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Build 62: Status Message Editor!

Build 62 is now available. With it, Trillian users now have a wide variety of options for status message management, including:

• Groups. While we’ve had support for groups since Trillian 3.1, not many people knew about the feature because it was buried deep in preferences. Now refreshed, grouping your away messages is a breeze and supports easy drag-and-drop management.
• Music tracking! Share your outstanding taste in music with your contacts using the new music watcher. This functionality has also existed in previous builds, but was buried in our advanced events system – we’ve brought it front-and-center to ensure it works as a generic status message.
• An overhaul of the contact list status menu – we’ve re-organized some of the existing options and now support a “most recently used” feature, so your top 3 status messages are always available in the topmost menu.
• Randomize support – those of you with a large number of status messages can now request that Trillian select one at random, freeing your brain for other critical tasks.
• Formatting/emoticons in editor. Self-explanatory; when applicable service-side, we’ll now let you easily modify the colors, fonts, and emoticons inside your status messages.
• Variable support. Currently we support the %time% variable, but more variables will be added in the future!
• Plugins can now set arbitrary status messages via our Plugin API.
• Trillian will now save your status message between loads; if you’re away, you’ll stay that way after restarting Trillian.

Work continues on the overhaul of the Jabber and Google Talk plugins; when complete, both services will be available on our OS X and Web ports, and we will finally begin work on our proxy support (SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP)! It was crucial that all existing services were adapted to our newer IMCore infrastructure before we started altering any proxy code, and we thank the proxy users among you for your infinite patience.

Enjoy the build!