Publisher's description
Pidgin (previously called Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, 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, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It 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, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.
Technical
- File Size:
- 8.96M
- License:
- Open Source
- Released:
- Dec 15, 2011
- OS Support:
- Windows (All Versions)
- Plugins:
- None
- Publisher:
- Gaim
- MD5 Checksum:
- 11c3768996082b7fcf267159fdc29e26
Changelog
* Finch: - Fix compilation on OpenBSD. * AIM and ICQ: - Fix remotely-triggerable crashes by validating strings in a few messages related to buddy list management. * Bonjour: - IPv6 fixes * Gadu-Gadu: - Fix problems linking against GnuTLS. * IRC: - Fix a memory leak when admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary encoding. * Jabber: - Fix crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice and video requests. * Sametime: - Separate "username" and "server" when adding new Sametime accounts. - Fix compilation in Visual C++. * SILC: - Fix CVE-2011-3594, by UTF-8 validating incoming messages before passing them to glib or libpurple. * Yahoo!: - Fetch buddy icons in some cases where we previously weren't. * Windows-Specific Changes: - Fix compilation