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This website shutdown for several hours

This website will be shutdown due to maintance tasks since the morning of 6th August 2008 for several hours.

Updated Drupal; fixing problems

This website has been updated to the latest version of Drupal.

There are a few known problems that will be solved in the next days:

The color scheme of the site is the default one, not the old one.
The Drupal messages are only ... [More] in English, not translated like before.

If you experience any other problem using this website, please add a comment here. If you can't add a comment, you can join the ejabberd chatroom ejabberd@conference.jabber.ru and contact me. [Less]

New Tkabber 0.11.0

Tkabber 0.11.0 has been released.

Release highlights:

New tabbed user interface. Tab headers now occupy several rows and tab bar can be docked to the left and right sides of chat window
Roster filter
Added support for ... [More] pixmaps (in particular emoticons) JISP archives (XEP-0038)
Added support for SOCKS4a and SOCKS5 proxy for the main connection
Added user location support (XEP-0080)
Added user mood support (XEP-0107)
Added user activity support (XEP-0108)
Added user tune support (XEP-0118)
Added entity capabilities (XEP-0115 v.1.5, only reporting) support
Added basic robot challenges support (XEP-0158)
Roster is now exported to XML instead of Tcl list
Added support for entity time (XEP-0202)
Tkabber version is now reported in disco#info (XEP-0232)
Moved deprecated Jabber Browser (XEP-0011) to an external plugin
Moved Jidlink file transfer to an external plugin
Added several new plugins: attline, ctcomp, custom-urls, floatinglog, gmail, openurl, presencecmd, receipts
Many fixes and enhancements

Download Tkabber 0.11.0 (md5) and Tkabber plugins 0.11.0 (md5).

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Call to translators for Tkabber 0.11.0

A new release of Tkabber will be released in early Juny: Tkabber 0.11.0.

You may notice that several months ago there was Tkabber 0.10.1 beta1 and beta2. It was never released, so this new release will include a lot of accumulated ... [More] features.

Tkabber is localized to 14 languages. Those are the languages that currently are looking for translator. The number indicates approximately how many strings are not yet translated.

Catalan: 849
Esperanto: 1233
Basque: 1146
French: 1151
Italian: 640
Dutch: 687
Portuguese: 950
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Tkabber 0.10.1-beta2 - final testing and call to translators

I'm pleased to announce the second beta release of Tkabber 0.10.1.

There aren't new features in this beta since the previous one. The changes are only bugfixes. Hopefully, this is the last beta release before the final stable ... [More] 0.10.1.

Now is the right time to update the translations. If you want to collaborate updating a current translation, or translating to a new language, but you don't know how to do it, add a comment here and I'll help you to get started.

Download Tkabber 0.10.1-beta2 (md5) and Tkabber plugins 0.10.1-beta2 (md5).

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Tkabber 0.10.1-beta

I'm pleased to announce a new beta release of Tkabber (0.10.1-beta).

The goals of this release:

Testing Tkabber before making final 0.10.1 available
Freezing messages for interface translators

Some new features ... [More] are:

New tabbed user interface. Tab headers now occupy several rows
Added support for pixmaps JISP archives (XEP-0038), but not for emoticons
Added support for SOCKS4a and SOCKS5 proxy for the main connection
Added user mood support (XEP-0107)
Added user activity support (XEP-0108)
Added user tune support (XEP-0118)
Added entity capabilities (only reporting) support
Moved deprecated Jabber Browser (XEP-0011) to an external plugin
Moved Jidlink file transfer to an external plugin
Added several new plugins: attline, ctcomp, custom-urls, floatinglog, gmail, openurl, presencecmd
Many fixes and enhancements

Download Tkabber 0.10.1-beta (md5) and Tkabber plugins 0.10.1-beta (md5).

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Happy 5 birthday, Tkabber!

.cent {text-align:center;}
div.p {padding-left:5px; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.5em;}
div.q {padding-left:20px; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold;}
div.a ... [More] {padding-left:40px; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px;}
The first version of Tkabber was uploaded to jabber.ru CVS on 3 July 2002. So, today Tkabber turns 5 years old.

Happy birthday, Tkabber!

To commemorate the birthday, let's take a look at Tkabber history.

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New Tkabber 0.10.0: New artwork, SOCKS5, remote controlling...

Tkabber 0.10.0 has been released, ten months after the previous version.

Release highlights:

New artwork by Artem Bannikov
Mediated SOCKS5 connection support for file transfer (XEP-0065)
Blocking communication with users ... [More] not in roster (using XEP-0016 via simple interface)
Translatable outgoing error messages support (based on recipient's xml:lang)
Remote controlling clients support (XEP-0146)
Extended stanza addressing support (XEP-0033)
New chats history tool with search over the all chatlog files
Roster item icons are chosen based on Disco queries to item server
Search in Disco, Browser, Headlines, RawXML, and Customize windows
New plugins (latex, tkabber-khim, traffic, renju)
Emoticons theme now can be loaded using GUI
Most Tkabber's tabs can now be stored on exit and restored on start
XMPP ping support (XEP-0199). Reconnecting based on XMPP ping replies.
Delayed delivery now recognizes XEP-0203 timestamps
Added optional 'My Resources' roster group, which contains other connected resources of the same JID
Many fixes and enhancements

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Tkabber 0.10.0-beta2

I'm pleased to announce a second beta release of Tkabber and Tkabber
plugins (0.10.0-beta2).

The goal of this release:

Testing Tkabber before making final 0.10.0 available (I expect it
to be released in the next few ... [More] weeks)

Some new features with respect to the previous beta are:

Added possibility to accept messages from roster only ("Accept
messages from roster users only" checkbutton in menu)
Added plugin, which allows to abbreviate words and phrases in
chat windows (/abbrev, /unabberv, /listabbrevs commands)
Added chats history tool. It's a plugin, which allows to browse
all chatlogs ("Chats history" menu item)
Animated emoticons work again and are moved to an external plugin.
German translation became almost the most complete one
Many bugfixes

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Tkabber 0.10.0-beta

I'm pleased to announce a new beta release of Tkabber (0.10.0-beta).

The goals of this release:

Testing Tkabber before making final 0.10.0 available
Freezing messages for interface translators

Some new features ... [More] are:

New artwork by Artem Bannikov
Mediated SOCKS5 connection support for file transfer (XEP-0065)
Translatable outgoing error messages support (based on recipient's xml:lang)
Remote controlling clients support (XEP-0146)
Extended stanza addressing support (XEP-0033)
Roster item icons are chosen based on Disco queries to item server
Search in Disco, Browser, Headlines, RawXML, and Customize windows
New plugins (latex, tkabber-khim, traffic, renju)
Emoticons theme now can be loaded using GUI
Most Tkabber's tabs can now be stored on exit and restored on start
Many fixes and enhancements

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Which Tcl/Tk version do you use with Tkabber?

* 8.3\n* 8.4\n* 8.5\n* Other\n* I don't know\n

Version Control: Subversion

There is a Subversion repository for Tkabber's development source code on http://svn.xmpp.ru/repos/tkabber/. Tkabber development code was initially hosted on JabberStudio's CVS. On 16th August, 2006, it migrated to XMPP.ru's SVN.

This ... [More] command downloads Tkabber to a directory called tkabber-svn:

svn co http://svn.xmpp.ru/repos/tkabber/trunk/tkabber tkabber-svn
Additionally, you can download tkabber-plugins to the directory tkabber-plugins-svn with this command:

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New Tkabber 0.9.9: Ad-hoc commands, DNS SRV...

Tkabber 0.9.9 has been released, ten months after the previous version.

Release highlights:

Improved privacy lists interface
Support for stream compression (JEP-0138)
Support for SRV DNS-records
Support for TXT ... [More] DNS-records (JEP-0156)
Support for ad-hoc commands (JEP-0050)
Improved headlines support
Chat state notification support (JEP-0085)
Many fixes and enhancements

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Dark Radar - new Tkabber theme

Dark Radar is a new Tkabber theme developed by Bobus. It includes a xrdb file and an iconset.
The author is open to suggestions or comments, so feel free to add a comment here, in english or russian.

Download: darkradar-theme.tar.gz

Screenshot: tkshot002.png

New Tkabber 0.9.8, Tkabber-Pack and Tkabber Starpack

Tkabber 0.9.8 has been released, almost a year after the previous version.

Release highlights:

Support for STARTTLS (required for XMPP/1.0 compliancy)
Reorganized menu
Support for searching in chat window
Support for ... [More] annotations about roster items (JEP-0145)
Support for conference rooms bookmarks (JEP-0048)
Added multilogin support for GPGME
Better support for xml:lang
Support for service discovery extensions (JEP-0128)
Support for NTLM authentication
Many fixes and enhancements

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Tkabber wins 'Honorable Mention' on ASPN Coolest Tk Screenshot Contest

As mentioned on
Jabber Journal #20,
Alexey Schchepin won an Honorable Mention for Tkabber on ASPN Coolest Tk Screenshot Contest 2004.

The Grand Prize was won by another Jabber developer: Mats Bengtsson with Coccinella.

What mode do you use in Tkabber?

* Tabbed mode (default, single window)\n* Untabbed mode (multiple windows, like Psi)\n* Both\n* No idea\n