Gaim
The Outcome
Eric here. I just wanted to let you all know, the Oscar blocks seem to have stopped. For real this time. 0.11.0pre10 can connect to Oscar just fine. The value that gets sent by the checksum hasn't changed in two weeks, and in those two weeks AOL has tried to block Jabber in other ways. So it looks like everything is finally over, at least from our end. Hopefully AOL and Jabber will finally have a meaningful conversation where some sort of partnership is worked out.
Anyway, there have been quite a few Slashdot stories about AIM over the past few weeks. Most people's comments seemed pretty insightful but there were a few that seemed misinformed. Maybe this can help clear some things up. (Hopefully this will get posted at least to Slashback, hint, hint.)
0.11.0pre10 - Happy Friday 13th
Well, all, it looks like it's Friday the 13th (and Good Friday .. how ironic). That means it's time for another release of gaim! Pre10 is out so you should all go download it now. It includes some jabber fixes, new features (in IRC and others), as well as the addition of Zephyr support. Please don't use it, though, unless you know what you're doing - things might break, heh. Enjoy!
Nightlies!
Hey everyone. We're going to start providing nightly tarballs of CVS, complete with a configure script and everything, for those of you who can't get CVS to work for whatever reason (or are just too lazy to get it to work ;). You should still try to use CVS through the normal method, though.
Oscar Works.
Oscar seems to currently be working, even for releases where it had previously not been working (pre7 through pre9, specifically). Jabber came up with an acceptible solution to the problem, so AOL stopped making us send part of AIM, and everything is happy once more. Jabber is still experiencing occasional blocks but for the most part everything seems to be resolved.
* Update: 04/05/2001 1:10PM PST *
Okay, more news. AOL, after a short period where it was difficult to connect, is now requesting part of AIM again. So older releases aren't working, again. But CVS still is able to. We'll keep ya posted.
April Fools!!!
Yeah, Yeah, I know, I know. Eric and I are the biggest bastards on the face of the earth, hehe! Well, you guys have to admit, it was a good joke, wasn't it? I think we gave quite a few people a nice scare. You guys can pretty much disregard the Apr 1st post. We haven't taken jobs at AOL and we will continue further development on gaim. A big thanks goes out to all of you in the community who support our work. Happy hacking!
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