        Luke: Okay, so Sean rocks and got Yahoo working again in 12 minutes.
        Unfortunately, he took out the chat support in doing so. So use
        conferences for now if you use yahoo. Users begging for file
        transfer support should thank Tim 'marv' Ringenbach for Yahoo ft,
        and everyone should be happy to note that 0.75 leaks far less than
        0.74. Also, a lot of other bug fixes happened that escape my notice
        right now.

        Ethan: I just want to say that now logging really doesn't eat
        memory 'till the cows come home.  We don't think.

        I would like to thank each and every one of these people, and
        I think you should, too:

        Paul A, Daniel Atallah, Patrick Aussems, Brian Bernas,
        Jonas Birmé, Ethan Blanton (hi Mom), Joshua Blanton, Herman
        Bloggs, Jason Boerner, Graham Booker, Craig Boston, Chris
        Boyle, Jeremy Brooks, Sean Burke, Cerulean Studios LLC,
        Ka-Hing Cheung, Arturo Cisneros Jr., Vincas Ciziunas, Joe
        Clarke, Todd Cohen, Felipe Contreras, Jeramey Crawford, Mark
        Doliner, Nuno Donato, Jim Duchek, Tom Dyas, Andrew Echols,
        Sean Egan, Brian Enigma, Stefan Esser, Larry Ewing, Jesse
        Farmer, Gavan Fantom, Rob Flynn, Nathan Fredrickson, Free
        Software Foundation, Decklin Foster, Adam Fritzler, Michael
        Golden, Ryan C. Gordon, Christian Hammond, Andy Harrison, G.
        Sumner Hayes, Mike Heffner, Iain Holmes, Karsten Huneycutt,
        Akuke Kok, Tero Kuusela, Dennis Lambe Jr., Ho-seok Lee, Moses
        Lei, Ambrose C. Li, Nicolas Lichtmaier, Artem Litvinovich, Syd
        Logan, Matthew Luckie, Brian Macke, Paolo Maggi, Willian T.
        Mahan, John Matthews, Ryan McCabe, Robert McQueen, Robert
        Mibus, Benjamin Miller, Kevin Miller, Paul Miller, Arkadiusz
        Miskiewicz, Andrew Molloy, Matt Pandina, Ricardo Fernandez
        Pascual, Havoc Pennington, Ari Pollak, Robey Pointer, Nathan
        Poznick, Brent Priddy, Federicco Mena Quintero, David Raeman,
        Etan Reisner, Kristian Rietveld, Tim Ringenbach, Andrew
        Rodland, Neil Sanchala, Carsten Schaar, Luke Schierer, Torrey
        Searle, Jim Seymour, John Silvestri, David Smock, Mark
        Spencer, Lex Spoon, Kevin Stange, David Stoddard, Stu
        Tomlinson, Brian Tarricone, Peter Teichman, Arun A. Tharuvai,
        Philip Tellis, Bill Tompkins, Tom Tromey, Junichi Uekawa,
        Bjoern Voigt, Nathan Walp, Eric Warmenhoven, Jason Willis,
        Matt Wilson, Ximian, Jaroen Zwartepoorte.

        Thanks, all.

0.74 (11/25/2003):
        Sean: Christian and Nathan were wrong.

        Ethan: I don't know how solid or good this release will be, but
        hopefully it's better than 0.73!  Not that 0.73 didn't rock or
        anything, but for those users bit by its peculiar little bugs
        it wasn't as nice as this will be.

        Nathan: Jabber got some good tweaks, and logging doesn't eat
        memory until the cows come home.  Which is good, because they
        said they'll be out until late.

        Luke: Always nice when directories get created correctly ;-)

0.73 (11/21/2003):
        Nathan: This should be a really solid release.  I fixed most if not
        all of the idiotic Jabber bugs from 0.72, and re-enabled the SASL
        login stuff, now that it is finalized in the XMPP drafts.  Oh, and
        we now have a release notification plugin, so you can find out when
        the latest and greatest version of Gaim is out without breaking that
        reload button in your browser.  There's other fun new stuff, but I
        forget what it is.

        Christian: This is a good release, as Nathan said. For all those who
        hated all the disconnect dialogs, we now have a {dis,re}connect{ed,}
        dialog that replaces all of them and shows every account that became
        disconnected. Also, there were some MSN fixes thrown in, such as
        the problem with unblocking users. My personal favorite, since it's
        really been bugging me for awhile, is the bug with the border on the
        close buttons is fixed.  Oh yes, and let's not forget the new logging.
        It simply rocks.  This is a pretty stable release, so get it.  0.74 is
        going to have some niceties that people have been waiting for.

0.72 (10/30/2003):
        Sean: I think I'll go as the Gaim logo guy for Halloween.  That
        would be a cool costume.

        Luke: We've had a record month for number of bugs submitted (395 as
        of now) this month, but the total number of bugs open has grown by
        less than 20, so while it might be fustrating for those of you out
        there who think your bug report is being ignored, know that we are
        doing our best to look at them all :-). This release fixes a goodly
        number of bugs including the troubles with signing on icq (thanks
        to Mark). Enjoy!

        Christian: Last release brought forward a lot of bug reports, such
        as the ICQ bug, and also trouble with installing SSL. I can't count
        how many people were confused as to why their MSN plugin wasn't
        loading. Now, it'll load regardless, and when you try to connect,
        it'll give you an error dialog saying to install SSL (if you don't
        have it installed, of course). I didn't do a whole lot this release,
        but that'll change with the next. There are some fun things coming.

        Ethan: In complete defiance of history, I did something this
        release.  It had to do with IRC.  If I type here for long
        enough, I'm sure I'll remember what it was...  Oh yeah, all of
        you paranoid people can hide your local username by changing
        your IRC account settings.  I also want to note that we are
        aware that building Gaim is Harder than it Should Be on
        Solaris, and I am seeking solutions to some of the issues
        there.  Everyone remember to give some love to the developers
        who actually did something of note this release (i.e. not me)!

        Nathan: Jabber got a ton better this release, as I fixed most of the
        bugs introduced in the last release.  Registration works again, and
        the next person to break it is going to suffer.  I also fixed a
        handfull of other little things that I can't remember.  This should
        be a good release.

0.71 (10/09/2003):
        Rob: It's been a while since I've commited some news.  I've had a
        very hectic few weeks/months.  Thing are finally coming together
        again for me.  This release features much copying and pasting. Yeah.

        Sean: I can't wait for everything to be core/ui split!

        Christian: This is a good release, and I don't think people will have
        too many problems. There are a lot of little nice feature additions,
        and much progress has been made on the core/UI split. We should be done
        in a couple of releases, assuming we can get the remaining two or three
        parts core/UI-split. Oh, and plugin authors are going to hate me again,
        as a lot of code (specifically, the conversations code and utility
        functions) changed names. This is a Good Thing (TM), as always, but may
        require modifications to some plugins. Not all, fortunately, but some
        :) Many SSL problems were fixed, though we still have some to go.  If
        you don't have SSL, you now need it for MSN. MSN won't even load without
        it. Starting October 15th, the old protocol won't be supported
        anymore, so there's no reason to support the old one anymore.

        Herman: I bet some plugin authors have resorted to making voodoo dolls
        of Christian.  Nothing new for Win Gaim users other than a fix for
        missing aim buddy icons, and removal of gtk-wimp (until it matures).

        Mark: People are going to make a voodoo doll of me and shower it with
        kisses and chocolate women: When an AIM user is away, you can now view
        the person's away message in their tooltip.  This is very similar to
        what iChat does, only our tooltip will wrap lines rather than displaying
        off your screen :-)

        Nathan: Chocolate women are cool, but I'm a bigger fan of the real kind.
        I re-wrote the Jabber support from scratch, so now there's at least one
        person who knows what's going on with it.  I got lost in the old code,
        even in the parts I wrote.  It now supports the SASL login stuff from
        the XMPP protocol specs, and will automagically upgrade the conncetion
        to SSL if it's supported.  If anything doesn't work like it did before,
        it's probably better, and you should be thankful for it.

        Ethan: I'm sure I'll be showered with all kinds of wonderful things,
        but I doubt it's because I did anything.  The reason being that I
        really don't think I did anything.  I meant to do some gaim_
        prepension and documentation for IRC and Tcl, and handle IRC errors
        more responsibly, but I've been meaning to do that for months.
        Except the Tcl part, the Tcl plugin hasn't even existed for months.
        I figure if I write enough NEWS no one will notice I didn't do
        anything during the release cycle.  Oh, I did close some bugs.  I
        didn't fix them, mind you, I just closed them.  With abandon.
        Don't tell Luke.

        Luke: Mmmm, I probly did even less than Ethan, except I closed rather
        more bugs for other reasons. Lots of you submitting duplicate bugs.
        This should be a pretty good release. We still have a couple crashes
        in ssl stuff, but we fixed a number of the bugs in the tracker, and
        the code cleaning helps alot as well. Enjoy!

0.70 (9/28/2003):
        Sean: Yahoo! works (for now).  That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.
        Huge thanks to our dear friends over at Cerulean Studios, creators of
        Trillian, for helping us out.

        Nathan: This release also works out most of the kinks in the new
        contact support.  The Jabber goodies I promised will have to wait
        for now.

        Christian: I didn't really do anything except fix a couple of issues
        loading protocol plugins that had plugin dependencies and getting perl
        to install where we tell it to. I had hoped that 0.70 would include
        a finished libgaim, but Yahoo kind of wrecked that dream. We'll see it
        within the next few releases. Life has been busy in a good way :)

0.69 (9/24/2003):
        Sean: MSN and Yahoo! work.  That's good NEWS if I've ever heard it.

        Herman: Win Gaim has been around for more than a year now.. Time Flies.

        Nathan: {{Meta,}{Contact,Buddy},Person} support for all!  Also, SSL
        support for Jabber makes its debut.  More Jabber goodies next release.

        Christian: It's a good release. The main highlight really is
        Nathan's Contact support, which is just beautiful. My buddy list
        shrunk considerably. As Sean stated, MSN and Yahoo! work.  MSN
        does not support the new MSN buddy icons and stuff, unfortunately,
        but we'll see about 0.70.  There were a whole bunch of Perl fixes,
        so hopefully there will be less complaints directed to my code in
        that area ;) Among other new additions of mine are SSL support
        (both Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS), Plugin IPC (letting plugins talk to
        each other), and some visual niceties in the Accounts window.
        Ka-Hing Cheung put in animated smileys, which should please many.
        Yeah, good release. Just you wait until 0.70 though.

        Robot101: Hi mom. My patch isn't in this release. Watch for the next
        one.

        Mark: Metacontact support, yeah.  Right click on a dude and
        select "Expand."

        Ethan: God bless the USA.

0.68 (09/01/2003):
        Rob: Wow. I am so incredibly tired.

        Sean: School starts tomorrow!  How fun!  I'll have more time to hack
        gaim (isn't that supposed to be the reverse?)*

        *Some NEWS recycled from v0.10.0

        Nathan: I didn't do much for this release, except make Jabber
        registration work, and put in a slight tweak to make Gaim work a
        little better with jabberd2.  Next release you'll all see what I've
        been spending my time on, but for now enjoy the fruits of everyone
        else's labor.

        Mark: I've been really busy with other stuff, but I've spent my
        Gaim-time on working towards a more formal translation process.
        Hopefully this will result in Gaim shipping with more complete
        translation files.  Also, all our awesome translators are mentioned
        in the about window now.

        Christian: I've been really busy with this stuff. Gaim got a new
        signal architecture, which is just really cool. The old events system
        is gone. Now you connect a signal from a handle (which can be
        a plugin or whatever) to a function, and plugins can register their
        own functions, and other neat things. Oh yeah, and perl was rewritten.
        There's a new HOWTO in the Doxygen docs (make docs), but no API
        reference yet. Developers, look at the plugins/perl/common/*.xs files
        for now. I also wrote plugin dependencies, which will be more useful
        down the road. Gaim v0.69 is going to have the new MSN plugin that
        works with the latest MSN protocol. Please be patient for that, as
        we're getting a lot of MSN questions we answer over and over.

        Luke: Wow, I actually did something for this release besides commit
        translations! Well, sorta. I got permission to commit some patches
        so gaim now has color support for yahoo, and you can fetch some
        basic info on yahoo and msn users. Yay for people submitting patches!

0.67 (08/14/2003):

        Rob: I live in Georgia.  I don't care about blackouts.  We only
        have to deal with floods and tornadoes.

        Sean: Fortunately me for me, I live in the only place in New York
        that still has power tonight!  New features in 0.6@%f)*2.{\
        NO CARRIER

        Christian: I guess Sean couldn't be here to tell you about all the
        great new things. New stuff was done! It's simply amazing. Yeah. So,
        new IRC protocol plugin, tab text is greyed on events (like "So and
        so has signed off!"), protocol icons on tabs (thanks to Etan Reisner),
        some dialog rewrites.. Great stuff. Gaim's looking more teh perrty.
        My big "wow" thing is that the core and UI were split enough for me
        to remove the remaining UI code and make a patch, and libgaim was born,
        for experimental purposes. However, using it, I was able to make the
        second UI ever for Gaim - Gaim for Qtopia (Zaurus and iPaq PDAs).
        This is viewable at http://qpe-gaim.sf.net/ (shameless plug?). More
        UIs to come I hope! :) Exciting time in Gaim.

0.66 (07/18/2003):
        Rob: Oops!!!!  This reminds me of other silly things that we've
        done. I agree with what Herman is going to say. ;-)

        Sean: Man, 0.65 was so super lame and boring.  But 0.66?  WOW!
        This is the most incredible thing EVER.  We've done tons of work
        since 0.65, and I'm really proud of what we came out with.  Thanks
        to everyone who helped!

        Christian: Wow, I can't even begin to describe how long we've worked
        on this one. Monstrous release. Best ever! You won't even recognize
        it. If you've had account import problems, delete your accounts.xml
        and upgrade to 0.66. Just, wow.

        Herman: This is to make up for slipping off the two week release cycle.

        Luke: Okay, people, yes we did test 0.65 for bugs, but hey, some things
        slip through. This release makes up for that. This should fix the bugs
        0.65 introduced, at least the ones that most of you would otherwise hit.

        Nathan: We are so smart.  S-M-R-T...I mean S-M-A-R-T.

0.65 (07/16/2003):
        Rob: Wooo! We're finally ready for 0.65.  Are you guys excited?  I
        haven't worked on anything in this release, either.  I've been
        working offline on a MacOSX UI.  No, you're not allowed to ask
        me when it will be ready.  If you ask me then I won't answer
        you.  You've been warned! :-D

        Sean: Although I tend to go right here in the two slot in NEWS,
        we don't always commit in this order.  This is the third time I've
        rewritten this because the jerks below me keep commiting while I'm
        writing causing mass conflictination.  Grrr.  Stupid jerks.  Anyway,
        this is Gaim 0.65.  Like other Gaim releases, this allows you to
        converse with people far away over the "Internet."  That's about it.
        It's really not that interesting.  In fact, I wouldn't even bother
        reading the other people's NEWS.  It's all boring.  There's some
        crap about forest fires and fangs and claws.  It's really boring.
        Great, now Luke just committed NEWS causing more conflictination.
        I wouldn't bother reading his either.  Oh, and I don't want to thank
        Megan (Cae) or Kevin (SimGuy).  They're stupid jerks too.  Grrr...

        Mark: I actually did stuff for this release.  Go me.  I probably
        shouldn't speak for all of us, but I'm going to anyway: We feel that
        this release is one of Gaim's best.  It should be relatively bug
        free, and the code is cleaner than ever, thanks to lots of work by
        Christian and Nathan.  We had some help from a few civilians
        finding and fixing bugs.  Thanks to Megan (Cae), Ka-Hing Cheung
        (javabsp), and Kevin Stange (SimGuy) for their work.  Man, I was just
        looking at Sean's NEWS entry for 0.64--that's talent.  Also, stay
        in school.  Just say no.  Only you can prevent forest fires.

        Christian: This has been a great release. faceprint rocks, as he got
        things moving in the core/UI split by redoing preferences, which forced
        us to think about how things would be split. We now have XML
        preferences, accounts, pounces, and away messages. No more .gaimrc
        ugliness. The accounts and connection code now have new core/UI split
        APIs, and there is very little to do before our split is ready to be
        used. Rob and I are working off an experimental tarball of what will
        eventually be libgaim. He's working on a MacOS X UI (don't ask him
        about it, he'll ignore you) and I'm doing a Qtopia UI (you can ask
        about that, it's usable!). We added a new protocol, Trepia.
        Information about it can be found at http://www.trepia.com/. It's not
        complete, so don't send in bug reports about it not finding people in
        your local area, please. Oh, and lots of MSN bugs were fixed.
        Practically all the known ones. I feared 0.65 would be unstable due to
        our rewrites, I believe this is going to be one of the most stable
        releases we've had in awhile (knock on wood), thanks to Megan (Cae),
        who has done an amazing job at locating, categorizing and documenting
        the various bugs she has run into, and kevin (SimGuy). Stay tuned for
        upcoming releases. Neat things are coming, but if it has fangs and
        claws, curl into a ball. Or yell at it. I can't remember which is
        correct.

        Luke: Wow! Finally releasing 0.65! Christian, Nathan, and Mark have
        worked really hard for this release, all the credit goes to them.
        The new preferences are awesome, and there are more bugs fixed for
        this release than in the last 3 or 4 releases. Your MSN should work
        reliably again, your preferences saved, your accounts resort, the
        list goes on and on. A couple preferences, most notably your buddy
        list sorting preference won't be imported, but almost all of them
        will be and its probly a good idea for you to take a second look
        through preferences again anyway, alot of you are starting to
        forget that things are optional again. :-)

        Nathan: I think I did something for this release a while ago.  I've
        got a mailbox full of commit emails, and some have my name on them,
        so I must have done something, right?  Probably some minor jabber stuff,
        and lots of crazy bugfixes.  It was a team effort, I'd like to thank the
        academy, our producer Rob Flynn, and of course all the fans. You rock.

        Herman: I was told to write something.. so here it goes.  Windows users
        will be happy to know that they can now rearrange their Buddy Lists.
        I finally got stuck into GTK+ code and fixed the bug in question (this
        release will include a patched version of GTK+ 2.2.1).  I integrated
        the WinGaim systray code into the docklet plugin bringing those nice
        docklet features (i.e. Message queuing) to WinGaim.  Another major
        WinGaim change of note is that debug versions of all dlls can now be
        built, providing useful backtraces not only for gaim.dll but for the
        plugins as well.

0.64 (05/29/2003):
        Rob: I didn't do anything this release either.  We're under a crunch
        week at work.  Friday is the end of the crunch. Hooray!! Thanks for
        all of your hard work, guys :).

        Sean: Unlike every other time we say, "the next release will be loaded
        with cool new features, this time, we really mean it. In fact, they're
        already in CVS (don't use CVS).  The only obvious new feature for 0.64
        is buddy list sorting.  This has been much requested and can be set in
        the buddy list preferences.  You can sort by name, by status, and even
        by log file size--putting people you talk to most at the top.  Plugins
        can even easily add their own sorting methods.  It's all very cool.  I
        want to thank Luke and Ka-Hing for their initial work on it.  And yes,
        I did make my entire NEWS entry justified on purpose.

        Christian: I have a few new goodies in 0.64, but they're mostly
        back-end stuff that people like us care about. The things that most
        of you will like the most is that almost all of the reported MSN
        bugs were fixed. Users with an empty contact list can now login again.
        The friendly name bug is gone. E-mail notifications work again. Yay!
        We have some big changes in store for 0.65. Careful if you use CVS...
        Things will break. :)

        Mark: I never really have anything important to add.  I'd just like to
        thank Jack Daniels for his exquisite bug reports.  And whiskey.

        Nathan: I don't think I did anything for this release.  I'm a bum.

0.63 (05/16/2003)
        Rob: Wow, so, what can I say? I've been rather AWOL for the past few
        releases.  However, that's okay.  Work has been pretty friggin hec-
        tic, so, that's my excuse.  Work is finally going to be slowing down
        some. I plan to be doing more Gaim work.  That makes me happy. That
        makes you happy.  That makes us all happy.  Now, I just need to
        finish rebuilding my car's engine.  Engine rebuilds put the FU in
        fun!

        Sean: Yay!  School is finally over.  I have to give tons of cherry-
        flavored props to everyone whose been helping out while I stayed away
        from Gaim to keep myself from failing again, especially Christian and
        Nathan.

        Luke: Okay, this is NOT a bug fix release, at least for those of you
        who use MSN. Christian put in a TON of effort rewritting the MSN prpl,
        mega props to him on this release. In other news, we have alot of bugs
        fixed, and a goodly number of the translations are more up to date
        than they were in earlier releases. There are some other significant
        changes, but they are mostly backend stuff, yay for core/ui splits ;-)

        Christian: As Sean and Luke said, I did a tiny bit of work in this
        release. The MSN prpl was rewritten, and should now work better. It's
        compatible with the MSNP7 protocol that MSN v4.x uses. Unfortunately,
        MSNP9 is being worked on. Bah. Also, it has MSN Mobile support, so you
        can register your MSN account with http://mobile.msn.com/ and people
        can page your mobile device. You can also page other MSN Mobile users.
        Groups are now stored on server. Oh, and due to the nature of MSNP7,
        conversations are timed out after 5 minutes, so you'll unfortunately
        see a message indicating that. Sorry! I wrote experimental support
        for my own implementation of MSN buddy icons. You can set them in your
        account settings much like with AIM, and when you talk to other gaim
        users, they'll get your buddy icon. This will last for a few releases,
        until the buddy icon implementation in the upcoming MSNP9 protocol is
        figured out, and we have support for that. That'll be a couple months
        away at least. Also, we have a rewrite of the plugin interface, so
        rewrite your plugins! Things are going to get very cool from it. The
        debug API was core/UI split, and some enhancements were made to the
        debug window. I think that's all from me.  It's been a fun release.
        Stay tuned, I have some great things coming up!

        Nathan: It seems like 0.62 was forever and a day ago.  I had to look
        at the ChangeLog to remember what I did.  Apparently I made it so you
        can put chats in your buddy list.  And then I tweaked a bunch of stuff
        and fixed a bunch of crashes.  Then exams came, and then I went home
        for a week and left my laptop's power cable here at school, so I didn't
        get anything done.  Jabber will get all sorts of fun new stuff for
        the next release.  Really.  ;-)

0.62 (04/23/2003):
        Sean: This is just another standard bi-weekly Gaim release.  Nothing
        really interesting, but it has some good bugfixes.  Personally, I've
        been a bit removed from Gaim development lately what with school getting
        tough and stuff, but the rest of the guys have really been doing great
        work without me.  Thanks, guys.

        Christian: I can't remember what I did here.. Think I'll take a quick
        look at the ChangeLog.... Okay, guess I was useless. That's okay,
        though, because I have some really cool stuff going into 0.63. Plugin
        authors will hate me for it. A rewrite of the plugins interface! This is
        actually a Good Thing (TM). Anyhow, upgrade to this release, and tell
        your friends.  33 Gaim users can't be wrong!

        Luke: I didn't do much here besides the odd translation patch and a
        couple bug fix patches. This is primarily a bug fix release, and much
        needed at that. Didn't get a chance to write sorting code, work has been
        busy.  Hopeefully it will happen for 0.63.

        Mark: Gaim is coming along quite beautimously.  I'm going to eat
        my Pop-tarts now.

        Nathan: oh dot sixty two.  There are a lot of bugs fixed in this
        release, and one major new feature.  Our Jabber plugin now supports
        XHTML-IM.  In plain english, this means that you can now format your
        jabber messages, and other people will see the formatting.  GtkIMHTML
        still needs some work to get it to parse valid XHTML-IM better, but that
        will come in time.  That time would come sooner if my CS prof accepted
        "I was hacking on Gaim" as a valid excuse for an extension ;-)

0.61 (04/07/2003):
        Rob: Nathan commited his news first.  However, I'm cooler so I'm putting
        my entry above his.  Yeah, so, there were some DnD issues with 0.60. I
        blame it on the rain. It was falling, falling.  I blame it on the
        faucet. It drips all night.

        Sean: I committed my news after Rob.  I'm cooler than Nathan (by far)
        but not as cool as Rob.  So I go here.  Actually, I didn't do anything
        since 0.60 other than commit some other peoples patches.  The one from
        Dave Camp is cool.  How 'bout this snow?  Isn't that crazy?  Oh, and
        thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday.

        Nathan: You want frequent releases?  You got 'em ;-)  Chip wrote some
        cool new pounce stuff, and things shouldn't get weird when you drag
        groups and buddies around.  It's bad enough having 1 of some of my
        buddies on my list, I definitely don't need duplicates.  Being that I
        have class in the morning, I'll just raise my juice glass for this one.

        Christian: I'm not as cool as Rob, Sean, or Nathan, so I go down here.
        Well, among some of the fixes is my new buddy pounce code! This adds new
        buddy pounce types, core/ui splitifies the code, and makes the dialog
        box spiffy. Yay frequent releases! Erm, I can't think of anything else
        cool to say here. Have fun, everyone!

        Luke: Okay, i'm probly the least cool, so I'll go last. I committed a
        few patches from other people here, nothing earth shattering though. The
        biggest thing in this release is the group re-ordering bug fix, having
        that fixed will make for fewwer questions. Get used to using releases
        people, we want to use cvs for actual development :-).

        Mark: I didn't want to write any news without actually having done
        anything, so I fixed a meaningless compile warning.  Boo-yeah.

        Sean: Luke can't spell "fewer".  How un-cool is that?

0.60 (04/04/2003):
        Rob: Wow. So, it has been a really long time since we started the
        gtk2 fork. It's finally ready for public consumption. Sean is about
        to go out and buy a case of beer.  My roommate is downstairs right
        now pouring me a shot of his choice.  Everyone, raise your beers if
        you've got them.  It's been a cool almost 10-months of development.
        I hope you all enjoy. Drink'em if you got'em!

        Sean: I'm writing this 3 minutes before my 21st birthday.  Nobody can
        believe we're finally ready to relase 0.60.  Many thanks to everyone
        who helped out; I'm convinced that Gaim 0.60 is the best IM client to
        date (only to be bested by 0.61).  There's WAY too much stuff to mention.
        Even the ChangeLog is somewhat incomplete.  Yay, I'm 21 now!  Everyone
        enjoy! :)

        Nathan:  Happy birthday Sean!  Rob decided to let me start cleaning up
        after everyone, so here I am.  "sexy" is the only word that can be used
        to describe 0.60.  Prepare to be shocked and amazed.  /me raises his
        (shot) glass ;-)

        Christian: Geeeeeze this took a long time. Worth it though! Personally,
        I thought we'd all just give up on releases altogether and tell
        everybody just to grab CVS. I'm pretty happy with this release. I was
        able to contribute quite a bit to it. Makes me feel proud to be a gaim
        developer!  I'm really looking forward to the future releases. I have
        some neat stuff planned. Yay, I'm still 19! Mmmm, Sierra Mist. Make me a
        sammich!

        Mark: Whoops, I started drinking a little earlier than I was supposed
        to.  I guess I missed the memo.  Hmm, I ate at a restaurant somewhere,
        I think it was at Snowshoe, and the menu had "sammiches" on it.  It was
        pretty sweet.  I'd like to give a shout out to all the Gaim
        devizelopers for rizocking the hizzy the past few months.  Word.


0.59 (06/24/2002):
        Rob: I guess Sean is busy at home or something and Jim is asleep.
        I'm very tired but it's time for a release.  Enjoy.  :)
        SORRY FOR THE DELAY. :(

        Sean: It's been a long time since our last release, and for no
        good reason either.  Rob and I just haven't been able to get together
        to do it.  But now we have.  Aside from some Jabber changes and some
        crucial MSN fixes, most of this release's changes are transparent,
        but none-the-less important.  Well get some better changes when my
        computer works again, you have my word*

        *My word is worthless.


0.58 (05/13/2002):
        Rob: Yeah, so, my computer has been bad which is why the release
        didn't go out on time. Oh well.  I would like to welcome
        Jim Seymour aboard the development team.  He's going to be taking
        over the work on our Jabber code as well as doing various other
        nit picking. He likes to pick nits, nats, and umm, knots, I think.

        Sean: This release has a long ChangeLog.  Higlights include an
        important security fix for MSN and a few nice new features.
        Not *much* cooler than 0.57--but we're making progress ;)

        Jim: Hmmm... Rob said I have to say *something*, so here it is:
        Rob's a mango.

0.57 (04/25/2002):
        Rob: Not too much in this release, as Sean said below. (This is
        what happens when the bottom person goes first.) New translation,
        a few fixes, secure msn hotmail logins, blah blah blah. As Sean
        said, the next release will be cooler. If only you could read
        our minds ;-).

        Sean: Nothing too special here, but a critical Yahoo fix that
        ensures Yahoo! will work when they discontinue the old protocol
        all the other 3rd party clients are using.  Next release will be
        cooler, I promise.

0.56 (04/11/2002):
        Rob: Well, what do you know. I have another headache. I always have
        these damned headaches. I got pissed off with the way GtkTree looks.
        I wanted to move to using GtkCTree. I think they're pretty.
        Unfortunately, GtkCTree sucks. After a little digging through
        the code, I managed to molest GtkTree into looking like
        GtkCTree. Thanks to everyone that helped track down that one
        annoying style problem.

        Sean: Hello.  This is another minor release while Rob and I finish
        up on some bigger projects.  We're reworking a lot of the UI to make
        it easier to use, nicer looking, and more compatible with gtk2.
        I've also been trying to bring the Yahoo plugin up to date, so it
        will work for Indian users and avoid a potential problem in the near
        future.

0.55 (03/29/2002):
        Rob: 0.55 is here. I've been away for a few days on business. Sean
        has been on Spring Break. Therefore, this release is mostly a patch
        release. It does fix some bugs and makes a few thing slightly cooler,
        so it's better in that aspect, I suppose.  Enjoy.

        Sean: This is mostly a bugfix release.  I'm on Spring Break, not
        doing any coding at all.  But lots of people sent in great patches
        anyway.  Thanks guys!

0.54 (03/14/2002):
        Rob: Well, here we are. 0.54. We got a lot of fun things in this
        release. Better working SSI, Image sending, protocol specific
        smiley faces, and a whole lot of triscuits. *gobble*

        Sean: We fixed a lot of bugs in this one, and probably introduced
        a bunch too. ;)  We were both really busy, and did all the coding
        late at night when we were tired, so if something isn't working,
        it's probably just tired code.  Enjoy the triscuits!

0.53 (02/28/2002):
        Rob: Well, we missed yesterday's release. That's Okay, I head a
        nasty headache. You can all just deal. ;-)


        Sean: Neat Goodies!  Whee!!  Oscar got a lot of great additions.
        It can do Screen Name formatting, it can save and store your buddy
        list on the server, it can do typing notifications in Direct
        Connections, and yes, it can receive IM Images!  Sending images will
        be added in the next release.  MSN and Yahoo! can do typing
        notification too.  Hooray!


0.52 (02/17/2002):
        Rob: Well, after a long delay we're finally ready for another release.
        I finally got settled into my new apartment, the new job is going
        well, and I finally have internet connectivity again. You can expect
        us to be back on our usually bi-monthly schedule.  Enjoy these fixen,
        as they resolve a few connectivity issues. :-)

        Sean: It looks like things are back on track now.  Eric left which is
        sad.  He's done so much for Gaim, and I know we're all thankful.
        Thanks Eric!  I'll be stepping in and do more development, but I can
        never replace Eric.  This release fixes a long-standing problem in
        MSN.  If you've gotten errors when trying to connect to MSN, you want
        this release.  If you've suddenly found yourself unable to connect to
        Yahoo!, you want this release too.  The "neat goodies" will be in the
        next release ;)

        Rob: Operation Evil does not exist! ;-)


0.51 (01/24/2002):
        Rob: Well, here we go. I FINALLY got around to making a release
        after over a month, Sorry for the delay, all. Things got really
        hectic around the gaim house hold.  This release isn't as complete
        as I had hoped, but I promised to get something out. There's some
        neat goodies in mind for the next release, right Sean? :-)


0.50 (12/13/2001):
        Rob: I am tired. Tonight was weird. Bleh!!!!

        Eric: I second that.

0.49 (11/29/2001):
        Rob: *still mamboing*

        Whew! That was a bad little mambo.  I hope everyone had a nice
        little Holiday, if you celebrate. If not, then I hope you had
        a sucky weekend. :-D.

        Oh, lots of cheese for everyone!! (Beware the duffle)

        It's getting cloudy. I think it's going to storm somethin'
        fierce. That's my southern talk. Do you like it?

        Eric: I want to be like you.

        Do the cha cha cha!

0.48 (11/18/2001):
        Rob: Hi! It's 4:12am! I'm watching The Simpsons. :).
        Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! :) There's not
        too much for me to say in this release. I'd just like to
        thank Eric for his hard work. :)

        Eric: Everybody mambo!

0.47 (11/01/2001):
        Rob: Hi. Gaim v0.47 has been released, as you should already
        know. I hope all of you had a nice little halloween. There are
        quite a number of changes in this release. There are a few too
        many to list here, so I will redirect you to ye olde ChangeLog.

        Eric: Remember back in the day when TOC was the only protocol
        Gaim could use? Remember the login window from back then? Back
        before Gaim had perl or plugins or multiple connections or
        10 different protocols. Things have changed so much since then.
        Many more changes in this release as well. All good things.
        Don't forget to talk to SmarterChild.

0.46 (10/18/2001):
        Rob: Hey guys! The smores were great! I really enjoyed meeting
        up with all of you guys and singing campfire songs. It was
        really awesome.  Thanks for the beer, too. Next time, it's on me.

        This release has quite the number of bug fixes. I won't bother
        going into detail here. Just ust it, love it, live it - SEGA!

        Eric: Lots of fixes. Things compile well now. ICQ has stopped
        crashing on PPC and Sparc. If you know someone who isn't using
        Gaim because it was unstable, please get them to try this
        version. It's much better, I promise.

0.45 (10/04/2001):
        Eric: Well, it seems that the time has come for yet another
        release. There are several yummy additions in this release, and
        quite a few useful bugfixes as well. Unfortunately it seems that
        Rob is currently unavailable; he joins us in spirit. He'll be
        joining us later for a group sing-along and smores by the
        campfire. But for now, you'll need to keep yourselves occupied
        with 0.45. And remember, a happy hacker is a pimpin' penguin.

0.44 (09/20/2001):
        Rob: Another release has come upon us. There were actually quite
        a number of things in ye old ChangeLog for this release. I don't
        feel like talking about them here, so you can read about them
        in ... you guessed it .. the ChangeLog.  Oh, and if you're
        wondering about setting buddy icons, wait til 0.45 or
        use CVS shortly after this release. ;-)

        Eric: You should all be using CVS anyway. This has become the
        slogan in our IRC room, #gaim on irc.openprojects.net. The IRC
        plugin got lots of updates (mostly because I felt bad about using
        X-Chat for IRC when gaim supposedly had an IRC plugin), so you
        should load the plugin and join us. :)

0.43 (09/06/2001):

        Rob: Well, I knew that the day would eventually come. I just didn't
        expect it to be so soon. ;-).  Yes, that's right, Eric and I finally
        got sick of all of the pre releases.  We didn't want to make this
        release an official 0.11.0. We thought that it would cause a lot
        of confusion. We didn't want to continue our trend of prereleases
        either. So, since gaim was first released officially, there
        have been 42 releases.  This is number 43, hence the 0.43 version
        number.  We're going to stick with this trend from now on. :-).

        Eric: We're also going to be starting a release early, release
        often trend, that hopefully we'll stick to this time. Hopefully
        we'll be putting out a new release every two weeks or so. You
        should all be using CVS anyway :) And as always, don't forget to
        report bugs! Anyway, since there's only been 9 days since the
        last release not much has changed. A bug-fix release and a version
        change mostly :)

0.11.0-pre15 (08/28/2001):
        Eric: This isn't a real release. Really. It's just a quick thing
        because pre14 doesn't cut it for some people. Also not counting
        the month break that I took it's been a month since the last
        release, so it's about time. You should all be using CVS anyway.
        Instructions are at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/cvs.shmtl. And
        don't forget to report bugs! http://gaim.sourceforge.net/bug.php3.

        Rob: Hey guys.  I've been rather inactive as well. It's a long
        story, but essentially, my company layed off a bunch of people,
        myself included, due to poor management.  I've taken a new
        job which required moving across the country.  I'm finally back
        online.  Once I manage to actually get a desk at home I'll be
        able to code with out infliciting intense pain upon my lower
        back and neck.  So, basically, we were inactive, but not dead.

        Also, just to keep you all updated, the AOL battle is still
        in progress.  Our lawyers are still in negotiation with thiers.
        We'll keep you updated with what happens.

0.11.0-pre14 (06/17/2001):
        Eric: Wee. Lots of fun things. BIG bug fix release. I did a lot of
        stupid things in the last one, hehe. You all forgive me though,
        right?

        Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.
        Remember that. It's a great Scott Adams quote.

        Rob: I feel naughty. I should have released this a lot earlier
        in the day.  I have a problem though. I started cooking, invited
        a couple friends over for dinner and then took a walk to a
        24hr doughnut shop where I sat outside and talked about
        random stuff.  Oh well, at least it's still before the 18th.

        Enjoy this release guys! :-)


0.11.0-pre13 (06/06/2001):
        Rob: \O.  Howdy doodie!  This release isn't coming too far behind
        the previous release but hey, what can ya say, there were a couple
        of good fixes in this one.  Jabber & IRC can set / view the topics
        of chat rooms now, napster doesnt crash on bad login names and
        passwords, and the man page got a big update.

        Well, that's about all, folks.  Next release, I hope to try to get
        group MSN chat support added as well as DCC support in the IRC
        plugin.

        Peace!

        Eric: I apologize if any of you had to restart your X server because
        of me. This release won't make you have to do that, I promise. There
        were a couple other minor fixes with the buddy icon stuff, it still
        has a way to go but at least it's better than it was before. Oh yeah,
        and Oscar is able to sign on again.

0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001):
        Rob: Hi!  O/.  My girlfriend was visiting me so I've been busy being
        unavailable online.  Hooray.

        There have been a lot of good changes in this release.  Some improved
        dialogs, some updates to IRC and MSN, as well as a nifty little thing
        that Eric did that I'll let him tell you about.

        Oh yeah, I also got food poisoned by bad eggs.  Ugh!

        Eric: Every protocol except TOC has been improved since the last
        release. All of them except Zephyr and ICQ now use the same proxy
        options, which you can set in the preferences. ICQ can use them if
        you set it to Socks5 though.

        There are a bunch of other good additions and fixes for each
        protocol which you can read about in the ChangeLog. And, there's one
        super cool feature that everyone seems to be asking for: Buddy Icons.
        Right now you can only receive them and only in Oscar, but hey, they're
        there.

        So that's it. Have fun with it :)

0.11.0-pre11 (04/30/2001):
        Rob: I bought a big carton of juice today.  It is now 50% empty.
        A lot of the plugins got some new options and/or improvements. I
        have a headache right now, though, so I won't say much.  I'll let
        Eric talk :)

        Eric: I uh. I bought 72 cans of soda yesterday. It only cost $15
        or so. I figure I'll be through it in less than two weeks. A
        dollar a day on soda isn't so bad. For the fourth release in a row,
        Oscar is fixed. Isn't that exciting. Judging from history I'd say
        that it won't stay fixed long; but judging from what I know has
        changed, we shouldn't have any more troubles.

        Rob: --. .- .. -- /  .. ... /  --. .-. . .- - --..-- /  --. .- .. -- /
             .. ... / --. --- --- -.. .-.-.-

        I don't have a headache anymore!  Hooray! Eric got a good deal on those
        drinks.  I bought some bananas.  They're very green.  Oh, and I cooked
        a steak last night.  It was 16 oz.  It was good.

0.11.0-pre10 (04/13/2001):
        Rob: EEP! It's Friday the 13th!!!  I think I fixed a few buggies
        in MSN and then added some new features to IRC.  I have a headache
        right now, though, so I won't talk much.  I think I'm going to go
        to sleep.  Next release, I should have a good bit more done on
        IRC and will have made Napster more stable.  Have fun!!

        Eric: There's a new protocol plugin, Zephyr. Don't use it! unless
        you know what Zephyr is, and have zhm set up correctly. Also there
        were a lot of other good bugfixes (like registering for Jabber
        accounts!) and a few neat features. In this release, Oscar is also
        working, but we'll see how long that lasts, eh?

0.11.0-pre9 (03/26/2001):
        Rob: Well, looks AOL was doing something naughty earlier this
        morning.  Thanks to a very nice guy named Adam Fritzler (you
        all know him from libfaim) we're now back online.  Thanks,
        Adam.  I'll buy you a drink sometime :-).

0.11.0-pre8 (03/23/2001):
        Eric: Oo wow :) So I guess the big news is that this release should
        help you avoid the battle between Jabber and AOL. Most protocols
        got a few good bugfixes; thanks to people who pointed them out :).
        Hopefully for the next release I'll make it so you can register a
        jabber.org account, and then you can support Jabber using Gaim.
        I think (I *think*) Oscar blocking is working now. Haha, get it?
        Oscar blocking? It took me a while to get it, too. But no, really,
        I think that the permit/deny list in Oscar might be working.

        Rob: MSN got some fixes and should be really stable now.  It had
        a little 100% CPU eating bug but that's taken care of now.  Next
        on my list of repairs is the napster plugin.  It works -- sorta --
        sometimes.  Heh.   As all of you probably know already, our Oscar
        support was broken yesterday.  There's a little battle going on
        between AOL and Jabber and we caught a bullet during the crossfire.
        I think I just won the award for the most cliches used in one
        paragraph, as a matter of fact. ;-).

        ** Good luck to the Jabber guys in getting this resolved **


0.11.0-pre7 (03/16/2001):
        Rob: Hey! I finally rewrote the MSN plugin.  Sorry, I'm just
        a lazy code whore sometimes, heheh.  It pretty much has the same
        functionality as before with the exception of instability.  I
        didn't really like that feature very much so I removed it.  I hope
        you guys don't mind too terribly much ;-).

        Eric: In this week's installment of gaim you'll find a new Yahoo!
        library and an option to have all conversations in one window,
        in addition to numerous bug fixes and other improvements. Don't
        forget to send us your feedback. If there's something you want
        added, changed, or fixed, head over to our SourceForge page at
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ and tells us about it.


0.11.0-pre6 (03/06/2001):
        Eric: Yay! I get to go first!

        The biggest change in this release is the TODO file. Lots of things
        got added. There's going to be a lot of prereleases. Please help.
        Other than that it's mostly just a lot of bugfixes. Oscar got a few
        new features. Head on over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
        and tell us what you'd like to see in gaim. We've gotten a lot of
        great requests so far, thanks.

        I think I like releasing every week.

        Rob: I've been bad so Eric got to go first.  The biggest change
        In this release is the NEWS file.  It's the only thing I contributed
        to!  heh, just kidding.  This is a bug fix release, as Eric said.
        Next release will contain my newly rewritten MSN plugin.  You guys
        should be happy with it :).

        Oh yeah, TUCAN rocks :)  Oh yeah, Eric rocks too.


0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001):
        Rob: Yeah, I promise this is the last pre-release :-D.  That seems
        to be a pretty common saying around here, huh?  Well, I must first
        appologize.  The protocols that I was working on really should be
        much more developed at this point -- they should be completed,
        actually.  Unfortunately, my real life job (yes, I have one hehe) got
        a little too busy and ate up all of my free time.  I promise that
        things will get better now :).

        Eric: I don't promise that this is the last pre-release. :) But
        hopefully releases can start coming more often than once every two
        months. I don't really have much else to say. It's been a slow
        couple of months.

        Rob: I promise to hack gaim again.  Please don't hate me.

0.11.0-pre4:
        Rob: HOORAY FOR DISNEYLAND!

        Eric: One more prerelease. I'm actually starting to think these
        prereleases are a good idea; a lot of people reported a lot of
        bugs in pre3 and most of them are fixed now. Also, it helps with
        the whole release early-release often philosophy.

        The big news in this prerelease is two more protocols: Jabber and
        Napster. Both of them don't have any of the features that make
        these services cool, yet. You can't use the transports in Jabber
        and you can't download file in Napster. But you will be able to,
        soon :)

        Rob and I are going on vacation starting today until after New
        Year's, which is a lot of the reason we wanted to get this release
        out; it's much improved over pre3. Happy Holidays everyone.

0.11.0-pre3 (12/15/2000):
        Rob: Well, I hadn't initially planned on an 0.11.0pre3 but it
        looks like it was needed.  That's not necessarially a bad thing,
        mind you.  It just means you get to see more goodies!

        This release includes some other fun features.  See the ChangeLog
        for more information.  Also found in this wonderful release is
        an MSN plugin.  For all of you who have been holding onto Windows
        simply because you have friends on MSN Messenger that you don't want
        to leave, this plugin is for you! :)

        Guys, make sure you send us bug reports; preferably on the
        SourceForge bug report forum at
        http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/.  This will allow both
        Eric and I to handle the bugs and will prevent either one of us
        from losing the bug reports that are sent via AIM :-)

        Eric: Hey everybody, Rob and I really want to hear what you guys want
        to see in gaim. Head over to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim and
        leave a message in the Open Discussion forum. We've gotten a lot of
        good ideas so far (most of them didn't make it into this release,
        unfortunately).

        If any of you want to test out your mad coding skills, I can think of
        a few projects that would be incredibly useful. Send me or Rob an IM
        and we'll let you know how you can help. And don't forget to read the
        HACKING file to see how gaim's put together.

        This is hopefully going to be the last prerelease; now that all the
        protocols that we're going to be doing for 0.11.0 are available it's
        mostly just going to be hacking on them and getting them in usable
        condition before the final release. Don't forget to send us bug
        reports ;)

0.11.0-pre2 (12/04/2000):
        Rob: I messed up.  Oh well, it's fixed.

0.11.0-pre1 (12/03/2000):
        Rob: Hey guys!  Guess what!?  Yup, you're correct!  It's the pre1
        release  of 0.11.0. We have all sorts of goodies in this release!
        Check out the  ChangeLog file.  As always if you find any bugs,
        please report them on www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/

        You may find several small bugs as this is still a prerelease.

        You may want to note that my IRC plugin does not have full
        functionality as of yet.  All of the important / commands will be
        added before the final release. Also, if someone could send me
        some good buddylist pixmaps for the irc plugin then I'd much
        appreciate it.  Thanks to everyone who made this new release possible!

        If you have any ideas, comments, or suggestions, please let us know
        either by e-mail or via the source forge message board at the URL
        above. :)


        Eric: So what was Yay! For Gaim!? Yay was the codename for the
        Yahoo plugin. The whole point of all of these changes was I wanted to
        make a proof-of-concept plugin that would let Gaim sign into Yahoo. It
        turned out to be pretty much impossible with the old code. So,
        Rob and I hacked gaim so we could do just that. There's now a whole new
        class of plugins, Protocol Plugins, that let users dynamically add new
        protocols to Gaim. Just load the plugin, and create a new account that
        uses that protocol, and you're set! Yay! (Oscar and TOC are both still
        static. Gaim is, after all, primarily an AIM client.)

        Lots of people have been very generous and contributed a lot of
        time and  effort to writing some really nice patches for gaim since
        the last release. To all of you, a big thanks.

0.10.3 (10/09/2000):
        Rob: I am dumb.
        Eric: I am not dumb.

0.10.2 (10/07/2000):
        Rob: What do you want me to say for yours?
        Eric: What happened since the last release?
        Rob: You got DSL.
        Eric: Oh yeah, I'm more available now.
        Rob: On a more serious note, this is just a quick release
        to hold everyone over.  Look for some very awesome things
        coming in the next version.  I can't say what, just yet,
        but what I can say is, Yay! For Gaim!

0.10.1 (09/15/2000):

        Rob: Hi Hi Hi!  Yet another gaim release pushed out the door
        for you guys.  I hope you all enjoy it.  There was a few minor
        issues cleared up in this version as well as the repair of
        OSCAR support.  Hopefully we won't run into the same problem
        as before.  Oh well ;-).  There's also a few small extra goodies
        in here for you guys just check out the Change Log.  I hope you all
        enjoy and take care!

        Eric: Wanna know what the Oscar problem was? You'll laugh. 2 bytes.
        The fix was changing 0x07da to 0x0686. Anyway, aside from the fix
        for that, there are a couple other good things. Beware of DSL nazis.
        They won't give you service until 6 weeks after you order it. So um,
        yeah.

0.10.0 (09/11/2000):
        Rob: Well peoples, I know that it's been a while since our
        last release.  Here we go.  Some brand spankin' new interfaces
        for you guys to oogle at.  I hope you all enjoy it.  Hopefully
        our next release won't take as long to finish up.  Real life
        kind of crept up on Eric and I and took up a lot of our times.
        Life sucks that way sometimes.  Anyways, we're back and all
        is well.  Thanks for hanging in there guys and we hope
        you enjoy it!

        Eric: LWE was so cool. Rob and I met up there, we had a blast. But I
        only got to go for one day and Rob got to go for three. Lucky bastard.
        It's been so long since the last release that I don't even remember
        what's changed. But all of it is good :) Like Rob said, all kinds of
        new UI stuff. I think there are some new features in there too. Now
        I'm headed back to school so I'll have more time to hack gaim (isn't
        that supposed to be the reverse?), just as soon as I get my internet
        connection back >:-/ .

        Rob: Oh yeah, some of our pixmaps may need a little work.  We took
        a lot of them from the Gnome Stock icons.  If anyone could do some
        custom ones that stay within the 24x24 boundary and keep the same
        idea and feel as the gnome icons then we would be more than happy
        to use them.  Thanks much!! Viva la LWE.


0.9.20 (07/14/2000):
        Rob: Well, guys, I hope you enjoy this version.  I've done quite a bit
        of work to the user interface.  It's still not in the state that I
        would like it to be, though.  Over the next few versions you will
        notice a few more interface changes as we try to bring a more
        professional look to Gaim.  As always, we will stay true to our
        pimpin' penguin atittude.

        Eric: While Rob's been busy making things pretty, I've been busy
        making things work :). The chat and IM windows got merged, which
        means that they both have the same features (notably, IM has /me
        and chat has font/color dialogs and smileys). Also smileys should
        work better in general now (thanks fflew).

        Rob: By the way, what Eric is saying is that he's smart and I'm
        not and that he does all of the work and I sit on my butt all
        day and claim to do work.  WOOO!  Just kidding, brother :-P


0.9.19 (06/09/2000):
        Rob: PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
        PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA
        PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA PLA

        All of that nonsense aside, there are a few things that DIDN'T happen
        in this version of gaim.  The user interface changes will wait until
        the 0.9.20 release.  We've decided to turn 0.9.19 into a "new feature
        and major bug fix" release.  All/Most major bugs should be worked out
        now.  We're sorry about the problem of segfaulting when your buddylist
        stored on the server was null.  Oops! We won't let it happen again,
        we promise.

        Eric: Lots of good changes in this one, including locale support. Chat
        had a lot of things done to it, but it's still not finished. The UI
        didn't get the overhaul we were planning, but we wanted to get a few
        bugfixes out.

        Lemme say something about reporting bugs. Please do. Please try to give
        as much information as you can. But regardless of how much information
        you give, please be POLITE. If you tell us our software is crap then
        we're probably not going to respond well.

        Rob: Before I close up and say goodnight, I'd like to say that I
        agree with Eric.  Reporting problems and/or helpful criticism in
        a polite manner always yields the best results.  Peace all, and
        happy hacking.

0.9.18 (06/02/2000):
        Rob: Talk about release early, release often - sheesh!  We're going
        insane.  Ya know, I'm not too happy with the Gaim UI.  I dont know
        how the rest of you feel but it's time for a nice overhaul.  In the
        next few days I'll be sitting down with some of my friends and coming
        up with an improved interface.  I hope you all enjoy it.  It'll
        include better looking dialogs, icons, sounds (hopefully lol), etc.

        And -- for your random silly message of the day --

        "Beans and Franks, Beans and Franks, Wine And Beer, Have No Fear!
        I can sing! I can dance! I have a penguin in my pants!"

        - Rob Flynn after not having enough sleep.

        Eric: I've had less sleep than Rob, I can guarantee you that. There's
        actually a lot going on in this release, despite 2 releases 2 days ago.
        Don't ask me how; I think the elves had something to do with it.

        Oscar support is almost to the point where I'm considering removing
        the 'experimental' label from configure. For those of you brave enough
        to try it, I'd like feedback. (And if you happen to write a patch to
        fix some of the stuff that would be really cool too.) Hopefully for the
        next release, in addition to the cool new UI, Gaim/Faim will be able to
        do nearly everything Gaim/TOC can do. (Big things coming in 0.9.19, I
        can feel it....)

        And just remember, you *can* have too many gummi candies. Especially if
        you eat nearly a whole kilo of them. Believe me. I know. But the gummi
        cherries are damn good.

0.9.17 (05/31/2000):
        Rob: I am an e-mail fiend!
        (after receiving 60 emails within a 5 minute period about a problem
        and responding to all of them immediately)

        I am stupid.

        Eric: Heh heh. 2 releases in one day. I'm impressed. Maybe one of these
times we'll actually get some of it right ;) Anyway, yeah. Just bug fixes in
this one.

        Rob: Yeah, we wouldn't be ourselves if we released it once and got it
        right, would we? :-)

0.9.16:
        Rob: Blah Blah Blah.

        Eric: Looks like Rob didn't have much to say, so I'll write something
instead :)

        There's a few good things in this release, the most important of them
being: Better proxy support, of course. Oh yeah, and you can sign on now,
so that's a good thing too. There's a few more good things going on in this
release, so check out the ChangeLog.

        Play nicely, and we'll keep hacking away at it.

        Rob: Go Watch `Road Trip'.

0.9.15:
        Hey boy's and girls.  There's not much to say here this time.
We're loving Southern California, the new job's going great.  We just
got our company website up and the product development is going pretty
smooth.  Life's pretty sweet now.

        We've hacked up all kinds of goodies for you in 0.9.15.  There's
some file transfer (receive) support for those of you who have been
wanting it for a while. There's some other misc. goodies tossed in as
well.  Enjoy!! Oh yeah, we need a new website.  Come up with a sweet
design and get in touch with me.  The current site is at:
http://www.marko.net/gaim

Thanks much!


0.9.14:
        Well, there's a few random hacks and fixes in here, along with
a little suprise.  You guessed it, kiddos, support for plugins!  Happy
hacking!

0.9.13:
        Not much to say for this release.  Bug fixes, That's all.  Look
for the goodies I promised in 0.9.13 to appear in 0.9.14 which should be
released very soon now.

        By the way, our CVS is now hosted over at source forge.  Go check
it out at http://www.sourceforge.net.  Please check there before submitting
any bug reports (You can read our CVS comments to see if we have fixed any
problems).

0.9.12:
        Well guys, looks like we got some nifty things in this version.
TrueType Fonts are supported for those XFSTT buffs out there (or whatever
else you use).  A crap load of those plaguing memory leaks have FINALLY been
fixed.  My brother, Jeramey, and a new friend Peter Teichan helped stomp
those babies out.  A rad guy by the name of Eric Warmenhoven has been
really sweet lately and has all but rewritten the Gnome Applet support :).
He submitted patch after patch.  I finally got annoyed with him (just kidding bud)
and gave him CVS access.  Look for Gnome Applet support in Gaim to start improving.
That's about all for now.  I wanted to get this release out there.  File Receive
support will be in 0.9.13 which is due out soon.

0.9.11:
        Jeramey got a new Comfy Chair! Its very very comfy!  Whee!
Jim also had a little hyper-drunken moment and started hacking away at
a new configuration format for Gaim.  Looks like we're running .gaimrc
version 1 now.  Gotta love it.  I got bored and hacked in a couple font
properties that will, in time, contain more features.  That's about it
for this version -- cept for that memory leak we fixed.  Shush! We're
not plumbers! -- rob

** Extra special update **

Well guys, it looks like we all stopped working on gaim, moved to California,
and took up a new job.  Don't worry though, those beach bums out here havent
worn off on us yet.  I've decided to pick up the Gaim torch myself and continue
development ont he prohect.  Hopefully we wont have any more five month braks in
the project.  Sorry about that, guys :)

0.9.10:
        Umm.  Dont ask.  Silly memory leak.  For those of you who
wondered, you were losing about 256 bytes every 25 seconds for each
person you have on your contact list.  Make fun of us.  Better yet ..
Send us beer.  We'll do better :)

0.9.9:
        Welp, All of you boys and girls who run Mandrake and have some
problems with Gaim working properly, please check out the FAQ file.  It
contains a nice fix submitted by one of our users.  I hope this works for
you guys!
        Jim appears to have intoxicated himself.  This is, as always, a
Good Thing (tm).  His late-night adventure with the liquid-bread food group
lead to the birth of a nice little feature called `The Lag-O-Meter'.  Dont
ask, just try it out :).  It is pretty pointless if you have a super-fast
connection but if you are a modem user, like many of us are, then try it out.
        There's also some idle preferences and some other little random
bug fixes.  Check'em out yo :)

0.9.8:
        Get Along Lil' Doggies.  Heh.  Looks like we have yet another new
version of gaim for you guys to play with.  Be gentle now, it has a few
new fetures.  The HTML widget is now more robust and we have *da da da*
HTTP proxy support.
        Oh By The Way, Do not pay too much attention to what we are doing
with this release.  We are all a little bit happy tonight.  You must love
life.  This is a special release of gaim.  We will be releasing some wonderful
photographs soon .. or perhaps if we get the bloody webcam working then we
will take a couple of quick snapshots.
        Looks like the Gaim developers convention (cool name huh) that we
had this weekend in Auburn, AL went wonderfully :).  yum yum yum. Hahahah. Oh
by the way.  Beware of insecure rednecks in the deli.  Bad things.
        In (non)related news, Jeramey could not successfully slaughter the
one pound hamburger that he ordered.  (I think he could have done it but he
wasn't feeling very well at the time).
        Oh Yes, New Logo Too :) You likes? Thanks, Naru!
        Just a little side-note: it looks like we didnt make the release that
we had expected during the Gaim Convention.  Maybe we partied too much? I am
not sure.  I remember watching the sun rise before I went to bed, though.
Oh well.  Here's your release!  Enjoy!
        By The Way, we have uploaded our party pictures to a website.
http://www.dorky.net/gaim/party/  They are nothing spectacular but I hope you
enjoy them! :).

0.9.7:
        Well, boys and girls, it's that time again!  Yup, time for the good
release fairy to come bless us with her infinite wisdom and divine presence.
Umm, yeah, something like that.  Anyways, this release has several little
"bad" network fixes (as Jim likes to say) and a couple touch-ups to a few
other features.  It also features preliminary oscar support.  Thanks to Jim
and Adam ("the libfaim guy")  hehe :)  We have also corrected a problem with
gaim not wainting to correctly save your password if you have an underscore
in it.  Thanks to w1za7d for pointing out the underscore problem.  ' and \
have also been fixed in passwords. :o)

0.9.6:
        Sorry about the little segfaulting bugs in the past release.  Rob
is stupid. :).  Anyways, they have been patched up and a couple new features
have been added.  I hope you guys enjoy.

0.9.5:
        Well we added a myriad of new features to this release. (A lot of
small buggie fixes too.)  If you need a detailed list just check out the
ChangeLog.  We now have a new webpage design and have added a FAQ to the
distribution.  Before coming to us with any problems please take a quick
look through the FAQ to make sure we havent already covered your question.
        Also, thanks to our beloved Web Monkey, FlynOrange, we have all
learned the true power of foam weapons, slinkies, and whoopie cushions.  Hmm
gotta love those pranks, eh?

0.8.0:
        Well, just starting the NEWS file.  I'll try to remember what's new
from the last version.  Hmmm.  BIG code reorg.  Import/export, buddy pounce
among the major new features.  Autoconf script too, which is a big win.
Apologies to those who submitted patches which haven't made it in.. I
promise, the next version!  This code reorg took up a lot of my time, and I
want to get it out there.