Pidgin 2.4.1 - Multi-Protocol Instant Messaging Client

Pidgin 2.4.1 (Windows, Open Source, 12.4MB) is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• ibpurple
  • Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this should have no functional effect, other than continued support on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions.
  • Add support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu
  • Fix a crash when clearing the buddy icon for an account on XMPP
  • Fix a crash during login for some ICQ accounts
  • Prefer more available resources on XMPP when priorities are equal
  • Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked
  • Improved handling of UTF-8 group names on ICQ (beret)
  • Fix a crash when starting if you have a Zephyr account
  • Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network connections from timing out unnecessarily.
  • Don't crash on XMPP forms with empty default values.
  • Fix issues with CHAP authentication for SOCKS5 proxies.

• Pidgin
  • Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing crashes on some non-Linux systems such as HPUX
  • Fix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high
  • Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when they have '&' in them
  • Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin
  • Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy list

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