Pidgin 2.7.6

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 2.7.6
File Size:: 9.1 MB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 21 Nov 2010
Publisher:: Gaim
Homepage:: http://www.pidgin.im
MD5 Checksum:: 4E35EA4A5D1904D0DCE183BA28EE3433

# General:
- Included Microsoft Internet Authority 2010 and Microsoft Secure Server Authority 2010 intermediate CA certificates to our bundle. This fixes the "Unable to validate certificate" error for omega.contacts.msn.com.

# Pidgin:
- Avoid a use-after-free race condition in the media code (when there's an error reported by GStreamer).

# AIM and ICQ:
- SSL option has been changed to a tri-state menu with choices for "Don't Use Encryption", "Use Encryption if Available", and "Require Encryption".
- Fix some possible clientLogin URL issues introduced in version 2.7.5.
- Don't show a "<URL>: Ok" connection error when using clientLogin.
- Cleaned up some debug output for improved readability.

# MSN:
- Added support for MSNP16, including Multiple Points of Presence (MPOP) which allows multiple simultaneous sign-ins.
- Added extended capabilities support (none implemented).
- Merged the work done on the Google SoC (major rewrite of SLP code)
- Reworked the data transfer architecture. (SlpArchitecture)
- Lots of little changes.
- Don't process zero-length DC messages.
- Fixed a bunch of memory leaks.
- Prevent a use-after-free condition.

# XMPP:
- Avoid a double-free in the Google Relay (V/V) code.
- Avoid double error message when failing a file transfer.
- Password-related information is printed out for SASL authentication when the PURPLE_UNSAFE_DEBUG environment variable is set.
- Authentication mechanisms can now be added by UI's or other plugins with some work. This is outside the API/ABI rules!
- Fixed a few printf("%s", NULL) crashes for broken OSes.

# Windows-Specific Changes:
- Build the Pidgin Theme Editor plugin (finally).
- Untarring (for themes) now works for non-ASCII destination paths.