Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Pidgin 2.5.0 - Multi-Protocol Instant Messaging Client

Pidgin 2.5.0 (Windows, Open Source, 12.4MB) [alt DL] 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:

  • libpurple: Ability to create custom smileys
  • libpurple: Add a configure option, --with-system-ssl-certs to allow packagers to specify a system-wide SSL CA certificates directory.
  • libpurple: Add SSL Certificates support to the NSS SSL plugin
  • XMPP: Fix a bug that caused the UI to not refresh and caused the client to use 99% CPU when an XMPP account lost its connection to the server.
  • XMPP: Possibly fix a bug where some clients could get into a state where they moved a buddy back and forth between two groups in an endless loop.
  • IRC: Allow for auto-detection of incoming UTF-8 formatted text on
    accounts which are configured to use some other encoding.
  • MSN: Update MSN support to protocol 15
  • MSN: Personal messages are now supported.
  • MSN: Offline IM is now supported.
  • MSN: Aliasing is now supported server-side.
  • MSN: Buddies are now emblemed. Bots and web clients should now be
    distinguished.
  • MSN: Update smiley set for non-faces.
  • MSN: Failing to update a buddy icon when the buddy has gone offline no
    longer crashes.
  • MSN: Custom smileys received in a chat no longer go to a new window.
  • MSN: Processing is no longer completely frozen after the servers block a
    message because it contains (what they consider) inappropriate text.
  • And more.

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