Update: Pidgin 2.5.6
Pidgin 2.5.6 (yabr) is out!
PIDGIN 2.5.6 DOWNLOADS
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EXE installer, no toolbar, 13.6MB, MD5 sum: 0BC96B7C06D32C67DE761D97566807A2
EXE installer, no toolbar, 13.6MB, MD5 sum: 0BC96B7C06D32C67DE761D97566807A2
WHAT’S NEW IN PIDGIN 2.5.6
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
- 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.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Pidgin crashes on Vista x64 with SP1 when exiting the program. This is new (for me) in 2.5.6. Never had the problem with 2.5.5.