Er zijn inmiddels een aantal verschillende Instant Messaging netwerken. Hierdoor kan het voorkomen dat er een aantal vrienden of kennissen gebruik maken van een IM-netwerk waar jij geen gebruik van maakt. Daarom zijn er IM-programma's ontwikkeld die ondersteuning bieden aan meerdere IM-netwerken. GAIM is zo'n programma en biedt ondersteuning voor AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu en Zephyr.
GAIM heeft sinds een paar dagen versie 0.66 mogen verwelkomen die 0.65 zeer snel heeft opgevolgd. Het changelog van beide ziet er als volgt uit:
Version 0.66 (07/18/2003):Version 0.65 (07/16/2003):
- Freebsd compile fix (Matthew Luckie)
- .spec file improvements (Ethan Blanton)
- Added a gaim-remote man page (Robert McQueen)
- The Remote Control plugin no longer adds duplicate groups to your buddy list.
- Servers and ports are now imported correctly in MSN.
- Core/UI split the core initialization and shutdown.
- MSN messages with newlines are now sent correctly to MSN clients.
- Italian translation updated (Claudio Satriano)
- British English "translation" added (Sam Halliday)
- Fix some sound initialization stuff
- Updated Portuguese (Brazilian) translation (Mauricio de Lemos Rodrigues Collares Neto)
- Updated Czech translation (Miloslav Trmac)
- Fix saving and import of default away message
- French translation updated (Eric (Zongo) Boumaour)
- Portuguese (Brazilian) translation added (Mauricio de Lemos Rodrigues Collares Neto)
- Korean translation updated (Kyung-uk Son)
- Japanese translation updated (Junichi Uekawa)
- Hebrew translation added (Pavel Bibergal)
- Russian translation updated (Dzmitry Chekmarou)
- Danish translation updated (Morten Brix Pedersen)
- Hungarian translation updated (Zoltan Sutto)
- Italian translation updated (Claudio Satriano)
- Chinese (Simplified) translation updated (Funda Wang)
- Chinese (Traditional) translation updated (Ambrose C. Li)
- Massive internal core/ui splitting
- New account dialog
- Preferences moved to ~/.gaim/prefs.xml
- Account information moved to ~/.gaim/accounts.xml
- Pounces moved to ~/.gaim/pounces.xml
- Added protocol icons to various drop-down boxes
- New Send IM buddy icon merged from Ximian Desktop 2
- Fixed "Sort by Status" crash
- Fixed the MSN signon crash
- Fixed the MSN add buddy crash
- Fixed the MSN empty buddy list bug
- Fixed all known MSN chat bugs
- Fixed HTTP redirect handling in smiley retrieval. This fixes the problems with some smiley themes.
- Chats in MSN can now be initiated by right-clicking a buddy and choosing Initiate Chat.
- MSN Alerts and incoming MSN pages no longer pop up several error dialogs
- Ability to view iChat "Available" messages for AIM
- Stores your buddy icon on the server for AIM
- Support for non-ascii characters with Yahoo! Messenger
- Focus returns to the input box when you click elsewhere, like it used to
- New typing notification icons from Ximian