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)

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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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libpurple

• The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian Quèze)
• The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN Passport ID's, etc. into links. (Florian Quèze)
• purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve the text of the current status message.
• Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not connected. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this function is called before the buddy list is initialized. (Florian Quèze)
• Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs. (Paul Aurich)
• On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party clients. (Jaromír Karmazín)
• Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages. The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
• Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Quèze)
• Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Quèze)

Gadu-Gadu

• Add support for IM images. (Tomasz Sałaciński, Adam Strzelecki)
• Gadu-Gadu now checks that UID's are valid. (Adam Strzelecki)
• Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam Strzelecki)

MSN

• Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the new "Microsoft Secure Server Authority" and the "Microsoft Internet Authority" certificates. These are now always installed even when using --with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don't ship those intermediate certificates.
• The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now shows the album, if possible.
• Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now correctly received.
• Server transfers after you've been connected for a long time should now be handled correctly.
• Many improvements to handling of "federated" buddies, such as those on the Yahoo network.
• Several known crashes have been resolved.
• Many other fixes and code cleanup.

MySpace

• Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client.
  Add support for blocking buddies.
• Fix a bug where buddies didn't appear in their correct groups the first time you sign into your account.
• Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off.
• Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs.
• Support for background font colors in incoming IMs.
• Many other fixes and code cleanup.

Sametime

• Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming 0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent Montaron)
• Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche)

SIMPLE

• Fix a crash when a malformed message is received.
• Don't allow connecting accounts if no server name has been specified. (Florian Quèze)

XMPP

• Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match the URL used in the 'get' requests (Paul Aurich)
• Resources can be set to the local machine's hostname by using __HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor)
• Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor)
• Resources now default to no value, but "Home" is used if the server refuses to provide a resource.
• Quit trying to get user info for MUC's. (Paul Aurich)
• Send "client-accepts-full-bind-result" attribute during SASL login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user configures the wrong domain for his/her account.
• Support new element to indicate no XEP-0084 User Avatar. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich)

Yahoo

• Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo!
• Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions.

Zephyr

• Enable auto-reply, to emulate 'zaway.' (Toby Schaffer)
• Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
• Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry)

Pidgin

• On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we're using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref. If you had previously changed that pref, add a line like this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want):
  gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500
• To completely disable tooltips (e.g. if you had an old tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0:
  gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
• Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the buddylist. (Casey Ho)
• Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich)
• Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed.
• Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley manager.
• Improved support for some message formatting in conversations.
• Allow focusing the coversation history or userlist with F6.
• Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single conversation.
• Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the saved status manager, rather than edit the status.

Finch

• Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions.
• Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word.
• Added "Show When Offline" to buddy menus, so a plugin is no longer needed.

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pidgin 2.5.4

* libpurple
o Fix a connection timeout with empty Gadu-Gady buddy lists. (Martin Rosinski)
o Don't ignore namespace information when parsing XMPP data. (Michal Witkowski)
o Fix a crash that occurred when retrieving certain Offline Messages on MSN.
o Extended purple-url-handler to handle "gtalk" URI's. (Paul Aurich)
o Fix the hang on exit in Network Location Awareness for Windows XP and Windows Vista. (Paul Aurich)

* MSN
o Change Contact Server to temporarily fix connection problems. (Thanks to Youness Alaoui)

* XMPP
o Support for XEP-0191 blocking. (Vijay Raghunathan)
o Don't put SASL PLAIN or IQ Auth passwords in debug logs. (Paul Aurich)
o Fix removal of avatars (both PEP and vCard), we weren't removing them correctly before. (Paul Aurich)

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

* Finch
o Redirect stderr outputs to the debug window.
o Fix rebinding actions with the arrow-keys and tab.

* Windows-specific changes
o Fix the "Hang on Exit" issue that a number of users encountered.
o Updated GTK+ to 2.14.6

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libpurple

• Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
• Fix various crashes on exit.
• Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
• Many security related fixes

IRC

• Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of channels.
• Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying fallback nicks.

MSN

• Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
• Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.

XMPP

• Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.

Yahoo

• Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
• Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.

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Pidgin 2.5.7

What's New in version 2.5.7:

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.

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ICQ

• Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)

MSN

• Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!

MySpace

• Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
• Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM's web client.

Yahoo

• Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.
• Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.
• Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
• Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
• The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method.

XMPP

• Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.

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В этом релизе реализовано более 100 новшеств и исправлено 221 ошибка. Главное новшество - добавление в библиотеку libpurple инфраструктуры для организации аудио и видео коммуникаций, которые в настоящий момент поддерживаются только XMPP плагином (реализация совместима с GTalk). Другим значительным улучшением является реализация поддержки сменных визуальных тем и звуковых наборов.

Некоторые другие улучшения:

• Поддержка новой схемы аутентификации "clientLogin" для AIM/ICQ;
• Удалена неподдерживаемая и не пользующаяся спросом поддержка протокола toc;
• Устранен ряд утечек памяти;
• Добавлены более эффективные функции для поиска в списке контактов и в архиве сообщений;
• Для клиентов Yahoo! добавлена поддержка P2P режима передачи файлов и отправки текстовый сообщений по номеру телефона или MSN-адресу.
• Поддержка Yahoo! и Yahoo! JAPAN разделена на два отдельных плагина;
• Добавлен плагин Service Discovery Browser для определения доступных XMPP сервисов;
• В реализации XMPP добавлена поддержка отправки уведомлений для привлечения внимания (команда /buzz), реализована поддержка соединений при помощи BOSH, улучшена совместимость с Google Talk;
• Переработаны некоторые элементы графического интерфейса: нажатие Enter при определении статуса и в некоторых других диалогах приводит к переводу строки, а не принятия изменений; для всех уведомлений выводится единое унифицированное окно; диалог настройки учетной записи разбит на три вкладки.
• Устранены три ошибоки, приводящих к проблемам со сборкой под Windows и при использовании GTK+ версии меньше 2.6;
• Устранена ошибка приводящая к краху при отправке URL пользователю Yahoo IM.

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• 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.

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General

• Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the blocking DNS lookups. (Brian Lu)

AIM and ICQ

• Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't understand.
• Fix blocking and other privacy lists. (Thanks to AOL)

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