Archive for March, 2010

Why aMSN 0.98.3 and where is 0.98.2?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Some of you might have noticed that the 0.98.2 version of aMSN was never released.. and you might be wondering why!

The reason is simple, we planned to release aMSN 0.98.2 for so long now, we had multiple opportunities to do it and we even tagged in SVN and released a tarball with the sources of aMSN 0.98.2 twice already.. but in the end, we never made that release official! One reason is that we always end up finding huge bugs the day after we start releasing it.. second reason is that we can’t release without proper windows, mac and linux binaries, and for some reason, we never had  the time to create those packages, so we ended up with the source package released, no binary packages, and in the end, it’s too late.

When we finally got around to doing this new release today, we decided to skip the 0.98.2 version and go directly to 0.98.3 to avoid any confusion, because *maybe* someone downloaded the 0.98.2 source package at some point when it was available, maybe some distributions noticed the tag in SVN and started to ship that version.. So to avoid having two possible versions  of aMSN with the same version number, we released 0.98.3!

I hope this satisfied everyone’s curiosity… if anyone actually noticed…

Now go grab your aMSN 0.98.3 anow and enjoy! :)

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aMSN 0.98.3 released!

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Hi all,

aMSN 0.98.3 has just been released. It contains several bugfixes, the most important one being that nicknames aren’t reset to the one associated with your Passport account when you connect anymore.

Unfortunately, Audio/Video support was also dropped, as explained in this previous post.

For Linux users, autopackage support was dropped as well, since the autopackage project seemed to be dead and most distributions already supply aMSN anyway.

Fetch your copy of aMSN now, and have fun!

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New aMSN Blog and new website news system

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Hi everyone,

As some of you will notice, the news on the front page of the aMSN website have slightly changed.

We decided to do two things. First, we started our very own blog! We will be posting news on that blog, so you can start following it and add it to your favorite RSS reader!

We’ve also decided to change the old system of posting news on the website, that system was very old and very hard to use, that’s why we weren’t posting a lot of news to it. But hopefully, with this new system, everything will change! We hope to start posting more and more entries to our blogs and keep the community updated on what we do behind the scenes, and by automatically updating the front page of the aMSN website with our blog posts, this will make it easier for everyone to follow.

We’ve decided to start a Planet, which is a kind of RSS reader, that will read our blog posts from various blogs (we have the aMSN blog at http://amsn-project.net/blog, but some developers might also have their own personal blogs), and it will update the  front page automatically for us.

You can also get an RSS feed directly for the front page of aMSN’s news by adding this RSS to your RSS reader.

The issues we currently have with this new system is that it’s not translated, but there is a way to make it multilanguage, and we will improve on that soon.

Thank you,

Enjoy!

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