ayttm

The MSN protocol was updated to MSNP15. The Yahoo protocol was updated to YMSG16. Fixes were made for Jabber. Service discovery and GMail notifications are now supported. Spellchecking is now provided by aspell by default. The networking code was overhauled. There is now a transparent connection layer which takes care of SSL, proxies, etc. for the protocols. Improvements were made in support of character encodings other than UTF-8. Ayttm now uses stock icons wherever possible. Various fixes were made to the status window and chat window UI. The deprecated AIM-TOC, ICQ-TOC, and ICQ modules were removed from the package.

This release has some major and minor fixes, including the critical Yahoo! protocol update. There are also some new features like the much awaited tray icon.

Segmentation faults and bugs with GnomeMeeting,
Yahoo! file receiving, and the new Yahoo!
authentication scheme were fixed. Yahoo! webcam
broadcasting was also implemented.

This release fixes compilation issues on Solaris
and BSD, Jabber chatroom, and gnomemeeting
detection. It also has updated French, Brazilian,
and Spanish translations. New features include a
"Most recent used" list for chatrooms and a webcam
request for Yahoo!.

A bug in encoded passwords was fixed. SSL
certificates are now checked for SSL servers,
preventing MITM attacks from going unnoticed.
Auto-completion is now possible in chat, and your
MSN-only contacts can get renamed automatically.