Download Pidgin 2.4.1

On Monday, Pidgin 2.4.1 saw the light of day. Pidgin, formerly known as Gaim, can work with 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 available for Windows and Linux and can be easily integrated into Gnome 2 and KDE 3.1. For Mac OS X users, there’s Adium. Pidgin is open source and is released under version 2 of the gpl license. The changelog for this release shows the following changes:

libpurple

• Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this should have no functional effect, other than continued support on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions.
• Add support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu (Tomasz Salacinski)
• Fix a crash when clearing the buddy icon for an account on XMPP
• Fix a crash during login for some ICQ accounts
• Prefer more available resources on XMPP when priorities are equal
• Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked
• Improved handling of UTF-8 group names on ICQ (beret)
• Fix a crash when starting if you have a Zephyr account
• Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network connections from timing out unnecessarily.
• Don’t crash on XMPP forms with empty default values.
• Fix issues with CHAP authentication for SOCKS5 proxies.

Pidgin

• Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing crashes on some non-Linux systems such as HPUX
• Fix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high
• Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when they have ‘&’ in them
• Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin
• Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy list

Finch

• Fix compiling with Glib older than 2.6
• Ensure existing conversations selected from the ‘Send IM’ dialog are given focus
• Move the tooltip on the left of the buddy list if there’s not enough room on the right to show it.

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