Pidgin 2.7.8 erschienen

Auch Pidgin legt kurz vor Weihnachten noch einmal nach und veröffentlicht Version 2.7.8 des Multi Messengers. 

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Der Changelog sieht folgendermaßen aus.

   - General:
          o Fix the exceptions in purple-remote on Python 2.6+. (Ari Pollak) (#12151)

   - Pidgin:
          o When a conversation has reached the maximum limit on the number of smileys, display the text representation of the smiley properly when it contains HTML-escapable characters
          o Drop dependency on GdkGC and use Cairo instead.
          o New UI hack to assist in first-time setup of Facebook accounts with icon from Jakub Szypulka.
          o Don't hide the buddy list if there is no notification area in which to put the icon. (#12129)

  - libpurple:
          o Fix multipart parsing when '=' is included in the boundary for purple_mime_document_parse. (Jakub Adam) (#11598)

- AIM and ICQ:
          o Buddies who unset their status message will now be correctly shown without a message in your buddy list. (#12988)

- Gadu-Gadu:
          o Updated our bundled libgadu and minimum requirement for external libgadu to 1.9.0. (#12789)

- MSN:
          o Stop showing ourselves in the list of endpoints that can be disconnected.
          o Allow full-size display names, by not escaping (most) non-English characters. (#8508)
          o Fix receiving messages from users on Yahoo and other federated services. (#13022)
          o Correctly remove old endpoints from the list when they sign out.
          o Add option to disable connections from multiple locations. (#13017)
          o Correctly update your own display name in the buddy list. (#13064)
          o Correctly show ourselves as offline in the buddy list when going invisible. (#12945)
          o Correctly update your own icon in the buddy list. (#12973)
          o Remove struct packing for better portability. (#12856)

- XMPP:
          o Terminate Jingle sessions with unsupported content types. (#13048)

Wer immer noch Probleme mit den Einstellungen für Facebook oder ICQ hat, der findet im Artikel zur Version 2.7.7 die Lösung