Montreal Tech Watch

Note: I am introducing a weekly and regular wrap-up listing new releases, mostly updates which couldn’t be covered in a regular article

Here are noticeable releases this week:

• Vanilla 2 It’s a significant release, with significant work done on the add-on functionality and the core. Existing plugins, themes and other customizable features might not work when upgrading from version 1 to 2. Vanilla brings a brand new design, and remains the friendliest, simpliest, cleanest and open-source forums available currently. Congrats!
• Ostrich app is at v0.2.1.1
  • Tweets not appearing when opening the Ostrich window. Seemed to happen when opening Ostrich too quickly, now the toolbar icon should be disabled until it’s ready.
  • New mentions were not indicated in the tabs at the top. Now they are.
  • Setting to tell Ostrich how to handle links opening.
  • Setting to change the refresh rate.
  • Setting to show the unread tweets badge or not.
  • You should now be notified if you’re using an older version of Ostrich.
  • Your connection to Ostrich via Twitter should now persist.
• Akoha iPhone application is at v1.3
  • Faster news feed loading when returning to application
  • Improved performance when browsing missions and user profiles
  • Various performance improvements throughout application

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