Вышла новая версия клиента для обмена мгновенными сообщениями - Gaim 1.4.0. Изменений немного, как пишут сами разработчики, в основном исправления ошибок.
Gaim -- основанный на GTK2 модульный IM-комбайн. Поддерживает AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu и Zephyr.
CangeLog:
* Fix system log start times for some protocols
* SILC compiles with newer SILC toolkit versions (Pekka Riikonen)
* Fixed a bug where buddy icon cache files were left in the icon cache directory after they were no longer in use.
* Attempt to detect the file type of a buddy icon when saving.
* Additional Yahoo! boot protection (Peter Lawler)
* A few Yahoo! memory leaks plugged (Peter Lawler)
* Fixed handling of the new Yahoo! profile page. (Joshua Honeycutt, Peter Lawler)
* Fixed localized Yahoo! room lists. Please refer to the Yahoo! section of the Gaim FAQ for details. (Peter Lawler)
* Enabled sending files to ICQ users using ICQ 5.02 and newer (Jonathan Clark)<br>

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libpurple

• In the Join/Part plugin, add the ability to apply the rules to buddies. By default, joins and parts for buddies are still shown.
• Support SOCKS proxies specified in GNOME or Windows proxy settings.
• Fix some possible crashes in MSNP15.
• Enable a default SSL trust relationship for MSN servers.
• Avoid disconnecting from XMPP servers on parse errors that are non-fatal.
• Include some perl files that were mistakenly omitted in 2.5.0.

Pidgin

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

Artwork

• General refresh of many icons in the interface.
• Many cleanups to artwork source are now included in the distribution.
• A new "throbber" animation has been added to indicate when accounts are connecting.

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libpurple

• Fixed a crash on removing a custom buddy icon on a buddy.
• Fixed a crash caused by certain self-signed SSL certificates.
• Enable a number of strong ciphers which were previously disabled when using NSS. (Thanks to Marcus Trautwig.)

Pidgin

• 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.

Finch

• A new 'Nested Grouping' option in the 'Grouping' plugin. Group hierarchies are defined by the '/' character in the group names.
• A bug was fixed where some key-bindings wouldn't work with some TERMs (e.g. xterm-color, screen-linux etc.)

MSN

• Operations (such as moving to a new group) on contacts that were added in the same session should now complete correctly, and not cause synchronization errors at next login.
• Minor fixes to login process during a server transfer.
• Restored the "Has You" feature to the MSN protocol tooltips.
• ADL 205/214/etc errors should no longer prevent login.

XMPP

• Sending and receiving custom smileys using the specification in XEP-0231 (bits of binary) and XHTML-IM

Yahoo

• Only send a Ping once every hour. This prevents the account from being disconnected from the server periodically.

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