What's New?

Attribution

Many developers have a hand in debugging and enhancing Fire. When someone adds a new feature or fixes a bug, that information appears here, in the changelog. To keep track of who's doing what, regular developers tag their entries with their initials. Here is a list of the commonly used initials, and which developer goes by them.

0.32.a

Application

• Chat windows scroll the upper scroll view when PgUp/PgDown are pressed. (nk)
• Chat windows only auto-scroll if the last line of text is visible. (nk)
• Chat window preference to indent wrapped lines. (nk)
• Reorganized the menu layout. New Buddies menu makes it easier to add new buddies or access chat history, edit, etc. Internet related items moved to the Help menu. (jt)
• Away message counts reset when your status changes (feature 527207) (jt)
• Change the updates of the Buddy List. This gets rid of most of the pauses in typing (6 hours fixing this, yuck) (gb).
• Properly log messages from users with slash '/' characters in their name (bug 478127)
  Thanks to Dan Scully for the fix (ds/jt)
• Logging is now colorful and everything (gb)
• Clarified dialog box when sending to an offline buddy (bug 620848) (ah)
• Disconnect from all command in Dock menu (feature 587318) (jt)
• Refresh Buddies command in Buddies menu (feature 540353) (ah)
• Renamed Groups are are also renamed on the server (ah)
• Removed Groups are also removed on the server (ah)
• Drag and drop to move buddies & groups in the Buddy window now works correctly (bug 645016) (ah)
• May have completely fixed the no send on Enter/Return bug. Thanks to Justin Wood for advice as to how to do it (gb)
• Buddy list is in upper left corner by default. Send on enter is on by default. Flashing chat windows are off by default. (jt)

Services

• This is the BIG one: Oscar support! Don't go too nuts over this!
  Special thanks to Rob Flynn and Sean Egan of gaim: http://gaim.sourceforge.net. We are now using libfaim for AIM (gb)
• Direct IM support when started on other side (feature 613011)(gb)
• Away message reading support (feature 478146) (gb)
• .mac buddy support (feature 563733) (gb)
• Server Side Buddy list support with groups (more options on this comming soon)(gb)
• Buddy info is more accurate on login times (bug 614077) (gb)
• Invisible (even though it is pretty stupid) (gb)
• Group chats (gb)
• Receiving Buddy Icons (sending comming soon)(gb)
• Most of the File Transfer (Receive and SEND!!!) This is not perfect. Do NOT expect to send/receive filenames longer that 63 characters. This WILL be fixed soon. (gb)
• Can now send and receive messages in Unicode for those pesky characters that don't work otherwise. Now if everyone else would support them (Trillian, Adium, etc...). (gb)
• Buddy Search by first, last, and nick name or by email (gb)
• Correctly parses AIM's HTML language to display background colors (gb)

• updated to libicq2000 0.3.2 (jt)
  hopefully this will fix the issues with authorization requests and duplicate messages

• support for SSL, enabled when using port 5223 (feature 497052)
  thanks to Proteus for the code for this (jt)

• file send and receive support hooked up to libmsn (jt)
  NOTE: this may block the UI while the file transfer is happening
• send typing notification immediately when you start typing (jt)
• you can change your nickname in the edit account sheet (feature 616191) (jt)
• server and local buddies reconciled on login (bug 616042) (jt)
• supports Refresh Buddies menu request (ah)
• multi line messages have proper line breaks for Windows clients (bug 643419) (jt)

• Improved parsing of Yahoo formatting and messages containing < >
• Changed smiley menu names to match Yahoo! docs above thanks to (ah) Alan Humpherys (jt)
• Updated to the latest version (0.6.1) of libyahoo2 (http://libyahoo2.sourceforge.net) (ah)
• Full support for adding buddies and allowing you to reject someone's request to add you as a buddy. (bug 637618) (ah)
• Improved conference support with ability to accept and reject requests to join a conference. (ah)
• Initial groundwork for support of Yahoo! Identities. (ah)
• Improved support for sending files. (ah)
• We now send the done typing notification (jt)
• Additional support for operation behind firewalls. (ah)
• When buddies are rejected they are removed from your buddy list. (ah)
• Added full support for ignored (blocked) buddies, including synchronization with the server. (bug 542885) (ah)
• Moving Buddies between Groups is now reflected on the server. (ah)
• supports Refresh Buddies menu request (ah)
• Fix for crash when Yahoo connection is unexpectedly closed. (bugs 641347 & 644571) (ah)
• Away message autoresponse no longer prints out as a blank message (bug 610768) (ah)

• Fixed a case where the user list shows duplicates (gb)

• Many of the Fire help files have received a facelift and update, facts-wise. (nk)

0.31.e

0.31.e is an English only release. No new localized files are being released with this version. 0.32.a will re-include localized versions of all of the interface files. To help with localization, check out the fire-localization list on our sourceforge page.

Application

• If you cancel sending an offline message, we don't play the send sound (bug 618570) (jt)
• Away message autoresponses show the name associated with the chat window, rather than the Mac OS X login name (bug 589350) (jt)

Services

• upgraded to libmsn 2.1 (jt)
• we now send typing notifications (jt)
• interpret names as UTF8 when adding to buddy list (bug 568998) (jt)

• fixed crash when receiving messages - thanks to Steve Riggins (bugs 621300, 622504) (jt)
• added more smileys for parity with latest official clients
  thanks to Alan Humpherys for the changes (jt)

0.31.d.2

• Service bundle is correct again.

0.31.d

0.31.d is an English only release. No new localized files are being released with this version. 0.32.a will re-include localized versions of all of the interface files.

Application

• The Buddy Controls toolbar updates properly when using Metal (bug 611461) (jt)
• The chat window will wrap text properly when in Metal mode (bug 611729) (jt)
• Toggle Buddy Window Transparency works on 10.1 (jt)
• Text only toolbar mode works with the buddies window (jt)
• Buddies window and chat windows now can be made transparent (feature 546322) (gb)
• Fixed it so that if you change the content of an away message and not the title, it sticks. (gb)
• The text area should become key when bringing forward a chat window now (bug 526752) (jt)
• You can disable sending the away message autoresponse with the Never option in the Chat Windows pref (feature 478163) (jt)
• Better handling of idle and away message state (nk)

Services

• added Reset button to set back to default port (jt)
• works again as of the 10/1/02 changes to the TOC servers (gb)

• Uses the port number and server stored in the account plist the port is editable in the UI again (bug 587088) (ds/jt)

• Port number is editable in the UI again (ds/jt)

• Port number is editable in the UI, the server and port are updated to proper values in the Accounts.plist when loading a pre-.31.d configuration (ds/jt)

0.31.c

0.31.c is an English only release. No new localized files are being released with this version. 0.32.a will re-include localized versions of all of the interface files.

Application

• Add button in Accounts window works in Text Only mode now (jt)
• You can show the Offline buddies group in the buddies window again (jt)
• Toolbar for Console window (jt)
• Option to use brushed metal chat and buddy windows - requires 10.2 (jt)
• Non-white buddies backgrounds work properly now (bug 577927) (jt)
• Command-S to send a message works again (bug 583043) (jt)
• Send File to Buddy menu command enables based on whether it is supported for the selected buddy (jt)
• Fixed problem when dragging a buddy past the bottom of the list (bug 567003) (jt)
• Hand pointer when you mouse over a link in chat windows and configurable link colors
  Thanks to Nick Kocharhook for the changes (nk/jt)
• Close all chat windows command - changes from Nick Kocharhook (nk/jt)
• Selection in the buddies window is remembered as buddies log on and off or view changes (nk/jt)
• Contextual menu for Setup view (nk)
• Accounts window is click sortable (nk/jt)
• Accounts window zooms intelligently to fit the content when using zoom box (nk)
• Accounts window selections are retained when the UI is updated (nk)
• Fixed problem with the Accounts menu showing disconnected services as checked (jt)
• Shows proper badge on buddies window when using the Dock menu to change status (jt)
• New Away Messages editor; Edit Away Messages... menu command added to the Window menu (nk/jt)
• properly show AM/PM or not based on user's preferences (bug 555605)
  Thanks to Alex Satrapa for the changes (as/jt)
• Screen Name fields no longer accept non-numeric text when the service is ICQ (nk)
• New attributions on all required locations. (esp)
• Transparent Buddies List is enabled again. It is not perfect, but it works. (gb)
• Removed the hokey chat window title bar icons (esp)

Services

• Added correct legal attributions due to scary letter from lawyers

• Added File Receive (gb)
• Sends multiline messages properly now (bug 571249) (jt)
• Reports correct number of buddies in the console (bug 589465) Thanks to Dan Scully for this fix (ds/jt)

• Conversations should be properly saved based on the name of the channel, instead of showing up in (null)-(null) (nk/jt)

0.31.b

Application

• When sending a message to an offline buddy, you no longer get both a message in the chat window and an error dialog showing up. (jt)
• Should fix the problem of the message not sending when you are typing quickly and using send on return/enter (jt)

Services

• ICQ® now properly disconnects so you don't get buddies showing up as online when you are offline (bug 574743) (jt)
• Crash issues with GnomeICU should be addressed (bug 567608) Thanks to Greg Rumple for this (gr/jt)

• can now cancel the Add MSN® Acount sheet with an invalid username (bug 568043) (jt)
• MSN® buffer overflow/stability fixes from Josh Osborne (bug 579788) (jo/jt)
• We now communicate the block non-buddies setting to the MSN® server (jt)
• We no longer create a blank window when typing notifications arrive (bug 536110) (jt)

• Now based on libyahoo2; we have support for the latest Yahoo!® protocol.
• Typing notifications are sent and received for Yahoo!®
  Thanks to Carl Lindberg for the changes (bug 579483) (cl/jt)
• Red and orange were swapped in the formatted message support. (jt)

0.31.a

New Features in 0.31.a

• New buddies window
• File Send now works *synchronously* for Yahoo!® clients. (File Receive always worked)
• New Buddy Info window
• Lots of bug fixes (see below)
• You can now define as many accounts as you want for each service, but only one of each service can be online at any given time.
• Localized in English, Spanish, German and Icelandic

Application

• Fixed a Profile preference pane hang if no profile was set (cr)
• New "Encrypt messages to myself in addition to others" option in the Profile pref. Turning it off works better with services that have limited message sizes.
  Thanks to Eric Hall. (jt/eh)
• Fixed toolbar customization crash, and some related leaks (bugs 527203, 527266, 527911, 529221) (jt)
• Added a SIGPIPE signal handler at startup (replaces the Yahoo!® SIGPIPE handler) This should fix some unexpected quits (jt)
• Wait for 30 seconds before reconnecting after sleep. This should be long enough that networking is available again and make this feature more reliable. (feature 541225) (jt)
• Reduced frequency of updating the buddies window window. This should improve startup time and responsiveness when lots of changes happen at the same time (jt)
• don't show Offline Buddies group in buddy editor and sort menu based on user's order (jt)
• Buddy editor properly displays current notification overrides when loading (bug 510645) (jt)
• Export Alias List command works again (jt)
• don't show buddy name twice if no alias is set and preference is for both names (jt)
• remove extra returns from the end of messages in saved conversations; this was already happening in chat windows (jt)
• improved interaction with Japanese input method in chat windows; we now only interpret escape, return, enter, and tab keystrokes that are not used by the input method (bug 542835) (jt)
• don't mark buddies as online when blocking or unblocking them (jt)
• when waking from idle state, keep custom away message (bug 528364) (jt)
• Custom away messages can have a zero length message, and autoresponse messages are not sent when the message is empty (bugs 535560, 535788) (jt)
• You can send autoresponses once for the life of a window (jt)
• Buddy window status indicator updates when you use the Dock menu to change status (jt)
• Console autohides after 15 seconds of no messages if it was autodisplayed (feature 478144) (jt)
• Cleaned up Console messages (date stamp on all messages), added Connected messages for services which didn't have them (jt)
• Preferences save immediately when you close the Preferences window (bug 523908) (jt)
• Fixed Connect/Disconnect toolbar item tooltip glitch (cr)
• Will prompt for passwords when not saved in keychain and you try to connect (bug 527621) (cr)
• Revamped buddy info window (cr)
• Icon tweaks for consistency (bh+bw/cr)
• Archives, Subscribe, and Unsubscribe commands for Fire mailing list (jt)
• You can assign a spoken name for buddies, used in spoken alerts (cr)
• The You've-gotten-a-message-from-someone-you-don't-know message now indicates the service (cr)
• Can accept messages from non-buddies without asking (cr)
• New buddies window (cr)
• Assign colors for different buddy states (feature 546650) (cr)
• Automatic grouping of buddies with the same alias within a group -- reduce clutter when keeping casual tabs on your multi-service friends! (feature 523756) (cr)
• buddies window is now click-sortable (cr)
• Improved reliability of drag-and-drop buddies window management (feature 527204) (cr)
• Can now hide the Accounts group in the buddies window (cr)
• Removed Options menu. All options are now in preferences. Spell checking is in the default Edit menu for a per window setting, the default is set in the Chat Windows pref.
• New split view buddies window allows you to see all the chat windows that are currently active and keep tabs on them.

Services

• Buddy Info works again (bugs 528362, 530469, 537001). Thanks to Graham Booker for this (gb/jt)
• don't create empty groups when importing from the server buddies window (jt)
• save buddies window to server when adding, removing, blocking, and unblocking buddies (jt) TODO: save buddies into same groups as locally instead of putting all of them in the Buddies group
• properly escape < > and & when sending messages. This allows the characters to come across properly rather than being eaten by the HTML parser (bug 478442) (jt)
• Fonts should now show up properly in official AOL clients (jt)

• properly create the ** Default Group ** if it doesn't exist when adding server buddies (jt)
• Buddy Info now works for this as well. More thanks to Graham Booker (gb)

• Open IM Window on an IRC buddy contextual menu opens the channel window now (bug 536429) (jt)
• Invites now properly take you to the channel instead of a private chat with the inviter and no longer crash if there's no invite message (jt)

• Always uses UTF-8 encoding for messages regardless of user's encoding preference
  Thanks to Guillaume Merck for this (bugs 531116, 536791) (gm/jt)
• Now sets buddy alias based on friendly names from the server if blank (jt)
• properly create the ** Default Group ** if it doesn't exist when adding server buddies (jt)
• When entering an account, the user id is validated (cr)
• Get Info takes you to the MSN® member profile page (cr)

• store Fire-created buddies on server in the same group as locally (jt)
• when importing buddies from the server, leave the alias blank instead of duplicating buddy name (jt)
• properly badge Stepped Out and other Yahoo!® away states as away (jt)
• notice disconnects in the periodic ping timer (jt)
• removed SIGPIPE handler (the timer checks connectivity and SIGPIPEs could be coming from any of the services) (jt)
• Added ability to send files - thanks to Carl Lindberg for this.
• Now properly sends formatting such as font, size, bold/italic/underline, and colors. (bug 478118) (jt)