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Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul

Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im

2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
	John:  This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
	a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
	Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be

	protocol plugin.  I spent way more time on this release than I care
	to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
	people have been having.

2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
	Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes. Hooray. (Paul told me to say that)
	Oh, no one has met Paul yet? He's awesome, he backported my fixes
	to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
	workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
	that. Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
	which is user visible though. This basically applies to the rest
	of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
	it.

	Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
	have encountered.  We also would like to thank Veracode

2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
	John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
	a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
	about two very common issues.  Feels like time for a release to me.

	Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say. I
	haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
	going forward. I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
	language tweaks this release. My plan is to work on some of the
	issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
	while back) in the near future.

2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
	Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing

	this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
	ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
	messaging pleasure.

	Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
	couple of weeks. But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
	a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
	problem. Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
	who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
	XMPP protocol, included in this release. Enjoy!

	Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
	I've just about had enough of them. Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
	and this release should be superb.

	John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
	lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
	it to us.  Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
	release far longer than we expected.  Hopefully the bugfixes make you
	happy!

	Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
	server snafu. I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
	servers will help us out a bit. Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
	Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
	Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!

2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
	Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release.  It solves a few

	on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
	Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
	coming months.

	Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
	and no-one else seems to want to. Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
	fixes, so try it out. The contact list problems might still be around,
	but you can probably find a workaround in trac. And there's a tooltip
	fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
	closing many many duplicate tickets).

2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
	Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release.  Lots of people have worked
	very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
	it to the world!  There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
	ones so you should be sure to update.

	Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support. To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
	the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
	bunny icon. I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
	of users happy, especially MSN users.

	Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS! Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
	support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
	all at the same time. Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
	Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
	a little cleaner, I think. Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?

	Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
	as a full fledged developer!  He took the last few strides mushing the
	new MSN code into shape.  Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
	doing other great stuff.

	Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
	not recommended. Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
	discouraged.

2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
	Richard: This release includes important bug fixes.  I'm just cutting
	the release.  Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!

2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
	Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
	typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
	windows, escape to close conversation windows etc. These changes should
	make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*

	Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
	MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
	and opening MSN inboxes might work better too. SILC passphrase changes
	and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.

2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
	Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0

2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
	John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
	door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
	This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
	file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!). As
	is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
	patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me. Enjoy!

	Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release! There's
	now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
	block/unblock buddies. It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
	many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc. Happy Leap Day!

	Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
	patches written by other people.

	Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands. I didn't do all that much except complain
	about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes. I'm quite
	pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
	Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)

2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
	Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
	Hopefully this will redeem us. This fixes a number of bugs. I'm a
	bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team. Enjoy!

	Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
	others commit bug and, more, leak fixes.  People should be noticing
	remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.

	yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
	improvement over 2.2.0.  We have spent a lot of time since the
	last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
	and many of them have been closed.

	Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while. I haven't actually done much for
	too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon. This release is
	basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
	time.

2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
	Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
	of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features. We
	have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
	existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
	to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.

	Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
	around when certain options are enabled. Well, that was my fault,
	and Sadrul fixed it. So Props to him and poos to me. I haven't
	done much for this release, but the next one should contain
	something that I helped work on. Hint: students are cheap slave
	coders!

	Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
	release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
	wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
	release.  I promise!

2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
	Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
	is out. In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
	experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of 
	attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour. Thanks to everyone who 
	contributed.

	Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
	response to user comments.  We did not quite reach 100 tickets
	closed this release, so a fair few will role over again.  Still,
	we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
	Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
	various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.

	Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
	Yahoo! when in version 15 mode. So now we have some Yahoo! to
	MSN support, which is kind of nice. Looks like some others have
	been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
	to them.

2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
	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.

2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
	Sean: Another big maintenance release. Again, about 100 tickets were
	resolved in this release, and they keep coming in. Lots of bug fixes,
	some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
	internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
	Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
	features.

	Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
	again. This release includes yet more bug fixes. I'd also like to
	specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
	Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.

2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
	Sean: 2.0.1! Three weeks later, as scheduled! It is so nice to have
	regular, frequent, releases again! This is a bugfix release; We have
	fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
	Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
	in another three weeks!

	Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this. I don't know how you users find so many
	things for us to fix. 24 hours in a day (sadly). 24 is divisible by the
	sum of its digits and by their product. It is the smallest composite
	number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.

	Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
	Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
	submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should

	features in the next release!  So, I promise at least one cool new
	feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
	definition of 'cool' to get it.

	Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
	API functions. I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
	Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
	for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem. The removed
	preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.

2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
	Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
	really proud of all the work we've all done. I'm pumped. And, while
	I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
	1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
	rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
	quandries. Huge thanks to everyone involved.

	Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
	but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration.  No one regrets more
	than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
	But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal

	code, users using it, and in supporting other users.  I hope that
	those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
	attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.

	Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
	this is hardly one small step. A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
	than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
	new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
	and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
	powering the greatest IM clients around. Bugs were fixed and
	features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
	major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
	creep. As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
	Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.

	Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0. It's been a long time coming,
	but there's a great deal of goodness here. When I say a long time, I'm
	not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
	(aka 1.x). The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
	number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
	and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
	period). 2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
	the first deficient number (oh well). There are only 10 types of people
	in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
	Enjoy!

	Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
	I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
	Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
	where they are today.  Congratulations everyone!

	Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
	released!! And it's *really* very good!!! Give your soul a break ...
	Use Pidgin!

	Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
	due to the delays in getting this beast out.  I'm really happy that it
	is done.  I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is

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Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul

Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im

2.6.0 (08/??/2009):
	Marcus: This is my first news!  It's been quite a few microreleases this
	time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0.  I suppose the most anticipated
	new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
	Mike's heroic work.  I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
	in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
	reporting on XMPP.  Enjoy!

	Paul: This is my first news, too!  This release has definitely been a
	long time coming; hopefully it won't disappoint since we've closed over
	200 tickets.  Among other things, Tobias Markmann's GSoC project from
	last year was merged, which means we now support BOSH (XMPP connections
	over HTTP), and Andrei Mozzhuhin contributed an XMPP Service Discovery
	Browser.  Also, thanks to Bernmeister for poking (at least) several
	hundred old tickets!

	Mike: Ditto.  This is my first news as well.  I have a feeling this is
	getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
	finally here!  Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
	GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
	Summer of Code project :D)

	Elliott: Hey, this is my firs... Wait, no it isn't.  Now I feel left
	out.  So have you heard about this voice and video thing?
	Unfortunately, not quite ready for all protocols, but it's getting
	there.  MSN gained support for receiving voice clips at least, and
	finally we have Ink receiving capabilities too.  Thanks to the guys
	who wrote the original patch.  And finally, MSN no longer has over a
	100 tickets open!

2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
	John:  This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
	a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
	Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be

	protocol plugin.  I spent way more time on this release than I care
	to admit, so I hope that time is well spent and this fixes the issues
	people have been having.

2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
	Ka-Hing: Many much bugfixes.  Hooray.  (Paul told me to say that)
	Oh, no one has met Paul yet?  He's awesome, he backported my fixes
	to the release branch so I didn't have to checkout a
	workspace... except I just did to NEWS to tell you all about
	that.  Oh and I actually did do something for this release, none of
	which is user visible though.  This basically applies to the rest
	of the release as well, nothing exciting, but you definitely want
	it.

	Daniel: This should fix a number of annoying issues that some users
	have encountered.  We also would like to thank Veracode

2.5.4 (01/12/2009):
	John: Well, we fixed a few bugs for you this time around, I applied
	a few patches, and we've dealt with what feels like a TON of tickets
	about two very common issues.  Feels like time for a release to me.

	Etan: My first NEWS in quite a while and I don't have much to say.  I
	haven't been too active lately and I'm hoping that won't be the case
	going forward.  I managed to get in a few perl fixes and some UI
	language tweaks this release.  My plan is to work on some of the
	issues pointed out by mpt (during his expert review of pidgin a little
	while back) in the near future.

2.5.3 (12/18/2008):
	Mark: It's been about two months and woo-boy have we been fixing

	this release off for an unfortunate length of time, we're
	ready for another bugfix release for your bug-free(er?)
	messaging pleasure.

	Sadrul: Despite our best efforts, this release got delayed by a
	couple of weeks.  But here it is! It is mostly a bug fix release, with
	a couple of important fixes, e.g. fix for the Yahoo! disconnect
	problem.  Also, welcome our newest Crazy Patch Writer, Marcus Lundblad,
	who, among various other fixes, has implemented custom smileys for the
	XMPP protocol, included in this release.  Enjoy!

	Stu: I guess this is the time of year for server migrations, and
	I've just about had enough of them.  Fortunately Pidgin is still fun,
	and this release should be superb.

	John: Although our services were down for quite some time, we didn't
	lose any data, except perhaps some mail that would have failed to make
	it to us.  Overall, the only major effect it had was to delay this
	release far longer than we expected.  Hopefully the bugfixes make you
	happy!

	Elliott: This release took a while, but that was due to an unfortunate
	server snafu.  I didn't have much to do with it, but hopefully the new
	servers will help us out a bit.  Anyway, mostly bug-fixes this time.
	Nothing spectacular, unless you happen to suffer from one of those bugs.
	Oh, and don't forget, the "Has you" tooltip is back!

2.5.1 (08/30/2008):
	Kevin: This release is mainly a bug-fix release.  It solves a few

	on their branches and none have been merged into released code yet.
	Look for some of those results to show up in Pidgin releases over the
	coming months.

	Elliott: I'm just commenting so Kevin wouldn't be the only one in NEWS
	and no-one else seems to want to.  Anyway, there's a couple MSN login
	fixes, so try it out.  The contact list problems might still be around,
	but you can probably find a workaround in trac.  And there's a tooltip
	fix for our AIM friends, not that I had anything to do with it (except
	closing many many duplicate tickets).

2.5.0 (08/17/2008):
	Daniel: Lots of good stuff in this release.  Lots of people have worked
	very hard on the updated MSN protocol, and it's finally time to bring
	it to the world!  There are myriad bugfixes, including some important
	ones so you should be sure to update.

	Hylke: Finally MSNP15 support.  To celebrate this I refreshed a lot of
	the smilies used in the protocol and added the long awaited indispensable
	bunny icon.  I think this is one of those releases that will make a lot
	of users happy, especially MSN users.

	Elliott: Oh look, my first NEWS!  Well anyway, with that new MSNP15
	support, this release is set up to be a huge success and a total flop
	all at the same time.  Here's hoping it's the "huge success" one for you.
	Those icon changes that Hylke made, while minor, really make things look
	a little cleaner, I think.  Oh yea, did I mention that MSNP15 stuff?

	Mark: Speaking of MSNP15, we'd like to welcome Elliott Sales de Andrade
	as a full fledged developer!  He took the last few strides mushing the
	new MSN code into shape.  Then he decided that wasn't enough and started
	doing other great stuff.

	Ka-Hing: "Reject"ing a certificate after your account is signed off is
	not recommended.  Deleting the file after you start sending it is also
	discouraged.

2.4.3 (07/01/2008):
	Richard: This release includes important bug fixes.  I'm just cutting
	the release.  Thank you to the real heroes who did the fixing!

2.4.2 (5/17/2008):
	Sadrul: We added some usability changes in this release, including the
	typing notification, buddyicon and input area size in the conversation
	windows, escape to close conversation windows etc.  These changes should
	make pidgin more usable and more fun for Everyone! *wink*

	Stu: I fixed some memory leaks, but nothing like as many as Daniel did.
	MSN buddy list synchronization should be significantly less painful now,
	and opening MSN inboxes might work better too.  SILC passphrase changes
	and support for passphrase-less keys has been improved also.

2.4.1 (3/31/2008):
	Stu: We fixed some bugs, this release should be 110% better than 2.4.0

2.4.0 (2/29/2008):
	John: While this release took what seems like forever to get out the
	door, I think it's well worth the wait, especially for Yahoo! users.
	This release serves up some fixes for long standing bugs and adds
	file transfer for transfers with newer Yahoo! clients (finally!).  As
	is standard with code I committed, where it works great thank the
	patch writer, and where it's broken, feel free to yell at me.  Enjoy!

	Sadrul: Finch is more colourful and blinky in this release!  There's
	now a log viewer, which is very useful, and also the ability to
	block/unblock buddies.  It's now also possible to find chat rooms on
	many services, e.g. XMPP, IRC, Yahoo! etc.  Happy Leap Day!

	Ka-Hing: I think all I've done for this release is committing some
	patches written by other people.

	Stu: Finally, 2.4.0 lands.  I didn't do all that much except complain
	about things I didn't like or just revert Sean's changes.  I'm quite
	pleased with how well it's turned out in the end.
	Happy Birthday Fred, you must be nearly 10 now ;-)

2.3.1 (12/7/2007):
	Stu: I'm sorry for the MSN problems and the plugin crashes in 2.3.0.
	Hopefully this will redeem us.  This fixes a number of bugs.  I'm a
	bit late but I'd like to welcome John to the team.  Enjoy!

	Luke: I've done absolutely nothing in the last 2 weeks, except watch
	others commit bug and, more, leak fixes.  People should be noticing
	remarkably fewer memory leaks now than 2 or more releases ago.

	yet unstable though, and this should still be a marked
	improvement over 2.2.0.  We have spent a lot of time since the
	last release looking at the tickets that have been submitted
	and many of them have been closed.

	Stu: I haven't NEWS'd in a while.  I haven't actually done much for
	too long also, maybe I'll find some time soon.  This release is
	basically what 2.2.0 should have been - it actually compiles this
	time.

2.2.0 (9/13/2007):
	Sean: 2.2.0 contains the results of several major Google Summer
	of Code branches bringing some new, extraordinary features.  We
	have a new protocol, MySpaceIM, a bunch of new features for an
	existing protocol, XMPP, and nifty new certificate management
	to make sure your IM server is who it says it is.

	Ka-Hing: A number of you noticed crashes when dragging windows
	around when certain options are enabled.  Well, that was my fault,
	and Sadrul fixed it.  So Props to him and poos to me.  I haven't
	done much for this release, but the next one should contain
	something that I helped work on.  Hint: students are cheap slave
	coders!

	Kevin: I haven't really been coding much in Pidgin, and this
	release is no exception, but I will be working on getting our
	wonderful web site to be a little more functional by next
	release.  I promise!

2.1.1 (8/20/2007):
	Sean: Continuing our schedule of frequent releases, Pidgin 2.1.1
	is out.  In it, we've addressed a lot of UI issues from our
	experimental new changes introduced in 2.1.0, and gave a lot of 
	attention to Yahoo! and Bonjour.  Thanks to everyone who 
	contributed.

	Luke: We have reworked some parts of the conversation windows in
	response to user comments.  We did not quite reach 100 tickets
	closed this release, so a fair few will role over again.  Still,
	we are slowly but surely working our way through the reported bugs.
	Many thanks to everyone who has helped with tracking down the
	various issues, testing fixes, and getting patches in.

	Tim: Sean finally got me to fix some of the buddy list bugs with
	Yahoo! when in version 15 mode.  So now we have some Yahoo! to
	MSN support, which is kind of nice.  Looks like some others have
	been contributing to Yahoo! while I've been AWOL, so many thanks
	to them.

2.1.0 (7/28/2007):
	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.

2.0.2 (6/14/2007):
	Sean: Another big maintenance release.  Again, about 100 tickets were
	resolved in this release, and they keep coming in.  Lots of bug fixes,
	some minor icon adjustements, hopefully we addressed some ICQ
	internationalization issues, and support for Bonjour on Windows!
	Our next release will be 2.1.0, and will come with some great new
	features.

	Stu: I think we're gradually getting the hang of this 3 week thing
	again.  This release includes yet more bug fixes.  I'd also like to
	specifically thank Pekka Riikonen for the patch to enable using SILC
	Toolkit 1.1 with Pidgin/libpurple that is included in this release.

2.0.1 (5/24/2007):
	Sean: 2.0.1!  Three weeks later, as scheduled!  It is so nice to have
	regular, frequent, releases again!  This is a bugfix release; We have
	fixed over 100 issues reported to us at http://developer.pidgin.im.
	Thanks to everyone for their great work, and look for the next release
	in another three weeks!

	Stu: Lots'o'fixes in this.  I don't know how you users find so many
	things for us to fix.  24 hours in a day (sadly).  24 is divisible by the
	sum of its digits and by their product.  It is the smallest composite
	number, the product of whose divisors is a cube.

	Luke: I requested that we have a bug fix release, and so we have!
	Many, though unfortunately not all, of the reports that have been
	submitted to us since 2.0.0 have been fixed now, and so you should

	features in the next release!  So, I promise at least one cool new
	feature in the next release...you just might have to adjust your
	definition of 'cool' to get it.

	Etan: Perl plugins now have access to almost all of the savedstatus
	API functions.  I also removed a couple of the preferences from the
	Pidgin GTK+ Theme Control plugin which should help many of the people
	for whom the configuration dialog size was a problem.  The removed
	preferences no longer had the effects they were added to have anyway.

2.0.0 (5/3/2007):
	Sean: 2.0.0! It's real exciting to finally release Pidgin 2.0.0! I'm
	really proud of all the work we've all done.  I'm pumped.  And, while
	I could go on about all the amazing thing that have been added since
	1.5.0, what I'm really excited about is getting back to a regular,
	rapid, release cycle of active, open development, unhindered by legal
	quandries.  Huge thanks to everyone involved.

	Luke: We have finally managed to get 2.0.0 out the door, after nearly
	but not quite 2 years of effort and fustration.  No one regrets more
	than I that we were unable to make any of betas 3-6 the actual release.
	But at long last, it is out, and life can return to a more normal

	code, users using it, and in supporting other users.  I hope that
	those who download and install this will give it a fair shot, and
	attempt to avoid knee-jerk reactions.

	Evan: One small step for bird, one giant leap for birdkind... except
	this is hardly one small step.  A lot more has changed from Gaim 1.5.0
	than just the name. Pidgin has a *very* attractive new look, a whole
	new member of the family (Finch, formerly gaim-console) has been born,
	and libpurple has come into its own as a solid, full-featured library
	powering the greatest IM clients around.  Bugs were fixed and
	features were added by the hundreds (thousands?) since the last
	major release, all while improving performance and resisting feature
	creep.  As Luke said, a ton of thought and effort has gone into
	Pidgin 2.0.0; I'm proud to have played a part.

	Stu: We did it! finally, we have 2.0.0.  It's been a long time coming,
	but there's a great deal of goodness here.  When I say a long time, I'm
	not kidding - it's been 972 days since we branched off "oldstatus"
	(aka 1.x).  The early Greeks were uncertain as to whether 2 was a
	number at all (or if we'd ever make this release) - it has a beginning
	and an end but no middle (much like our unfortunately quiet development
	period).  2 is the first prime number and the only even prime. 2 is also
	the first deficient number (oh well).  There are only 10 types of people
	in the world - those who like our new names and those who do not.
	Enjoy!

	Richard: I'm very glad that we've finally gotten 2.0.0 released and
	I look forward to returning to a more normal development schedule.
	Again, a big thanks to everyone who helped in any way to get things
	where they are today.  Congratulations everyone!

	Sadrul: My first NEWS, and on what an occasion! Pidgin 2.0.0 is finally
	released!!  And it's *really* very good!!!  Give your soul a break ...
	Use Pidgin!

	Daniel: There has been a fair amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth
	due to the delays in getting this beast out.  I'm really happy that it
	is done.  I'm also very happy with what we're releasing - I think it is