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Pidgin(Gaim)是模块化的即时通讯客户程序，同时支持QQ、MSN、Jabber(gtalk)、AIM、Yahoo! 、ICQ、IRC、SILC、Novell GroupWise、Napster、Zephyr 和Gadu-Gadu。Pidgin(Gaim)基于GTK+，并以GPL 许可协议发行。 支持多平台、多语言、多服务、多插件。

功能
同时登录多个帐户，可以同时登录多个MSN帐号，也可以同时登录MSN和gtalk帐号，不受任何限制。

同时更改状态，已经登录的帐号可以一起改状态，比如一起改为隐身。

好友千里眼的功能，当某好友上线或下线的时候，可以发出问候消息或改为隐身状态，这是可配置的。所有可登录的帐号都拥有这个功能，不再限制于QQ。

同一个窗口放置多个聊天窗口，任务栏上不再有一大片聊天窗口了，当然也可以将聊天窗口分开显示。同样适用于所有的帐号。

多种提醒方式，可以在标题上显示消息数，也可以闪烁窗口，适用于所有的帐号。

好友多种排序方式，可以按字母序，也可以按状态排序，也可以按聊天记录大小排序（独有的功能，明显区分熟悉度），也适用于所有的帐号。

公共分组，所有帐号的好友可以统一管理，QQ和MSN的好友可以放在一个组里，这样方便自己对好友的管理，感觉不到帐号的区别，当然也可以按帐号分组，适用于所有帐号。

隐私设置，可以只让好友聊天，或屏蔽所有对话，分级别设置隐私是独有的功能，同样适用于所有的帐号。

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and 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 supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.

Pidgin v2.5.3
2008-12-21

Notes:
Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing bugs. Enjoy!

Kevin: I didn't do much of anything this release, but Mark and John must be commended for their tireless efforts to fix bugs and approve patches, especially in areas of Pidgin that have not usually received much attention. Lots of changes have been made, so definitely check the ChangeLog to see what's new.

John: It feels like it's been an age or two since we last released, and I think it's well worth the wait. Mark has sunk more time into MSN and MySpace IM this release than any sane person should be allowed to, and I've sunk more time into patches than I care to admit. By my count, our ChangeLog has 58 bullet points(!) and we've closed 85 tickets specifically for this release. Enjoy!

Ka-Hing: Bring your XMPP server to 2008 some time in 2009 would be nice, DreamHost!

Elliott: Well, I can't blame the server for this release taking so long but that's just how it worked out. A few interesting MSN changes this time. Hopefully, federated & Yahoo! buddies will work for you, but I'm not yet certain it's ready. Mark made so many fixes, I'm not even sure I recognize everything anymore, but hopefully that'll make things less
crashy for you.

Changes
libpurple:
* The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups. (Florian Quèze)
* The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN Passport ID's, etc. into links. (Florian Quèze)
* purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve the text of the current status message.
* Various fixes to the nullprpl. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not connected. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this function is called before the buddy list is initialized. (Florian Quèze)
* Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs (Paul Aurich)
* On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party clients. (Jaromír Karmazín)
* Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages. The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
* Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups. (Florian Quèze)
* Fix a crash caused by authorization requests. (Florian Quèze)

Gadu-Gadu:
* Add support for IM images. (Adam Strzelecki)
* Gadu-Gadu now checks that UID's are valid. (Adam Strzelecki)
* Gadu-Gadu now does proper charset translations where needed. (Adam Strzelecki)

MSN:
* Fix an error with offline messages by shipping the *new* "Microsoft Secure Server Authority" and the "Microsoft Internet Authority" certificates. These are now always installed even when using --with-system-ssl-certs because most systems don't ship those intermediate certificates.
* The Games and Office media can now be set and displayed (in addition to the previous Music media). The Media status text now shows the album, if possible.
* Messages sent from a mobile device while you were offline are now correctly received.
* Server transfers after you've been connected for a long time should now be handled correctly.
* Many improvements to handling of "federated" buddies, such as those on the Yahoo network.
* Several known crashes have been resolved.
* Many other fixes and code cleanup.

MySpace:
* Respect your privacy settings set using the official MySpace client.
* Add support for blocking buddies.
* Fix a bug where buddies didn't appear in their correct groups the first time you sign into your account.
* Properly disconnect and sign out of the service when logging off.
* Support for foreground and background font colors in outgoing IMs.
* Support for background font colors in incoming IMs.
* Many other fixes and code cleanup.

Sametime:
* Fix insanely long idle times for Sametime 7.5 buddies by assuming 0 idle time if the idle timestamp is in the future. (Laurent Montaron)
* Fix a crash that can occur on login. (Raiko Nitzsche)

SIMPLE:
* Fix a crash when a malformed message is received.
* Don't allow connecting accounts if no server name has been specified. (Florian Quèze)

XMPP:
* Fix the namespace URL we look for in PEP reply stanzas to match the URL used in the 'get' requests (Paul Aurich)
* Resources can be set to the local machine's hostname by using __HOSTNAME__ as the resource string. (Jonathan Sailor)
* Resources can now be left blank, causing the server to generate a resource for us where supported. (Jonathan Sailor)
* Resources now default to no value, but "Home" is used if the server refuses to provide a resource.
* Quit trying to get user info for MUC's. (Paul Aurich)
* Send "client-accepts-full-bind-result" attribute during SASL login. This will fix Google Talk login failures if the user configures the wrong domain for his/her account.
* Support new element to indicate no XEP-0084 User Avatar. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix SHA1 avatar checksum errors that occur when one of the bytes in a checksum begins with 0. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix a problem with duplicate buddies. (Paul Aurich)

Yaho
* Corrected maximum message lengths for Yahoo!
* Fix file transfers with older Yahoo protocol versions.

Zephyr:
* Enable auto-reply, to emulate 'zaway.' (Toby Schaffer)
* Fix a crash when an account is configured to use tzc but tzc is not installed or the configured tzc command is invalid. (Michael Terry)
* Fix a 10 second delay waiting on tzc if it is not installed or the configured command is invalid. (Michael Terry)

Pidgin:
* On GTK+ 2.14 and higher, we're using the gtk-tooltip-delay setting instead of our own (hidden) tooltip_delay pref.  If you had previously changed that pref, add a line like this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0 (where 500 is the timeout (in ms) you want):
  gtk-tooltip-timeout = 500
To completely disable tooltips (e.g. if you had an old  tooltip_delay of zero), add this to ~/.purple/gtkrc-2.0:
  gtk-enable-tooltips = 0
* Moved the release notification dialog to a mini-dialog in the buddylist. (Casey Ho)
* Fix a crash when closing an authorization minidialog with the X then immediately going offline. (Paul Aurich)
* Fix a crash cleaning up custom smileys when Pidgin is closed.
* Fix adding a custom smiley using the context menu in a conversation if no custom smilies have previously been added using the smiley manager.
* Improved support for some message formatting in conversations.
* Allow focusing the coversation history or userlist with F6.
* Fixed the Send Button plugin to avoid duplicate buttons in a single conversation.
* Double-clicking a saved status will now activate it and close the saved status manager, rather than edit the status.

Finch:
* Allow binding meta+arrow keys for actions.
* Added default meta+erase binding for delete previous word.
* Added "Show When Offline" to buddy menus, so a plugin is no longer needed.

更新：http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
官网：http://www.pidgin.im

v2.5.3 For Linux 官方下载：(右键另存为~)
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.5.3.tar.bz2
v2.5.3 For Windows 官方下载：(右键另存为~)
Setup：http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.5.3.exe
Setup without GTK+：http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.5.3-no-gtk.exe
Standalone：http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/pidgin-2.5.3-win32-bin.zip

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