Gaim is now called Pidgin

Gaim is now called Pidgin

The open source instant messenger product Gaim has been renamed to Pidgin. This is primarily because of the efforts of AOL which has the trademark to the term AIM.

The project has been named Pidgin IM and the developers have migrated off their development thread from sourceforge.net to developer.pidgin.im.

The Gaim development team has now confirmed that they have settled with AOL and the result is series of name change… Gaim became Pidgin, Libgaim became libpurple, gaim-text became Finch.

Pidgin 2.0.0 is currently in development and should be out very soon. The latest version hosted on the site as of now is the Pidgin 2.0.0beta6.

The website further states that:

We are going to release it with a 2.0.0 version number, and an API compatibility layer for plugin authors. The project has not changed; this is our 2.0.0 release, not some new program that requires new version numbering.

Checkout: Pidgin