Hi Everyone. Wanted to provide another status report on the version 1.7 progress. All three editions are now complete and going through extensive testing. More than 50% of the code has been updated in this version so it requires a little more testing than normal. I spent a lot of time optimizing the code, improving performance where I could and squashed a number of bugs along the way. Here is the final change log:

1.7.0.0

• Added support for Chatter API version 28.0
• Added initial support for Topics
• Added the ability to set a default topic or hash tag for the web part
• Added Post To control to target posting of content to followers or group
• Added Find on Chatter ribbon option to allow for searching of SharePoint content on Chatter
• Added support for viewing attachments in comments
• Fixed issue where web part would hang following authentication
• Fixed issue where web part could get stuck in a refresh loop if unable to write settings to web.config
• Fixed issue where sites without the Ribbon could not authorize clients due to missing sp.js reference
• Removed ‘Fast Load for Cached Content’ setting in web part properties panel
• Improved Share on Chatter functionality
  • Post to group from web part and ribbon
  • Post files to group from web part and ribbon
  • Upload files from SharePoint document libraries to Chatter
• Improved formatting of Polls
• Improved performance of web part load times
• Improved debug messages

Looking to release the new version the week of July 22^nd. Thanks for everyone’s input and patience – and thanks for using Chatter for SharePoint!