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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 2.5.8
Operating System : Windows (All)
License : Open Source Software
File Name : pidgin-2.5.8.exe
File Size : 13.66 MB
MD5 Checksum : e1f46848473cf69236b8a7020b7e5bd7
Date Added : July 04, 2009
* ICQ
o Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)
* MSN
o Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!
* MySpace
o Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
o Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM's web client.
* Yahoo
o Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.
o Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.
o Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
o Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
o The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method.
* XMPP
o Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.
o Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)
* MSN
o Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!
* MySpace
o Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
o Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM's web client.
* Yahoo
o Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.
o Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.
o Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
o Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
o The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method.
* XMPP
o Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.
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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