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Dear Gobby users,
so there it is, the final release of Gobby 0.3.0 together with its
direct dependencies developed by us. It took a bit longer than expected
to send out the announcement, i.e. two weeks. So some distributions
already include this revision which eases interoperability. The weird
encoding problem in the chat window which was still present in the
latest release candidate is hopefully fixed.
In our long-stading tradition to break all interfaces with every major
release this one is no exception. The 0.3.x series of Gobby is not
backwards-compatible, all users need to upgrade first.
We hope that you enjoy this release as much as we do. We already have
plans for the next branch, like e.g. improved security through transport
layer encryption. You could also continue to file tickets about enhancement,
and certainly to donate. This release could be considered as an early
Christmas present for those who celebrate it.
1. What's New
1.1. Gobby
Version 0.3.0:
* This release depends on net6 1.2.0 and obby 0.3.0, it is *not*
backwards-compatible protocol-wise to the 0.2.x series.
* No more pending changes due to the new merging algorithm
* Cursor is left-gravity now, which relieves some problems with
newlines
* Joins are now threaded and thus abortable
* Connection status is displayed in the status bar
* Lines in the chat log are now wrapped to the display width
* Session serialisation and restore
* Name and colour could be changed directly when they are already
in use
* User and document list are now separate windows, their position
and state is preserved by default
* Close document now just unsubscribes from the document
* Scrollable document folder
* Search and replace
* New translations:
- Swedish (complete)
- Catalan (partial)
- Chinese (partial)
- Spanish (almost complete)
URL: http://gobby.0x539.de
1.2. Sobby
Most people did not notice the presence of a dedicated server and
wanted this feature to be integrated into Gobby. Well, try it out and
report us if it works. You might also adapt Sobby to your personal
needs (e.g. preservation of more chat log lines), feel free to do so.
If it's worth to include the change into the main branch, please send
us a patch and we'll realise it as a command line option.
Version 0.3.0:
* Updated for obby 0.3.0
* Automatic save of serialised sessions (e.g. for web presentation
through the PHP script provided by `obby')
* Ability to restore saved session files
1.3. obby
Version 0.3.0:
* This version is *not* protocol, ABI- or API compatible to the 0.2.x
series!
* New merging algorithm (Jupiter)
* Session serialisation and restore, containing documents and chat
messages
* PHP-based script to parse and visualise saved sessions
* MSVC8 build environment added
* New translations:
- Swedish (complete)
- Catalan (partial)
- French (partial)
1.4. net6
Version 1.2.2:
* Translation update
2. How to get it
2.1. Microsoft Windows
An installer containing a binary build of Gobby is available as usual.
The containing application requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or newer.
Please follow the platform guide[1] this time, it *is* important
to install Gtk+ and Gtkmm first.
URL: http://releases.0x539.de/gobby/gobby-0.3.0.exe
2.2. Linux
Gobby is now included in most major Linux distributions. We expect them
to update the builds in their unstable branches in the next weeks.
Backports to the stable revisions would also be appreciated, please
tell us about them.
Gentoo Linux already included Gobby's newest revision. Thank you for
your efforts, Gustavo. Debian GNU/Linux also contains the current Gobby
version in its unstable branch. In Ubuntu it's short before its
inclusion into `main' and will be in the standard installation of the
upcoming revision of their Edubuntu distribution for schools and
pupils.
2.3. Mac OS X
Installing Gobby by using DarwinPorts[2] is supported and the
encouraged way. This release already hit the DarwinPorts repository,
so a simple `port -a upgrade', or `port install gobby', will be
sufficient.
2.4. Source
net6: http://releases.0x539.de/net6/net6-1.2.2.tar.gz
obby: http://releases.0x539.de/obby/obby-0.3.0.tar.gz
Gobby: http://releases.0x539.de/gobby/gobby-0.3.0.tar.gz
Sobby: http://releases.0x539.de/sobby/sobby-0.3.0.tar.gz
To compile either Gobby or Sobby you need the newest versions of both
net6 and obby installed.
The MD5 checksums:
8a551a2d9785b2b0ed431bb9eeb6cfd6 net6-1.2.2.tar.gz
b14135018a3093395296cf091f9f824f obby-0.3.0.tar.gz
1b674f42654cc1960d37e0a6a2fcff1f gobby-0.3.0.tar.gz
5408fc08d610be5aac4476c6ea6277f9 sobby-0.3.0.tar.gz
3. Problems
When you encounter problems with the installation please refer to the
relevant platform installation guide in `INSTALL' or to the one at the
Wiki[3].
When you find reproduceable bugs you could report them into our
ticketing system[4]. Please try to provide a testcase how to reproduce
the crash and include a backtrace.
You could also contact the `obby-users' mailinglist for help. You could
find information how to subscribe on [5].
4. How to help
Are you skilled in writing English documentation? Do you know C++ very
well? If you could answer any of those two questions with `yes' and
want to help us, just contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
Please help in translating our applications. A tool to ease this task
called Rosetta[6] is provided by Canonical Ltd. You could translate
this branch of net6[7], obby[8] and gobby[9] quite easily into your own
language of choice.
There is also the possiblity to make a donation to us. The money will
be used to develop these projects and to keep the morale up. Those who
work well need to eat well.
5. Disclaimer
We release our software to the public WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. We cannot
be held liable for any data loss occuring at your side, like e.g. open
documents lost due to a crash. So better be save than sorry and save
your files more often when working within Gobby. Please note that this
software is published under the terms of the GNU General Public
License.
6. About us
We, the 0x539 dev group, are a small group of prospective freelance
hackers dedicated to pursuing the philosophy of free software and open
standards, while having fun. We will put our efforts into making it
possible for others to reuse our code, by making it compatible with
standard interfaces and libraries that are used on a wide variety of
platforms.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
0x539 dev group
[1] \
http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/InstallationGuide
[2] http://darwinports.opendarwin.org
[3] \
http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/InstallationGuide
[4] http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/newticket
[5] http://list.0x539.de/mailman/listinfo/obby-users
[6] https://launchpad.net/rosetta
[7] https://launchpad.net/products/net6/+series/1.2/+pots/net6/
[8] https://launchpad.net/products/obby/+series/0.3/+pots/obby/
[9] https://launchpad.net/products/gobby/+series/0.3/+pots/gobby/
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