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Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.
Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.
Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin's functionality above and beyond the standard features.
Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It can support many more with plugins.
Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin's functionality above and beyond the standard features.
Title : Pidgin 2.5.6
Operating System : Windows XP/2003/Vista
License : Open Source Software
File Name : pidgin-2.5.6.exe
File Size : 13.69 MB
MD5 Checksum : 0bc96b7c06d32c67de761d97566807a2
Date Added : May 25, 2009
* libpurple
- Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
- Fix various crashes on exit.
- Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
- Many security related fixes
* IRC
- Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of channels.
- Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying fallback nicks.
* MSN
- Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
- Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.
* XMPP
- Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.
* Yahoo
- Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
- Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.
- Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
- Fix various crashes on exit.
- Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
- Many security related fixes
* IRC
- Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of channels.
- Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying fallback nicks.
* MSN
- Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
- Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.
* XMPP
- Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.
* Yahoo
- Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
- Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.
RELEASE DATE
- Pidgin 2.7.11March 12, 2011
- Pidgin 2.7.10March 03, 2011
- Pidgin 2.7.2September 06, 2010
- Pidgin 2.7.1September 06, 2010
- Pidgin 2.7.0September 06, 2010
- Pidgin 2.6.6February 27, 2010
- Pidgin 2.6.5January 11, 2010
- Pidgin 2.6.4December 01, 2009
- Pidgin 2.6.3October 24, 2009
- Pidgin 2.6.2September 06, 2009
- Pidgin 2.6.1August 28, 2009
- Pidgin 2.5.8July 04, 2009
- Pidgin 2.5.7June 29, 2009
- Pidgin 2.5.6May 25, 2009
- Pidgin 2.5.5March 06, 2009
- Pidgin 2.5.4January 14, 2009
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