Monday, November 24, 2014
Universal instant messenger client for AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC, Yahoo, and Jabber
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), Yahoo, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Jabber and Zephyr networks.
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 sound, or run a program 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, and more.
Note: Pidgin downloads an appropriate version of GTK+. GTK+ is now installed locally for Pidgin, and not system-wide, thus Pidgin will not interfere with other GTK+ apps on your system.
If you would like to have GTK+ included in the installer, you can download an offline installer that bundles everything except spell-checking dictionaries.
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 sound, or run a program 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, and more.
Note: Pidgin downloads an appropriate version of GTK+. GTK+ is now installed locally for Pidgin, and not system-wide, thus Pidgin will not interfere with other GTK+ apps on your system.
If you would like to have GTK+ included in the installer, you can download an offline installer that bundles everything except spell-checking dictionaries.
Requirements:
· GTK
· GTK
What's New in This Release:
General:
· The configure script will now exit with status 1 when specifying invalid protocol plugins using the --with-static-prpls and --with-dynamic-prpls arguments
libpurple:
· Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values
· Don't link directly to libgcrypt when building with GnuTLS support
· Fix UPnP mappings on routers that return empty elements in their response
· Tcl plugin uses saner, race-free plugin loading
· Fix the Tcl signals-test plugin for savedstatus-changed
Pidgin:
· Make Pidgin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts?' +no_x11 variant
Gadu-Gadu:
· Fix a crash at startup with large contact list. Avatar support for buddies will be disabled until 3.0.0
IRC:
· Support for SASL authentication
· Print topic setter information at channel join
MSN:
· Fix SSL certificate issue when signing into MSN for some users
· Fix a crash when removing a user before its icon is loaded
MXit:
· Fix two bugs where a remote MXit user could possibly ..
General:
· The configure script will now exit with status 1 when specifying invalid protocol plugins using the --with-static-prpls and --with-dynamic-prpls arguments
libpurple:
· Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values
· Don't link directly to libgcrypt when building with GnuTLS support
· Fix UPnP mappings on routers that return empty elements in their response
· Tcl plugin uses saner, race-free plugin loading
· Fix the Tcl signals-test plugin for savedstatus-changed
Pidgin:
· Make Pidgin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts?' +no_x11 variant
Gadu-Gadu:
· Fix a crash at startup with large contact list. Avatar support for buddies will be disabled until 3.0.0
IRC:
· Support for SASL authentication
· Print topic setter information at channel join
MSN:
· Fix SSL certificate issue when signing into MSN for some users
· Fix a crash when removing a user before its icon is loaded
MXit:
· Fix two bugs where a remote MXit user could possibly ..
Program Information
Developer: The Pidgin Team
Price and Added Date
GPL / $0.24-11-2014
Download Links
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