BitlBee

Several years ago already, we ran a poll on if BitlBee should have a Wiki or not. Over the last few months, it appeared that many people think there's not enough clear documentation on-line on how to do stuff with BitlBee. Although BitlBee has ... [More] fairly comprehensive help built-in, it's more a reference than anything else. Docs are available on-line but mostly in the form of some fragmented HOWTOs and blog posts, often with information that has become obsolete. Having one BitlBee Wiki will hopefully fix that problem. I seeded the Wiki with two common FAQs, but there are more. Please, anyone with some time, please add stuff to it. It's open for anyone to edit as long as you can solve the (hopefully) simple textchas. [Less]

BitlBee 1.2.7 was just released with the fix for the MSN Messenger login issues. It includes some other changes (mostly IM module fixes and a show_offline setting that lets you have your offline contacts in the control channel as well.

If you're getting the following error message while trying to use your MSN account: Error during Passport authentication: Could not parse Passport server response This is caused by BitlBee being a little bit too restrictive in the responses it ... [More] gets from the authentication server. This bug is fixed in bzr and this code is live on im.bitlbee.org and testing.bitlbee.org. A fix will most likely come out as a version 1.2.7 very soon. [Less]

The code's fairly stable now, so ready for a release: Here is BitlBee 1.2.6! The most important new feature must be support for Twitter. Although not all Twitter features are supported yet, you can already use it now to see Tweets of people you ... [More] follow, and post Tweets and direct messages. One note for people who were using the testing version already: The "use_groupchat" setting was replaced with the "mode" setting, and another mode was added where all Tweets come from one virtual user. Also, you should post Tweets via this user. Messages to other Twitter contacts become direct messages. Apart from Twitter support, this release adds a few other features and bug fixes. If you want to know it all, just read the changelog. [Less]

Thanks to hard work done by Geert Mulders, BitlBee now has native support for Twitter! Stuff will be merged into mainline soon and available on testing.bitlbee.org. If you'd like to test it now already, please do! bzr branch ... [More] http://code.bitlbee.org/contrib/geert-twitter/ and compile. Quick howto: Add the account (account add twitter <username> <password>), turn it on and see how your contacts appear. By default they will appear in the control channel and Tweets will be normal messages. You can post Tweets by sending them to any of your Twitter contacts. If you prefer to keep these things in a separate channel, try account set twitter/use_groupchat on. Anything you write in that channel will also be converted to Tweets. Please report bugs in #bitlbee and/or just use the bug tracker. [Less]

Thanks to hard work done by Geert Mulders, BitlBee now has native support for Twitter! Stuff will be merged into mainline soon and available on testing.bitlbee.org. If you'd like to test it now already, please do! bzr branch ... [More] http://code.bitlbee.org/contrib/geert-twitter/ and compile. Quick howto: Add the account (account add twitter <username> <password>), turn it on and see how your contacts appear. By default they will appear in the control channel and Tweets will be normal messages. You can post Tweets by sending them to any of your Twitter contacts. If you prefer to keep these things in a separate channel, try account set twitter/use_groupchat on. Anything you write in that channel will also be converted to Tweets. Please report bugs in #bitlbee and/or just use the bug tracker. Update (2010-04-07 20:03 (UTC)): testing.bitlbee.org is now running a BitlBee with Twitter support! [Less]

St. Patrick's Day has already started in Dublin and instead of getting wasted in the pub, I give you a new release of BitlBee today! What's new? Nothing huge, but a few nice enhancements and fixes for many bugs that I finally closed over the last ... [More] few weeks. The ability to see and set status messages on protocols that support them, improved compatibility with Facebook XMPP servers, etc. Get it while it's still hot! [Less]

Twitter seems like the right way to track this kind of stuff: https://twitter.com/BitlBee Please look for status updates there from now on.

im.bitlbee.org is currently down for what was supposed to be a quick reboot to switch power supplies. Sadly things don't seem to go that well, and five hours later the machine is still down. Unfortunately there's not much else I can tell since I ... [More] don't own the machine. It's after midnight local time by now so possibly it's going to be down at least until local morning. Of course there are still many more public servers available. Unfortunately BitlBee accounts are not yet universal though, so you will have to recreate it if you switch. (Fixing this is on our TODO for a long time and some code already exists.) Update (2009-11-02 08:55 (UTC)): Something went very wrong apparently. The server owner (IIIVX) will move a backup of everything to a virtual machine somewhere and get things back working in the next few hours. [Less]

I just released BitlBee 1.2.4. It's been more than a year since the last release and sadly not that much changed. But Yahoo! support is back, the program is more stable than ever (running in daemon mode on the testing server for more than a year ... [More] already with little problems), and there are some other nice changes like a better UI for managing chatrooms and support for automatically joining rooms when you connect. Get it while it's hot! [Less]