Psi Team Blog

Remko Tronçon: Swift 1.0beta2 released

2010-06-11T19:08:15+00:00

It’s only been 2 weeks since we released the first public beta of Swift, and we already got a lot of feedback. Thanks to all of you who joined the MUC and sent us their comments and bugreports!

We decided that, before moving on to implementing the remaining missing features, we would first fix a bunch of small-yet-annoying ‘papercut’ bugs, and quickly release a new beta. This way, we hope to make the Swift experience a bit smoother for our valiant testers while we are busy implementing some of the larger changes. So, if you’re running Swift on a frequent basis, or would like to jump into our beta feedback cycle, head on over to the Swift 1.0beta2 page, and download the latest beta (we even have Ubuntu packages now!)

We are aiming to put out new betas on a regular basis, so stay tuned for more Swift goodness!

Remko Tronçon: (Still) Hard at Work

2010-04-09T21:26:13+00:00

Several people have been asking us about the status of Swift lately. Rest assured, we’ve been hard at work in the past months, despite all the job changes, house movings, and marriages slowing us down sometimes. And we have proof: below is a Gource visualization of the Swift Git repository from the past months (and we definitely wouldn’t fake that). Swift is getting very near to the beta stage, so stay tuned for more updates!

(Note: For some reason, the video starts out a bit flaky, but it gets better after a few seconds)

Justin Karneges: Psi 0.14 released

2009-12-03T01:09:14+00:00

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.

Justin Karneges: Psi 0.14-rc3 released

2009-11-25T19:57:21+00:00

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

Final on December 2nd if no showstoppers are found.

Justin Karneges: Psi 0.14-rc2 released

2009-11-17T18:36:22+00:00

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

Final on November 25th if no showstoppers are found.

Justin Karneges: Psi 0.14-rc1 released

2009-11-09T04:13:42+00:00

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

Final on November 22nd if no showstoppers are found.

Remko Tronçon: Beautiful (XMPP) Testing

2009-11-02T14:43:20+00:00

O’Reilly recently released the book Beautiful Testing, a collection of essays about testing and QA in general. As I mentioned earlier, I wrote an article in that book on (unit) testing XMPP protocols, using Swift as a motivating example. Since the book’s scope may (oddly enough) not always be as interesting for developers in general, I released my article under a Creative Commons Attribution license (thanks to the good folks from O’Reilly for encouraging us to do this), which you can find here (or directly from my Git repository). The original excerpt from the book (including the index, list of biographies, and all the fancy artwork) is also available for download under the same license.

I of course encourage you to buy either the PDF or dead tree version of the book, as all the proceeds of the book go to charity.