What's New in This Release:

· libpurple
· 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.
· Pidgin
· 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
· Finch
· 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.... [ read full changelog ]