List of releases - jabber.el

• Support for multiple accounts
  Configuration variables have changed. See section "Account settings" in the manual.
• Activity mode improved
  Customizable face for personal messages added, list of unwanted (banned) JIDs added
• Simple automatic answering machine
  Realized as alert. Can match regexp and answer with predefined string
• OSD alerts (message, MUC, MUC-personal)
  
• Family of personal MUC alerts added
  See section "Standard alerts" in manual.
• MUC nicks completion
  See section "Groupchat" in manual.
• Automatic reconnection
  Not enabled by default; See "Reconnecting" section in manual.
• Support for XEP-0085
  This means "contact is typing" notifications when chatting with Gajim or Google Talk users, among others. See "Typing notifications" section in the manual.
• Option: hide offline contacts in roster
  See "The roster buffer" in manual.
• Clean history from chat buffers
  See jabber-truncate-* functions and new options for jabber-alert-muc-hooks and jabber-alert-message-hooks. See section "Message history" in manual too.
• MUC bookmarks
  See jabber-edit-bookmarks function and "Bookmarks" section in manual.
• Name of browse buffers customizable
  See "Services" section in manual.
• Subscription requests are sent to chat buffers
  Subscription requests now displayed in chat buffers. See "Presence subscription" section in manual.
• Option: hide avatar in chat buffer
  `jabber-chat-buffer-show-avatar'.
• Gmail notifications
  (Not documented nor autoloaded)
• GConf-based installation of URI handler
  See "XMPP URIs" in manual.

• STARTTLS
• SRV records (requires No Gnus)
• Message composition buffer
• XMPP URIs are handled (see manual for setup)
• Autoaway
• MUC improvements
  • Don't display alerts for your own messages
  • Presence changes are sent to MUC rooms too
  • Check room features before joining
• Avatars
• File transfer
• Sound files per contact for alerts
• New function: jabber-send-directed-presence
• Entity time supported (XEP-0090)
• Last activity supported (XEP-0012)

Read the manual.

• SSL connections possible
• Chat buffers rewritten
• MUC improved
• Global key bindings under C-x C-j
• Vcard viewer and editor
• Roster export
• Message events (JEP-0022)
• Easy way to define external notifiers
• Activity mode improved
• Roster display optimized
• Optionally use per-contact history files
• Jabber menu in menubar not enabled by default
• Flyspell in chat buffers
• Different time formats for instant and delayed messages
• Chat buffers in inactive windows are scrolled
• Roster is sorted by name also
• Countless bugfixes

Read the manual.

• Now works with ejabberd
• Message history (Mathias Dahl)
• Backlogs
• Activity tracking on the mode line (Carl Henrik Lunde)
• Receive an alert when a specific person goes online (Mathias Dahl)
• Support for /me in chats (Nolan Eakins)
• Message alerts for current buffer can be disabled
• Basic moderation support in MUC
• MUC alerts are separated from ordinary message alerts

Read the manual, in which there is now a section on protocol support.

• Chat buffers no longer use the minibuffer, making it easier to use ordinary editor commands and to pause writing halfway
• The roster display and the chat buffer prompts are now customizable
• The online status of the contact is displayed in the chat buffer (Emacs only)
• The connect function automatically sends presence after connecting
• The names of the roster buffer and chat buffers are customizable
• RET and C-k do what you would expect in the roster buffer

Read the manual.

• Nicknames are accepted whenever a JID is asked for.
• Roster entry spacing is customizable (default is none)
• Bug fix regarding mixed-case JIDs
• Experimental code for receiving files - see the README
• Read the manual

• Modular design; plugins easier to write
• Support for Ad-Hoc Commands and setting presence remotely
• Browse documentation here

• XEmacs support - basically works, needs testing and care.
• "Set status" menu fixed

• SHA-1 password hashing
• customisation hooks
• browsing improved
• added service discovery
• added in-band registration
• added searching
• new manual

• improved groupchat support (thanks to nimrod for tip)
• improved roster (buddy-list) display
• infoquery rewritten - great improvement
• improved minimal browsing support !
• added customizable faces
• added more customizable variables
• more (helpful) comments in code
• added explicit licensing (GPL, like emacs itself)

• added groupchat support !
• added minimal browsing support !
• fixed bug in chat mode
• abolished message mode (i only use chat mode anyway)
• fixed some problems with incoming xml
• added a pull-down menu
• added customizable variables

• global keymaps
• logging (history)
• overall exception handling
• sanity checks (for incoming xml, and for myself :)
• clickable URLs in messages
• support for versions other than gnu-emacs-21 (older emacs, xemacs, jemacs)
• and more...