Download Pidgin 2.7.11

Pidgin has been updated to version 2.7.11. This version has been on the internet for a few days, but has now also officially appeared on the Pidgin website itself. This multi-protocol instant messaging program can handle the networks of AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, irc, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, Silc, Simple, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo and Zephyr. During installation, you can choose from as many as seventy different languages ​​and add spell check. Binaries are available for Windows, but the source code can be compiled under Linux. The program also integrates well into Gnome and the KDE SC. The Mac OS X port is released under the name Adium. The changelog for this release looks like this:

General:

• Our bundled libgadu should now build on HP-UX.
• Fix some instances of file transfers never completing. (Cristi Posoiu) (#12472)

Pidgin:

• Sort by Status no longer causes buddies to move around when you click them.
• Fix embedding in the system tray on older GTK+ releases (such as on CentOS 5.5 and older Fedora).
• No longer require libstartup-notification for startup notification support. GTK+ has included support for years, so use it instead. (David Benjamin) (#13245)

AIM:

• Fix a bug where some buddies from your buddy list might not show up. Affected non-English ICQ users the most. (#13386)
• Send keepalives for all types of network connections. Will hopefully make chat rooms more reliable. (#1449)

MSN:

• Fix bug that prevented added buddies to your buddy list in certain circumstances. (#13298)

XMPP:

• Fix building on platforms with an older glib (inadvertantly broken in 2.7.10). (#13329)
• Don’t treat the on-join status storms as ‘new arrivals’. (Thijs Alkemade) (#a14527)
• Extend the /join command to support room JIDs, enabling you to join a room on any server. (Solarius, Matej Cepl, Tirtha ‘wyuka’ Chatterjee) (#4526)
• Add support for receiving a limited amount of history when joining a room (not currently supported by Pidgin and Finch). (Thijs Alkemade) (#10986, #a14219)

Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN:

• Fix CVE-2011-1091, denials of service caused by NULL pointer dereferences due to improper handling of malformed YMSG packets. Thanks to Marius Wachtler for reporting this and reviewing the fix!