Обновился Pidgin (ранее известный как Gaim) — кроссплатформенный IM-клиент, поддерживающий все основные протоколы (ICQ, Jabber, MSN, IRC и др.). Имеются все необходимые функции для такого рода программ — поддержка вкладок в окне разговора, ведение журнала сообщений, метаконтакты, установка и отображение аватаров, смайлики. Также возможно расширение функционала за счет сторонних модулей.
Список изменений:
- Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this should have no functional effect, other than continued support on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions.
- Add support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu (Tomasz Salacinski).
- Fix a crash when clearing the buddy icon for an account on XMPP.
- Fix a crash during login for some ICQ accounts.
- Prefer more available resources on XMPP when priorities are equal.
- Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked.
- Improved handling of UTF-8 group names on ICQ (beret).
- Fix a crash when starting if you have a Zephyr account.
- Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network connections from timing out unnecessarily.
- Don't crash on XMPP forms with empty default values.
- Fix issues with CHAP authentication for SOCKS5 proxies.
- Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing crashes on some non-Linux systems such as HPUX.
- Fix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high.
- Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when they have '&' in them.
- Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin.
- Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy list.
- Fix compiling with Glib older than 2.6.
- Ensure existing conversations selected from the 'Send IM' dialog are given focus.
- Move the tooltip on the left of the buddylist if there's not enough room on the right to show it.
Pidgin является наиболее популярным IM-клиентом для рабочего стола GNOME в Linux, но неплохо чувствует себя и под Windows.
