MSN Messenger 5.0.340 has made its way to the net.Complete with all the features of the 5 series messengers. Some differences are v.340 needs no patch to get you up and online.
"Although preliminary tests showed no sign of the issues that plagued the previous builds, (automatic Sign Out) we have since noticed the same behavior on a few of our test machines. Only time will tell if this version too will be nearly unusable."