These notes were originally part of our PHP-Nuke news system. They have been reformatted but remain otherwise unchanged from their original posting. I've been writing these notes since our first update (the second release), usually signing them "Xfire", which is my username. It's amazing to look back and see how far we have come!

• Call of Duty detection and launching support!
• Final Fantasy XI online detection
• Tray icon changes color when anyone on your list plays games
• Fixed several problems causing disconnections
• Adding a friend while he is offline works
• Adding a friend with the wrong capitalization now works
• When you send an "add friend" message, you get a "message successfully sent" dialog
• Several parse error-133 bugs fixed
• Sending messages to friends of friends works
• Plus more...

• "Up for game" status--when enabled, your friends and friends of friends see that you want to play a game (from the list we detect)
• Custom status text messages
• Game server info is retrieved for numerous games
• Info view that shows game server info and common friends (for your friends of friends)
• Add friend lets you search by username, first name, last name, or email address
• Tooltips
• Chat windows scroll properly on Win98/IE4
• Heartbeat message to prevent routers from timing out your connection
• New icon :)
• Option to disable online game detection, overall game detection, and friends of friends from seeing your game status
• Friend list can be sorted now
• Action buttons
• Lots of graphical improvements
• Several new supported games

• New installations no longer forces a system reboot
• Alt-left arrow and Alt-right arrow hide/show the expanded view
• Keyboard focus set to the friend list, and enter opens up an IM window
• Tray tooltip shows you how many people you see online and in games
• URLs in IMs are now clickable
• Revamped the expanded view to fix scrollbar problems
• Fixed a problem with the IM window for Win98 users with IE 5.0 or earlier
• Fixed numerous drawing bugs for Win98 users
• Lots of small bug fixes

• Rise of Nations
• Tribes 2
• Unreal II XMP (and SP)
• Age of Mythology
• Age of Mythology - The Titans Expansion
• Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
• Madden NFL 2004
• Tiger Woods 2004
• Civilization III Conquests
• Civilization III Play the World
• FIFA 2003
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Breakthrough
• Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Spearhead
• Soldier of Fortune II - Multiplayer
• Soldier of Fortune II - Single player

• fixed several important client crashes
• implemented a cap of 50 friends of friends you can see, or who can see you. This will save you some bandwidth when you have a lot of friends of friends.
• Added flag to turn off friends of friends entirely. If you turn them off, you will save yourself some bandwidth. (user suggestion)
• ability to cut and paste your friends' server IP and port (user suggestion)
• cleaner login dialog for new users
• tweaked user interface for adding a friend
• right-click menu in the IM window (user suggeston)
• color codes stripped from game server name (user suggestion)
• lots of other bug fixes
• new games supported: Day of Defeat, Deathmatch Classic, Half-Life, Opposing Force, Ricochet, Team Fortress Classic, Vietcong, Aliens vs. Predator 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Dark Age of Camelot - Trials of Atlantis, Tron 2.0 (all user suggestions)

• Low-key, customized text ads to buy games and support Xfire.
• The state of the expanded view is saved between runs.
• Option to hide your offline friends.
• Alphabetized game lists in the Launch menu and Up For Games menu.
• Full install contains all-new LSP that fixes several problems users had with running certain programs together with Xfire.
• Ghost Recon joining support works with this new LSP as well.
• Bug fix for player lists showing corrupted names.
• Bug fix for uninstaller not removing the start menu entries.
• Lots of other small bug fixes.
• New game support--Red Faction II, C&C Renegade, Second Life, Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Battlefield Vietnam.

• Sort by status now shows people in games first.
• If the Xfire client crashes, you are asked to upload crash information.
• Several crash bugs fixed.
• Privacy option "Show my game status to anyone interested" now controls your game data on the web site as well as in Xfire.
• IMs are shown more quickly in the display now, but if the other side does not receive it then you are notified.
• Game server information for Battlefield Vietnam and some Far Cry servers
• New games: Soldat, Combat Flight Simulator 3, Midnight Club 2, Counter-strike 1.5 (non-Steam), Condition Zero, Carom3D, The Specialists, Star Trek Elite Force II, Netgammon, and Empire Earth

• User-settable nicknames in the Tools | Options | Display dialog. Let your friends see your full tag!
• Detection and launching of TeamSpeak for non-passworded servers
• No more parse error 136 dialogs.
• As usual, numerous bug fixes.
• New games: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, Chrome MP Demo, Ragnarok Online

• Xfire is now a Unicode program, so status messages in double byte languages now work
• Xfire is now available in both English and German (90% complete)
• Update to the LSP to detect online gaming more reliably and interfere with fewer other programs.
• Lots of internal work on supporting skins
• New games supported: Breed, Painkiller, Chrome, Lock On, Sacred, and Tactical Ops (all user suggested)
• And as always, bug fixes.

• Added skin support, including our own default Xfire skin.
• Reduced the heartbeat time to less than 10 minutes to help people with routers with short timeouts.
• Fixed disconnections so it won't pop up a dialog if you're in a game.
• Lots of bug fixes
• LOTS of games! Starsiege Tribes, Nascar Racing 3/4, 2003, several Star Trek games, Universal Combat, Operation Flashpoint, IL-2 Sturmovik, Lineage 2, World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, Hitman 2, Rogue Spear, and a whole bunch more.

• LOTS of bug fixes with skins
• Added support for Korean, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), and French
• Several internal optimizations
• Tooltips now work with Unicode names and status messages
• Improved Xfire icon
• New games supported: Red Faction, GLQuake, QuakeWorld, There.com, Halo CE, Freelancer, Deus Ex, True Crime (all suggested by users).

• Skinnable scrollbars
• Numerous small but important internal bug fixes
• Fixes to multiple games, including Far Cry, Gunbound, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Universal Combat
• New games: The Saga of Ryzom, Shadowbane, Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance, Mechwarrior Mercenaries, and Serious Sam - The Second Encounter

• New tracking of recently played servers, which you can then join
• Fixed a problem with server info from servers with a lot of data (especially Battlefield games)
• Fixed the flickering on/off state with Ventrilo detection
• Added support for Danish
• New games supported: Joint Operations, Thief - Deadly Shadows, Rune, GetAmped, Mabinogi, and Priston Tale
• Lots more bug fixes

• New look to the web site!
• Preliminary support for Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, and Norwegian
• You can save your favorite servers (user suggestion)
• You can view your friends' favorite servers, updated once per day
• Typing notification for when your friend is typing an IM to you
• The full installer warns if you're installing over another copy of Xfire
• Lots of bug fixes
• New games supported: Horizons Online, Ultima Online, Hidden & Dangerous (1 and 2), C&C Yuri's Revenge, Empires Dawn of the Modern World, Medieval - Total War, Soldner - Secret Wars, and A3 (all user suggestions)

• New "all" servers available on the Servers tab. This tracks many available game servers for you to join.
• Initial technology to support expansion packs. See below for the first one!
• Player info updated for Battlefield 1942
• Several bugs fixed for existing games
• Improved scrollbar functionality when the friends/server list is very long.
• New games supported: Tony Hawk 3, John Deere American Farmer, MapleStory, GunZ: The Duel, Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto - Vice City, MAME32, and finally, due to many, many user requests...
• Warcraft III - The Frozen Throne

• Standard skin now has servers tab (it's become a real skin now).
• Tooltip in servers tab for friends' favorites shows who has the favorite
• Filters can be applied to friends' favorite servers and all servers
• Users of French, German, Chinese, and Korean will click through to the web site in those languages
• Portuguese and Japanese support in the client
• More accurate ping times for game servers
• Less flicker upon login in the friend list
• Game icons are now grouped into one big file
• Better ability to login right after updates
• New games: Tony Hawk 4, Toca Race Driver 2, Vietcong Fist Alpha, Rainbow Six 3 - Athena Sword, Half-Life 1.5, Day of Defeat 1.5, CS 1.5 (mod), TFC 1.5, Opposing Force 1.5, Deathmatch Classic 1.5, Ricochet 1.5, Red Orchestra, Ground Control II, Diablo 2 - Lord of Destruction, Starcraft Brood War.
• Oh yeah, one more game, with server info... Doom 3!

• Fixed a problem with our LSP causing some versions of Outlook Express to have trouble exiting.
• Fixed numerous other bugs
• Internal work on future features (stay tuned)
• New games: Take-Out Weight Curling, Take-Out Weight Curling 2, Delta Force, Delta Force 2, XIII, SpellForce - The Order of Dawn, Gore - Ultimate Soldier, The Sims, Max Payne 2, Codename Gordon, Earth's Special Forces, Digital Paintball, Firearms, Sven Co-op, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War Beta, Frag Ops, Troopers - Dawn of Destiny

• Added profile link to the add friend response dialog
• Added context menu with profile link to the search users dialog
• Fixed problem with cthelper
• Fixed problem with less-than characters in nicknames
• Fixed problem with password protected servers
• Added translations of parts of the web site into French, German, Chinese, and Korean
• Added initial test of receiving messages within a game, only in America's Army, and only for Windows XP users. This can be disabled in the options dialog.
• New games added: No One Lives Forever 2, 4x4 Evolution, Max Payne, SimCity 3000 Unlimited, joining support in XIII, and a couple games to be released later.

• Auto-idle sets your status to AFK when you leave your computer (can be disabled)
• Skins can control sounds properly now
• Fixed login/logout crash that some people experienced
• Cross-game messaging within AA, BF1942, Wolfenstein ET, Far Cry, UT2k3
• Alpha-testing of our file download system; feel free to help us by trying to download an MOHPA preview movie.
• Miniprofiles (more on this soon...)
• New games supported: CoD: United Offensive, The Sims 2, Everquest 2 beta, Morrowind, Total Annihilation Kingdoms, Warlords Battlecry 3, Colin McRae Rally 04, MotoGP 2, Unreal, Nox, Tribes Vengeance Beta, Eve Online, Star Wars Battlefront, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War

• More files available in the download system
• Bandwidth limits working well in the download system
• All uploads and downloads are paused when you go into a game!
• Cross game messaging support in many games, including CS, EQ, CoD, City of Heroes, WH40K Dawn of War, and many more.
• New, less annoying sounds
• New games: Rome Total War, CoD Single Player Demo (available in our download tab), Anarchy Online, Full Spectrum Warrior, Kohan II, Tribes Vengeance Multiplayer Demo

• Many bug fixes with cross game messaging, especially with Battlefield 1942. Thanks to everyone for your feedback.
• Many bug fixes with file downloads, plus a few new files available to download. Check out the download tab.
• Adjusted the ad size to an IAB standard half-banner ad.
• New games: Tribes Vengeance, Counter-Strike Source, SWG - The Jump to Lightspeed beta, Gotcha!, Leisure Suit Larry - Magna Cum Laude, Stepmania CVS, Trackmania, and THUG 2.

• In-game messaging added for several games, including Star Wars Battlefront, Raven Shield, and Counter-strike Source. Check our new forum to discuss in-game messaging.
• Many bugs fixed in in-game messaging.
• Improved interface to send messages from within a game.
• New progress dialog while logging in.
• Many bugs fixed in the download system to make it more efficient.
• Adjusted the size of the Nvidia skin for the standard ad size.
• Fixed detection of Gunbound.
• New games supported: Madden 2005, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005, NHL 2005, Evil Genius, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, Guild Wars, Medal of Honor Pacific Assault MP Demo (all user suggestions). In-game messaging supported in all of these games.