Luxus’s Sign Off

Published: March 7, 2010

Hi all,

You’ve probably already seen the news on Twitter. I am leaving Gfire. Lately I wasn’t that active anymore on the project. That is the main reason that I leave Gfire. I am sure Oliver, Warren and Ed will do great to push the project forward without me.

Before I end this blog post I want to thank some people. I want to thank Ed especially because he took over the project together with me. Of course I want thank Oliver and Warren too, they helped me with a lot of problems I couldn’t solve and brought a lot of new features to Gfire. In the community I want to thank 2 remarkable active members Boosted and Ben. Thank you all!

Laurent

Gfire 0.9.0 Beta is out!

Published: March 7, 2010

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

Gfire Standalone Client

Published: March 6, 2010

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!

Fixing small problems with the Gfire website

Published: February 17, 2010

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!