Adium 1.4.2 is Out
Over the lat few days, it's been clear that there's been a problem with Adium 1.4.2b2 and ICQ. Basically, ICQ is saying there's no connection, or the developer ID is wrong - lots and lots of problems. I checked earlier today on the Adium IRC channel to see if they knew this was going to be fixed in an upcoming release. What I found was that ICQ is big in Germany - who knew? Anyway, 'yes', it was going to be fixed in 1.4.2 final, and I just needed to hang on.
I then asked if they had even an estimate on when that might be released - as I'm really tired of all the errors and alert klaxons going off. They said that they hoped to release it today. Very nice!
Sure enough, a few hours later, I got a tweet that Adium 1.4.2 was out, with a pretty nice list of updates. The lone problem was that the version of libpurple (old 'gaim code') had a few nice MSN features, but in three areas, it slipped backward. The Adium developers decided to go for the greatest good for the greatest number, and use the new libpurple, and slip on the three features. Evidently, it made some MSN users less than happy.
I can understand their concern, but at the same time, I can see why the Adium developers did what they did. They didn't write libpurple, and they have to take it as-is and use it. They then just have to decide which version to use, and to them, the greatest good was in moving forward, and the unfortunate consequence was that a few things slipped.
I'm sure it'll be updated soon to 1.4.3 with a new libpurple, and that's OK too. It's what the group needs to do. I just don't see people getting that upset about it. But then again, I don't see a lot of things...