• All users may now edit and change their buddy icon
• Fixed an intermittent issue that prevented some users from expanding and collapsing their Buddy List groups
• Increased speed typing your username on the Sign In screen
• Your status will no longer be reposted when you reconnect after waking from Sleep
• IM logging is now a user-based preference instead of a global preference
• Passwords can now contain the slash character
• New option under Sign in: when you uncheck "Remember me", you now have the option to "Also remove IM logs"

• Chat with your AIM Buddies and Facebook friends.
• Get your updates from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and more.
• Comment, like and update your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace status right from AIM.
• Let friends easily find you - Add Your First and Last Name.
• Sign in as invisible.

• Accessibility fixes including shortcut keys for Add Buddy and File Transfer.
• Tweaks to improve the Facebook Chat experience.
• Fixed issues regarding the Connection Port.
• Improved performance with regards to AIM Sounds.

• unable to edit buddy icon on Snow Leopard and Tiger
• outgoing font settings
• various crashes
• VoiceOver improvements on Sign In window

• Fixed an issue that was signing out the user when an improperly formatted IM was received.
• Fixed an issue that was signing out the user when a linked screen name was not able to be authenticated.
• Fixed a few other minor issues.

• Added "Email..." to the Buddy List contextual menu and "Gear" menu to allow for easy webmail message composition.

• Added Apple Menu Item under People > Send Email...
• Added Edit > Paste and Match Style to the Menu Items.
• Single-sign on for AIM to AOL Webmail.
• Camera icon has been added to the Buddy status on Buddy List if a photo has been published in Buddy status.
• Improved accessibility (VoiceOver) feature for Group Row Theme button (will now read button description).
• Various user interface improvements.

• Fixed issue where user is logged off and results in AIM rate limiting.
• Accessibility: Fixed various labeling bugs that resulted in ambiguous or empty text when using VoiceOver.
• Fixed issues with Away Message reporting to users on your Buddy List.
• Fixed issues that prevented opening AOL webmail.
• Fixed IM conversation window scrolling that made long conversations hard to read.
• Added Font Scale to IM conversation preference (under IM Preference pane).
• View Buddy Feed has been changed to View Lifestream.
• Various bug fixes and improvements.

Fit-and-Finish and Addressing User Feedback

Features Released in Previous AIM for Mac 2.0 Betas

• Consolidated mode selector. Just click the "Running Man" pull-down menu to select Available, Away, Invisible or Mobile. If you have created Away Messages in a previous version of AIM, you will see them as a sub-menu at the bottom of the pull-down menu.
• Away toggle, invisible toggle, group row color picker and Find Buddy have been moved to the new Search Toolbar in the Buddy List. You can open or close the new toolbar by selecting "Show Search Toolbar in Buddy List" or pressing Shift-Option-F.
• A new, streamlined AIM registration is now integrated with your AIM for Mac sign in window so you can create new screen names to be used with AIM or AIM Mail.
• Buddy List Builder has been added to AIM for Mac 2.0 to help new users find and add Buddies (even from Address Books on other services).
• Find out who calls you a buddy. But you'll need to open your Buddy List up too. "Buddy Lists I'm on" is now available on the Me tab, just click the number to see details. For your privacy, this feature is set to private ("Just Me") by default but will be available for you to manage in the next AIM for Mac beta (this feature is not yet available on iPhone). See privacy tab in AIM for Mac 2.0 preferences.

AIM for Mac 2.0 (Beta 4) New Features and Changes

• Enabled the dragging of text clippings, images, and links from the IM conversation history view.
• We are no longer going to close a sheet when a new IM conversation is started. Also, we will no longer change the tab selection when a sheet is displayed.
• Updated Buddy Icon sizing to accommodate additional sizes.
• Users can now open a window to display Buddy Lists I'm On.
• Added VoiceOver compatible text for IM window button bar.
• Improved support for languages (Japanese and other languages).
• General bug fixes and optimizations.

AIM for Mac 2.0 (Beta 4) Fixed Issues

• Users can use the auto-update engine if the Beta has been blocked for a mandatory upgrade.
• Fixed Growl button in preferences not working in certain version of Growl.
• Fixed an issue if the user resized the IM window to minimum size, the knock-knock window will be displayed.
• Fixed various memory leak issues that may lead to application crash.
• Fixed an issue if a Buddy Icon is not returned from the AIM network, which caused an issue with the Buddy Flyout.
• Fixed an issue that will always use the default location for application preferences.
• Pressing ESC from the keyboard will Cancel the sign-in process.
• Fixed an issue when the assigned Buddy Icon to a new AIM screen name is only 12 x 12 pixels.
• Fixed an issue when the Away Message was sent when the user was available.
• Fixed an issue where different font/size defaults were not uniform across all text input fields.
• Fixed an issue when your status was updated to say "Check out my photo!" even if the user cancels the upload.

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