Pidgin 2.10.7

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.

Title:: Pidgin 2.10.7
File Size:: 9.0 MB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 13 Feb 2013
Publisher:: Gaim
Homepage:: http://www.pidgin.im
MD5 Checksum:: 8CA6952DC5AED9193F2D85AC633736B8

# General
* The configure script will now exit with status 1 when specifying invalid protocol plugins using the --with-static-prpls and --with-dynamic-prpls arguments.
# libpurple
* Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values.
* Don't link directly to libgcrypt when building with GnuTLS support.
* Fix UPnP mappings on routers that return empty <URLBase/> elements in their response.
* Tcl plugin uses saner, race-free plugin loading.
* Fix the Tcl signals-test plugin for savedstatus-changed.
# Pidgin
* Make Pidgin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts?' +no_x11 variant.
# Gadu-Gadu
* Fix a crash at startup with large contact list. Avatar support for buddies will be disabled until 3.0.0.
# IRC
* Support for SASL authentication.
* Print topic setter information at channel join.
# MSN
* Fix SSL certificate issue when signing into MSN for some users.
* Fix a crash when removing a user before its icon is loaded.
# MXit
* Fix two bugs where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local file path to be written to.
* Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could potentially send specially crafted data that could overflow a buffer and lead to a crash or remote code execution.
* Display farewell messages in a different colour to distinguish them from normal messages.
* Add support for typing notification.
* Add support for the Relationship Status profile attribute.
* Remove all reference to Hidden Number.
* Ignore new invites to join a GroupChat? if you're already joined, or still have a pending invite.
* The buddy's name was not centered vertically in the buddy-list if they did not have a status-message or mood set.
* Fix decoding of font-size changes in the markup of received messages.
* Increase the maximum file size that can be transferred to 1 MB.
* When setting an avatar image, no longer downscale it to 96x96.
# Sametime
* Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends us an abnormally long user ID.
# Yahoo'''
* Fix a double-free in profile/picture loading code.
* Fix retrieving server-side buddy aliases.
# Plugins
* The Voice/Video? Settings plugin supports using the sndio GStreamer backends.
* Fix a crash in the Contact Availability Detection plugin.
* Make the Message Notification plugin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts?' +no_x11 variant.
# Windows-Specific Changes
* Compile with secure flags
* Installer downloads GTK+ Runtime and Debug Symbols more securely.
* Updates to a number of dependencies, some of which have security related fixes.
- ATK 1.32.0-2
- Cyrus SASL 2.1.25
- expat 2.1.0-1
- freetype 2.4.10-1
- gettext 0.18.1.1-2
- Glib 2.28.8-1
- libpng 1.4.12-1
- libxml2 2.9.0-1
- NSS 3.13.6 and NSPR 4.9.2
- Pango 1.29.4-1
- SILC 1.1.10
- zlib 1.2.5-2
* Patch libmeanwhile (sametime library) to fix crash.