Pidgin is on a fast development track and just came out with their new version 2.4.1. There are several updates, such as:

  • Pidgin logoAdd support for setting buddy icons on Gadu-Gadu (Tomasz Salacinski)
  • Fix incorrectly marking some Yahoo! contacts as blocked
  • Increase XMPP ping timeout to 120 seconds, to prevent poor network connections from timing out unnecessarily.
  • Fix for displaying channel & buddy names in conversation window when they have ‘&’ in them
  • Some memory leak fixes, especially in the Text Replacement plugin
  • Rectangular but non-square buddy icons have rounded corners in the buddy list.
  • And other crash fixes.

Download it now from the site.