Download Pidgin 2.7.7

Two days after the release of version 2.7.6 of Pidgin, another update has become available. Pidgin can handle the IM 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:

• Allow multiple CA certificates to share the same Distinguished Name (DN). Partially fixes remaining MSN issues from #12906.
• The GNUTLS SSL plugin now discards any certificate (and all subsequent certificates) in a chain if it did not sign the previous certificate. Partially fixes remaining MSN issues from #12906.
• Open requests related to a file transfer are now closed when the request is canceled locally. (#11666)

AIM and ICQ:

• AIM should now connect if “Use clientLogin” is turned off and the “Server” field is set to anything other than “login.oscar.aol.com” or “slogin.oscar.aol.com”. (#12948)
• Fix a crash on connection loss. (#5927)