Download Gaim 1.2.1

The open source and cross platform instant messenger Gaim has been updated to version 1.2.1. The update is from this page for several Linux distributions, the Windows version is still missing as of this writing. Gaim allows you to chat over the networks of AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It is possible to be logged in to the different networks at the same time. The following bugs have been fixed in this release, including a number of vulnerabilities closed†

version 1.2.1

• URL escaping now works with UTF-8 text. This may break some old log files.
• Revert to XOR auth for ICQ as the md5 is not fully functional
• Fix bug with going away while in a jabber chat
• MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
• Escape things properly in IRC