Pidgin 2.5.2

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can be extended using plugins.

libpurple:

* Fixed a crash on removing a custom buddy icon on a buddy.
* Fixed a crash caused by certain self-signed SSL certificates.
* Enable a number of strong ciphers which were previously disabled when using NSS. (Thanks to Marcus Trautwig.)

Pidgin:

* The status selector now saves your message when changing status.
* Fix a case where a conversation window could close unexpectedly.
* A mute sounds option has been added to the preferences window to help with discoverability. CTRL+S is no longer bound to mute.
* Added ability to change the color of visited links (using the theme control plugin, or setting the color in ~/.gtkrc-2.0)
* Fix a crash occuring when a custom smiley is deleted and re-added and used in an open conversation after being re-added.

Finch:

* A new ‘Nested Grouping’ option in the ‘Grouping’ plugin. Group hierarchies are defined by the ‘/’ character in the group names.
* A bug was fixed where some key-bindings wouldn’t work with some TERMs (e.g. xterm-color, screen-linux etc.)

MSN:

* Operations (such as moving to a new group) on contacts that were added in the same session should now complete correctly, and not cause synchronization errors at next login.
* Minor fixes to login process during a server transfer.
* Restored the “Has You” feature to the MSN protocol tooltips.
* ADL 205/214/etc errors should no longer prevent login.

XMPP:

* Sending and receiving custom smileys using the specification in XEP-0231 (bits of binary) and XHTML-IM

Yahoo:

* Only send a Ping once every hour. This prevents the account from being disconnected from the server periodically.

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