[Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: Empathy 2.29.6

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Empathy 2.29.6 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy/2.29/

95d792169f83fb2a4acf8bc6eb7a4734  empathy-2.29.6.tar.gz
ce21b3e698e6f8d108d59b640b52025f  empathy-2.29.6.tar.bz2

What is it?
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Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. Empathy uses Telepathy for protocol support and has an user interface based on Gossip. Empathy is the default chat client in current versions of GNOME, making it easier for other GNOME applications to integrate collaboration functionality using Telepathy.

You can visit the project web site:
http://live.gnome.org/Empathy

What's New?
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The "Riding on lions" release.

The accounts dialog has been improved to display the status of all your
accounts in the treeview. A new page has been added to the new accounts
assistant to let users enter their personal details that are used to create
the XMPP link-local account.

Chat windows gained a very nice search bar allowing you to look for a specific
string as you do in your web browser.

Empathy now makes use of the new ContactCapabilities interface when available
to check if your contacts support file transfer and audio/video calls.

Finally, Empathy doesn't dispatch tube channels any more. All tubes applications
should now implement the Handler interface to interact properly with
mission-control 5.

Bugs fixed:
 - Fixed #603472, Rename "Hidden" to "Invisible" (G.Balaji)
 - Fixed #606329, Buttons in GtkInfoBar are too big. (Felix Kaser)
 - Fixed #573407, Empathy and telepathy-idle don't pass on server commands to server
 - Fixed #585168, Scrollback search and jump-to-highlight would be nice. (Thomas Meire)
 - Fixed #596575, Automatic salut account creation doesn't work (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #599159, Stop to handle tube channels (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #599163, Should use ContactCapability to get A/V caps (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #599164, Should use ContactCapability to get FT caps (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #600693, Empathy calls xmlCleanupParser() where it shouldn't (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #600949, Deleting accounts from the treeview is weird
 - Fixed #603498, Escaped text displayed in notifications (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #606642, IRC account: "Connect" button is not sensitive when changing the IRC network (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #606753, Scrollback search is not case sensitive
 - Fixed #607207, show protocol icons in compact view (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #607306, /join fails to work on the latest version of empathy (Thomas Meire)
 - Fixed #607436, Salut account should only automatically created when the wizard is run (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #607455, Misc fixes regarding the accounts assistant (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #607463, Edit Custom Messages window is too narrow (Ken VanDine)
 - Fixed #607868, Change Hidden to Invisible in docs
 - Fixed #607925, edit account from infobar does not open the right account (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #608043, Should ellipsize text in connection error infobars (Will Thompson)
 - Fixed #604700, (null) status infobar with IRC account (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #604706, infobar shows no icon if the presence is empty (Felix Kaser)
 - Fixed #605309, Show the status of accounts in the treeview (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #605532, on account-creation some field should be persistent over a protocol change (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #606510, Unclear string meaning (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #585364, Get rid of shave with AM_SILENT_RULES automake option

Translations:
 - Updated ar Translation (Khaled Hosny)
 - Updated es Translation (Jorge González)
 - Updated fr Translation (Claude Paroz)
 - Updated nb Translation (Kjartan Maraas)

Documentation translations:
 - Updated es Documentation translation (Jorge González)

25 January 2010
Empathy team