Trillian Astra Gets Better, Goes to 4.1 Beta, Fewer Nits to Pick

When I first tried Astra, I was amazed at how much it had changed from the 3.x release of the program. I was also impressed with the smooth working behavior.

To be honest, I must not stress the program much, because I have only noticed an occasional bug where I have to stop and reboot to get things back to normal. A bit annoying, but nothing spectacular.

Now, with build 16 we have a slew of changes, and hopefully all the bugs have been quashed -

Cerulean Studios have just delivered a new beta build of the 4.1 update for their all-in-one IM application known as Trillian Astra. This latest release, available here, is all about bug fixing, and it resolves the problems listed below.

- [Astra] Astra authorization requests don’t show up in astra connection’s status window

- [Astra] Change password dialog is disabled

- [Astra] Remote Disconnect of Trillian does not disconnect all associated services

- [Mail] All Hotmail Messages in Inbox Shown as Unread

- [Mail] Deleting email removes message from Inbox but is not sent to Trash. Message remains in All Mail.

- [Mail] Slightly longer subject displayed in right click menu

- [Mail] View inbox no longer works as of build 14

- [Skype] Filetransfer issue with filesize > 2GB

- [Skype] Multiple skype instances get started

- [Skype] next row doesn’t work

- [Skype] On startup, Skype doesn’t go into away mode

- [Skype] Sign off messages are not shown in the status window

- [Skype] Skype isn’t connected in the Buddy-List since Build 107

- [Skype] skype login issue

- [Skype] Skype Messages not fully integrated

- [Skype] Skype opens multiple times on initial connect.

- [Skype] Skype plugin does not honor ‘Message Windows->When a new message window is created’ setting

- [Skype] Conference pops up, yet no one is talking

- [Skype] Skype pretends, but isn’t really connected.

- [Skype] Unable to answer skype call from notification.

- [Skype] using same ‘pipeline’ for multiple Skype instances- messages and contacts are mixed

- [Skype] Whenever I close Trillian or disconnect from the Skype connection manually via Trillian, it auto-exits any group conversation I’m in.

- [Twitter] ‘Set current tweet’ add %9

- [Twitter] 4.1 Counter freeze and characters in url formatting

- [Twitter] More than one account confuses Trillian

- [Twitter] Never display negative seconds

- [Twitter] Remove username and password in favor of API key for bit.ly

- [Twitter] Trillian doesn’t clear deleted tweets from feed and doesn’t show new users feeds.

- [Yahoo] When I invite to Y! conference he sees everything in double

- [Away Messages] If POP3 or IMAP are loaded the drop down may not be the correct menu in away message editor

- [Contact List] Issue where the text may not vertically center when it should

- [Contact List] The recent timer stops working

- [Events] Automatically saved messages list truncated to 30 entries

- [Identities] Fresh install of Trillian not saving identities asset

- [Languages] ‘Trillian in your language’ rarely refreshes (for some locales?)

- [Message Windows] Link to Trillian.im instead of ceruleanstudios.com in promote text

- [Facebook] “Visit %group_name%” links don’t work

- [Facebook] Chat status doesn’t follow manual global away restrictions

- [Facebook] Facebook Chat broken due to recent server-side changes

- [Facebook] Switching from manual Away to manual Online in chat doesn’t work

- [IRC] IRC naming of received files

The above from Tech Connect.

I don’t use Skype, so I won’t be able to verify those fixes, but I’ll report back on results in a couple of weeks.

Look back here for an UPDATE  addendum.

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