Pidgin(以前的GAIM)是一款功能强大支持多个协议的开源即时通讯软件.包 含的IM协议有AIM、Bonjour、Gadu-Gadu、 Groupwise、ICQ、IRC、MSN、QQ、SILC、SIMPLE、Sametime、XMPP、Yahoo! IM、Zephyr等,十分全面.值得一提的是,QQ不再以插件形式支持了,而是直接可以使用了.

下载:Pidgin 2.4.1 for Windows(12.4 MB)
下载:Pidgin 2.4.1 for Linux(9.02 MB)

• libpurple
  • Treat AIM Unicode messages as UTF-16 rather than UCS-2; this should have no functional effect, other than continued support on systems which have dropped UCS-2 conversions.
  • Add support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu (Tomasz Salacinski)
  • Fix a crash when clearing the buddy icon for an account on XMPP
  • Fix a crash during login for some ICQ accounts
  • Prefer more available resources on XMPP when priorities are equal
  • Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked
  • Improved handling of UTF-8 group names on ICQ (beret)
  • Fix a crash when starting if you have a Zephyr account
  • Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network connections from timing out unnecessarily.
  • Don't crash on XMPP forms with empty default values.
  • Fix issues with CHAP authentication for SOCKS5 proxies.

• Pidgin
  • Remove a workaround for older versions gstreamer that was causing crashes on some non-Linux systems such as HPUX
  • Fix some cases of the conversation input entry area being 1 pixel high
  • Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when they have '&' in them
  • Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin
  • Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy list

• Finch
  • Fix compiling with Glib older than 2.6
  • Ensure existing conversations selected from the 'Send IM' dialog are given focus
  • Move the tooltip on the left of the buddylist if there's not enough room on the right to show it.