Pidgin 2.7.4

Pidgin 是一款整合多種即時通訊協定的開源軟體，讓你在單一介面中同時登入 MSN、Yahoo! 即時通、ICQ、QQ 等帳號，省去安裝多套客戶端的麻煩。它的介面走樸實路線，沒有花俏裝飾，但對純聊天用途來說已經足夠，而且乾淨無廣告，是許多人懷念的經典工具。開發團隊長期持續維護，在同類工具中屬於穩定且有一定歷史地位的选择，雖然近年熱度不如主流通訊軟體，但仍有固定使用者依賴它來集中管理多個舊式帳號。

這套軟體適合需要同時處理多個即時通訊帳號、又不想被各家客戶端綁住的人，尤其是還在沿用舊協定的使用者。與 WhatsApp 或 Yahoo! Messenger 等單一服務的軟體相比，Pidgin 的優勢在於整合與輕量，但代價是介面較陽春、部分新功能支援較慢。它採開源授權，Windows 平台可免費使用，不過官方僅提供英文介面，若需要中文得靠社群語言包；下載時建議留意版本更新頻率，目前維護步調不算快，但基本功能仍能正常運作。

Pidgin為一套綜合的即時通訊軟體。使用此軟體，就可讓您登入msn、yahoo即時通、icq、qq等即時通訊的帳號。讓您如果在外面用電腦，不需要這麼麻煩安裝這麼多的即時通訊軟體。

• 整合了多種的即時通訊軟體(如：msn、yahoo即時通、icq、qq等)。
• 雖然介面較陽春，但最聊天而言，已經算是夠了。
• 軟體介面乾淨，不包含任何的廣告。
• 讓您可節省時間及硬體空間，安裝其他多種的即時通訊軟體。
• 支援多國的語言介面(如：中國、英國、希臘、韓國、葡萄牙等語言)。

# General:
- Fix search path for Tk when compiling on Debian Squeeze. (#12465)
- purple-remote now expects and produces UTF-8. (Guillaume Brunerie)(#12049)
- Add Deutsche Telekom, Thawte Primary, and Go Daddy Class 2 root CAs (#12667, #12668, and #12594)
- Fix CVE-2010-3711 by properly validating return values from the purple_base64_decode() function before using them.
- Fix two local crash bugs by properly validating return values from the purple_base16_decode() function before using them.

# libpurple:
- Fall back to an ordinary request if a UI does not support showing a request with an icon. Fixes receiving MSN file transfer requests including a thumbnail in Finch. (#12561)
- Fix an invalid memory access when removing UPnP mappings that could cause sporadic crashes, most notably when MSN Direct Connections are enabled. (#12387)
- Add a sentence to the certificate warning for expired certificates suggesting the user check their computer's date and time. (#12654)

# Pidgin:
- Add support for the Gadu-Gadu protocol in the gevolution plugin to provide Evolution integration with contacts with GG IDs. (#10709)
- Remap the "Set User Mood" shortcut to Control-D, which does not conflict with the previous shortcut for Get Buddy Info on the selected buddy.
- Add a plugin action menu (under Tools) for the Voice and Video Settings plugin.
- Use GRegex for the debug window where available. This brings regex filtering to the debug window on Windows. (Eion Robb) (#12601)
- Add Google Chrome to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows systems.
- Add Chromium to the list of possible browsers on non-Windows systems.
- The "Manual" browser option is now stored as a string. It is no longer necessary to specify a full path to the browser command. (Rodrigo Tobar Carrizo) (#12024)
- The Send To menu can now be used if the active account in the conversation becomes disabled or inactive. (Keith Moyer) (#12471)
- xdg-open is now the default browser for new users on non-Windows platforms. (Stanislav Brabec) (#12505)

# Finch:
- Add support for drop-down account options (like the SILC cipher and HMAC options or the QQ protocol version).

# XMPP:
- Unify the connection security-related settings into one dropdown.
- Fix a crash when multiple accounts are simultaneously performing SASL authentication when built with Cyrus SASL support. (thanks to Jan Kaluza) (#11560)
- Restore the ability to connect to XMPP servers that do not offer Stream ID. (#12331)
- Added support for using Google's relay servers when making voice and video calls to Google clients.
- Fix detecting file transfer proxies advertised by the server.
- Advertise support for Google Talk's JID Domain Discovery extension in all cases again (changed in 2.7.0), not just when the domain is "gmail.com" or "googlemail.com" (it's also needed for Google Talk used for accounts on arbitrary domains not using Google Apps for Your Domain). (#a14153)
- Improved handling of adding oneself to your buddy list when using Non-SASL (legacy) authentication. (#12499)
- Generate a connection error instead of just stalling when the _xmppconnect TXT record returns results, but none of them result in a valid BOSH URI. (#a14367, #12744)

# Yahoo/Yahoo JAPAN:
- Stop doing unnecessary lookups of certain alias information. This solves deadlocks when a given Yahoo account has a ridiculously large (>500 buddies) list and may improve login speed for those on slow connections. (#12532)
- Fix sending SMS messages. The lookup host changed on us. (Thanks to todo) (#12688).
- Improvements for some file transfer scenarios, but not all.

# Windows:
- Bonjour support now requires Apple Bonjour Print Services version 2.0.0 or newer (http://support.apple.com/kb/dl999).