Pidgin发布2.4.1版本
Pidgin发布2.4.1版本，发布日期是2008-03-31，从Pidgin的下载页面下载，下载速度极慢，只有5KB/s。
QQ不能用的问题依然存在，不过已经有了官方解释，这是gtk底库的Bug造成的，与Pidgin无关，gtk的Bug报告宣称，这个问题已经在未来的2.16.x中解决。按照Pidgin开发者的解释，目前Pidgin 2.4.1仍然用的是Gtk 2.12.8 RevA，所以这个问题依然存在，如果要解决，就单独下载一个早前版本Gtk 2.12.1 Rev B。我安装这个版本的Gtk后果然问题解决。
版本更新日志
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.
Ticket列表
- 4814 Crash if xmpp pong timeout fires after account is disconnected
- 4965 icq problem receiving messages
- 5024 XMPP Crash on resume from standby.
- 576 ICQ: moving buddies from one group to another forces authorization request
- 5077 QQ message text and sender(Pidgin)'s nick all changed to: "(NULL)"
- 1496 Signal handling crashes some non-Linux platforms
- 1523 foreground/background colors not switching properly
- 1687 buddy icons with gadugadu
- 2110 Non-square buddy icons don't have the corners rounded.
- 2274 "User is Typing" GUI defect in Pidgin 2.0.2
- 2346 Incorrect translated statuses in Romanian
- 2359 Mobile icon almost never apperars
- 2712 Duplicate groups appears
- 2777 Text layout from copy doesn't include close tags
- 3143 msimprpl 2-level nested bold/italic/underline formatting
- 3305 MSNP14 shows hotmail contacts as MSN Messenger contacts.
- 3874 ICQ group names in utf-8 read incorrectly
- 4083 IM window "Send To" conversation menu item not translated to Italian
- 4517 New Estonian translation
- 4593 history-next and history-prev behavior
- 4901 Pidgin crashes when close button of notification area is clicked.
- 4957 Patch: Alias Missing From "is typing..." in Finch
- 4969 window size changes on backspace
- 4971 Gadu-Gadu buddy icons patch
- 4977 zh_TW update for 2.4.0
- 4979 Text window issues
- 5010 Esperanto translation (update)
- 5013 Plugin window tooltip not translated
- 5016 MSVCR71.dll error when starting Pidgin
- 5017 Input area missing after enabling formatting toolbar
- 5022 Yahoo contacts blocked if the number of contacts in the list is higher than 286
- 5023 OSCAR login segfault/crash
- 5041 "An instance of Pidgin is already running" When Opening Pidgin
- 5042 Updated Belarusian Latin translation for 2.4.0
- 5076 -l usage clarification
- 5079 Single-account multi-login Gtalk contact Away though Available
- 5103 Updated Russian translation for Pidgin 2.4.1
- 5108 Invalid Screen Name for names with underscores and periods - AOL
- 5141 Show when offline for groups
- 5160 Pidgin crashes when sending file on ICQ
- 5167 Crash when attempting to log in to LCS
- 5217 Pidgin crashes when i right click on emoticon image
- 5248 URI protocolhandler invocation cant find pidgin window (windows)
- 5259 msimprpl font size setting reads from "port" instead of "dpi"
- 5300 Updated Arabic translation.
- 5309 he.po for 2.4.1
- 5310 Dutch Translation Update
- 5313 Norwegian Nynorsk language file for Pidgin 2.4.1
- 5333 New Belarusian Latin translation for 2.4.1 version
- 5341 Update to the Spanish translation
- 5344 Updated Russian translation for Pidgin 2.4.1
- 5351 Czech translation
- 5358 Pidgin Slovak (sk) translation update
- 5359 Romanian update for Pidgin 2.4.1
- 5365 Updated Slovenian for 2.4.1
