Download Pidgin 2.14.4

Version 2.14.4 of Pidgin has been released. This multi-protocol instant messaging program can handle the networks of Jabber/XMPP† Bonjour† Gadu-Gadu† IRC† MicroFocus GroupWise Messenger† HCL Sametime† SILC† SIMPLE and Zephyr† By means of plugins, the functionality is even further expand† Downloads are available for Windows, Linux, and BSD. The macOS port is released under the name Adium. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Version 2.14.4

General:

• Use LT_LIB_M to find the math library. This should simplify things for various distros including the BSDs. (RR #608) (and, Justin Lechner)

libpurple:

• Removed a dangling reference to oscar that was causing the unit tests to fail. (RR #605) (Gary Kramlich)
• Update purple-remote and purple-url-handler to have a Python 3 shebang. (RR #609) (Richard Lager)

Pidgin:

• Install our AppData file into the $prefix/share/metainfo. (RR 607) (Lars Wendler)
• Re-enable the Gevolution plugin and set the evolution-data-server requirement to >= 3.6. (RR #610) (Ed Catmur, Lars Wendler)

Windows Specific Changes:

• Output pkg-config files so that our Windows builds can be seen by meson. Grim owes a blog post on how this works. (RR #615) (Gary Kramlich)
• Update the debug symbols download in the installer to the inetc plugin. (RR #627) (Gary Kramlich)
• Make sure the uninstaller removes all files that we install. (RR #612) (Gary Kramlich)

Version 2.14.3

libpurple:

• Removed the AIM protocol plugin. AIM has been shut down since December 15th of 2017. We left it around because of a third party server, but our plugin no longer works with it. (RR #598) (Gary Kramlich)

Windows Specific Changes:

• Standardize on wprintf in pidgin/win32/winpidgin.c (RR #593) (Gary Kramlich)
• Use the inetc nsis plugin that supports https (RR #593, #594) (PIDGIN-17511) (Gary Kramlich)
• If building under msys2 copy libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll and libwinpthread to the install directory. (RR #593) (PIDGIN-17511) (Gary Kramlich)