Maandag heeft Pidgin 2.4.1 het levenslicht gezien. Pidgin, dat voorheen onder de naam Gaim opereerde, kan overweg met de netwerken van AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, irc, Novell Groupwise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple en Zephyr. De software is beschikbaar voor Windows en Linux en is prima in Gnome 2 en KDE 3.1 te integreren. Voor Mac OS X-gebruikers is er Adium. Pidgin is opensource en wordt onder versie 2 van de gpl-licentie uitgebracht. Het changelog van deze release laat de volgende veranderingen zien:
libpurplePidgin
- 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 (Tomasz Salacinski)
- 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.
Finch
- 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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- Fix compiling with Glib older than 2.6
- Ensure existing conversations selected from the 'Send IM' dialog are given focus
- Move the tooltip on the left of the buddylist if there's not enough room on the right to show it.
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