Swift 1.0 Release Candidate 1

About

This is the Release Candidate for Swift 1.0. The aim of this release is to verify that there are no remaining critical issues, so that we're ready to ship the 1.0 release; as such we ask that you please report any problem you find. For discussion venues, please see the Discussion page and for more details about Swift, please see the About page.

Changelog

These are the changes since 1.0-beta9:

  • Added Spanish and Catalan translation (Thanks to Jan Kusanagi)
  • Added Russian translation (Thanks to Ivan Tyumentsev)
  • Added German translation (Thanks to Thilo Cestonaro)
  • Fixed a bug where the avatar was not updating in the chat window.
  • Fixed typo in room join message.
  • Fixed a potential hang on shutdown on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed compilation on systems with a recent version of Boost installed.
  • Fixed the last couple of remaining known crashes

Download

We currently have versions available for Windows and Mac:

  • Windows: Swift-installer-win32-1.0rc1.exe
  • Mac OS X (10.5 or later): Swift-1.0rc1.dmg
  • Ubuntu Linux
    • Note: These packages require you to install our key in the Synaptic package manager in the list of trusted sources. You can get our key here.
    • Lucid Lynx (10.04) To stay up to date with the latest release, you can add the following APT lines to the list of Software Sources in Synaptic Package Manager:
      deb http://swift.im/packages/ubuntu/lucid beta main
      deb-src http://swift.im/packages/ubuntu/lucid beta main
    • Maverick Meerkat (10.10) To stay up to date with the latest release, you can add the following APT lines to the list of Software Sources in Synaptic Package Manager:
      deb http://swift.im/packages/ubuntu/maverick beta main
      deb-src http://swift.im/packages/ubuntu/maverick beta main

Source

The source code for Swift and the underlying Swiften XMPP library are available from the Git repository at http://swift.im/git/swift. Instructions for building the source code can be found in Documentation/BuildingOnUnix.txt and Documentation/BuildingOnWindows.txt.

The source for this release is available under the GNU General Public License version 3.