News: Pandion 2.5 update January 7th, 2006
We're pleased to announce the release of Pandion 2.5.
Since the last official release there have been a ridiculous number of improvements and an equally ridiculous long beta stage.
Here are the main changes, listed in no particular order.
* Data compression to dramatically lower bandwidth usage.
* Bigger and better emoticons palette that can resize itself to show hundreds of emoticons.
* Handy connection settings dialog for those with special network configurations. Not to worry, the default choices are fine in most cases.
* Many new and updated translations have been contributed. Thanks to these wonderful volunteers most of the world can now use Pandion. Still missing Esperanto though.
* A huge effort went into changing the XML parser and rewriting the networking code of Pandion. Users on dialup connections will have a much more reliable instant messaging session. Those on fast connections may find better performance, especially with long messages.
* Single Sign-On using Windows Integrated Authentication (NTLM/Kerberos) for SoapBox Server users. If this sounds like gibberish just ignore it.
* The user interface has been made more intuitive. Buttons, links, and clickable areas have been given visual feedback. Shortkeys have been added for keyboard navigation. Wizards have been re-ordered. Clutter has been removed from menus and windows.
* Conference rooms can be bookmarked and also joined automatically when you log in.
* Owners of conference rooms have better control over other occupants. Occupants can see who are the moderators and owners of the room.
* As always many, many bugfixes and small features.
It also seems that people were actually reading the end-user license agreement. Who knew.
The agreement for previous versions of Pandion (up to 2.1.2 beta) was not perfectly clear on the topic of using Pandion as a company-wide IM client. Just to clarify: that's completely allowed. We are more than happy whenever an organization chooses Pandion for its internal communications.
The license agreement has been rewritten to make this absolutely clear.
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