Jul 2

Pidgin Releases Fix For ICQ Version Problem

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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


Jul 1

ICQ blocks alternative Clients: Why we can’t have nice things…

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Today ICQ blocked alternative clients, like Pidgin, Adium and Kopete for KDE3 (Kopete KDE4 still works). Some users experienced problems in Miranda too. But i tried the newest Miranda version in Wine, and it worked.

ICQ tells the Client that it’s Version is too old. The message was: “The Client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at http://pidgin.im”. Thats why the Users did a DDOS Attack to Pidgin.im :D

In german: “Die Client-Version die Sie nutzen, ist zu alt. Bitte updaten sie unter http://pidgin.im/.”

Here are some screenies:

Adium X

Kopete KDE 3

Pidgin 2.4.1 Ubuntu Linux

Pidgin 2.4.2 Windows XP

Fixes:

Pidgin Windows: Mirror 1 Mirror 2

Pidgin Linux (ubuntu): Mirror 1 Mirror 2 Alternative Version

Kopete KDE3: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165502#c26

Adium: http://alexmak.net/downloads/Adium_1.1.2.dmg

Moar fixes: http://www2.hs-esslingen.de/~hoadit00/pidgin/

So ICQ tried Users to convert to ICQ6, but free software works fast… Hack the planet

Currently you have to recompile libpurple for adium. If you want support for that, try the #adium chanel on irc.freenode.net