Download Pidgin 2.9.0

Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple. Libpurple has support for many commonly used messaging protocols.

Pidgin supports the following Instant Messaging protocols:
Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Lotus Sametime, MySpaceIM, MXit, .NET Messenger Service ( MSN Messenger or Windows Live Messenger), Novell GroupWise, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ/.Mac), QQ, SIMPLE, SILC, XMPP (Google Talk, LJ Talk, Gizmo5, Facebook Chat, ...), Yahoo, Zephyr.

Homepage: Pidgin
Type: Instant messaging client
License: GNU General Public License (Open Source)
Written in: C (C#, Perl, Python, Tcl are used for plugins)
Operating system: Cross-platform
Languages: Multi
Size: 9.16 MB
Source Code: Click Here

Download:  Windows  Mirror 

Support: Click Here

Pidgin Changelog:

* Pidgin
- Fix a potential remote denial-of-service bug related to displaying buddy icons.
- Significantly improved performance of larger IRC channels (regression introduced in 2.8.0).
- Fix Conversation->Add on AIM and MSN.
- Entries in the chat user list are sorted properly again. This was inadvertenly broken in 2.8.0.
* Finch
- Fix logging in to ICQ.
* libpurple
- media: Actually use the specified TCP port from the TURN configuration to create a TCP relay candidate.
* AIM and ICQ
- Fix crashes on some non-mainstream OSes when attempting to printf("%s", NULL).
* Plugins
- The Evolution Integration plugin compiles again.