Though its impossible to know by browsing their website, Yammer has released a new update for their Adobe AIR desktop client. If you already use the desktop client, you should have been prompted with an update window that asked you to update the app. Being on the Adobe AIR platform, updating apps is a snap and can be done in less than 30 seconds and a few clicks.

Updates and changes to the client include:

Optional new designs (found in preferences–the wrench icon in upper right)

Though the new dark and light themes are nice to have from a user’s perspective, I still find the default theme to be the most appealing.

What I would really love to see would be user and/or admin customization of the interface colors. This would allow company admins to design interfaces that fit in with their corporate color scheme.

Made it easier to resize window (drag bottom or right edges)

Corrected tab order (all, following, received, sent) to match website

Performance and memory improvements

Ability to close application without logging in

I noticed on the original version that with the “start Yammer upon loading” option selected, it would never actually log me in. With the new update, it works flawlessly, allowing me to get started with Yammer first thing in the morning.

Added “from Desktop”, “from Blackberry”, etc. to messages display

This feature falls in line with how services like Twitter state which source the message is originating from. It’s not critical information, but it is neat to see how different employees or peers are using the service.

To determine which version you are running (current version of this writing is v100101), click on the wrench icon in the upper right and it is displayed near the bottom.

When you update the app a link is given to the release notes, something fairly common in software and application development, but you’ll need to save that link if you want to go back later and check on other updates, as the release notes are not linked to from anywhere on the Yammer website.