Pidgin 2.4.3 - Multi-Protocol IM Client

Pidgin 2.4.3 (Windows, Open Source, 12.3MB) [download via FileHippo] is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client that is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients
  and restoring compatibility with the web messenger
• Setting your buddy icon once again works for Yahoo! accounts.
• Fixes in the Yahoo! protocol to prevent a double free, crashes on
  aliases, and alias functionality
• Always use UTF-8 for Yahoo!
• Fix a crash when the given jabber id is invalid.
• Make the IRC "unknown message" debugging messages UTF-8 safe.
• Fix connecting to ICQ
• Fix a memleak when handling jabber xforms.
• Include the send button plugin in the win32 build
• Various memory leak fixes

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