Information technology is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users tin log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, abroad messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few pop features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify yous, transport a message, play a audio, or run a plan when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more. Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).

What's New:

libpurple:

  • Set a regression in purple_str_to_time. (PIDGIN-17552) (RR 931) (Gary Kramlich)

XMPP

  • Fix a double in complimentary jabber/message.c. (PIDGIN-17547) (RR 932) (Gary Kramlich, pv32768)

Pidgin

  • Set the link to the support mailing list archive in the About Dialog. (RR 929) (Gary Kramlich)

Previous release notes

libpurple:

  • Unified string comparison. (PR #186) (Arkadiy Illarionov)
  • Properlly shell escape URI'due south when opening them. (PR #271 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Prepare a one byte buffer overread in function purple_markup_linkify
  • Ready an issue were utf8 was incorrectly truncated which could lead to crashes as we were potentially feeding garbage into glib/gtk.

libgnt:

  • Fixed build confronting curses 6.0 with opaque structs set. (#16764 dimstar) (PR #268 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Fixed a crash when resizing the window. (#16680 marcus) (PR #269 Daniel Kamil Kozar)

General:

  • Fixed bashism in autotools. (#16836 lameventanas) (PR #267 Daniel Kamil Kozar)

XMPP:

  • Testify XEP-0066 OOB URLs in any bulletin, non just headlines
  • Prepare a user afterwards gratuitous (#17200 debarshiray) (PR #266 Ethan Blanton)
  • Removed pipelining from BOSH connections (#17025 PR #295 Tom Li)
  • Don't try to TLS already secured BOSH connections (#17270 PR #293 Tom Li)

IRC:

  • Gear up "Registration timeout" on SASL auth with InspIRCd servers (and possibly others not based on charybdis/ratbox/ircd-seven)
  • Fix issues with plugins that modify outgoing letters (such as the custom PART/QUIT feature of the IRC More plugin)
  • Prepare IRC buffer handling. (#12562 PR #272 Shivaram Lingamneni)
  • Properly handle Authenticate as a normal command with server prefix. (PR #316 dx)
  • Gear up a crash caused by a employ after free of the MOTD.
  • Fix an out of premises read in irc_nick_skip_mode.
  • Ready a write of a unmarried byte before the commencement of a buffer in irc_parse_ctcp.

Pidgin:

  • Better back up for nighttime themes. (#12572 Alyssa Rosenzweig and Gary Kramlich)
  • Stock-still IPv6 links past not escaping []'s. (#16391 cyisfor) (PR #270 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Only write buddy icons to the cache if they're not already cached. (PR #276 David Woodhouse)
  • Rejoin persistent chats afterwards reconnect. (#15687 PR #285 Christof Meerwald)
  • Fabricated the WIN32 Transparency plugin work on all platforms. (#3124 PR #287 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Ensure search results buttons are labeled (Backport from de2d88e575ee)
  • Fix matching unicode smilies. (#17232 gnubfx PR #262 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Correctly update mute/unmute status when the remote side mutes/unmutes us. (#17273 PR #302 David Woodhouse)
  • Rework the condition icon blinking to not used deprecated API. (#17174 zelch PR #264 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
  • Don't allow adding a buddy to protocols that don't have an add_buddy callback. (#4061 Paradox)

Finch:

  • Fix treatment of search results (#17238 David Woodhouse)

Voice & Video:

  • Port backend-fs to newer api for farstream relay-info belongings (#17274 bellet)