来源：泡泡网 作者：刘鑫
Pidgin(以前的GAIM)是一款功能强大支持多个协议的开源即时通讯软件。包含的IM协议有AIM、Bonjour、Gadu-Gadu、Groupwise、ICQ、IRC、MSN、QQ、SILC、SIMPLE、Sametime、XMPP、Yahoo! IM、Zephyr等，十分全面。值得一提的是，QQ不再以插件形式支持了，而是直接可以使用了。
Version 2.4.0 (2/29/200
* libpurple
o Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts (thanks to Matthew Goldstein)
o Fixed various problems with loss of status messages when going or returning from idle on MySpaceIM.
o Eliminated unmaintained Howl backend implementation for the Bonjourprotocol. Avahi (or Apple's Bonjour runtime on win32) is now requiredto use Bonjour.
o Partial support for viewing ICQ status notes (Collin from ComBOTS GmbH).
o Support for /notice on IRC.
o Support for Yahoo! Messenger 7.0+ file transfer method (Thanumalayan S.)
o Support for retrieving full names and addresses from the address book on Yahoo! Japan (Yusuke Odate)
o The AIM/ICQ server-side preference for "allow others to see me asidle" is no longer unconditionally set to "yes" even when yourlibpurple preference is "no."
o Fix SSL certificate checks for renewed certificates
o Fix the ability to set vCard buddy icons on Google Talk/XMPP
o D-Bus fixes on 64bit
o Fixed retrieval of buddy icons and setting of server-side aliases onYahoo! and Yahoo! Japan when using an HTTP proxy server (Gideon N.Guillen)
o Fixed an MSN bug that would leave you appearing offline when transferred to different server
* Pidgin
o Input text area in conversation windows auto-resizes to fit more lines (up to a maximum of 4 lines)
o Added the ability to theme conversation name colors (red and blue)through your GTK+ theme, and exposed those theme settings to the PidginGTK+ Theme Control plugin (Dustin Howett)
o Fixed having multiple alias edit areas in the infopane (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
o Save the conversation "Enable Logging" option per-contact (Moos Heintzen)
o Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area
* Finch
o Color is used in the buddylist to indicate status, and theconversation window to indicate various message attributes. Look at thesample gntrc file in the man page for details.
o Thedefault keybinding for dump-screen is now M-D and uses a file requestdialog. M-d will properly delete-forward-word, and M-f has been fixedto imitate readline's behavior.
o New bindings alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to help navigating between the higlighted windows (details on the man page).
o Recently signed on (or off) buddies blink in the buddy list.
o New action 'Room List' in the action list can be used to get the list of available chat rooms for an online account.
o The 'Grouping' plugin can be used for alternate grouping in thebuddylist. The current options are 'Group Online/Offline' and 'NoGroup'.
o Added a log viewer
o Added the ability to block/unblock buddies - see the buddy context menu and the menu for the buddy list.
o Fixed a bug preventing finch working on x86_64
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