Download Pidgin 2.4.3

Pidgin is an instant messaging client for Windows and Unix-like operating systems that supports multiple IM protocols. This allows messages to be exchanged via various IM networks, such as MSN, AIM, Xmpp, ICQ and irc. The developers have released a new version with 2.4.3 as the version number. Here you can find several solutions for numerous small bugs and also solve a number of memory leaks. The included list of changes looks like this:

libpurple:

• Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients and restoring compatibility with the web messenger (Yusuke Odate)
• Setting your buddy icon once again works for Yahoo! accounts.
• Fixes in the Yahoo! protocol to prevent a double free, crashes on aliases, and alias functionality
• Fix crashes in the bonjour protocol
• Always use UTF-8 for Yahoo! (#5973)
• Fix a crash when the given jabber id is invalid.
• Make the IRC “unknown message” debugging messages UTF-8 safe.
• Fix connecting to ICQ (#6220)
• Fix a memleak when handling jabber xforms.

Pidgin:

• Include the send button plugin in the win32 build
• Various memory leak fixes