The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.6, a free and open-source cross-platform chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. Key in this release is the switch to Tcl/Tk 8.5.

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“An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” and thus we've added an apple to your breakfast. Since recently, the daily build breakfast system generates a binary for Mac OS X using the latest development snapshot of Coccinella. Note that this is a Universal binary, which gives you an amazing speed improvement on Intel systems.

And that's not all! Both the Mac OS X build, the Windows build, as well as the Linux build are Tcl/Tk 8.5 powered. One of the highlights in this major Tcl/Tk release is a speed improvement of 10%.

This is screencast #4 which is the first Coccinella screencast for this year. This tutorial instructs you how to add an MSN contact or buddy in Coccinella to chat with. Stay tuned for more screencasts!

Add MSN Contact

The new jabber.org website is only up and running for a few days, but we already feel the drastic increase of referrals from jabber.org. The following graph is revealing:

The whiteboard in Coccinella has now come one step further to use SVG graphics. Well, it's not there, yet, but an important step has been taken.