Yahoo:
* Added an account action to open your inbox in the yahoo prpl.
* Added support for Unicode status messages in Yahoo.
* Server-stored aliases for Yahoo. (John Moody)
* Fixed support for Yahoo! doodling.
* Limited support for MSN Messenger contacts
Bonjour:
* Bonjour plugin uses native Avahi instead of Howl
* Bonjour plugin supports Buddy Icons
XMPP:
* Only report conversation close when 'send typing notifications' preference is turned on (Bob Rossi)
Pidgin:
* Show current outgoing conversation formatting on the font label on the toolbar
* Slim new redesign of conversation tabs to maximize number of conversations that can fit in a window
* Tab bar is not visible when only one conversation is open. You can drag and drop conversations from the infopane.
* Moved "Reset Formatting" toolbar button to Font menu.
* Double click on the infopane to alias buddies and set topics on chats
* New smiley style
Finch:
* Sound support (Eric Polino)
libpurple:
* Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling. Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows glib to better group our longer timers to increase power fficiency. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
* No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part notifications in chats
* With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved. NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
* Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
Pidgin:
* Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
* Undo capability in the conversation window
* The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
* A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon, protocol and status message.
* Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
Finch:
* There's support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
* There's a new custom window manager, Irssi
* Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
* Some bugs regarding search results fixed
* A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
* Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)
for the Gaim instant messenger client. See http://www.pidgin.im/ for more
details on the name.
This is a direct upgrade for gaim-devel users from 2.0.0.b6 to 2.0.0.b7.
with this version, but it should no longer crash when signing in to MSN.
Large parts of this were submitted as part of PR ports/98473 by
yuri.pankov@gmail.com .
Approved by: portmgr (implicit, kris)
