Pidgin 2.10.0
Universal instant messenger client for AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC, Yahoo, and Jabber
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), Yahoo, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Jabber and Zephyr networks.
Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer (coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification.
Pidgin also goes beyond that and provides many unique features.
A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, and more.
Note: Pidgin downloads an appropriate version of GTK+. GTK+ is now installed locally for Pidgin, and not system-wide, thus Pidgin will not interfere with other GTK+ apps on your system.
If you would like to have GTK+ included in the installer, you can download an offline installer that bundles everything except spell-checking dictionaries.
Requirements:
· GTK
What’s New in This Release:
Pidgin:
· Make the max size of incoming smileys a pref instead of hardcoding it. (#5231)
· Added a plugin information dialog to show information for plugins that aren’t otherwise visible in the plugins dialog.
· Fix building with GTK+ earlier than 2.14.0 (GTK+ 2.10 is still the minimum supported) (#14261)
libpurple:
· Fix a potential crash in the Log Reader plugin when reading QIP logs.
· Fix a large number of strcpy() and strcat() invocations to use strlcpy() and strlcat(), etc., forestalling an entire class of string buffer overrun bugs.
· Change some filename manipulations in filectl.c to use MAXPATHLEN instead of arbitrary length constants.
· Fix endianness-related crash in NTLM authentication (#14163)
Gadu-Gadu:
· Fixed searching for buddies in public directory. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#5242)
· Better status message handling. (#14314)
· Merged two buddy blocking methods. (#5303)
· Fix building of the bundled libgadu library with older versions of GnuTLS. (patch plucked from …