Delta XMPP Project

Psi 0.14 is here!  The website download area has been updated.

New in 0.14
- Added color options to the chat window.
- Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.
- Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.
- Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.
- Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.
- D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.
- Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.
- Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Psi 0.14-rc3 is here!  Please download and test.

Final on December 2nd if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.14
- Added color options to the chat window.
- Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.
- Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.
- Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.
- Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.
- D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.
- Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.
- Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Psi 0.14-rc2 is here!  Please download and test.

Final on November 25th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.14
- Added color options to the chat window.
- Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.
- Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.
- Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.
- Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.
- D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.
- Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.
- Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Psi 0.14-rc1 is here!  Please download and test.

Final on November 22nd if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.14
- Added color options to the chat window.
- Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.
- Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.
- Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.
- Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.
- D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.
- Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.
- Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Psi 0.13 is here!  The website download area has been updated.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanently trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

Psi 0.13-rc4 is here!  Please download and test.

Final on July 26th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanantly trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

Psi 0.13-rc3 is here!  Please download and test.

Final on July 19th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanantly trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

Psi 0.13-rc2 is here!  Notably, voice calling is now a standard feature of the Windows version.  Please download and test.

Final on July 13th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanantly trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

Psi 0.13-rc1 is here!  Please download and test.

Final on June 6th if no showstoppers are found.

New in 0.13
- Voice calls for Mac OS X and Linux (Jingle RTP).
- Basic XMPP URI handler.
- Ability to permanantly trust certificates at connect time.
- Mini command system (Ctrl+7 in chat window).
- Various bugfixes.

If you are building from source (e.g. on Linux) and want voice calls, you will need to obtain the PsiMedia plugin separately.  On Linux, the plugin file is called libgstprovider.so, and must be put in Psi’s $LIBDIR/psi/plugins directory.  You’ll know it worked if “About GStreamer” appears in the Help menu.

So Psi moves along sluggishly as usual.  0.13 was not released by Christmas.  There were reasonable explanations for that.  Despite this, I think 2009 will be a good year for Psi, and possibly its best year yet.

I suppose I can’t put words in anyone else’s mouth, but I have high hopes we’ll see Kev and Remko return to regular development after their XMPP book, and that Misha will finally be contributing Yandex stuff back.  As for myself, these past few months stand as a record for the longest time Barracuda let me focus on Psi issues (which, being all Jingle stuff targetting Psi 0.14 or later, is easy to miss).

So, post-book and post-0.13, I predict a sudden surge of visible development, and more attention to submitted patches.

Despite the perception that Psi lags “behind” other client projects, keep in mind we have a number of significant features that have already been started (with major progress) and just need to be finished:

• Jingle audio and video
• Whiteboarding
• WebKit chat windows
• Revamped message history interface
• Revamped roster
• Plugins
• Bonjour chat
• Automatic updates
• Certificate/SmartCard authentication
• SSO
• XMPP URIs

Feel free to add more to this list.  I often forget what’s on the back burner.

Do note that the above is not a list of priority features, just a list of features that are partially complete for one reason or another.  The priorities going forward are a topic of a different message.  I just wanted to show that when you count all of this unfinished stuff, Psi is farther along than it appears to be.  The project has been around for so many years, and yet there is still so much to do.

Here’s to Psi in 2009!  I look forward to a great year with all of you.