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[Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'd like to announce a new release (1.0.12) of the WhatsApp messenger
WhosThere.

== Changes ==
WhosThere is now completely ported to telepathy. Integration into the
messaging menu on the phone and the empathy/KDE telepathy client on the
desktop comes automatically. Initial setup of the account has to be done in
WhosThere's gui, though.

The second big change is integration into the system address book (on phone
and on desktop. On desktop it's evolution/gnome-contacts). You can now sync
your address book's phone numbers with WhatsApp to have them added to your
contact list. (Sync is not automatic and must be triggered from the menu on
"Contacts" screen)

I will also be talking/showing about WhosThere on the Ubuntu SDK days [6],
tomorrow (friday) at 20:00 UTC.

== Install ==
It can be installed by
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:m-gehre:ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-proper
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa
sudo apt-get install whosthere

== Run ==
Start /usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-whosthere and
whosthere --desktop_file_hint /usr/share/applications/whosthere.desktop
from the commandline to see important log messages.

The software is split into multiple parts: The gui [1], which provides
account managment and all features of messages receiving/sending, and the
telepathy connection manager [2], which acts as a middle man between the
yowsup library for the whatsapp protocol [4] and the telepathy protocol for
IM in linux.

== Misc ==
I'd also like to announce my work on telepathy-qt's service part [3], if
anyone out there wants to implement a telepathy connection manager
using the qt backend.

Contributers/Testers are welcome! Report issues at [5].

[1] https://github.com/mgehre/whosthere
[2] https://github.com/mgehre/telepathy-whosthere
[3] https://github.com/mgehre/telepathy-qt
[4] https://github.com/mgehre/yowsup
[5] https://launchpad.net/whosthere
[6] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSDKDays