Download Pidgin 2.9.0

Version 2.9.0 of Pidgin has been 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 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. The program also integrates well into Gnome and the KDE SC. The Mac OS X port is released under the name Adium. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Pidgin

• Fix a potential remote denial-of-service bug related to displaying buddy icons.
• Significantly improved performance of larger IRC channels (regression introduced in 2.8.0).
• Fix Conversation->Add on AIM and MSN.
• Entries in the chat user list are sorted properly again. This was inadvertly broken in 2.8.0.

Finch

• Fix logging in to ICQ.

libpurple

• media: Actually use the specified TCP port from the TURN configuration to create a TCP relay candidate.

AIM and ICQ

• Fix crashes on some non-mainstream OSes when attempting to printf(“%s”, NULL). (Clement Huebner) (#14297)

Plugins

• The Evolution Integration plugin compiles again.