Adium 1.5.11b2r5922 is Out
This morning I checked on Adium, and thankfully, the maintainers have released a new build - 5922, which is fixing some things I'm sure are important, but the big thing I'm looking for (most likely in vain) is connectivity to Hotmail IM again. It's now being called MSN Live, and even that is supposedly going away in favor of Skype - also owned by Microsoft.
And I'm told that the libpurple changes for Hotmail IM are in and are related to a usage key - like so many authentication schemes are, but that the Adium guys haven't updated the code to use the latest libpurple and until they do, it's going to be dead.
Maybe this doesn't matter... Microsoft bought Hotmail and Skype, and they are free to shut down whatever they way - it's their property now, and it's all up to them. It's just sad that they bought it for it's visibility in the market, and then they let it deteriorate to the point that it's name is trashed, and then they can drop it. It's kinda predatory, if you think about it... but no one forced Hotmail to take the money. It's just business.
Anyway... I'm hoping it gets fixed, or that a really great IM tool comes up. If not, I'll have to get the code and figure it out on my own as I really like this tool.