Today I'm releasing version 0.5.0 to testing and beta stream, meaning that both OpenRepo and OBS users will be able to get it.

0.5.0 is an important step. First, 0.5.0 is Friends 1.0.0 alpha. It comes with all major features for 1.0.0. This means that what I won't add more feature and focus on improvements for some time.

I'm counting on you to test 0.5.0 and feedback all the bugs you find. Ping me on IRC, Twitter, or leave messages on Friends Qt Facebook page, and in TMO, but I want bug reports ! It is needed to fix Friends and make it rock.

0.5.0 contains a lot of untranslated strings. It is normal since translators needs to catch up on translating. The good news for them is that they might not need to catch up again, because 0.5.0 should contain all the necessary strings.

What 0.5.0 have

• Read news feed
• Read user profiles
• Access to albums, photos
• Read messages in groups
• Access to pages, read messages in pages
• Access to events, reply to events
• Likes and comment
• Post on your profile

What 0.5.0 (and 1.0.0) don't have

• Post in groups
• Post in pages
• Post in other people's wall [FB API issue]
• Create events
• Add user as friend, reply to friend requests
• Notifications, feed auto-refresh
• Messages [FB API issue]
• Threaded comments
• Like pages
• Create group
• Page management
• Tag photos
• Pinch to zoom in photos
• Check in support

This list is likely to be non exhaustive, and many of these features might actually not be implemented, but some of these features will come in future updates.