Applications/Internet

pidgin: A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client

Name:pidgin Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:2.3.1 License:GPLv2+ and GPLv2 and MIT
Release:2.el5_2 URL:http://pidgin.im/
Summary
Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just add an account using the account editor. Pidgin supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting, TCL scripting and C plugins. Pidgin is not affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Yahoo! Inc., or ICQ Inc.

Arch: i386

Download:pidgin-2.3.1-2.el5_2.i386.rpm
Build Date:Thu Jul 10 00:55:07 2008
Packager:
Size:2.24 MiB

Arch: x86_64

Download:pidgin-2.3.1-2.el5_2.x86_64.rpm
Build Date:Thu Jul 10 01:05:58 2008
Packager:
Size:2.30 MiB

Changelog

* Wed Jul 2 17:00:00 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami{%}redhat{*}com> 2.3.1-2
- CVE-2008-2927 MSN integer overflow
- Fix ICQ login
- pidgin-2.3.1-reap-sound-children.patch
  pidgin-2.3.1-finch-x86_64.patch
  No change, but just noting that these went into upstream.
* Mon May 12 17:00:00 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami{%}redhat{*}com> 2.3.1-1.el4.3
- Fixes to make it work on RHEL4
  Build:
      - make it build with old SILC
      - silence gconftool-2 during upgrade from pidgin-1.5.1
      - gtk-update-icon-cache didn't exist in RHEL4 
      - defattr all sub-packages
  Runtime:
      - reap sound child processes if they did not exit within 15 seconds
      - migrate RHEL4 users to command "aplay %s" so sound continues to work
      - default RHEL4 users to command "aplay %s"
- finch fix for x86_64 (one liner patch)
- Require RHEL4 libxml2 >= 2.6.16-12
  This fixes Google Talk protocol. (#445758)
* Fri Dec 7 16:00:00 2007 Stu Tomlinson <stu{%}nosnilmot{*}com> 2.3.1-1
- 2.3.1 Many bugfixes

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