Abbreviations:

EE Only (Enterprise Edition Only)
IMS = Inbit Messenger Server
IMC = Inbit Messenger Client
IMA = Inbit Messenger Administrator

What's New in v3.9.2

1. Added the ability to invite users, groups of users or entire departments into open chatrooms and temporary conference rooms. see screenshot..>

2. Added a re-designed invitation accept/decline dialog see screenshot..>

What's New in v3.9.1

Added the ability to block the receipt of chat messages from certain users and departments on the desktop client. see screenshot..>

What's New in v3.9

1. Supports peer-to-peer file transfer via chat and remote capture to speed up overall transfer speed.

2. New feature: Live Chat on 24im.com. More info at http://www.24im.com/features/livechat/

What's New in v3.8

1. Activity Feed - tumblelog style activity update and display. This feature is available both on the Windows desktop client and 24im web client. see screenshot 1, 2, 3..>

2. Broadcasting to multiple departments and multiple workgroups.

3. Title & Department info display in the private chat and chatroom chat. see screenshot..>

4. New LogViewer.exe program. Now you can double click an IML file (Inbit Messenger Log) and TBL (activity log file) on the server side to view stored logs.

5. Overall 24im.com public service web client redesign. The new interface adds more features and make administration a lot easier.

What's New in v3.6.1

1. Improved web-based chat available on 24im.com

2. Broadcasting from the IMA application

3. Improved broadcasting to allow for multi-line messages.

4. Increased window size for broadcast messages marked as urgent.

5. Separated link tab from room tab for easier navigation on IMC.

6. Portuguese language support on IMA and Inbit Messenger Server.

What's New in v3.6

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What's New in v3.5.5

1. New IMA sign-in interface see screenshot..>

2. Set file size limit to control your storage usage and file transfer activities see screenshot..>

3. IM Server usage statistics see screenshot..>

4. Run IMA in the system tray see screenshot..>

5. New client in Russian.

What's New in v3.5.0

1. New Chatroom and Link interface see screenshot..>

2. Portuguese Client see screenshot..>

What's New in v3.4.0

This release includes more user requested enhancements.

1. Display All Online/Offline users on one pane with different line options see screenshot..>

2. Ability to switch view modes quickly from contact panel. see screenshot..>

3. Improved 120dpi and custom dpi font size display

4. Improved Server resources management. It runs faster and takes less resources.

What's New in v3.3.0

This release adds mostly requested features from our loyal customers.

1. Added two new options for chat window behavior: When receiving a chat message, open the chat window right away or open it when there is no screensaver or full screen application. see screenshot..>

2. Away status message automatically sent when you lock your computer or switch to another user. see screenshot..>

3. Allow users to configure the event and chat history folder so that your backup software or system protection software can be configured to cover Inbit Messenger files. see screenshot..>

4. Allow urgent messages to be broadcast to offline users as standard popup messages. see screenshot..>

What's New in v3.2.0

This release features a new way for administrators to unify client interfaces with the ability for administrators to set and lock IMC interface options for specific users and roles.

1. IMS and IMA can now set the IMC interface for specific users and roles remotely. see screenshot..>

2. IMS and IMA can lock/unlock the IMC interface for specific users and roles. see screenshot..>

3. Broadcasts can now be optionally sent to offline users. see screenshot..>

4. Broadcast messages are now stored in I-mail for logging and tracking on both client and server sides.

5. A change from Blowfish encryption to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).

6. Added support for another language: IMC is available in German.

7. Interface and messaging improvements.

What's New in v3.1.0

This release focuses on feature requests and bugs reported by users, including both client-side and server-side improvements.

1. New Auto-Hide feature on IMC. see screenshot..>

2. New Preset Messages feature supported by client and server. see screenshot..>

3. New option for I-mail message notification. see screenshot..>

4. IMC supports Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to switch among multiple chat windows.

5. New server side I-Mail Viewer to review all stored i-mail files and notice files. see screenshot..>

6. New flexible Entrance/Exit AutoSend message lenght limit on the server. see screenshot..>

7. New efficient background upgrade system that automatically upgrades IMC and supports multiple language clients.

8. For Enterprise Edition, the IM Upgrade Server starts automatically as a service with IM Server.

9. Spanish version available for IMS/IMA. see screenshot..>

10. Chinese Simplified version available for IMS/IMA.

11. Bug fixes reported by users.

What's New in v3.0.1

This release offers some of our international users clients in their various languages. Look for more languages to be introduced in the future. This release also features some optimizations on the server-side to increase efficiency.

1. Spanish Inbit Messenger client is released.

2. Chinese (Simplified) Inbit Messenger client is released.

3. Bug fixes on IMC, IMA and IMS.

What's New in v3.0

This release focuses on Vista compatibility along with greater versatility in administration of user access controls. Experience the same solid messaging system over Microsoft's new Windows Vista.

1. Simplified options settings on both client and server. see screenshot 1, 2..>

2. Redesigned user privilege settings. see screenshot..>

3. User Access Control - access to all other users, own department, selected departments and selected users. see screenshot..>

4. Server based settings for imail to email forwarding. see screenshot..>

5. Windows Vista Compatibility - this version is compatible with Vista.

What's New in v2.9.1

This is a maintenance release for version 2.9.0.

1. Both local and remote screen capture support multiple monitors.

2. IMC, IMA and IMS are all fine tuned to support ClearType font.

3. Auto Away can be triggered by Windows screen saver. see screenshot..>

4. Several interface improvements and bug fixes.

What's New in v2.9.0

This new release introduces features targetted at making administrating a snap. New role based privileges make it easy to manage large collections of users with a template based system. Server-side settings for status messages allow admins to define particular applicable status messages for client use. 2.9 also includes a slightly tweaked interface with new features like a much nicer looking offline directory.

1. Role based user rights management system - makes it easy to assign user privileges by template. see screenshot..>

2. Server controlled online status messages - Admins can change the standard online status to any text string in any language. see screenshot..>

3. Client-side user custom status and custom messages. see screenshot..>

4. Many UI improvements include offline user directory and offline messages. see screenshot..>

5. Ability to run multiple IM clients on a computer see screenshot..>

6. New Contact panel display for how long a user has been on a particular status. see screenshot..>

7. Screen capture (including image save and print) is now open to all Basic Edition users.

What's New in v2.8.0

This release focuses primarily on the user interface and usability aspects of Inbit Messenger. Our goal was to provide a highly customizable interface to allow for users to build a workspace comfortable for them, in effect helping workflow and introducing a sense of similarity to public IM products, while keeping the same rock-solid, secure back-end.

1. New GUI for Online User Panel. Users can select any color scheme see screenshot..>

2. New Inbit Messenger File Manager - for ease of uploading to and downloading from your IM Server see screenshot..>

3. Drag & Drop to upload files see screenshot..>

4. A new event history logging and access system. see screenshot..>

5. A new toolbar for frequently used tools. see screenshot..>

6. A new toggle control to hide the menu bar to save precious space. see screenshot..>

7. Detailed font settings to customize specific elements of the online panel.

What's New in v2.7.0

2.7.0 introduces Departments, an optional, admin managed user organization method for dividing users into conceptual groups. These departments are automatically displayed on the Contact Panel of IMC clients when the feature is active. This also allows a quick, effective way to communicate and share resources within a certain group of people.

1. Department concept to organize users. see screenshot..>

2. IMS options for admins to control client Online Panel display see screenshot..>

3. IMS options for admins to control client Online Resource display. see screenshot..>

4. New Typing Status Notice feature to allow users to see each other users' typing status in a private chat or see who's typing in a chat room. see screenshot..>

5. Broadcast a standard message or an urgent messages to one user, multiple users, one department, one workgroup or the public. see screenshot..>

6. IMS options to turn off local screen capture mechanisms on the client. see screenshot..>

7. New popup stacking management feature allows users to see all popup alerts and messages even though they may come in at the same time.

What's New in v2.6.1

This version builds on the improved contact panel with customizable teams and groupings. Use server-side workgroups to manage your contact list or build your own custom groups by creating and organizing contact panel teams.

Try out the new chat room features. Custom entry messages and individual admin lists for every room allow flexible, distributed management of rooms. The new attention message types can be used to broadcast special messages to users in a noticeable way. Whisper messages were also added to provide an easy way to pass private messages within rooms.

1. "My Teams" renamed to "My Contacts" to reflect the concept of personal listing choice. see screenshot..>

2. A whisper message now displays a recipient user name to indicate where the message was sent. see screenshot..>

3. New option to automatically delete logs older than a specified day count. see screenshot..>

4. Fixed occational chat input window lock-up issues.

5. Fixed online user display issues when no workgroup is present.

6. Fixed workgroup creation issues on IMA/IMS.

For user sites with 2.5.0 and 2.6.0 deployed, using Inbit Messenger Upgrade Server can reduce your deployment efforts. Please contact support@inbit.com if you need any technical assistance.

What's New in v2.6.0

This version builds on the improved contact panel with customizable teams and groupings. Use server-side workgroups to manage your contact list or build your own custom groups by creating and organizing contact panel teams.

1. Three ways to display the Online User Panel:

• display all online users
• display online users of workgroups in which you're a member.
• display your own teams.see screenshot..>

2. Organize your own teams - the enterprise version of buddy lists. see screenshot..>

3. New Attention Messaging to all private chats, text conferences and chat room chats.

• send a message as a standard Attention Message
• send a message as a Question Message
• send a message as an Answer Message
• send a message as a whisper message to a user in a chat room. see screenshot..>

4. New option to open a Chat Window right away when a message comes in. see screenshot..>

5. New option to turn on/off chat history for all private chats and chat room chats. see screenshot..>

6. New option for chat room announcement messages. Chat admin can add announcement so that all users entering the chat room can see the message. see screenshot..>

7. New option to assign administrators to public chat rooms.

8. New option to Accept a file transfer to your own folder instead of the default folder. see screenshot..>

9. New working method for chat Auto Send. If you don't want Inbit Messenger to send the first conversation message for you, take out the auto send messages in the Auto Send page settings.

10. New working method for text conference invitation, acceptance and declination. see screenshot..>

11. New option on IM Server to disable the Remote Capture System completely so that all users will not see the capture commands on the client side. see screenshot..>

12. New Automatic Upgrade Server to deploy new IM version easily. see screenshot..> Warning: please read IM Server User's Guide Chapter 6 before using IMUS upgrade server.