diff NEWS @ 22884:fdda2b8a4146

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