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ChangeLog the security fix and credit Marius. Although he didn't directly provide a patch, his suggestions and review were helpful in deriving the final fix for the problem.

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.