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Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.


Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.


Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box:

AIM
ICQ
Google Talk
Jabber/XMPP
MSN Messenger
Yahoo!
Bonjour
Gadu-Gadu
IRC
Novell GroupWise Messenger
QQ
Lotus Sametime
SILC
SIMPLE
MySpaceIM
Zephyr

It can support many more with plugins.


Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications.
Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin's functionality above and beyond the standard features.


Pidgin integrates with the system tray on Windows, GNOME2, and KDE 3.1.


Pidgin is under constant development.
Releases are usually frequent and driven by user contributions, such as bug reports and patches.


Pidgin is free and contains no ads.
All our code is open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
This means you can get Pidgin's underlying code and modify it to suit your needs, as long as you publish the changes you make for everyone to benefit from as well.


Supported Languages

Pidgin is translated into many different languages, thanks to the generous contributions of our volunteer translators.

Afrikaans
Albanian
American English
Arabic
Australian English
Belarusian Latin
Bengali
Bokmal Norwegian
Bosnian
British English
Bulgarian
Canadian English
Catalan
Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch, Flemish
Dzongkha
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Euskera(Basque)
Finnish
French
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hong Kong Chinese
Hungarian
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Lao
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian Nynorsk
Occitan
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese-Brazil
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Simplified Chinese
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Traditional Chinese
Turkish
Urdu
Vietnamese


ED2K Link:
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Changelog:


ICQ

Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy) 


MSN

Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo! 


MySpace

Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.

Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM's web client. 


Yahoo

Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.

Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.

Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.

Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.

The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com.
This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method. 


XMPP

Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.