Software-update: Pidgin 2.6.2

Zaterdag is versie 2.6.2 van Pidgin uitgebracht. Dit multiprotocol instantmessagingprogramma kan overweg met de netwerken van AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, irc, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, Silc, Simple, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo en Zephyr. Tijdens de installatie kan uit maar liefst zeventig verschillende talen worden gekozen en kan spellingscontrole worden toegevoegd. Binaries zijn beschikbaar voor Windows, maar de broncode kan onder Linux worden gecompileerd en is prima in Gnome en KDE te integreren. Voor Mac OS X-gebruikers is er Adium X.

In versie 2.6.0 is er een nieuwere versie van libpurple in gebruik genomen, die nu video en spraak mogelijk maakt. Op dit moment werkt dit alleen nog maar met het XMPP-protocol (Jabber en Google Talk), echter nog niet in de Windowsversie. De nieuwe versie van libpurple maakt het ook mogelijk om het uiterlijk van Pidgin aan te passen. Sinds versie 2.6.0 zijn verder de volgende veranderingen aan het programma aangebracht:

Changes in version 2.6.2

libpurple

• Fix --disable-avahi to actually disable it in configure, as opposed to just making the warning non-fatal.
• Fix using GNOME proxy settings properly. (Erik van Pienbroek)

IRC

• Fix parsing of invalid TOPIC messages. (CVE-2009-2703)

MSN

• Sending custom smileys in chats is now supported.
• Ink messages are now saved when using the HTML logger.
• Fix a crash when receiving some handwritten messages.
• Fix a crash when receiving certain SLP invite messages.
• Chats with multiple people should no longer spontaneously disconnect.

XMPP

• Prompt the user before cancelling a presence subscription.
• Escape status messages that have HTML entities in the Get Info dialog.
• Fix connecting to XMPP domains with no SRV records from Pidgin on Windows.
• Fix typing notifications with Pidgin 2.5.9 or earlier.
• Fix connecting using BOSH and legacy authentication (XEP-0078).
• Adding buddies of the form "romeo@…/Resource" are handled properly. In addition, it is no longer possible to add buddies of the form "room@…/User", where room@… is a MUC.
• Don't crash when receiving "smileyfied" XHTML-IM from clients that don't support bits of binary (ie. when getting an empty <data/> in return)
• Fix bug where SSL/TLS was not required even though the "require SSL/TLS" preference checked when connecting to servers that use the older iq-based authentication. (CVE-2009-3026)

Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN

• Accounts now have "Use account proxy for SSL connections" option. This option force-overrides the account specific proxy settings for SSL connections only and instead uses the global proxy configuration.

Finch

• Properly detect libpanel on OpenBSD. (Brad Smith)
• Remove IO watches in gnt_quit. (Tomasz Mon)

Pidgin

• Fix the auto-personize functionality in the Buddy List.
• Set the window icon for the media window to an icon corresponding to the type of call (headphone or webcam).
• Customized sound files are no longer reset whenever opening the Preferences dialog.
• The buddy list should now immediately refresh upon changing the icon theme.

Changes in version 2.6.1

Bugs fixed

• Fix a crash when some users send you a link in a Yahoo IM
• Fix compilation with GTK+ < 2.6.0
• Fix compilation on Windows