Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!,
IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and
Zephyr networks. Gaim 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, away messages, and typing notification. It 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, spell checking, tabbed
conversations, and more. Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including
Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).
What's New:
- Pidgin
- Fix a potential remote denial-of-service bug related to displaying
buddy icons.
- Significantly improved performance of larger IRC channels
(regression introduced in 2.8.0).
- Fix Conversation->Add on AIM and MSN.
- Entries in the chat user list are sorted properly again. This was
inadvertenly broken in 2.8.0.
- Finch
- libpurple
- media: Actually use the specified TCP port from the TURN
configuration to create a TCP relay candidate.
- AIM and ICQ
- Fix crashes on some non-mainstream OSes when attempting to
printf("%s", NULL). (Clemens Huebner) (#14297)
- Plugins
- The Evolution Integration plugin compiles again.
