Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes.
You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.
Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, 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, and typing 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.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fix an issue with parsing XML attributes that contain "".
· Allow setting and displaying icons between 1x1 and 100x100 pixels. Previously only icons between 48x48 and 50x50 were allowed.
· Fix a leak and crash when retrieving buddy icons.
· Set "controlling-mode" correctly when initializing a media session. Fixes receiving voice calls from Psi.
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