Alvaro's Messenger

Webcams are now supported, both for sending and
receiving. Tabbed windows were implemented.
Conversations can be grouped using tabs. Support
for MSN Mobile service was added. Animated
emoticons are supported. The appearance of the
chat window can be customized more extensively. A
new panel GUI was added to alert when there's a
new aMSN version. The language files and plugins
are automatically updated from the Web. A picture
is displayed in a notification alert, like MSN 7.
Statistics for history were added. Color was added
to the history. You can now use your webcam to
take a picture and use it as a display picture.

A preview picture is now shown when someone sends
a file transfer request. Fixes were made for the
extra empty space at the bottom of the chat
window, a non-integer proxy port, a "Contact does
not exist" reconnection issue, problems with the
new Snack sound library, and other bugs. An alert
is triggered when Microsoft sends a maintenance
message. The user properties now store whether
someone uses Webmessenger, MSN 6, or MSN 7.
Support for plugins was improved. You can now
change the default download location in the
"Others" preferences tab. "Save As" on a file
transfer request. Under Mac OS X, the phone number
may now be saved in preferences and some bugs were
fixed.

An option in the alarm feature to send a message
when the alarm runs out was added. Issues with
displaying pictures with Gaim was fixed, as well
as alarm and proxy problems. Variable substitution
in alarm was implemented. A custom chat style is
now supported. An option to ignore other users'
font preferences, a global nick option to change
everybody's nick, a different friendly name (p4c)
for each user, and the ability to remove empty
groups from the contact list were added. The
ability to use the Snack library for sounds (set
to default for windows) and the ability to
block/unblock all the users from a group by the
popup menu were added. Many bugfixes for Mac OS X
were made.

Some options were added to make the GUI look
nicer. A new abstract connection layer was added.
The proxy should now work better, and proxy
authentication is now supported. Each user can now
set personal notification preferences in "User
properties". Focus is now given to the login window.

This release adds support for displaying pictures, receiving file
transfers using the new MSNP2P system (through the server), custom
smileys, and the the Windows tray icon. There's now a "typed characters
counter" in message windows, an "Advanced preferences editor" to
customize each detail of AMSN, and a new default skin. All configuration
files have been migrated to XML. There are many bugfixes and minor
improvements to the GUI and protocol.