Today, Pidgin 2.4.3 was released. It fixes the ICQ connection Problem one day after it occured (show me proprietary software that works that fast…). You can download it from Pidgin.im.
The changelog:
- libpurple
- Yahoo! Japan now uses UTF-8, matching the behavior of official clients and restoring compatibility with the web messenger (Yusuke Odate)
- Setting your buddy icon once again works for Yahoo! accounts.
- Fixes in the Yahoo! protocol to prevent a double free, crashes on aliases, and alias functionality
- Fix crashes in the bonjour protocol
- Always use UTF-8 for Yahoo! (#5973)
- Fix a crash when the given jabber id is invalid.
- Make the IRC “unknown message” debugging messages UTF-8 safe.
- Fix connecting to ICQ (#6220)
- Fix a memleak when handling jabber xforms.
- Pidgin
- Include the send button plugin in the win32 build
- Various memory leak fixes
Adium X released version 1.2.6, which also implements libpurple 2.4.3
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