JBuddy SDK and COM/.NET Release Notes

Release 6.3

Build 120405 April 5, 2012

Signon fix to MSN protocol

Build 120327 March 27, 2012

Updated Lotus Sametime Connect library in support of Lotus Sametime Server 8.5.x
Updated default Lotus Sametime server from stdemo3.dfw.ibm.com to sametime.lotus.com
Attempt to fix an LCS/OCS disconnect deadlock under certain conditions
New method resolveBuddies() in IJscClient for add buddy name-based searches (JBuddy Message Server)
Updated JSC protocol to not resend each buddy list to server on sign on (JBuddy Message Server)
Added support for floating licenses using .lic license files
Added support for graphical License Dialog for .lic license files

Build 120123 January 23, 2012

New support for LDAP and Active Directory authentication for JSC (JBuddy Message Server)
New support for DNS SRV records for JSC (JBuddy Message Server)
Fix for IClientFactory.showLicenseInfo() in support of .lic license files

Build 110808 August 8, 2011

Fix for LCS/OCS Address Book API to expose required classes

Build 100815 August 15, 2010

MSN interim fix - fall back to stable MSNP8 used by Windows Messenger after MSNP9 and MSNP10 were discontinued by Microsoft
AIM protocol update

Build 100301 March 1, 2010

Fix for File Transfer for MSN with Windows Live Messenger 2009
More accurater Keep Alives for MSN

Build 100115 January 15, 2010

New support for OCS Conferencing (multi-user chat)
New support for LCS & OCS File Transfer
New support for OCS Federated Public IM
New support for LCS & OCS Address Book Search
New support for SSL AIM and ICQ connections
Updated Yahoo Messenger protocol
Many fixes for LCS & OCS
Fix for rich text bug in ICQ and OCS
Fix for Access Violations in Visual Studio 2008 for JBuddy.NET
Fix for 'Jar Not Verified' errors for JBuddy.NET

Release 6.2

Build 090402 April 2, 2009

New support for Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)
New support for DNS SRV records for XMPP and Microsoft LCS & OCS

Release 6.1

Build 080418 April 18, 2008

New installer delivers JBuddy Developer Tools in one installer including JBuddy Bot Framework 2.0 and a new JBuddy Bot Builder graphical application
Includes updates from Build 0003 - 0006

Build 0003, 0004, 0006 (Customer Only) Q3, Q4, 2007

Added NTLM authentication scheme support to Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS)
Added auth host properties to LCS
Built-in software update check logs to stdout when a new release is available
Signon fix to MSN protocol affecting some users
File transfer update to ICQ to use AIM-style file transfer supported by modern IM clients
Added basic support for incoming/outgoing OFFLINE IMs for AIM
Changed JABBER.properties to support Google Talk by default
New Digest Auth support for JSC
RichContent bug fixes - msn default font color, encoded URLs so special characters like & won't break an XML parser
Bug fixes

Release 6.0

Build 0001 May 23, 2007

Added JBuddy Bot Framework 1.0 and Java API support
Added Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS) support for IM and presence
Added MsnActivity API to MSN to support MSN Activity Set
Added isMobile() to IBuddy()
Added addGateway(IGateway) and removeGateway(IGateway) to IClient for multiple Gateway listeners
Added sendConfigToServer() to IClient for convenience
Added length() and isEmpty() to RichContent
Bug fixes
Licensing and License Agreement Changes

Release 5.1

Build 1516 March 16, 2006

Added HTTP Proxy (Http Tunneling) support to allow JBuddy to pass through an Http Proxy Server
Modified JBuddy Deployment build to only count machines, not CPUs

Build 1324 January 24, 2006

Added connectEx method to JBuddy.NET for specifying host, port connections
Added support for connecting to the WildFire XMPP Server

Build 1220 December 20, 2005

Added support to JABBER/XMPP for self-signed certificates for iChat Servers and others
Improved JBuddy (JSC) file transfer

Build 1130 November 30, 2005

Improved ICQ language support and rich content (bug #81)

Build 1115 November 15, 2005

Improved IGateway's connectionLost behavior by providing reason constants in IClient
New Rich Content API support for XMPP and ICQ
Improved Yahoo file transfer, buddy auth and protocol support
Improved XMPP/Jabber to handle buddies without groups
Ability to change client version information for public protocols
Fixed IBuddy nickname for Sametime for cases where name isn't set

Release 5.0

Build 21 September 21, 2005

New package com.zion.jbuddy.conference with Conference (multi-user chat) API
New package com.zion.jbuddy.richcontent with Rich Content API support
New 'capabilities' properties available for IBuddy
New SASL support for XMPP/Jabber (required for Google Talk)
New Typing Notifications for XMPP/Jabber protocol
New SSL connection for JSC protocol

Release 2.4

Build 1925 July 25, 2005

Buddy Auth Fix for MSN

Build 1727 May 27, 2005

Minor updates

Build 1508 March 8, 2005

New support for SOCKS 4 and SOCKS 5 on a protocol basis
Updated authentication for AIM

Build 1415 February 15, 2005

New File Transfer APIs for JBuddy.NET
Improved MSN file transfer support
Improved AIM file transfer support
New IClientFactory methods for licensing
New buddy group methods in IBuddyList
New methods in ISametimeClient and IJabberClient
New keep alive packets and methods available on IClient
Misc Bug Fixes.

Release 2.3

Build 0626 June 26, 2004

Update to YIM login after Yahoo updated their servers

Build 0124 January 24, 2004

File Transfer API added with support in Java version for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, and Lotus Sametime protocols
Update to YIM login after Yahoo! updated their servers.
Bug fixes

Release 2.2

Build 1008 - October 8, 2003

Bug fixes for ICQ - encoding fixes for buddylist and incoming messages, status fix

Build 0929 - September 29, 2003

Upgrade of Yahoo protocol to fix login problems after Yahoo updated their protocol.

Build 0915 - September 15, 2003

Upgrade of MSN protocol for mandated Microsoft security fixes...MSN requires JRE 1.4.x or JRE 1.3.1 and JSSE
Upgrade of Yahoo protocol for mandated Yahoo upgrade citing security fixes
Support added for Lotus Instant Messaging (SAMETIME) and Jabber Instant Messaging (XMPP) protocols for enterprise IM users.
AIM fix to support messaging with enterprise screennames such as screenname@mac.com.
International character support for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ.
MSN and SAMETIME support a new method endConversation() to conserve system resources after a chat session ends.
IBuddy has a new method getProtocol().
Introduction of transparent logging features for enterprise SEC and HIPPA compliance.

Release 2.1

Build 0207 - February 7, 2003

New ICQ protocol implemented to support new features like typing notifications and more concurrent server-side clients per IP.
Several new IMessage types are introduced including CUSTOM_AWAY, AUTH_ACCEPT, AUTH_DECLINE.
IGateway.AUTH_REQUEST_MESSAGE constant which was deprecated is no longer supported.
getOwner() is a new convenience method for IBuddy.
IMessage.AUTH_REPLY which was introduced in 2.0 was deprecated in favor of the more specific types above.
requestAwayMessage() is a new IAimClient method and requests the custom away message of an AIM user.
JBuddy MSN now url decodes the permit, deny and reverse lists as it only did for the buddylist in prior releases.
JBuddy MSN no longer automatically sends a IMessage.TYPING message before sending the IMessage.IM. The JBuddy developer must manually send IMessage.TYPING for MSN to indicate typing activity if desired.
Sending IMessage.AUTH_ACCEPT or IMessage.AUTH_DECLINE will populate the MSN client's PERMIT or DENY list respectively.
JBuddy YIM and ICQ clients are now notified if a remote user declines our request to add them to our buddylist. Only ICQ clients are notified if remote user accepts our authorization request.
AIM performance enhancements
MSN performance enhancements

Release 2.0

Build 1017 - October 14, 2002

New AIM protocol lays groundwork for new AIM features and supports more concurrent server-side clients per IP.
New JSC protocol brings IM client and server pieces together with enterprise IM protocol support for connecting to Zion's JBuddy Message Server.
IMessage introduces getType() with support for various message types.
new IMessageFactory class is used to create special message types like TYPING.
Typing notifications are now available for AIM and Yahoo and are handled with a IMessage.TYPING message type for AIM, Yahoo, MSN and JSC.
IBuddy adds isMobile() for AIM and Yahoo buddies.
Bug fixes.

Release 1.2

Build 0813 - August 13, 2002

Fix for Yahoo Messenger connect problems seen under certain conditions.

Build 0719 - July 19, 2002

Critical fix for Yahoo Messenger connect problems.
With this release, JBuddy now requires a modern JVM and no longer supports Java 1.1.x. JBuddy has been tested with JDK 1.3.1 and JDK 1.4.0
EnterLicense now accepts encrypted license filename as single argument for un-aided install scripts.

Build 0606 - June 6, 2002

Fix for MSN Messenger protocol to support reciept of IMs from iPaq MSN Messenger IM clients.

Build 0329 - March 29, 2002

New Graphical Licensing is the default. See JBuddy.properties in the lib directory to disable.
New versions for concurrent Developer and Production licensing in same environment.
Licensing errors no longer cause System.exit() and are now presented as an Alert Dialog or Stdout depending on the GUI Licensing property.
Fix for YIM protocol signon problems.
Fix for ICQ protocol send/receive messages depending on the recipient client version.
Support for receiving offline messages on YIM protocol.
Enhancement for AIM/ICQ protocol allowing buddy lists to be saved to the server. IAimClient.sendConfigToServer(); IIcqClient.sendConfigToServer();

Release 1.1

Build 1116 - November 16, 2001

Fix for YIM protocol where new Yahoo! Messenger 5.0 clients append control characters to the messages.
Fix for AIM protocol which corrects presence bugs in buddy list concerning lists with same buddy multiple times.

Build 807 - August 7, 2001

Fix for AIM protocol disconnects caused by sending messages of a specific length on Windows platform.

Build 724 - July 24, 2001

Fix for Yahoo protocol
New methods in IClient to access buddy lists
New methods in IBuddyList to access listType

Build 625 - June 25, 2001

Renamed interface classes from IMClient, IMBuddy, IMBuddyList, IMGateway, Message to IClient, IBuddy, IBuddyList, IGateway, IMessage respectively to clarify as interfaces. The IMClientFactory was also renamed to IClientFactory to follow the naming convention. Use a case-sensitive search and replace in your editor to rename before rebuilding your application against the new JBuddy.jar.
Introduced new narrowing interfaces for each protocol for access to protocol specific features: IAimClient, IIcqClient, IMsnClient and IYimClient.
Improved methods in IBuddyList to access IBuddy objects.
IBuddyList replaces case-sensitive get methods originally in IMBuddyList with non-case sensitive get methods. Remove the last boolean argument for these methods before rebuilding your application against the new JBuddy.jar.
IBuddyList does not include printStatusChart() method originally in IMBuddyList. See printStatusChart method in CmdLineClientDemo in demo directory.
Numerous bug fixes across several protocols.
Improved CmdLineClientDemo.
Improved documentation with Javadoc.

Release 1.0

January 3, 2001 - Initial release.