The latest version has the newest libgaim, which has all the file transfer improvements from Google's "Summer of Code." It's a lot better now, though admittedly still not as good as iChat. However, as a general AIM (and everything else) client, it's way better. I use it to chat. For the few times when its file transfer doesn't work now (or I need A/V), I fire up iChat. It's good to have both, but I wouldn't want to have to use iChat full time. For one... no good logging engine!