Build 83 features some massive new features for Trillian Astra, including official IRC and Facebook support with a few additional improvements to the user interface.  As always, we’ve also fixed a handful of important bugs in our ongoing road to completion.  New in 83:

	Facebook support: In addition to MySpace, Facebook join the ranks as the tenth service in our planetary system, denoted by the colors blue and aquamarine. Our first implementation features a News Feed, Notifiers for News Feeds, (instant update ‘toasts’ shown through windows near your system tray) and a Status Message update tool.  You can now type in the Status Message edit area and update the status across all IM services and Facebook as well!
	IRC support: In response to our enthusiastic power user community, we’ve brought back our IRC plugin and updated it with some fantastic new features, such as brand new Chat Room and Server Browsers, channel management tools, encryption support, and a lot more advanced features.
	Better mail Info Cards: Info Cards for mail services such as Gmail have been updated with a new layout. Now they display name and excerpts from each email, as well as the icon of the domain where the mail was sent from.
	Cleaner Notifiers: We’ve cleaned up the layout for system tray Notifiers, where buttons will only be visible when you move your mouse cursor over them.
	Quick Reply through Notifiers: You can now have Trillian notify you when new messages arrive in a new or existing private chat session and quickly reply to them through Notifiers near the system tray. Like inside Chat Windows or on the tabs of Tabbed Containers, these Notifiers also show chat messages in neat chat bubbles.

Last but not least, we would like to extend a warm welcome to Ingmar Runge, author of many great Trillian plugins such as Good News and Trilly Tunes, who has recently joined our team as an official programmer.  Welcome, Ingmar! 

Build 82 is now available with Even More Bugfixes! We’ve also beefed up some of the privacy settings related to the AIM and ICQ plugins. You can now globally control your outbound typing indicators, and we’ve exposed a new optional notification for when your contacts start typing you a message before a message window is created.

Special note: As of this build, users of AIM and ICQ will need to enable the OSCAR plugin to continue enjoying these wonderful services!

Enjoy the build.

Today marks the 8th anniversary since the first ever public release of Trillian, version 0.50. After 8 years and over 35 million downloads on Download.com, Trillian has grown from a simple IRC client to a fully-fledged Instant Messenger and social aggregator! Thank you all very much for your support, without which we never would have survived this many Internet years!