Sean: This release took a bit longer than 3 weeks, but boy is it worth it! We're beginning to experiment with new UI concepts and this release features a largely re-designed conversation window. We've closed 150 tickets for this release; much thanks go to all the developers, translators, and testers who made this possible.

Ka-Hing: Sean said no one else NEWS'ed, so I figure I should.

libpurple:

• Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling. Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
• No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part notifications in chats
• With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved. NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
• Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)

Pidgin:

• Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
• Undo capability in the conversation window
• The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
• A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon, protocol and status message.
• Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds

Finch:

• There's support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
• There's a new custom window manager, Irssi
• Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
• Some bugs regarding search results fixed
• A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
• Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)

Program Information Category: Internet and communication Type: Free Version: 2.1.0 Size: 11MB Works on: Windows Product page: here