Hi Everyone. It is with great pleasure I release version 1.8 of Chatter for SharePoint – and with it the long-awaited support for Chatter Free. You asked, I found a way. Thanks go out to my beta testers for taking the time to run 1.8 through its paces. This version also includes some great new functionality – including support for thumbnails/previews and direct downloading of attachments right within the chatter feed. The full change log is below. You can download the updated version here.

Changes in 1.8:

• Added Chatter Free support
• Added support for attachment thumbnail/preview images
• Added direct-download of SalesForce attachments in feed items
• Added new verbose logging option to web.config
• Fixed issue where comments on Links or Files would not be posted with the item
• Fixed issue with finding correct web.config with multiple AAMs
• Fixed issue where group selector would be blank if user was not a member of any groups
• Fixed issue where the web part would not properly detect a Team Site in edit mode
• Updated web part branding styles
• Improved formatting of posts in Read Only mode
• Web Part Properties panel now updates it’s values from web.config after the initial configuration
• Cleaned up deprecated code
• New ‘Edit Mode’ information panel
• Minor fixes

Thanks for using Chatter for SharePoint!