Software Update: Pidgin 2.5.3

Pidgin is an instant messaging client that supports multiple im protocols and can be used on Windows and Unix-like operating systems. 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 2.5.3 as the version number. Here you can find different solutions for many small bugs. The included list of changes looks like this:

libpurple:

• The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian Queze)
• The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JIDs, MSN Passport IDs, etc. into links. (Florian Queze)
• purple-remote now has a “getstatusmessage” command to retrieve the text of the current status message.
• Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that’s not connected. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this function is called before the buddy list is initialized. (Florian Queze)
• Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs. (Paul Aurich)
• On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party clients. (Jaromir Karmazín)
• Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages. The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
• Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Queze)
• Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Queze)

Gadu-Gadu:

• Add support for IM images. (Tomasz Salacicinski, Adam Strzelecki)
• Gadu-Gadu now checks that UIDs are valid. (Adam Strzelecki)
• Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam Strzelecki)

MSN:

• Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the new “Microsoft Secure Server Authority” and the “Microsoft Internet Authority” certificates. These are now always installed even when using –with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don’t ship those intermediate certificates.
• The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now shows the album, if possible.
• Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now correctly received.
• Server transfers after you’ve been connected for a long time should now be handled correctly.
• Many improvements to handling of “federated” buddies, such as those on the Yahoo network.
• Several known crashes have been resolved.
• Many other fixes and code cleanup.

MySpace:

• Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client.
• Add support for blocking buddies.
• Fix a bug where buddies didn’t appear in their correct groups the first time you sign into your account.
• Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off.
• Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs.
• Support for background font colors in incoming IMs.
• Many other fixes and code cleanup.

same time:

• Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming 0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent Montaron)
• Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche)

SIMPLE:

• Fix a crash when a malformed message is received.
• Don’t allow connecting accounts if no server name has been specified. (Florian Queze)

XMPP:

• Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match the URL used in the ‘get’ requests (Paul Aurich)
• Resources can be set to the local machine’s hostname by using __HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor)
• Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor)
• Resources now default to no value, but “Home” is used if the server refuses to provide a resource.
• Quit trying to get user info for MUCs. (Paul Aurich)
• Send “client-accepts-full-bind-result” attribute during SASL login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user configures the wrong domain for his/her account.
• Support new element to indicate no XEP-0084 User Avatar. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich)

yahoo:

• Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo!
• Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions.

Zephyr:

• Enable auto-reply, to emulate ‘zaway.’ (Toby Schaffer)
• Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
• Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry)

Pidgin:

• On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we’re using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref. If you had previously changed that pref, add a line like this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want):
  gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500
  To completely disable tooltips (eg if you had an old tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0:
  gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
• Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the buddylist. (Casey Ho)
• Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed.
• Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley manager.
• Improved support for some message formatting in conversations.
• Allow focusing the coversation history or userlist with F6.
• Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single conversation.
• Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the saved status manager, rather than edit the status.

finch:

• Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions.
• Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word.
• Added “Show When Offline” to buddy menus, so a plugin is no longer needed.