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We are pleased to announce the first release of Lampiro in 2009! If you are impatient just go to google code and grab it (or to the official site for directly downloading to your mobile).  

These are the news:

• Added: Roster push from known contacts (xep: 144 roster item exchange)
• Added: Automatic recognition of phone platform and key autoconfiguration (got rid from the confusing setup screen at the beginning)
• Improved: Better and more usable contact subscription handling
• Improved: Simplified the interaction with gateways

What we think is really nice is how we now handle multiple subscription requests, which is an annoying behaviour in most clients  when subscribing to IM gateways (we know that other IM networks suck, but incredibly most people still prefer MSN and in some way we must cope with that!).

Usually you get overwhelmed with tens of popups asking for authorizing all the new contacts, which is not the best approach for users migrating from other networks and importing their old contacts. In order to avoid this we have designed a new screen allowing handling multiple requests with few clicks (below there is a screenshot:)

• all new subscription requests are queued to a list in a single screen, where they can be reviewed
  
• each contact can be singularly added or rejected by clicking on it
• it's possible add a bunch of contacts with one click by pressing "accept all"
• it's possible to trust the gateway once for all (useful if you have already approved requests by other means, as it happens for our facebook gateway)

It would be nice to see the same approach also in the major desktop clients, since adding gateways is really a nigthmare!