Fire.app is an Instant Messenger client. It is currently in active development (October 2003).
Fire.app is released under the terms of the GPL (enclosed with this package).
Fire.app is copyright 1999-2003 epicware, Inc. (epicware@epicware.com).
See the source code for the individual services for the copyright and license information for each bundle.
Fire home page is http://fire.sourceforge.net.
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0.32.g
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This release's primary focus is to fix the blocking by MSN.
Application
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- Fixed double AM and PM on Jaguar (bug 813408) (gb)
Services
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AIM¿
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- Fixed crash when icon directory didn't exist and couldn't be created. (gb)
MSN¿
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- Upgraded to support MSNP8. Thanks much to Andrew Wellington for providing the
changes from Proteus' MSN plug-in. (jt/aw)
- Increased temp buffer size to 4K. (jt)
- Non-ASCII characters can be used when changing the nickname (bug 747061) (jt)
Yahoo!¿
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- Updated yahoo account settings to use new yahoo server name. (ah)
0.32.f (Released 29 Sep 2003)
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This release's primary focus is to fix the blocking by Yahoo. (For real this time)
The authentication mechanism in version 0.32.e was not compatible with version 11
of the Yahoo protocol.
Services
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Yahoo!¿
- Updated to libyahoo2 v 0.7.2 (http://libyahoo.sourceforge.net) (gb/ah)
Thanks to Philip Tellis and the libyahoo2 team for releasing a fix. Thanks
also to the GAIM team for engineering the new authentication mechanism and
publishing the results to the open source community.
0.32.e (Released 22 Sep 2003)
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This release's primary focus is to fix the blocking by Yahoo. Fire has been under
heavy development in the meantime, but much of the work is in an incomplete state
and would not be a good candidate for release. A massive update is coming soon.
Application
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- Updated Danish translation from Lasse Jakobsen (lj/jt)
- Improved the responsiveness of typing within chat windows while the system is
under high CPU load (gb)
- Dramatically improved performance of parsing large formatted chat logs. (jt)
- typing notifications are stopped if you use cut to remove all the text (jt)
- Application icon's flames are no longer clipped at the top.
Thanks to Gabriel Radic for the update (gr/jt)
- Offline group count shows up properly now (jt)
Services
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AIM¿
- Fixed not coming back from away (gb)
IRC
- No longer does USERHOST on everyone in the channel immediately, which was
getting us kicked from some servers and leading to a crash (bug 596329) (jt)
Jabber
- Since the SSL support requires 10.2, and we now check the OS version before
enabling it. Previously we would crash on 10.1 if port 5223 was used. (bug 722044) (jt)
Yahoo!¿
- Updated to libyahoo2 v 0.7.1 (http://libyahoo.sourceforge.net)
(bug 805433) (ah)
- New version of yahoo protocol was necessary because Yahoo! closed off
access to clients with old versions of the protocol as of 24 Sep 2003. (ah)
- Yahoo now uses improved socket handlers to reduce CPU consumption. (ah)
0.32.d (released 13 Apr 2003)
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Application
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- Updated Spanish, French, and German localizations
- Added localizations for Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
thanks to Ken Tsang for this
- Fixed inconsistency between the conversation browser and buddy list
which could occur in some cases (bug 683777) (jt)
- Fixed the chat window toolbar icon sizes for when the size is set to
small (gb)
- Fixed issue with names of preference panes in German localiation (ah)
Services
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MSN¿
- Fixed extra typing notifications that were sent when using return or
enter to send messages. This would result in the other side thinking
you were typing when you weren't. Thanks to Mark Rowe for the pointer
on what was going wrong (bug 688412) (mr/jt)
- Properly notices when you are disconnected (bug 682382) (jt)
- When receiving files, properly notifies the sender of success
(bug 689088) (jt)
Yahoo!¿
- Fixed problem with crash when Yahoo was first connecting. (ah)
- Unread count now displays properly (bug 653353) (nk)
- Chat windows scroll the upper scroll view when Home/End are pressed. (nk)
- Account status (busy, idle, away, etc.) is shown on accounts groups for Yahoo, AIM, MSN, and Jabber. (ah)
- Edit menu option now works in the Context Menu and Buddy Menu when an Account is selected in the buddy list. (ah)
- Available buddies come before Idle when sorting by status (bug 654028) (jt)
- On the Fly translations in chat windows work again. Dutch has also been added as a translation option. (ah)
- Hold down shift while starting to disable autoconnect (jt)
- Hidden option to turn off your away message when you send a message
Thanks to Brian Bergstrand for the changes. (feature 478160) (bb/jt)
To enable, use this command in Terminal:
defaults write Fire UnawayOnMessageSend 1
Services
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AIM¿
- Overriding the AIM port number works again. (bug 652284) (jt)
- Fixed the bug where AIM-Oscar keeps trying to connected after a fatal login error (bug 653188) (gb)
ICQ¿
- Fixed possible crashes when messaging users not in your list (bug 600316) (jt)
- Web status is now shown correctly on ICQ.com (bug 553585)
Thanks to Mitz Pettel for the tip on how to turn this on (jt)
IRC
- fixed possible infinite loop in IRC (bug 557725) (jt/gb)
- IRC no longer sends embedded returns in messages (jt)
MSN
Hopefully this fixes the connection problems people have been reporting with 0.32.a.
- More correctly reflect the connection status (jt)
- Set block non buddies setting after connection is completed (jt)
- Reflect your status in the accounts group without being in your own buddy list (jt)
- Buddy list syncing is off by default since this seems to be the root of
the disconnect problem. To reenable it do this in Terminal:
defaults write Fire SyncMSNLists 1
(jt)
- Typing notifications sent less often (every 5 seconds) (jt)
Yahoo!¿
- Messages now are logged in the Fire Console instead of the System Console (ah)
- Fix for a bug when a buddy with a blank name got entered in the system (ah)
- Updated to the latest version (0.6.2) of libyahoo2 (http://libyahoo2.sourceforge.net) (ah)
This new library adds minimal support for voice chat invitations as well as support for
handling receipt of multiple offline messages. (ah)
- Fix to handle sending/receiving International character sets in Yahoo
(bugs 482015 & 667221) All messages are properly sent as UTF-8.
0.32.a (released 11 Dec 2002)
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We now include updated French, German, Icelandic, and Italian localizations.
Application
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- 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
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AIM¿
- This is the BIG one: Oscar support! Don't go too nuts over this! (gb/special thanks to Rob Flynn and Sean Egan of gaim: http://gaim.sourceforge.net. We are now using libfaim for AIM)
Direct IM support when started on other side (starting it comming soon)(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)
ICQ¿
- updated to libicq2000 0.3.2 (jt)
hopefully this will fix the issues with authorization requests and duplicate messages
Jabber
- support for SSL, enabled when using port 5223 (feature 497052)
thanks to Proteus for the code for this (jt)
MSN¿
- file send and receive support hooked up to libmsn (jt)
- NOTE: this may block the UI while the file transfer is happenings
- 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)
Yahoo!¿
- 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)
IRC
- Fixed a case where the user list shows duplicates (gb)
Fire Help
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Many of the Fire help files have received a facelift and update, facts-wise. (nk)
More history
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See http://fire.sourceforge.net/history.shtml for news and release history.
Features and To Do List
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See http://fire.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml#general-featurerequest.
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