Download Pidgin 2.5.8

On Sunday, version 2.5.8 of Pidgin was released. 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 the installation, you can choose from no less than seventy different translations and a spell check can also be added. Binaries are available for Windows, but the source code can be compiled under Linux and integrates well into Gnome 2 and KDE 3.1. For Mac OS X users, there is Adium X. Pidgin is open source and is released under version 2 of the gpl license. The following bug fixes have been made in this release:

ICQ:

• Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminsky)

MSN:

• Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!.

MySpace:

• Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
• Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM’s web client.

yahoo:

• Fixed Phantom Online Buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.
• Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.
• Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
• Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
• 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:

• Fix an incompatibility between Prosody and libpurple clients.