Gaim - ( Open Source)
Chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger and stay on an IRC channel at the same time is possible when using Pidgin software.
Pidgin is an email client that allows to chat with MSN, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ and other contacts, from a single interface. Available in several languages, this software offers convenient features to comfortably talk.
Pidgin software brings together in a single window the AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber / XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu- Gadu, IRC, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MXit, MySpaceIM and Zephyr contacts.
The application gives the ability to chat with multiple contacts at once even if they come from different networks discussion. It is even possible to make a conference if necessary.
Even if the icons of contacts for each account are already marked by their respective icons, it does not prevent the user to create customized friends, relatives, colleagues categories, etc.
Pidgin offers several smileys to liven up the discussion. As the software supports adding plugins, user can also download more smileys on the Internet to enrich the library.
# General
- Check the basic constraints extension when validating SSL/TLS certificates. This fixes a security hole that allowed a malicious man-in-the-middle to impersonate an IM server or any other https endpoint. This affected both the NSS and GnuTLS plugins. Allow and prefer TLS 1.2 and 1.1 when using the NSS plugin for SSL.
# libpurple3 compatibility
- Encrypted account passwords are preserved until the new one is set.
- Fix loading Google Talk and Facebook XMPP accounts.
# Windows-Specific Changes
- Don't allow overwriting arbitrary files on the file system when the user installs a smiley theme via drag-and-drop.
- Updates to dependencies NSS 3.17.1 and NSPR 4.10.7
# Finch
- Fix build against Python 3.
# Gadu-Gadu
- Updated internal libgadu to version 1.12.0.
# Groupwise
- Fix potential remote crash parsing server message that indicates that a large amount of memory should be allocated.
# IRC
- Fix a possible leak of unencrypted data when using /me command with OTR.
# MXit
- Fix potential remote crash parsing a malformed emoticon response.