Two years since the last release instant messaging client release , which supports networks such as XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, and Novell GroupWise. Pidgin's GUI is written using the GTK+ library and supports features such as a single address book, multi-networking, tabbed interface, avatars, and integration with the Windows, GNOME, and KDE notification area. Support for connecting plugins makes it easy to extend the functionality of Pidgin, and the implementation of basic protocol support in a separate libpurple library makes it possible to create your own implementations based on Pidgin technologies (for example, Adium for macOS).
This release will be the last in the 2.X.0 branch, and all the efforts of the developers will be directed to ... Among notable features in this release include support for XMPP stream management (XEP-0198 Stream Management), fixing memory leaks in search results, server name indication (SNI) support in GnuTLS, numerous improvements to videoconferencing, and support for screen sharing via XDP Portal when using Wayland. purple-remote provides compatibility with Python 3 while maintaining the ability to use Python 2.
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