Spark 2.5.0 Beta 1
Highlights (or see full changelog and download):
Enhanced look and feel.
Adium emoticon pack support
Improved notifications - know who’s coming and going.
Improved Memory handling and speed.
Drag and drop of transferred files.
Buzz feature.
Message Styles Specification
For the past several months, Adium engineer David Smith has been working as an intern here at Jive Software. He’s helped make all our software more Mac friendly — new builds for Wildfire and Spark so far, with many more Spark improvements coming soon. He’s also been working on an open specification for message styles, a very cool feature that will be coming to Spark soon. The first version of the specification was published today.
Adium message styles allow the look of the message window to be totally customized, a feature that users love. By defining an open specification, multiple IM clients will be able to share message style implementations — so, the same theme that works in Adium will also work in Spark and possibly other clients. All the Mac users here at Jive are big fans of Adium (especially given its support for XMPP), so we’re excited about this project as a way for the two products to work together. In related news, Adium 1.0 is about to be released, so check it out if you’re a Mac user.
More Soon…
We’re just getting warmed up with these beta releases, so look for more announcements soon!