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It's there finally: Stable release 0.4.1

Philipp Kern
Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:48:36 -0700

Hi there,

we finally released the 0.4.x branch as stable.

Major changes:
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net6:
  Encryption support through GNUTLS, use of net6 with Unix domain
  sockets, keep-alives to detect dropped clients and listen on IPv6
  if possible.

obby:
  Text handling through chunks, document storage reduced to one copy
  in memory, document suffixes on name collisions, drop of GMP
  dependency, basic IPv6 support (needs to be enabled explicitly)
  and new translations: Catalan and Spanish.

gobby:
  Usability enhancements: Chat window closeable, font types and sizes
  could be set in preferences, documents switchable using
  Ctrl-Alt-Page-Down and Ctrl-Alt-Page-Up, host and join dialogs
  are respawned on failure, application highlighting on new chat
  messages, filenames could be passed on the command-line to be opened
  in the current or a new session, session join possible through
  command-line option and user-modified colour palettes are now
  preserved.

sobby:
  XML-based configuration files are now supported, which could be
  written based on the options passed on the command-line and a new
  command system was added, which currently supports only `/remove'.

How to get it:
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Debian Etch:
  Current packages are available in Debian unstable.

Debian Sarge:
  Backports for sobby and the libraries are available with the following
  apt-get source:
  `deb http://pkern.debian.net/debian sarge obby'
  There are currently no plans to backport Gobby, as this would involve
  an extensive backport of dependencies.

Ubuntu Dapper:
  Backports are available with the following apt-get source:
  `deb http://pkern.debian.net/debian dapper obby'[1]

Gentoo:
  Current ebuilds are available in Gentoo/unstable. To use them
  add `net-libs/net6 ~x86', `net-libs/obby ~x86' and
  `app-editors/gobby ~x86' as distinct lines to
  `/etc/portage/package.keywords' (and replace x86 to state your
  architecture, if yours differs).

MacPorts:
  Updated portfiles are available in the official tree.

Source tarballs:
  79ea8c9cfa4025e93fb12d98befd37b6  net6-1.3.1.tar.gz[2]
  b79146369fc76a61d6d4056a937c71c8  obby-0.4.1.tar.gz[3]
  a2c79bdda652a2d74fec104235d27bc0  gobby-0.4.1.tar.gz[4]
  7ec9edf65eada516cd23ac1f4d2294d1  gobby-0.4.1.exe[5]
  126a32a448f8b84e589258522149ffad  sobby-0.4.1.tar.gz[6]

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
0x539 dev group

[1] You should add the repository's release key before you update your
    sources: `wget -O - http://pkern.debian.net/gpgkey | apt-key add -'
    as root will be sufficient.
[2] http://releases.0x539.de/net6/net6-1.3.1.tar.gz
[3] http://releases.0x539.de/obby/obby-0.4.1.tar.gz
[4] http://releases.0x539.de/gobby/gobby-0.4.1.tar.gz
[5] http://releases.0x539.de/gobby/gobby-0.4.1.exe
[6] http://releases.0x539.de/sobby/sobby-0.4.1.tar.gz

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