BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.1.32 Now in Beta Zone

Terry let us know that RIM has put BlackBerry Messenger 5.0.1.32 in their Beta Zone for all registered users to download. The new version looks like it is getting closer to public release but it still has some issues that are reported in their forums.

I am not sure what is new in this update over the previous beta but if you want to give it a spin head to www.blackberry.com/beta and get the new download and your keycode.

Supposedly these features and bugs are fixed in the 5.0.1.XX versions:

Chats

• If you have BlackBerry® Device Software 4.7.1 or lower on your BlackBerry device, you could not use the spelling checker in a chat.

• If a file transfer request expired, you could not receive new files.

• File transfer requests expired after a short amount of time.

• You might not have been able to send voice notes.

• You could not preview a picture before saving it to your device.

• The file transfer speed has been improved.
• In the Camera application, if you took a picture and tried to send it to a contact, the file transfer in BlackBerry® Messenger did not complete and the contact did not receive the picture.
• Temporary files that were associated with pictures that you sent or received were not automatically deleted when you ended a chat.
• A picture that you received might have appeared as a white square and you could not receive a higher quality version of the picture.
• If you viewed a picture that you received and tried to forward it to a contact from the menu, the contact did not receive the picture.
• If you saved a picture that you received from a contact to your device and clicked the thumbnail in the chat, the picture did not display.
• If you have BlackBerry® Device Software 4.7.1 or lower on your BlackBerry® device, you could not use the spelling checker in a chat.
• After you read a new message, the new message indicator might have remained on the BlackBerry Messenger icon.
• During a chat, the Edit Autotext option did not appear in the menu.
• In some cases, if you received a new message, you might not have been able to view it.
• You might not have been able to send your GPS location to a contact.

General

• If you changed your status to Busy, contacts might have continued to see your status as Available.

• Display pictures might not have appeared.
• After changing the contact list style from 2 lines to 1 line, the recent updates list might have looked scrambled.
• If you removed your BlackBerry® device from the holster after receiving a new BlackBerry® Messenger message, the message did not automatically display.
• After you add a new contact, the activity updates list indicated that the contact’s display picture and display name have changed.
• If you turned your device off or removed the battery, when your device turned back on, some of your contacts might have not appeared in your contact list.

Groups

• In group chats, some emoticons might appear to be cut off in messages.
• If you tried to join a group by scanning a group barcode, and if 30 people had already scanned the barcode, you received a "This invitation has expired or has already been used by someone else" error message and could not join the group.
• If you took a picture with your device in the portrait view and shared it with a group, the shared picture might have appeared in the landscape view instead, or vice versa.
• If you changed the Chat Style option to Bubbles, you might have noticed some display issues in your chats and some of your group chats might not have updated.
• If a contact switched devices, the contact might have no longer been linked with the Contacts application.
• After changing the contact list style from 2 lines to 1 line, the recent updates list might have looked scrambled.