Pidgin 2.6.3

Pidgin v2.6.2 [09-06-09]

• libpurple
  • Fix --disable-avahi to actually disable it in configure, as opposed to just making the warning non-fatal.
  • Fix using GNOME proxy settings properly. (Erik van Pienbroek)

• IRC
  • Fix parsing of invalid TOPIC messages. (CVE-2009-2703)

• MSN
  • Sending custom smileys in chats is now supported.
  • Ink messages are now saved when using the HTML logger.
  • Fix a crash when receiving some handwritten messages.
  • Fix a crash when receiving certain SLP invite messages.
  • Chats with multiple people should no longer spontaneously disconnect.

• XMPP
  • Prompt the user before cancelling a presence subscription.
  • Escape status messages that have HTML entities in the Get Info dialog.
  • Fix connecting to XMPP domains with no SRV records from Pidgin on Windows.
  • Fix typing notifications with Pidgin 2.5.9 or earlier.
  • Fix connecting using BOSH and legacy authentication (XEP-0078).
  • Adding buddies of the form "romeo@…/Resource" are handled properly. In addition, it is no longer possible to add buddies of the form "room@…/User", where room@… is a MUC.
  • Don't crash when receiving "smileyfied" XHTML-IM from clients that don't support bits of binary (ie. when getting an empty in return)
  • Fix bug where SSL/TLS was not required even though the "require SSL/TLS" preference checked when connecting to servers that use the older iq-based authentication. (CVE-2009-3026)

• Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN
  • Accounts now have "Use account proxy for SSL connections" option. This option force-overrides the account specific proxy settings for SSL connections only and instead uses the global proxy configuration.

• Finch
  • Properly detect libpanel on OpenBSD. (Brad Smith)
  • Remove IO watches in gnt_quit. (Tomasz Mon)

• Pidgin
  • Fix the auto-personize functionality in the Buddy List.
  • Set the window icon for the media window to an icon corresponding to the type of call (headphone or webcam).
  • Customized sound files are no longer reset whenever opening the Preferences dialog.
  • The buddy list should now immediately refresh upon changing the icon theme.

Pidgin v2.6.1 [08-20-09]

Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per connection. (Rob Taft) Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you. When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don't get network ID's for them.

Pidgin v2.5.8 [07-01-09]

Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per connection. (Rob Taft) Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you. When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don't get network ID's for them.

Pidgin v2.5.7 [06-22-09]

Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht) Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per connection. (Rob Taft) Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you. When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don't get network ID's for them.

Pidgin v2.5.6 [05-25-09]

Tooltip windows now appear below the mouse cursor. (Kosta Arvanitis) Tooltip windows now disappear on keypress events. (Kosta Arvanitis) Tooltip windows no longer linger when scrolling the buddy list. (Kosta Arvanitis)

Pidgin v2.5.5 [03-09-09]

Tooltip windows now appear below the mouse cursor. (Kosta Arvanitis) Tooltip windows now disappear on keypress events. (Kosta Arvanitis) Tooltip windows no longer linger when scrolling the buddy list. (Kosta Arvanitis)

Pidgin v2.5.4 [02-09-09]

Fix a crash in the Add Account dialog when changing protocols under certain circumstances.

Pidgin v2.5.2 [10-30-08]

The status selector now saves your message when changing status.
Fix a case where a conversation window could close unexpectedly.
A mute sounds option has been added to the preferences window to help with discoverability. CTRL+S is no longer bound to mute.
Added ability to change the color of visited links (using the theme control plugin, or setting the color in ~/.gtkrc-2.0)
Fix a crash occuring when a custom smiley is deleted and re-added and used in an open conversation after being re-added.

Pidgin v2.5.1 [09-14-08]

Prevent use of custom smilies without "shortcuts."
Fix a crash that could appear with AIM buddy tooltips.

Pidgin v2.4.3 [07-11-08]

Include the send button plugin in the win32 build
Various memory leak fixes

Version 2.4.2 (05/17/2008)

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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 v2.4.2 [05-29-08]

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

Pidgin v2.4.1 [04-18-08]

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

Pidgin v2.4.0 [03-03-08]

Input text area in conversation windows auto-resizes to fit more lines (up to a maximum of 4 lines)
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

Pidgin v2.3.1 [02-24-08]

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 clien