Download Gaim 1.5.0

Yesterday Gaim was updated to version 1.5.0. This IM program provides support for networks including AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, SILC, and GroupWise, and is available for Windows and various Linux distributions. Several important security fixes have been implemented in this release. The full changelog looks like this:

Changes in version 1.5.0:

• Ability to set IRC quit message
• OSCAR file transfers now work for 2 users behind the same NAT
• Yahoo! buddy requests to add you to their buddy list now prompt for authorization
• Added a /clear command for conversations/chats
• Fixed ICQ encoding for messages with offline ICQ users
• Default Yahoo! chat roomlist locale to ‘us’

Security fixes:

• CAN-2005-2103 AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow
• CAN-2005-2102 AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 Filename Crash
• CAN-2005-2370 Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug

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