Download Pidgin 2.3.1

As is often the case after a major release, a successor follows shortly after to smooth out some minor creases. Likewise with Pidgin. Version 2.3.0 saw the light of day at the end of November and now 2.3.1 has become available. Previously known as Gaim, Pidgin can handle the networks of AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE and Zephyr. The software is open source and is released under version 2 of the gpl license. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Changes in version 2.3.1:

• Fixed a number of MSN bugs introduced in 2.3.0, resolving problems connecting to MSN and random local display name changes
• Going idle on MySpaceIM will no longer clear your status and message.
• Idle MySpaceIM buddies should now appear online at login.
• Fixed crashes in XMPP when discovering a client’s capabilities
• Don’t set the current tune title if it’s NULL (XMPP/Google Talk)
• Don’t allow buddies to be manually added to Bonjour
• Don’t advertise IPv6 on Bonjour because we don’t support it
• Compile fixes for FreeBSD and Solaris
• Update QQ client version so some accounts can connect again
• Do not allow ISON requests to stack in IRC, preventing flooding IRC servers when temporary network outages are restored
• Plug several leaks in the perl plugin loader
• Prevent autoaccept plugin overwriting existing files

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