Pidgin 2.5.6

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 2.5.6
File Size:: 13.7 MB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 20 May 2009
Publisher:: Gaim
Homepage:: http://www.pidgin.im
MD5 Checksum:: 0BC96B7C06D32C67DE761D97566807A2

* libpurple
o Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
o Fix various crashes on exit.
o Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
o Many security related fixes

* IRC
o Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of channels.
o Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying fallback nicks.

* MSN
o Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
o Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.

* XMPP
o Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.

* Yahoo
o Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
o Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.