Yesterday, Twitter disabled the basic username/password authentication for client applications. This is a move toward greater security but it did mean that anyone using Gwibber will suddenly have found that their Twitter stream stopped updating.
A mere matter of hours later and an updated version of Gwibber has been pushed out that supports the new “OAuth” method.
People using openSUSE have two options to get hold of a fixed version. The first is to follow the relevant links on the openSUSE wiki entry for Gwibber and grab the version from GNOME:Apps. I just sent an update request for this package so again, in a matter of hours at most, you should get an update.
If you can’t wait that long, you can get the latest version from home:Riggwelter:GNOME. This package comes with a health warning though. Although at this moment it is the same as the version in GNOME:Apps, it tends to track the very latest code ahead of a released version. That can occasionally cause problems and instability.
I’m going to try to get a patch done for the packages that were in 11.3 for those who don’t want to add any repositories but that could take some time – and may not happen at all.
Just to be clear, I recommend using the packages in GNOME:Apps.
