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Pidgin
Pidgin and Finch - The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good For The Soul!

The free, open source, instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes; formerly known as 'Gaim'. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks.

Pidgin can work with:
AIM / Bonjour /Gadu-Gadu / Google Talk / Groupwise / ICQ / IRC / MSN / QQ / SILC / SIMPLE / Sametime / XMPP / Yahoo! / Zephyr

Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux and other UNIX operating systems.
Looking for Pidgin for OS X? Try Adium!

What is Finch?
Finch is the text-based version of Pidgin. It supports the same IM networks, but you can run it in a console window.
You can use it on Linux, BSD, and other Unixes.

What is libpurple?
libpurple is the programming library that powers Pidgin and Finch.
It's responsible for connecting to all the IM networks, and for managing your accounts and preferences. It's written in C and makes heavy use of Glib.

Website: Pidgin IM | SourceForge: Pidgin Project Page

GaimEncryption 3.0 (Windows)
Notes:
Works with Pidgin 2.0.0.
Thanks to Florian Schäfer and Michael Johnson for their help with the port.

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57740&release_id=506410[b]

Third-Party Plugins for Pidgin
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins

Pidgin 2.5.4

Changes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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