Release summary
The archived announcement presented Coccinella 0.96.16 as a free, open-source communication client with a built-in collaborative whiteboard and highlighted the project's tenth anniversary.
Recorded changes
The release enabled XEP-0202 Entity Time and XEP-0145 Annotations. The announcement also recorded saved login settings, corrected wrong-password behaviour, fixes for disabled plugins, Mac OS X sound-device and Tkpath issues, Google Talk/OpenBSD crash handling, transport and business-card fixes, and a tip-of-the-day option.
This page summarizes the archived release note; it does not assert present-day compatibility or maintenance.
Independent and archived evidence
A live January 2010 XMPP.org article links directly to this release URL and notes version 0.96.16.
Capture dated 16 January 2010; the original release note is dated 1 December 2009.