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| Version | Date Released | Status | Release Notes |
| 1.1 | Oct 21, 2011 | New Release | Conversations can now be placed on hold: · A conversation can be put on hold from the context menu of the conversation tab. Conversations on hold are listed at the top of the Contacts window, where it is easy to reopen them with a double click. · Closing conversation tabs cannot cause you to miss messages any more: when closing a conversation tab with unread messages, the conversation will automatically be put on hold instead of being closed. · Closing a chat room tab will put its conversation on hold instead of leaving it. · If a new message arrives in a conversation on hold, its tab will reappear automatically. (For chat rooms, this will only happen if your nick is mentioned). · The number of unread messages in each conversation on hold is clearly indicated; this will prove to be useful for IRC channels where you are idling! Improved Tray Support: · The Instantbird tray icon is visible even when the application is not minimized. |
| 0.3 Beta 1 | Jun 16, 2011 | New Release | · Users can now set their buddy icon and the display name of their accounts right on the contacts list. · New information toolbar at the top of the conversation UI, showing the buddy icon, display name and current status of your contact. In addition, you can switch the buddy you're talking to by clicking on the protocol icon. · The conversation tabs styling has been updating to match Firefox 4, and users of recent Windows version is appreciate some Aero glass effects. · Bubbles, the default message theme, has received new time-related features · (Windows 7 only) Jumplist support to quickly change the status. · The contact list is sorted alphabetically (both groups and contacts appear sorted). Lots of minor improvements, among them: · You can now quickly jump to the n-th tab using + in the conversation window, where is ctrl on Windows · A help command ('/help') was added to quickly and easily see which commands are available for the current conversation. |
| 0.3 Alpha 2 | Apr 18, 2011 | New Release | New features: · Contact merging: If you talk to the same person on multiple IM networks you can now combine the buddies from each network into a single contact. When opening a new chat the buddy that is online will be chosen automatically and the conversation window will automatically switch buddies if they switch to a different IM network. · Tags: Tags will be used to replace the groups in the buddy list. Tags can be hidden by clicking the "x" on the right side of the buddy list, all buddies from this tag will go into an "Other Contacts" tag automatically, which is shown at the bottom of the buddy list. · The buddy list can now be closed on Mac without Instantbird quitting and reopened from the Dock. · Minimized to tray on Windows and Linux. By default close (hitting the 'x') on the buddy list will minimize to tray, this can be changed in the preferences. Lots of minor improvements, among them: · Unknown status is now differentiated from offline status with different icons. |
| 0.3 Alpha1 | Feb 14, 2011 | New Release | New features: · Twitter support: When the twitter account is connected, a timeline conversation automatically opens. If the conversation is closed by the user, it's reopened automatically when new messages arrive. The user should disconnect the account from the account manager to prevent new messages from being displayed. · There's a "track" advanced option that allows to specify keywords to track. This is a comma separated list of keywords. Comma means OR, space inside a keyword means AND. Updated: · Instantbird 0.3a1 is based on libpurple 2.7.9 and Mozilla 2.0b11pre which brings great new possibilities for add-on developers (restartless add-ons for example). Under the hood: · Protocol plugins can now be implemented in JavaScript. |
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