ANNOUNCE: Empathy 0.8

Empathy 0.8 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy/0.8/

43688633798403fda6612da8ccd200b1 empathy-0.8.tar.gz
752074c88667fc796ee0cebe58a1f726 empathy-0.8.tar.bz2

What is it?
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Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia’s Mission Control, and reuses Gossip’s UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application.

Where can I find out more?
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You can visit the project web site:
http://live.gnome.org/Empathy

What’s New?
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– Fixed contact list handling.
– Make use of NetworkManager to set presence to OFFLINE when we are disconnected
and restore presence once we are reconnected.
– UI for searching in conversation history and to view all conversations with
a given contact.
– Do not use 2 different processes (empathy and empathy-chat), merge them
into one client. This is easier for debugging and share data.
– Do not create log directory for a chat if there is no messages to put in.
– Do not set active contacts when creating the store, and when contact groups
changed.
– Fix warning when using command-line options.
– Ignore ssl errors by default. This is needed to connect jabber accounts
using ssl.
– Adding spellcheck support using aspell.
– Lots of bugs fixed.

Bugs Fixed:
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– Fixed #445859, Add Smooth scrolling to chat view. (Raphael Slinckx)
– Fixed #446161, Unable to generate pot file (Xavier Claessens)
– Fixed #447178, crash on Add to Favorites (Xavier Claessens)
– Fixed #447659, Salut protocol icons (Michael Monreal)

Translations:
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– Updated ja: Takeshi AIHANA
– Updated dz: Pema Geyleg
– Updated pl: Tomasz Dominikowski
– Updated es: Jorge Gonzalez
– Updated hu: Gabor Kelemen

21 June 2007
Empathy team