Blaq for BlackBerry PlayBook 1.7.1 now available

Blaq for BlackBerry® PlayBook™ 1.7.1 is now available for download. This is mainly a maintenance release.

Here’s what’s new:

Timeline position is held if new tweets are loaded while scrolled (instead of jumping to top)
Reduced application size
Reduced memory footprint
Big performance improvements
Improved scrolling
New splash screen
E-mail Tweet
Font appearance preview

And here are some significant bug fixes:

Real-time streaming fixes (caused by server changes to Twitter’s streaming on Monday)
Long urls in tweets sometimes overflow into the tweet below them
Mini browser does not rotate when moving from portrait to landscape and vice versa
Tweets over 140 characters are still sendable if the virtual keyboard’s return key is used
When tweeting a photo, a lack of space between the link and surrounding text make it unclickable
When replying to a retweet, replies should be directed to original tweeter
Duplicate tweets

As always, if you’re having an issue, do not hesitate to contact support by using the contact form, sending a mention to @KisaiLabs or @Blaq

If you don’t have Blaq, now’s a great time to give it a try:

Jerome Carty is lead developer at Kisai Labs. You can find him on @JCarty on Twitter.