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author John Bailey <rekkanoryo@rekkanoryo.org>
date Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:34:37 +0000
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1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul 1 Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
2 2
3 Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im 3 Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im
4 4
5 2.6.0 (08/??/2009): 5 2.6.0 (08/18/2009):
6 John: Wow, four straight releases that I'm the first to NEWS on. This
7 is getting kinda scary! I'm beginning to wonder who else actually does
8 anything around here! (Just kidding, of course.) LOTS of new features
9 and a crapton of bugfixes this release. There should pretty much be
10 something for everybody. A great example of this is the ton of Yahoo
11 changes that have happened thanks to our SoC student from 2008, Sulabh
12 Mahajan. Among his massive improvements are the ability to add MSN
13 buddies by adding them as "msn/user@domain.tld" and peer-to-peer file
14 transfers. Of course, history shows we can't please everyine, so I'm
15 sure I'll see a complaint or five thousand in trac. Enjoy, though!
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6 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this 17 Marcus: This is my first news! It's been quite a few microreleases this
7 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated 18 time, but now we're finally at 2.6.0. I suppose the most anticipated
8 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to 19 new feature in this release is the voice and video support, thanks to
9 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like 20 Mike's heroic work. I've managed to slip in a few features too, like
10 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time 21 in-band bytestream file transfers as a fallback on XMPP and idle time
21 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is 32 Mike: Ditto. This is my first news as well. I have a feeling this is
22 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is 33 getting repetitive at this point, but voice and video support is
23 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and 34 finally here! Thanks to the rest of the Pidgin team, Farsight 2, and
24 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my 35 GStreamer developers for making this possible! (I finally finished my
25 Summer of Code project :D) 36 Summer of Code project :D)
37
38 2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
39 John: This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
40 issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
26 41
27 2.5.8 (06/27/2009): 42 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
28 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix 43 John: This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
29 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7. 44 a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.
30 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be 45 Hopefully anything I broke there is fixed now, or at least made to be