Ced's Files: Pidgin 2.5.3 - Multi-protocol Instant Messaging Client

Pidgin 2.5.3 (Windows, Open Source, 13.1MB) [alt DL] is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) 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, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups.
The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN Passport ID's, etc. into links.
purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve the text of the current status message.
Various fixes to the nullprpl.
Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not connected.
Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this function is called before the buddy list is initialized.
Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs
On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party clients.
Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages. The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups.
Fix a crash caused by authorization requests.
And more fixes for Gadu-Gadu, MSN, MySpace, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo