Software Update: Pidgin 2.6.3

Pidgin has been updated to version 2.6.3. 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 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 KDE. The Mac OS X port is released under the name Adium. In version 2.6.3, the following improvements have been made:

General

• Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the blocking DNS lookups. (Brian Lu)

AIM and ICQ

• Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don’t understand.
• Fix blocking and other privacy lists. (Thanks to AOL)