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Changelog:

• 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. (Tomasz Sałaciński, 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 <metadata/> 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)

• Yahoo
  • 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.

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