De mensen van Adium hebben de vijfde bètaversie van Adium X 1.4 vrijgegeven. De nieuwbakken bèta is hier als dmg-bestand voor Mac OS X te downloaden. De 1.4-tak is voorzien van diverse grote verbeteringen ten opzichte van de 1.3-serie. 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. Adium X is een instant messenger voor het OS X-platform die onder de GPL-licentie beschikbaar wordt gesteld. Via het programma is het mogelijk verbinding te maken met de netwerken van onder meer Jabber, ICQ, .NET Messenger Service en Bonjour. Hieronder is te lezen welke verbeteringen in bèta 5 zijn doorgevoerd in vergelijking met bèta 4:
GeneralUpdated Libpurple
- Added a "Replace with Uploaded Image" function to the Edit menu and input area contextual menu.
- Right click an image, or select it and use Edit > Replace with Uploaded Image.
- Similar to the "Replace with Shortened URL", this feature uploads the image to an image hosting service and inserts the new URL.
- Currently only supports pic.im.
- Fixed a crash due to debug code accidentally left in b4 when opening the Xtras Manager.
- Fixed a crash caused by setting the status message via AppleScript (#12219).
- Fixed a crash when using a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) file. (#12199)
- Fixed indeterminate errors if you provide a space in an IRC account's NickServ password.
- Fixed retweeting or deleting tweets featuring any of: ;/?:@&=+$, (#12217)
- Fixed a hang when moving contacts/bookmarks into a new group.
- Fixed bug causing speech actions with custom pitch to have really high pitch (#12251).
- Fixed a crash caused by using OS 9 keyboard layouts. Unfortunately, global shortcuts cannot be set when using these (due to API changes in 10.5). (#12192)
- Changed behavior when moving a contact between groups, fixing a bug in protocols which don't support multiple groups.
- Changed default setting for "only count unread highlights and mentions for group chats" to be enabled.
- Changed the default URL shortener from tinyurl.com to tr.im.
- Fixed /me showing up multiple times in private chats on IRC. (#12151)