This is a culmination of a year long rewrite of adium, which now utilizes libgaim (the core part of gaim) to connect to multiple protocols, and is also based on a new plugin architecture.

Partial address book integration, cool looking tabs, multiple protocols for instant messaging, and a compact contact list are some of the many features of the new Adium X.

Features:

Supported services

  • AOL Instant Messenger (Including ICQ and .Mac)
  • Jabber (Including Google Talk and LiveJournal)
  • MSN Messenger
  • Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan)
  • Bonjour (Compatible with iChat)
  • MySpace IM
  • Gadu-Gadu
  • Novell Groupwise
  • QQ
  • Lotus Sametime

Notable Features

  • OTR Encryption
  • Tabbed Messaging
  • File Transfer
  • Webkit Message Display

What's New:

  • Updated the included Growl SDK to 2.0, adding support for Notification Center on 10.8 if Growl is not installed. (#15867)
  • Updated libotr to 3.2.1, fixing a security vulnerability. (#16122)
  • Updated libpurple to 2.10.6.
  • Changed the default tab switching shortcuts for new users to Control-Tab/Control-Shift-Tab, to match Safari. (#16102)
  • Improved disk usage: limit the tracking of the "last seen" time to contacts who are on your contact list.
  • Fixed a problem where accepting a group chat invite on Sametime 8.5.1 would crash Adium. (Jonathan Rice and Jere Krischel) (#16114)
  • Fixed a problem where accepting a group chat invite on HipChat's XMPP server would crash Adium. (#16007)
  • Fixed a problem preventing Adium from executing Applescripts when Gatekeeper is enabled.
  • Added routines to make Secure Transport (on 10.8 and above) work around buggy TLS implementations in certain older XMPP servers. (#16081)
  • Updated translations: British English, Czech, Danish (#16196), Dutch (#16220), French (#16207), Italian (#16218), Norwegian (Bokmål) (#16219), Portuguese (Portugal) (#16211), Slovakian (#16194), Turkish.