ANNOUNCE: Empathy 0.8

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>]

Empathy 0.8 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy/0.8/

43688633798403fda6612da8ccd200b1  empathy-0.8.tar.gz
752074c88667fc796ee0cebe58a1f726  empathy-0.8.tar.bz2


What is it?
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Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets,
and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's
Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit
desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk
libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be
embeded into any GNOME application.

Where can I find out more?
==========================
You can visit the project web site:
http://live.gnome.org/Empathy

What's New?
===========
 - Fixed contact list handling.
 - Make use of NetworkManager to set presence to OFFLINE when we are
disconnected
   and restore presence once we are reconnected.
 - UI for searching in conversation history and to view all
conversations with
   a given contact.
 - Do not use 2 different processes (empathy and empathy-chat), merge
them
   into one client. This is easier for debugging and share data.
 - Do not create log directory for a chat if there is no messages to put
in.
 - Do not set active contacts when creating the store, and when contact
groups
   changed.
 - Fix warning when using command-line options.
 - Ignore ssl errors by default. This is needed to connect jabber
accounts
   using ssl.
 - Adding spellcheck support using aspell.
 - Lots of bugs fixed.


Bugs Fixed:
===========
- Fixed #445859, Add Smooth scrolling to chat view. (Raphael Slinckx)
- Fixed #446161, Unable to generate pot file (Xavier Claessens)
- Fixed #447178, crash on Add to Favorites (Xavier Claessens)
- Fixed #447659, Salut protocol icons (Michael Monreal)

Translations:
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- Updated ja: Takeshi AIHANA
- Updated dz: Pema Geyleg
- Updated pl: Tomasz Dominikowski
- Updated es: Jorge Gonzalez
- Updated hu: Gabor Kelemen

21 June 2007
Empathy team