Pidgin 2.5.6 released

Pidgin 2.5.6 released

The developers behind the popular open source instant messaging application Pidgin have released a new version.

Pidgin 2.5.6 is now available as a free download.

This is mostly a bug fix edition.

Changelog:

libpurple
Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
Fix various crashes on exit.
Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
Many security related fixes

IRC
Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of channels.
Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying fallback nicks.

MSN
Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.

XMPP
Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of the “Hide new IM conversations” preference.

Yahoo
Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.

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