Message from Mike on the Shareaza forums:
The old beta versions are expiring on the new year (GMT), so to continue using
and testing Shareaza 1.7 you will need to upgrade to the latest beta (1.7.0.18).
This does not affect older v1.6 release (non-beta) versions. Sorry for the
inconvenience, but with betas its good to make sure everyone is using up to date
software, so we dont have old bugs hanging around long after they were fixed.
http://www.shareaza.com/download/beta.aspx
Some key points:
- Tooltips are back, they disappeared in .16 due to a bug.
- New download manager option, to run all web downloads through Shareaza.
- New person to person chat system, a whole lot cooler than before.
A number of miscellaneous bugs were fixed also. The new chat is much nicer than
the old one, be sure to check it out. Chatting with other .18 users is of course
more rewarding than chatting with previous versions.
You may notice there is support for text formatting and “emoticons”, and a
button to insert them, however there don’t appear to be any emoticons there yet!
This is because I haven’t made any. I’m hoping to arrange to be able to use a
set of pre-existing emoticons, or create a new set for Shareaza. In the mean
time you can actually use the emoticons from the popular Trillian IM software,
as Shareaza understands its XML formats. Download this file:
http://www.shareaza.com/dev/Shareaza_Trillian_Emoticons.zip
…and unzip it in your Shareaza folder (it places files in the “Data” folder).
Upon restarting Shareaza, you’ll have the Trillian emoticons. These are
obviously not mine to use at the moment, so a more permenant arrangement will
need to be reached for the next beta! However they look very cool 
Chat will be expanded much futher in the future, with distributed chat rooms
etc. But this is a start.
Finally, happy new year to everyone!
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