Gush 1.1 Release Candidate 1 Changelog
General
- Significant reduction of memory used by Gush, especially over extended periods of time
- Reduction of overall CPU usage while using Gush
- New look and feel for a number of components
- Double click window titlebar's to minimize/restore them
News Reader
- Significant improvement to image support and reliability of image loading
- Brand new image browser geared towards viewing photoblogs.
- Added option to clear history to group level context menu
- New default newsfeed subscriptions
- Improved load time of newsfeed list
Buddy List
- Added options for reading announcements and accessing archives in contact context menu
- Changed "Add Contact" dialog to be more intuitive for adding 3rd party client contacts
- Improved load time of buddylist
Messaging
- Added support for /me command
- Removed Announcements tab. Announcements should be accessed via the buddylist
and News Reader.
Preferences
- Reorganized perference sections
- Added performance settings to help speed up Gush on slower systems
- Added option to periodically check for updates
Known Isssues (Linux Only)
- The overall performance of the Flash player is slower compared to it's Windows/Mac counterparts
- There are some minor rendering errors due to bugs in the Flash Player
- Since there are no standard fonts across Linux distributions, please refer to the README on how to specify your own font choices
Gush 1.1 Beta 2 Changelog
News Reader
- Added support for Atom feeds
- Use Space and Shift + Space to move between news items
- Fixed image support for PNGs
- Fixed restriction organizing feeds in news panel
- Drag and drop feeds, groups, or contacts onto News Reader to open
- Added image popup animations
- Now remembers last desktop used for re-opening
- Fixed bug that resulted in continuous reloading of thumbnails
- Images now show scale information when resizing
- Fixed auto-update bug in news panel
Messaging
- Added iChat style messaging mode
- Added ability to export conversations as HTML or XML files
- Use Chat Loader to share conversations
- Option to immediately add contact not on your buddylist without closing the message window
- Added parsing of incoming links from gateway contacts
Buddy List
- New look and feel
- Choose to show online contacts only
- Contact tooltips now include gateway information
- Added support to manage gateways
- Fixed bug where collapse state was not remembered when doing roster operations
- Pasting a JabberID in the add contact dialog auto parses into the two fields
- Fixed bug that misparsed a JabberID when adding a contact via a dialog prompt
- Fixed bug when renaming groups that could cause online/total count to be apart of the name
Desktops
- Double click desktop to trigger quick switch view
- Dragging near desktop edges causes auto switch
- Reinserted support for loading Flash backgrounds
Preferences
- Size and position of Gush window stored
- Send message by Enter or Shift + Enter
- Option to hide Desktop Navigator
- Width of Presence Notices is now stored
Performance
- Dramatically reduced CPU usage while composing messages
- Dramatically reduced CPU and load time between roster operations (eg: move,rename,add,delete)
- Reduced overall performance reduction when Gush is running for extended periods of time.
