14 DAY TRIAL // The latest release of Pidgin, has landed and includes only bug fixes. These affect a hefty number of the supported protocols.
Pidgin 2.10.1 mends problems with AIM and ICQ protocols, where validating strings in a few messages related to buddy list management could cause remotely-triggered crashes.
In the case of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol, the latest version of the messenger fixes a memory leak that occurred upon admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary encoding.
Crashes and memory leaks were also present with Jabber. The mishaps would manifest upon receiving malformed voice and video requests.
Additional repairs refer to Yahoo! (fetching buddy icons), Sametime (separate “username” and “server” when adding new accounts), Bonjour (IPv6 fixes) and Gadu-Gadu (issues with linking against GnuTLS).
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