Pidgin is voorzien van een update naar versie 2.7.1. 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 het programma is prima in Gnome en de KDE SC te integreren. De Mac OS X-port wordt uitgebracht onder de naam Adium. Het changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
GeneralPidgin
- Build fixes on OpenSolaris. (Brian Lu)
- Add configure option --enable-trayicon-compat which installs tray icons into directories that are compatible with older versions of hicolor-icon-theme (0.9).
Bonjour
- Restore the tray icon's blinking functionality.
- Fix a crash setting moods when an account is disconnected.
ICQ
- Fix a crash on disconnect.
MSN
- Fix bug that caused HTML to be displayed in incoming messages.
XMPP
- Fix unnecessary bandwidth consumption for buddy icon requests when buddies have capital letters in their passport addresses.
- Support for direct connections, enabling faster file transfers, smiley and buddy icon loading. (Gábor Szuromi)
MXit
- Allow connecting to servers that advertise EXTERNAL (broken in 2.7.0)
Windows-Specific Changes
- Replace the MXit-specific mood management with the new standard Moods API.
- Add the standard MXit emoticons.
- Improve the handling of users being kicked from MultiMX rooms.
- MXit doesn't allow you to see your buddy's Email Address or Title, so remove those two fields from the "Buddy Information" page.
- Show buddy's Registration Country in their profile.
- Increment protocol version to v6.0
- If an invite you sent was rejected with a reason, display that message in the buddy tooltip.
- CAPTCHA value is a required field during account activation. (Resolves issue on Maemo)
- When your avatar image is changed, don't forget the user's profile information.
- Fix a regression introduced in 2.7.0 that caused Window Flashing not to work.
