Back to Adium 1.5.10.1
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
This morning I saw that Adium 1.5.10.1 had been released, and while I've been running 1.5.11b2 for quite a while, and while I was reluctant to go back to 1.5.10.1, because there had to be something in 1.5.11b2 I liked, I realized that there really wasn't. Not a thing. And as long as I had the ability to get back to 1.5.11b2, I could download it and go back to it again.
No downside.
Then again, it's important to note that Adium hasn't been getting a lot of love from the maintainers lately. I have been toying with the idea of getting the code and building it, and then seeing if I could fix the Microsoft Live connection so that I could once again get my Hotmail IM again.
Then word spread of the Sparkle security issue. I didn't know the depth of the issue on the software I have - but certainly a lot of the OS X software uses Sparkle, and the HTTP vs HTTPS endpoints is a big issue, and I'm glad they have fixed it, but then Adium reported a new version with the new Sparkle, and I decided that maybe 1.5.10.1 isn't so bad.
Maybe it's stable, and not abandoned. Maybe I just need to realize it's working great for me - save the Hotmail issue, and that's good enough.
So back I am. Happy to be here.