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Rejoin an opened chat after an account reconnects. Previously, we used to rejoin an open chat only if the account was disconnected due to an error. But now, the chat rooms will be rejoined even if we disconnected manually.

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.