Hey folks!

Have you heard? Prepaid cards are almost here! Starting June 24th, you will be able to buy prepaid cards in Target stores across the country. If you've been looking for another way to get credits, here it is! You'll even get an exclusive gift. One week later, on July 1st, you will also be able to find prepaid cards in Blockbuster, 7-11 and Speedway stores.

If you want to know more about the prepaid cards, you can go here and read up all about them, and to redeem them once you get one. We'll see you in stores!

We're moving some things around and some of you have had trouble finding the IMVU Garage, which contains links to the Web Inventory, the IMVU Toolbar, Free Spin and the IMVU Mobile Alpha -- you can find IMVU Garage here.

To review your credit transaction history, click on the "Account" tab at the top of any IMVU web page, go to the panel in the middle of the page entitled "Order History" and click on "View Credits Balance Log". Each credit transaction you made is listed on that table, as are any credit changes made to your account (rewards, referrals, adjustments etc). You can look up transactions by date.

Hey everyone,

Release 395.0 is now available and you can download it by connecting and using the autodownloader or going to either of the following links:

http://imvu.com/installers/InstallIMVU_395.0_full.exe
http://imvu.com/installers/InstallIMVU_395.0.exe

395.0 release notes:
- Fix a bug where certain classes of network errors could crash the application
- Resolve one cause of loading product errors
- Catch loading product failures we were previously missing
- Remove some wasted space in log files
- Catch improperly formed server requests earlier
- Fix a crash

If you're interested in trying the flash inventory, you can do so with this version and by going to the following link:

http://www.imvu.com/catalog/flash_inventory_optin.php

Enjoy!

~c.

Cliff "Devinoch" Hicks
Community Manager

Hey everyone,

I know it's been a long time coming, but release 394.0 is now available. We spent a good time working on bug fixing and tracking down some of the more frustrating bugs that have been annoying both our users and ourselves! Here's a link to the new release (or you can just restart the client and the download should be offered) as well as the release notes:

http://www.imvu.com/installers/InstallIMVU_394.0_full.exe

Release notes:

- Fixed the MSVCR71.DLL failure when updating the client.
- Fixed bug where animations would not play if you alternating between invoking them from the avatar menu and typing trigger words.
- Fixed bug where mousewheel can't zoom view when text chat field has focus.
- Fixed chat log so that it contains avatar names.
- Fixed bug where users in the 'client inventory panel' experiment would not see the inventory or "things to do" panels.
- Fixed bug where, in a public room, sometimes you could have the boot menu when you shouldn't, and vice versa.
- Fixed bug where links from website to client don't work on Vista
- Fixed a bug where a user would be booted from group chat if someone else left and then invited you to chat
- Fixed bug where avatars would show up as ghosts. Note that this is only fixed for people running this new version - i.e. once installed _you_ will no longer become a ghost, but you may see other people (running earlier versions) as ghosts.
- Fixed a crash for some Arabic language users
- Fixed a crash that could happen when downloading products
- Fixed bug where using the dress-up pass to try on a product wouldn't always work.
- Fixed a bug where, if you invited another user to a one-on-one chat, you might end up in different rooms.
- Fixed a security problem with the *boot command
- Fixed several bugs that caused a white screen when opening the 3D window under certain circumstances. Added logging in other cases where the white screen may still be triggered
- Potentially fixed the 'chat lag' that some people have been seeing.
- Added automatic reporting of blue screens that occur while IMVU is running.
- Improved information sent to IMVU in bug reports
- When attempting to try on a room (which will not work), show a message
- Updates to translation framework
- Added new VIP coop actions Comfort Hug and Cradle Kiss

Thanks again for all your patience!

~c.
Cliff "Devinoch" Hicks
Community Manager