Het programma Amsn Messenger is een opensourcetegenhanger en kloon van het voormalige MSN Messenger. Het is in tegensteling tot het origineel van Microsoft beschikbaar voor verschillende platformen zoals Linux, Windows, Mac OS X en Freebsd. De ontwikkelaars hebben volgens eigen zeggen voor het eerst een versie uitgebracht die alleen bugs verjaagt en geen nieuwe functionaliteit toevoegt. Het versienummer is dan ook vastgesteld op 0.97.1 en voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
Hi,
In order to continually give a great experience to our users, we have decided to release our first ever bugfix release! The aMSN version 0.97.1 is a release which contains only bug fixes from our last stable version 0.97, so this is, as of today, the most stable version we have ever done.
It is important for you to update, because this version also fixes a critical bug that prevents a lot of our users from connecting to the MSN network. This is caused by a recent change in the protocol from the MSN server which made aMSN unable to connect to the network... so if you are having such problems, please update!
You can read the full detailed changelog as well as release notes here.
For those who feel adventurous and want to stay up to date with the latest development version, please refer to our SVN Installation manual.
Enjoy!
PS : we just have discovered a bug in the 0.97.1 release. This version bugs when trying to send an offline message. For the moment, just do not use that feature, and aMSN should run fine. We are currently fixing it, and hope releasing a second bugfix in a week or two. If you found an other bug in that release, please tell us about it in the forums in order to get it fixed in next bugfix release. Thanks for your support.