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The Raring Ringtail development cycle marks a relevant chapter in Gwibber's evolution, cycle that witnessed a definitely interesting shift of Gwibber.

Started months ago with Ubuntu's Ken VanDine's exciting statement about the upcoming rewrite of Gwibber, the developers initially created Friends, a completely new, optimized, performance-wise under-the-hood service aimed at powering Gwibber (the interface).

Based on QML and powered by Friends (newly-written under-the-hood service), the new Gwibber introduces a modern social experience to Ubuntu, social app that is to probably land in Ubuntu by default in the next cycle (after Ubuntu 13.04).

Days ago, the new Gwibber made its successful entrance into the Ubuntu world, bringing a completely new interface with smooth scrolling, fancy elements, animations, good-looking buttons, etc, a truly enjoyable experience.

Moreover, the new QML-based Gwibber is powered by Friends, a new solid under-the-hood service aimed at strengthening and optimizing Ubuntu's overall social experience.

It seems that the development on the new Gwibber continues, social app receiving new and new features and improvements via its official PPA.

Recently, the new Gwibber has been made available via its official PPA, allowing users to enjoy, test and discover its functionalities, smooth scrolling, fast speed and modern actions.

Essentially, the new Gwibber has been created with QML, while powered by a solid under-the-hood Friends service, mix that takes Ubuntu's social experience to a powerful, optimized and beautiful stage.

The QML-based Gwibber comes with already-present features, service support and desktop integration.

Gwibber has traversed, across the latest months, a road full of changes, improvements and optimizations.

As a consequence, Gwibber has been enriched with a new under-the-hood service, Friends, and a completely new interface, interface based on QML.

After various images presenting the new Gwibber with new elements, the QML-based Gwibber has landed in its official PPA, allowing users to enjoy its good-looking overall look & feel with fancy message-creation dialog, polished buttons, light color tones, etc.

The latest weeks witnessed new and new features related to Gwibber, Ubuntu's social client currently strengthened and polished.

Weeks ago, the new QML-based Gwibber appeared on the internets, allowing users to grasp a good-looking Gwibber app with modern shapes, light color tones, fancy buttons, etc.

Months ago, official discussions revealed the serious work on strengthening Gwibber, Ubuntu's social client targeted for enhancements rooted into a complete approach.

Meaning, the Gwibber developers have started and implemented both under-the-hood and visible new components, in order to deliver a high-quality, more robust and polished Gwibber.

Generally, users' opinions about Gwibber, Ubuntu's default social client, may be easily categorized into a basic saying: Gwibber comes with solid features and support for relevant services, yet, it has certain performance-related issues, especially slow scrolling.

Days ago, Ubuntu's Ken VanDine published exciting images with a QML-based Gwibber, pack of pictures labeled as "Meet the new Gwibber".

Months ago, during an Ubuntu On Air session, Ubuntu's Ken VanDine talked about an upcoming rewritten Gwibber incarnation, (mainly) rooted into performance optimizations.

Weeks after, an official changelog revealed that Friends is to probably replace Gwibber, probably Friends being the rewritten materialization of Gwibber.

Starting with the recent announcements and public availability of Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for tablets, the developers are progressively creating specific apps for a touch-based interface and/or shifting existent apps to a touch-friendly environment.

It seems that Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for tablets are to feature Gwibber, too, Ubuntu's default social client that is to power the phone and tablet OSes' social interactions.