Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), Yahoo, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Jabber and Zephyr networks.
Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer (coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification.
Pidgin also goes beyond that and provides many unique features.
A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, and more.

Requirements:
· GTK

What's New in This Release:
General:
· Fix the exceptions in purple-remote on Python 2.6+. (Ari Pollak) (#12151)
Pidgin:
· When a conversation has reached the maximum limit on the number of smileys, display the text representation of the smiley properly when it contains HTML-escapable characters
· Drop dependency on GdkGC and use Cairo instead.
· New UI hack to assist in first-time setup of Facebook accounts with icon from Jakub Szypulka.
· Don't hide the buddy list if there is no notification area in which to put the icon. (#12129)
libpurple:
· Fix multipart parsing when '=' is included in the boundary for purple_mime_document_parse. (Jakub Adam) (#11598)
AIM and ICQ:
· Buddies who unset their status message will now be correctly shown without a message in your buddy list. (#12988)
Gadu-Gadu:
· Updated our bundled libgadu and minimum requirement for external libgadu to 1.9.0. (#12789)
MSN:
· Stop showing ourselves in the list of endpoints that can be disconnected.
· Allow full-size display names, by n...