Pidgin is een instantmessagingclient, die meerdere im-protocollen ondersteunt, voor Windows en Unix-achtige besturingssystemen. Hiermee kunnen berichten uitgewisseld worden via verschillende im-netwerken, zoals msn, aim, xmpp, icq en irc. De ontwikkelaars hebben een nieuwe versie met 2.5.2 als het versienummer uitgebracht. Hier zijn weer verschillende oplossingen voor tal van kleine bugs in terug te vinden en men voegt daarnaast ondersteuning voor custom smileys volgens de xep-0231 en xhtml-im specificaties aan xmpp toe. De meegeleverde lijst met veranderingen ziet er als volgt uit:
libpurple:Pidgin:
- Fixed a crash on removing a custom buddy icon on a buddy.
- Fixed a crash caused by certain self-signed SSL certificates.
- Enable a number of strong ciphers which were previously disabled when using NSS. (Thanks to Marcus Trautwig.)
Finch:
- The status selector now saves your message when changing status.
- Fix a case where a conversation window could close unexpectedly.
- A mute sounds option has been added to the preferences window to help with discoverability. CTRL+S is no longer bound to mute.
- Added ability to change the color of visited links (using the theme control plugin, or setting the color in ~/.gtkrc-2.0)
- Fix a crash occuring when a custom smiley is deleted and re-added and used in an open conversation after being re-added.
MSN:
- A new 'Nested Grouping' option in the 'Grouping' plugin. Group hierarchies are defined by the '/' character in the group names.
- A bug was fixed where some key-bindings wouldn't work with some TERMs (e.g. xterm-color, screen-linux etc.)
XMPP:
- Operations (such as moving to a new group) on contacts that were added in the same session should now complete correctly, and not cause synchronization errors at next login.
- Minor fixes to login process during a server transfer.
- Restored the "Has You" feature to the MSN protocol tooltips.
- ADL 205/214/etc errors should no longer prevent login.
Yahoo:
- Sending and receiving custom smileys using the specification in XEP-0231 (bits of binary) and XHTML-IM
- Only send a Ping once every hour. This prevents the account from being disconnected from the server periodically.