That’s right! You can now sign in to HipChat from multiple locations and will never see the “This account has signed in from another location” message again. This feature has been requested often since our launch and we’re thrilled to finally release it.

Like most HipChat features you’ll find the experience better than on other IM networks. Messages you send and receive will show up everywhere else you’re signed in* and we’ll even restore your proper status message and idle time when you sign out of your most recently used location. You can even see a list of all your sessions in your account settings on the site:

As always, let us know if you run into any trouble or have suggestions for things we can improve. Enjoy!

* Unfortunately the experience will be less awesome for XMPP users since other clients don’t always support this.

We just released an update to our desktop client. This one is mostly a bug fix release, aimed at fixing some issues that arose with the recent update to AIR 3.0.  Release notes below:

We just released an update to the desktop client. It has lots of little fixes and features we’ve wanted to get in for a while (and we still had to cut some out to be worked on in the next update). User feedback affects all of our updates, but we’ve also tried to note the ones that were especially influenced by user requests. Many of you will be especially happy to see image previews for clipboard pastes, better typing notifications, and link detection in private chats. The full list:

• New feature: Sent message history is now saved and may be accessed by pressing ctrl (or cmd)+up/down in the input box
• New feature: The client will now show a preview for image files before they are uploaded (including images pasted from the clipboard)
• New feature: Added a shortcut to set status via right-clicking on the dock or system tray icon
• Improvement (User request): Typing notifications for private chats have received a style makeover and should be less obtrusive now
• Improvement (User request): The message input area will now grow (to a certain extent) with the size of the text entered
• Improvement: All sent messages will now display immediately upon sending instead of waiting for server confirmation. Added a style to indicate if a message hasn’t been confirmed.
• Improvement: Link detection (youtube/twitter/etc) will now work in private chats
• Improvement: The file upload progress display has moved to a less modal format
• Improvement: Autocomplete will now be biased towards choosing users currently in the room above users not in the room
• Improvement (User request): Shortened welcome message significantly
• Improvement (User request): Added shortcuts for ctrl-home/end (beginning/end of chat history)
• Improvement: @-mentions will now trigger a persistent notification similar to private messages
• Improvement: Pressing ESC will now cancel the login process
• Improvement: Show Android status for users logged in via the android app
• Improvement: Added visual notification when a video chat call is incoming
• Improvement: Enabled text control shortcuts in fields other than primary chat message input
• Improvement: Messages with newline characters at the beginning or end should now be trimmed properly
• Improvement: Various errors should now give more appropriate messaging as to what the specific error is
• Improvement: Fixed tab order for buttons and inputs
• Improvement (User request): Mentioning .sh or .py files in your messages should no longer cause them to show up as links
• Improvement: Cleaned up reconnection logic and messaging
• Improvement: The autocomplete mention popup should no longer show when typing an email
• Bug fix: Clicking on the dock icon should no longer cause the application to revert away from maximized state
• Bug fix: Users should no longer see issues around auth tokens when uploading files
• Bug fix: Receiving an @-mention while in DND status will now trigger a notification
• Bug fix: Trailing slashes are now correctly linkified
• Bug fix: Fixed the check for the 24-hour time display preference
• Bug fix: Fixed an issue where idle users would show as active in a newly-created private room
• Bug fix: Fixed display of mentions separated by a slash
• Bug fix: Fixed an issue with autocomplete when it contained only two items
• Bug fix: File names with various special characters should now be handled correctly

Try it out and let us know if you encounter any problems. If you’re not sure how to update your client, check out https://www.hipchat.com/help/page/how-to-update-the-hipchat-desktop-client.

Enjoy!