News Archive

Some of you have been asking for updates as well as our stable releases on Warrens PPA repository. Unfortunately Warren doesn’t have that much time currently and additionally his VM somehow doesn’t boot up (Lucid is horrible in VirtualBox anyway), so he can’t manage it at the moment.

Thus we have created a new PPA which is based on a newly created Gfire team at Launchpad, which will ship important commit updates as well as every stable version of Gfire.

Instructions on how to use it can be found on the PPA website:  https://launchpad.net/~gfire/+archive/gfire.

The stable package carries the name pidgin-gfire and the unstable package is named pidgin-gfire-svn. Currently both contain the same source code of Gfire 0.9.2 but choosing the unstable one will give you intermediate updates later on.

We are proud to announce the release of Gfire 0.9.2!

This is a pure bugfix release dealing with problems like continuous timeouts and bad finalizing of file transfers on both Linux and Windows.

Due to user requests this release comes with packages for Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE, Windows and soon Fedora.

The packages are available via our downloads page and sourceforge as usual.

The full release notes can be found here.

To continue our support of Gfire and the 0.9.x series, we are proud to release Gfire 0.9.1.

This release adds improvements and fixes to the latest release of Gfire.

You can download the source, deb, rpm and exe files now!

You can read the release notes here!

This is no Joke! Today, I am proud to announce the long-awaited release of Gfire 0.9.0, our last stable release before 1.0.0! We have been working hard for the past year to add lots of a new features which the whole community has been requesting for, for years. Highlights include:

• File Transfer
• Clan support
• Improved Game Detection (via GUI)
• Server Detection
• Avatar Support

You can read the full release notes here.

You can download the source, deb, rpm and exe files here.

Also, we have released our web-game detection alongside 0.9.0, this Firefox plugin will allow webgames such as Quake Live, Runescape and Ogame to be detected by Xfire. This can be downloaded here!

Hi all,

Laurent

Today, after almost a year in development, we a proud to announce the start of the our open beta of the next version of Gfire, Version 0.9.0!

We have also set a release date, 1st April 2010.

New Feature Hightlights include:

• File Transfer
• Server Browser
• Avatar Support
• Clan/Guild Support
• Friends of Friends
• Windows Game Detection
• and many more features and tons of bug fixes!

We would like everyone to try and test out the beta to make sure we have a very stable release. However, please note that this is not a stable release, if you are wanting a stable release of Gfire, please carry on using 0.8.3 until we release 0.9.0.

Debian/Ubuntu users can download and install our ppa:

ppa:nwarrenfl/gfire

OR, You can download the beta from our SVN, this will require you to compile from source:

http://my-svn.assembla.com/svn/gfire

This might never happen, but we have just been doing some thinking. We would like to know if anyone would like to see a standalone Gfire application, which will have tons of features, use QT toolkit and work on Linux and Windows.

Please vote now!

The new Gfire website has been very problematic. Mainly we the new splash screen and news section. Finally, the splash screen is working and the news has a place on the website! Sadly had to delete all the old bits of news to fix the last f the problems.

Gfire 090 is coming along very nicely, we don’t want to set a beta release date yet, however it should be soon. It will be our first open beta! The beta will be available via the SVN or PPA. So if you can compile from source or have a Ubuntu machine, you can join the beta!

I am planning to do a user’s point of view of Gfire 090 in the next few days, so you all know what to look forward to!