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Transplant the 2.5.6 ChangeLogs into im.pidgin.pidgin.
author Paul Aurich <paul@darkrain42.org>
date Wed, 27 May 2009 02:02:45 +0000
parents 131e41a24d95
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48 chat to avoid getting too many fetch requests). 48 chat to avoid getting too many fetch requests).
49 * Fix an issue with Jabber (pre-XMPP) servers and the user's preference 49 * Fix an issue with Jabber (pre-XMPP) servers and the user's preference
50 to require SSL not being respected. 50 to require SSL not being respected.
51 51
52 Yahoo: 52 Yahoo:
53 * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan) 53 * P2P file transfers. (Sulabh Mahajan)
54 * MSN Interoperability by adding MSN buddies as 'msn/user@example.com'.
55 (Sulabh Mahajan)
56 * Sending text messages (address to +<countrycode><phone number>). 54 * Sending text messages (address to +<countrycode><phone number>).
57 (Sulabh Mahajan) 55 (Sulabh Mahajan)
58 * Addition of MSN buddies to Yahoo accounts by adding them as 56 * Addition of MSN buddies to Yahoo accounts by adding them as
59 'msn/buddy@somedomain.com' is now supported. (Sulabh Mahajan) 57 'msn/buddy@somedomain.com' is now supported. (Sulabh Mahajan)
60 * Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should 58 * Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should
85 83
86 Finch: 84 Finch:
87 * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful 85 * The hardware cursor is updated correctly. This will be useful
88 especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc. 86 especially for users of braille terminals, screen readers etc.
89 * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs. 87 * Added a TinyURL plugin, which aids copying longer URLs.
88
89 version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):
90 libpurple:
91 * Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second
92 boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
93 * Fix various crashes on exit.
94 * Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries.
95 This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes
96 on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
97 * Many security related fixes.
98
99 IRC:
100 * Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of
101 channels.
102 * Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying
103 fallback nicks.
104
105 MSN:
106 * Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
107 * Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused
108 by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.
109
110 XMPP:
111 * Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of
112 the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.
113
114 Yahoo:
115 * Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
116 * Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.
90 117
91 version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009): 118 version 2.5.5 (03/01/2009):
92 libpurple: 119 libpurple:
93 * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id. 120 * Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id.
94 * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To 121 * Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To