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All SNACs on FLAP channel 2 except in the auth family are now sent through flap_connection_send_snac() instead of flap_connection_send(). This allows them to be tallied into the rate limiting calculations and to be throttled as necessary to prevent rate limiting violations. This does fix the instantaneous disconnection seen with the addition of ICQ Status Notes support for people with many ICQ contacts with status notes on their buddy list. Unfortunately, we still request the ICQ Status Note many times per contact, so such people now may be rate limited for a significant period of time as they connect.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.