[Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: Empathy 3.5.3

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Empathy 3.5.3 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy/3.5/

826e33b968abef3a3f83b674539a203b  empathy-3.5.3.tar.xz


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 is the default chat client in GNOME, and is based on the Telepathy framework, making it easier for other GNOME applications to integrate collaboration functionality.

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

What's New?
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The contact list has been completely redesigned, see [0] for details; please
test it and report any regression you may experience.

[0] http://blog.desmottes.be/post/2012/06/15/New-Empathy-contact-list

Dependencies:
 • folks ≥ 0.7.1
 • telepathy-glib ≥ 0.19.1
 • libebook no longer needed

Bugs fixed:
 - Fixed #669484, [design] New contact list view (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #675214, Contacts not in groups after a restart (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #676634, Use TpAccountRequest (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #677465, Use TpProtocol more (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #677533, doesn't build with latest evolution-data-server (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #677545, Build with tp-glib GSEAL (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #677641, Use a weak reference while loading the logs asynchronously to detect when the object has been destroyed (Debarshi Ray)
 - Fixed #677940, [new roster] Individual manager: track more popular contacts (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #677947, [new roster] Add EmpathyRosterView (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #677948, [new roster] Use EmpathyRosterView (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #677949, [new roster] Remove old preferences (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #678083, Find a better heuristic to compute contacts popularity (Seif Lotfy)
 - Fixed #678091, [new roster] Display favorites in the top of the roster (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #678156, [new roster] People nearby group (Laurent Contzen)
 - Fixed #678167, Not clear if mic is muted or not (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #678205, Contact gets displayed in the wrong group (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #678294, [new roster] Bring back individual tooltips (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #678307, irc connection parameters dialog: "apply" button stays unsensitive (Guillaume Desmottes)
 - Fixed #678376, [new roster] Ungroupped contact should be displayed at the bottom of the roster (Laurent Contzen)

Translations:
 - Updated be Translation (Ihar Hrachyshka)
 - Updated el Translation (Tom Tryfonidis)
 - Updated es Translation (Daniel Mustieles)
 - Updated gl Translation (Fran Diéguez)
 - Updated sl Translation (Andrej Žnidaršič)

26 June 2012
Empathy team