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Pidgin, previously known as Gaim, is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. Pidgin messenger is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, SILC, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Pidgin users can log into multiple accounts on IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can chat with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It is also more than that and provides many unique features.

A popular features are Buddy pounce, which provides the ability to notify you, send messages, play sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle, and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a friend ticker , extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more. Pidgin runs on several platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).

Pidgin integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE tray 3.1 's system, as well as Windows own system tray. This allows you to work with pidgin buddy list window without needing to get up every time. Pidgin is under constant development, and releases are usually frequent. The latest news regarding Pidgin can be found on the news page.

File Name : Pidgin 2.10.1

Version : 2.10.1

Size : 9.90MB

Developer: Pidgin Team | More software
License / Price: GPL / FREE
Last Updated: December 12th, 2011
Category: Communications | Chat     

What's New in This Release:
Finch:
· Fix compilation on OpenBSD.
AIM and ICQ:
· Fix remotely-triggerable crashes by validating strings in a few messages related to buddy list management. Thanks to Evgeny Boger for reporting this!
Bonjour:
· IPv6 fixes (Linus Lüssing)
Gadu-Gadu:
· Fix problems linking against GnuTLS.
IRC:
· Fix a memory leak when admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary encoding.
Jabber:
· Fix crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice and video requests. Thanks to Thijs Alkemade for reporting this!
Sametime:
· Separate "username" and "server" when adding new Sametime accounts.
· Fix compilation in Visual C++.
SILC:
· Fix CVE-2011-3594, by UTF-8 validating incoming messages before passing them to glib or libpurple. Identified by Diego Bauche Madero from IOActive.
Yahoo!:
· Fetch buddy icons in some cases where we previously weren't.

Download Pidgin 2.10.1 [Linux Software] [tar.bz2]