Download Pidgin 2.10.4

Version 2.10.4 of Pidgin has been released. 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 version 2.10.4 looks like this:

General:

• Support building against Farstream in addition to Farsight. (Olivier Crete) (#14936)

IRC:

• Disable periodic WHO timer. IRC channel user lists will no longer automatically display away status, but libpurple will be much kinder to the network.
• Print unknown numerics to channel windows if we can associate them. Thanks to Marien Zwart. (#15090)

MSN:

• Fix a possible crash when receiving messages with certain characters or character encodings. Thanks to Fabian Yamaguchi for reporting this!

XMPP:

• Fix a possible crash when receiving a series of specially crafted file transfer requests. Thanks to José Valentín Gutiérrez for reporting this! (CVE-2012-2214)

Windows Specific Changes:

• Words added to spell check dictionaries are saved across restarts of Pidgin (#11886)