Gfire 0.9.0 Release Notes

Gfire is a free and open-source Xfire plugin for Pidgin which allows you to connect to the Xfire network with the use of Pidgin.

We are proud to announce the latest version of Gfire, Version 0.9.0, which was released on 1 April 2010.

New Features

• File Transfer
• Server Detection
• Avatar Support
• Clan/Guild Support
• Friends of Friends
• Improvements to Game Manager
• Windows Game Detection
• Internationlisation of Languages
• Advanced Status Handling
• Web Game Detection¹
• New Icons
• Notifications by libnotify
• Custom group management
• Largely improved chat room support
• VoIP software detection (requires working server detection)

Bug Fixes

• Complete Code Rewrite
• Better organisation of code
• 'Get Info' Fully Working!
• Completed network data handling issues
• Preventing a user logging in, with their username containing uppercase characters
• Status did not change if you logged off and logged back in
• Reversed IP address in contact listings
• In some Linux distros, the buddy list was not being displayed
• Messages recieved came with html tags
• HTML tags in Status, if contained a URL link
• Fixed a crash when Status receiver "Playing"
• Fixed a crash when sending an offline message
• Fixed severual bugs with the games list and game manager
• Updated Web Links
• Now useable with Finch again

¹)

To effectively use the webgame detection you will either need our own small plugin for Firefox (platform independend) or Xfires XO Toolbar for Firefox & IE (Windows only).

Notes for self-compilers & packagers

There have been two configure flags introduced to this version of Gfire:

--disable-gtk

This flag can be used to disable any use of GTK within Gfire. This allows Gfire to be used by other clients than just Pidgin and to compile it in environments where no X-Server should be installed/running (e.g. Finch-only setups).
This basically disables the games manager and the server browser for now.

--enable-libnotify

This flag enables the use of libnotify notifications instead of some dialog boxes.
conflicts with --disable-gtk

This version also introduces a new games list and game configuration format. This means that you will need to update the games list, which is done automatically after the Gfire update, and reconfigure your games, which should be much easier now with the new game manager.

You can install the new version of Gfire over the previous version, but please have Pidgin closed. When you load up Pidgin, you will have the latest version of Gfire.

If you find any bugs/errors with the latest version of Gfire, please submit a bug report on gfireproject.org or at the Gfire forums.