De mensen achter het instantmessagingprogramma Adium X hebben de vierde bètaversie van de 1.4-serie vrijgegeven. De nieuwe versie is hier als dmg-bestand voor Mac OS X te downloaden. De 1.4-tak is voorzien van diverse grote verbeteringen. Zo ondersteunt het programma onder meer de protocollen van irc en Twitter. Verder is versie 1.4 voorzien van libpurple 2.6.0 en worden de MSN- en XMPP-protocollen beter ondersteund. De volledige lijst met verbeteringen in de 1.4-release ten opzichte van de 1.3.4-tak kan op deze pagina worden gelezen; hieronder staan de veranderingen die alleen in bèta 4 zijn doorgevoerd:
GeneralUpdated Libpurple
- Changed behavior for account options: a lot were only changing when reconnecting, now all that are able to (i.e., non-connect options) take effect immediately.
- Added "Idle And Away" as a possible status icon pack item to use for contacts. (#872)
- Moved the Status Menu Item and Dock preferences to a new "Message Alerts" advanced preference, from "Status" and "Messages".
- Changed the wording for the "only count the number of highlights/mentions in the dock/status menu item" in Message Alerts. (#12080)
- Changed the status icon for group chats to be Available when joined, and Offline when parted. (#12064)
- Fixed idle time not being sent to the server.
- Fixed dragging and dropping emoticon packs to reorder them. (#12099)
- Fixed removing contacts when groups are disabled or the contact is in the offline group. (#12136)
- Fixed the stepper values in the Status preferences and Status Edit window always starting at 10. (#12188)
- Fixed the voiceover for certain fields in the authorization requests window.