v4.0 [Nov 28, 2012]
New Features and Improvements:
Completely new user interface with improved roster, separate call window and improved chat window and accounts window
Fixes in the call history
Themeable icons
Better GNOME 3 integration with improved notifications and tray icon removal
Add a new assistant page with an introduction to accounts
Reduced startup time
New PulseAudio plugin
New audio codecs: SILK (used by skype), G.722.1 (aka Siren 7), G.722.2 (aka GSM-AMR Wide band)
Video codecs changes: H.264 optimisations
Added RTP TOS support
Call auto-answer
Partial support for handling multiple video streams (H.239)
Improve audio accuracy on some audio cards
Various usability fixes:
hitting enter in the roster will trigger a call,
added mnemonics to various parts of the UI,
improved Enter key usage in chat (use shift-Enter for soft Enter),
optimized UI for small screens,
added several tooltips
Improved notifications when detecting a new audio device
Converted many dependencies as plugins: evolution-data-server, avahi, ldap, ...
Many fixes in the experimental Jabber/XMPP and GStreamer plugins
Fixes in the LDAP plugin
Several HIG strings related fixes
Updated manual
SIP Support:
Various SIP interoperability fixes
Added SIP Service-Route header support (RFC 3608)
Various SIP/SIMPLE presence related fixes
Fixed registration to broken registrars
Unregister all accounts on quit
Publish offline presence on quit
Refresh NAT bindings with SIP OPTIONS requests
Support for DNS SRV caching
Various Build Fixes:
Add arm-linux-gnueabihf (armhf) and GNU/Hurd support
Fixed modern FreeBSD compilation
Added support for recent evolution-data-server, GTK 2.x, OPAL, PTLIB, libavcodec, libx264, libnotify libraries, autoconf and removed deprecated methods
Moved from sigc to boost
Windows Port Fixes:
Support mingw-w64 and its own headers for building the WIN32 release
Allow execution from Start->Execute menu
Reduced startup time
Distributor-Visible Changes:
New dependency: libv4l-dev (for HAL video hotplugging)
New dependency: gnome-icon-theme
libavcodec5x and gnome-icon-theme must be manually set as runtime dependencies, since they are loaded during runtime
libnotify and avahi are now plugins
Translation Updates:
Updated translations: ar, as, ast, bg, bn_IN, ca, ca@valencia, cs, da, de, en@GB, en@shaw, es, el, eo, et, eu, fi, fr, gl, gu, he, hi, hu, id, it, ja, kn, kk, ko, lt, lv, ml, mr, nb, nn, or, pa, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sr, sr@latin, sv, ta, th, tr, ug, uk, vi, zh_CN, zh_HK, zh_TW
Removed obsolete translations: be
Updated help translations: de, el, es, sl uk, zh_CN
