Download Pidgin 2.6.5

Pidgin has been updated to version 2.6.5. 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 and integrates well into Gnome and KDE. The Mac OS X port is released under the name Adium. A number of changes have been made in version 2.6.5:

libpurple

• TLS certificates are actually stored to the local cache once again (accepting a name mismatch on a certificate should now be remembered)

General

• Build time fixes for Solaris. (Paul Townsend)

AIM and ICQ

• Messages from some mobile clients are no longer displayed as Chinese characters (broken in 2.6.4)

MSN

• Fix an issue allowing a remote user to download arbitrary files from a libpurple client. (CVE-2010-0013)

XMPP

• Do not crash when attempting to register for a new account on Windows.
• Fix file transfer with clients that do not support Entity Capabilities (eg Spark)