Gaim
0.11.0pre12 released, good buddy (hint hint)!
Howdy guys! It's been about a month since our last release. gaim 0.11.0pre12 is finally available for your mass consumption. There have been lots of improvements such as better proxy support, fixes to various protocols, some cleanups on the menus, as well as an insanely often requested feature. That's right folks, you can finally receive buddy icons from other people. This only works when using Oscar and we do not, at this moment, have support for sending your own buddy icon. All in due time.
Also, I would like to suggest that all of you use Oscar as opposed to TOC. Our Oscar implementation, these days, works much better and has all that TOC supports and more. Give it a try under tools->accounts.
So, what are you waiting for? Why are you still reading this? Go! Get it!
I get knocked down, I get up again, never gonna keep me down ..
This should probably be another "update" to the previous post but I thought it was getting rather long. AOL was up to no good this morning with more OSCAR changes / blocks. 0.11.0pre11 and CVS should be good to go now.
This hack was rather clever. It seems that they were requesting a bogus offset and length (67MB) of a nonexistent module. When that happens, you're supposed to hash the modulename + request. A rather clever trick, if I do say so myself :).
Down Again, Up Again
So this morning, some of you may have gotten a dialog about not being able to get a good hash for logging in to AIM, and then a message from AOL disconnecting you. That problem has been fixed, temporarily at least; pre11 should be able to sign on without problems. Earlier versions most likely will not be able to sign on. Jabber's AIM transport is not currently able to sign on, either.
The technical details are: AOL had previously been requesting a hash of 0 bytes (as stated in an earlier announcement). They changed what they were requesting; they are now requesting 67MB starting at an offset of 67MB. Since it was no longer 0 bytes, gaim tried to get the correct hash from a server that had been set up before pre11 was released. However, because of the rather unusual values, the hash server was not able to complete the request, and so did not return a hash at all (hence the message about not getting a good hash). The hash server has been modified to return a current good hash; however, we still need to figure out how to translate 67MB into a workable value.
* Update: 5/9/2001 9:00PM PST *
This is great. They give us the offset and the number of bytes, and the file they want it from; however, if that would involve reading past the end of the file, it's considered an invalid request, and the request itself is hashed. You hash the offset and the length and send it back. So, currently gaim still doesn't need the aim.exe binary; however, pre11 doesn't know about this trick, and so will still request a correct hash from the server. pre11 should still be able to sign on, and Jabber's AIM transport looks like it's up and running again.
* Update: 5/15/2001 1:20AM PST *
They're back to requesting 0 bytes again, which means that pre11 doesn't need to use the hash server anymore. It's so nice finally having a release that, even after two weeks and two attempted blocks by the server, can still sign on.
Another release is out the door - 0.11.0pre11
Howdy guys! We have packaged up yet another release for you all! This time, it's 0.11.0pre11. How lucky! There have been a lot of changes in this release. So many that I don't feel like listing them all here, heh. One of the more notable ones is that Oscar, once again, works. To find out the rest of the changes please check out the ChangeLog.
Well, what are you waiting for? Go get it. Enjoy!
* Update: 05/06/2001 3:38PM PST *
I just pushed up some PPC RPM's to the server for you Mac freaks out there. Enjoy! Thanks, Christine!
Here we go, one more time...
Rob here. It looks like AOL is back up to its tricks again. I just made it back from lunch and have found myself unable to sign on to oscar with my other accounts. Luckily I still had one signed on :-P. Anyway, we're working on an aswer for what's changed at the moment. We'll be sure to update you guys as we find out more.
* Update: 04/25/2001 8:59PM PST *
Eric here. They found a bug in libfaim; they're currently requesting a hash of 0 bytes, which is rather neat since it means we currently don't need to have a copy of AIM at all. Anyway, current CVS is fixed, and should remain fixed for the foreseeable future. We'll put a release out soon with the update; until then, use CVS or the CVS nightlies.
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