Addressing a recent change in the Facebook chat protocol, we’ve started to roll out Trillian 4.0 Build 119. Nothing else has changed since Build 118, so if you don’t use Facebook Chat you don’t need to upgrade right away. The upcoming build of 4.1, Build 16, will also contain the fix.

Have a great weekend!

Build 118 has been released to fix a few bugs with Facebook and IRC. If you’ve been having a problem getting Facebook Chat to connect lately, you should install this update and try again. This is an optional update, meaning you won’t need to install it if you’re not impacted by the particular bugs we’ve fixed.  In other news:

• Trillian for Windows 4.1 is coming along nicely, and we hope to have more detailed information to share with everyone soon.  After getting 4.0 out the door, we’ve been working hard on cool new enhancements, UI improvements, and implementing as many community feature requests as we can!  Look for 4.1 to improve many different aspects of your current Trillian experience.
• Trillian for iPhone was submitted to the App Store on August 14th, the same day we released Trillian Astra 4.0.  We haven’t been accepted or rejected yet and are patiently awaiting a response from Apple. Should the app be rejected, we’ll update the blog and explain what we’re doing to address any problems Apple’s reviewers uncovered. In the meantime, we’re in the dark and keeping our fingers crossed.
• Trillian 3.1.14.0 is being slowly rolled out to 3.x customers this week.  It features upgrades to the Yahoo! engine to ensure protocol compatibility with Yahoo!’s latest servers.  We recommend that 3.x customers capable of doing so upgrade to the 4.x series as soon as possible; as a rule, the protocol engines within 4.x will always be the most reliable and up-to-date.

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We have recently launched gifts in our store. Gifts can be given for any occasion and you may email the gift or print out a new exciting gift certificate (seen above). Give your college student Trillian Pro for the new school year or start your holiday shopping early! 

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Today we’re happy to announce the marking of Build 117 as a gold version of Trillian Astra. Thousands of Trillian users are already relying on Astra as their day-to-day communications tool, many major bugs and crashes have been resolved, and we’re very pleased with the overall stability and functionality of the product! Trillian Astra is available as a free download, and our Pro version sells for $25, or $10 for upgrading customers. Our new store is online, and we’re also proud to stand behind our 30-day refund policy for any dissatisfied customer.

We want to thank all of our beta testers and customers for their support over the past few years. It’s been a long road for us all and we couldn’t have built Trillian without your support and passion for the product. We hope you continue to enjoy Trillian as much as we continue to enjoy building it, and look forward to getting back to work on exciting improvements and feature requests for Trillian 4.1 and beyond! If you haven’t tried Trillian Astra yet, please give it a spin and let us know what you think. If you’re already a customer, please help us spread the word about the product and get your friends chatting on Astra!

So what’s next for Cerulean Studios and Trillian? Read on for details…

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Build 117 is now available, fixing additional minor bugs.