Pidgin users can 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 (coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification.
Pidgin also goes beyond that and provides many unique features.
A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a s... [ read more about Pidgin >> ] |
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WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.4.3:
* Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients and restoring compatibility with the web messenger
* Setting your buddy icon once again works for Yahoo! accounts.
* Fixes in the Yahoo! protocol to prevent a double free, crashes on aliases, and alias functionality
* Fix crashes in the bonjour protocol
* Always use UTF-8 for Yahoo!
* Fix a crash when the given jabber id is invalid.
* Make the IRC "unknown message" debugging messages UTF-8 safe.
* Fix connecting to ICQ
* Fix a memleak when handling jabber xforms.
* Include the send button plugin in the win32 build
* Various memory leak fixes
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.4.2:
* libpurple
* In MySpaceIM, messages from spambots are discarded (Justin Williams)
* Strip mIRC formatting codes from quit and part messages.
* IRC now displays ban lists in-channel for joined channels.
* Fixed a bug where the list of loaded plugins would get removed when switching between different operating systems.
* Fix reception of IRC PART without a part message on Undernet (fixes a problem with litter in the channel user list).
* IRC no longer crashes on /list on servers which erroneously omit RPL_LISTSTART.
* Update the NetworkManager support to use D-Bus directly, instead of libnm-glib. Hopefully it's stable now. It will now compile by default if you have D-Bus support and NetworkManager.h. (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
* MSN buddy list synchronization is now more forgiving, only asking about buddies who have disappeared completely from the server list and not those that have simply moved groups.
* IRC will now try to append 1-9 to your nick if it is in use, instead of substituting the last character with 1-9 where possible.
* Bonjour buddies will be saved persistently if they're moved out of the "Bonjour" group. (Eion Robb)
* Pidgin
* The typing notification in the conversation history can be disabled or customized (font, color etc.) in .gtkrc-2.0.
* Added a plugin (not installed by default) which adds a Send button back to the conversation window. People without physical keyboards have a hard time with the lack of the button.
* Clicking on the buddyicon in the conversation window toggles the size of the icon between small and large.
* The settings of a chat (e.g. Handle in an XMPP chat, or Exchange in an AIM chat) can be edited from its context menu in the buddy list.
* Add a "Present conversation window" preference to the Message Notification plugin; the "Raise conversation window" option does not unminimize windows or draw attention to them when they are on other workspaces--the "Present" option should.
* Add a preference to set Escape as the keyboard shortcut for closing the conversation window.
* Add an option in the context menu to disable smileys in the selected text in the conversation history/log viewer. This should help people who regularly paste code in conversations.
* Add a preference to choose the minimum size of the text input area in lines.
* Moved the "Local alias" field in the Modify Account dialog to be below the "User Options" heading on the "Basic" tab.
* Number of room occupants is now shown in chat tooltips where possible
* General
* The configure script now dies on more absent dependencies. The --disable-xxx arguments to configure can be used to bypass unneeded dependencies. This will also cause the configure script to die if an --enable-xxx option is used and the dependencies it requires are missing.
* The Evolution integration plugin must now be explicitly enabled. Use the --enable-gevolution argument to configure to enable it.
* The Contact Availability Prediction plugin must now be explicitly enabled. Use the --enable-cap argument to configure to enable it.
* Finch
* New default binding ctrl+x to open context menus.
* Menu triggers and other bindings will no longer conflict.
* Middle click pastes the internal clipboard (when mouse support is enabled).
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.4.1:
* 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.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.4.0:
* * * libpurple
* Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts (thanks to Matthew Goldstein)
* Fixed various problems with loss of status messages when going or returning from idle on MySpaceIM.
* Eliminated unmaintained Howl backend implementation for the Bonjour protocol. Avahi (or Apple's Bonjour runtime on win32) is now required to use Bonjour.
* Partial support for viewing ICQ status notes (Collin from ComBOTS GmbH).
* Support for /notice on IRC.
* Support for Yahoo! Messenger 7.0+ file transfer method (Thanumalayan S.)
* Support for retrieving full names and addresses from the address book on Yahoo! Japan (Yusuke Odate)
* The AIM/ICQ server-side preference for "allow others to see me as idle" is no longer unconditionally set to "yes" even when your libpurple preference is "no."
* Fix SSL certificate checks for renewed certificates
* Fix the ability to set vCard buddy icons on Google Talk/XMPP
* D-Bus fixes on 64bit
* Fixed retrieval of buddy icons and setting of server-side aliases on Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan when using an HTTP proxy server (Gideon N. Guillen)
* Fixed an MSN bug that would leave you appearing offline when transferred to different server
* * * Pidgin
* Added the ability to theme conversation name colors (red and blue) through your GTK+ theme, and exposed those theme settings to the Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin (Dustin Howett)
* Fixed having multiple alias edit areas in the infopane (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
* Save the conversation "Enable Logging" option per-contact (Moos Heintzen)
* Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area
* * * Finch
* Color is used in the buddylist to indicate status, and the conversation window to indicate various message attributes. Look at the sample gntrc file in the man page for details.
* The default keybinding for dump-screen is now M-D and uses a file request dialog. M-d will properly delete-forward-word, and M-f has been fixed to imitate readline's behavior.
* New bindings alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to help navigating between the higlighted windows (details on the man page).
* Recently signed on (or off) buddies blink in the buddy list.
* New action 'Room List' in the action list can be used to get the list of available chat rooms for an online account.
* The 'Grouping' plugin can be used for alternate grouping in the buddylist. The current options are 'Group Online/Offline' and 'No Group'.
* Added a log viewer
* Added the ability to block/unblock buddies - see the buddy context menu and the menu for the buddy list.
* Fixed a bug preventing finch working on x86_64
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.3.1:
* Fixed a number of MSN bugs introduced in 2.3.0, resolving problems connecting to MSN and random local display name changes
* Going idle on MySpaceIM will no longer clear your status and message.
* Idle MySpaceIM buddies should now appear online at login.
* Fixed crashes in XMPP when discovering a client's capabilities
* Don't set the current tune title if it's NULL (XMPP/Google Talk)
* Don't allow buddies to be manually added to Bonjour
* Don't advertise IPv6 on Bonjour because we don't support it
* Compile fixes for FreeBSD and Solaris
* Update QQ client version so some accounts can connect again
* Do not allow ISON requests to stack in IRC, preventing flooding IRC servers when temporary network outages are restored
* Plug several leaks in the perl plugin loader
* Prevent autoaccept plugin overwriting existing files
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.1.1:
* Added an account action to open your inbox in the yahoo prpl
* Added support for Unicode status messages in Yahoo
* Server-stored aliases for Yahoo. (John Moody)
* Fixed support for Yahoo! doodling
* Limited support for MSN Messenger contacts
* Bonjour plugin uses native Avahi instead of Howl
* Bonjour plugin supports Buddy Icons
* Show current outgoing conversation formatting on the font label on the toolbar
* Slim new redesign of conversation tabs to maximize number of conversations that can fit in a window
* Tab bar is not visible when only one conversation is open. You can drag and drop conversations from the infopane
* Moved "Reset Formatting" toolbar button to Font menu
* Double click on the infopane to alias buddies and set topics on chats
* New smiley style
* Sound support (Eric Polino)
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