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Pidgin has been updated to version 2.7.8. 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 the KDE SC. The Mac OS X port is released under the name Adium. The changelog for this release looks like this:

General:

  • Fix the exceptions in purple-remote on Python 2.6+. (Ari Pollak) (#12151)

Pidgin:

  • When a conversation has reached the maximum limit on the number of smileys, display the text representation of the smiley properly when it contains HTML-escapable characters (eg “<3" was previously displayed as "<3").
  • Drop dependency on GdkGC and use Cairo instead.
  • New UI hack to assist in first-time setup of Facebook accounts with icon from Jakub Szypulka.
  • Don’t hide the buddy list if there is no notification area in which to put the icon. (#12129)

libpurple:

  • Fix multipart parsing when ‘=’ is included in the boundary for purple_mime_document_parse. (Jakub Adam) (#11598)

AIM and ICQ:

  • Buddies who unset their status message will now be correctly shown without a message in your buddy list. (#12988)

Gadu-Gadu:

  • Updated our bundled libgadu and minimum requirement for external libgadu to 1.9.0. (#12789)

MSN:

  • Stop showing ourselves in the list of endpoints that can be disconnected.
  • Allow full-size display names, by not escaping (most) non-English characters. (#8508)
  • Fix receiving messages from users on Yahoo and other federated services. (#13022)
  • Correctly remove old endpoints from the list when they sign out.
  • Add option to disable connections from multiple locations. (#13017)
  • Correctly update your own display name in the buddy list. (#13064)
  • Correctly show ourselves as offline in the buddy list when going invisible. (#12945)
  • Correctly update your own icon in the buddy list. (#12973)
  • Remove struct packing for better portability. (#12856)

XMPP:

  • Terminate Jingle sessions with unsupported content types. (#13048)

Version number 2.7.8
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Windows 2000, Linux, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
Website Pidgin
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File size

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License type GPL
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