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    11= !ChangeLog: Pidgin and Finch - The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good For The Soul! =
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     3
     4== version 2.10.3 (03/26/2012) ==
     5[http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.10.3 View all closed tickets for this release.]
     6  * '''MSN'''
     7    * Fix buddies not going offline. (#14997)
     8
     9== version 2.10.2 (03/14/2012) ==
     10[http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.10.2 View all closed tickets for this release.]
     11  * '''General'''
     12    * Fix compilation when using binutils 2.22 and new GDK pixbuf. (#14799)
     13    * Fix compilation of the MXit protocol plugin with GLib 2.31. (#14773)
     14
     15  * '''Pidgin'''
     16    * Add support for the GNOME3 Network dialog. (#13882)
     17    * Fix rare crash. (#14392)
     18    * Add support for the GNOME3 Default Application dialog for configuring the Browser.
     19
     20  * '''libpurple'''
     21    * Support new connection states and signals for NetworkManager 0.9+. (Dan Williams) (#13859)
     22
     23  * '''AIM and ICQ'''
     24    * Fix a possible crash when receiving an unexpected message from the server. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14983)
     25    * Allow signing on with usernames containing periods and underscores. (#13500)
     26    * Allow adding buddies containing periods and underscores. (#13500)
     27    * Don't try to format ICQ usernames entered as email addresses. Gets rid of an "Unable to format username" error at login. (#13883)
     28
     29  * '''MSN'''
     30    * Fix possible crashes caused by not validating incoming messages as UTF-8. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14884)
     31    * Support new protocol version MSNP18. (#14753)
     32    * Fix messages to offline contacts. (#14302)
     33
     34  * '''Windows-Specific Changes'''
     35    * Fix the installer downloading of spell-checking dictionaries (#14612)
     36    * Fix compilation of the Bonjour protocol plugin. (#14802)
     37
     38  * '''Plugins'''
     39    * The autoaccept plugin will no longer reset the preference for unknown buddies to "Auto Reject" in certain cases. (#14964)
     40
     41== version 2.10.1 (12/06/2011) ==
     42[http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.10.1 View all closed tickets for this release.]
     43  * '''Finch'''
     44    * Fix compilation on OpenBSD.
     45
     46  * '''AIM and ICQ'''
     47    * Fix remotely-triggerable crashes by validating strings in a few
     48      messages related to buddy list management.  Thanks to Evgeny Boger
     49      for reporting this!  (#14682)
     50
     51  * '''Bonjour'''
     52    * IPv6 fixes (Linus Lüssing)
     53
     54  * '''Gadu-Gadu'''
     55    * Fix problems linking against GnuTLS. (#14544)
     56
     57  * '''IRC'''
     58    * Fix a memory leak when admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary
     59      encoding.  (#14700)
     60
     61  * '''XMPP'''
     62    * Fix crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice
     63      and video requests.  Thanks to Thijs Alkemade for reporting this!
     64
     65  * '''Sametime'''
     66    * Separate "username" and "server" when adding new Sametime accounts.
     67      (#14608)
     68    * Fix compilation in Visual C++. (#14608)
     69
     70  * '''SILC'''
     71    * Fix CVE-2011-3594, by UTF-8 validating incoming messages before
     72      passing them to glib or libpurple.  Identified by Diego Bauche
     73      Madero from IOActive.  (#14636)
     74
     75  * '''Yahoo!'''
     76    * Fetch buddy icons in some cases where we previously weren't. (#13050)
     77
     78  * '''Windows-Specific Changes'''
     79    * Fix compilation
     80
     81
     82== version 2.10.0 (08/20/2011) ==
     83[http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.10.0 View all closed tickets for this release.]
     84  * '''Pidgin'''
     85    * Make the max size of incoming smileys a pref instead of hardcoding it. (Quentin Brandon) (#5231)
     86    * Added a plugin information dialog to show information for plugins that aren't otherwise visible in the plugins dialog.
     87    * Fix building with GTK+ earlier than 2.14.0 (GTK+ 2.10 is still the minimum supported) (#14261)
     88
     89  * '''libpurple'''
     90    * Fix a potential crash in the Log Reader plugin when reading QIP logs.
     91    * Fix a large number of strcpy() and strcat() invocations to use strlcpy() and strlcat(), etc., forestalling an entire class of string buffer overrun bugs. (The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Dan Auerbach, Chris Palmer, Jacob Appelbaum)
     92    * Change some filename manipulations in filectl.c to use MAXPATHLEN instead of arbitrary length constants.  (The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Dan Auerbach, Chris Palmer, Jacob Appelbaum)
     93    * Fix endianness-related crash in NTLM authentication (Jon Goldberg) (#14163)
     94
     95  * '''Gadu-Gadu'''
     96    * Fixed searching for buddies in public directory. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#5242)
     97    * Better status message handling. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#14314)
     98    * Merged two buddy blocking methods. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#5303)
     99    * Fix building of the bundled libgadu library with older versions of GnuTLS. (patch plucked from upstream) (#14365)
     100
     101  * '''ICQ'''
     102    * Fix crash selecting Tools->Set Mood when you're online with an ICQ account that is configured as an AIM account. (#14437)
     103
     104  * '''IRC'''
     105    * Fix a crash when remote users have certain characters in their nicknames. (Discovered by Djego Ibanez) (#14341)
     106    * Fix the handling of formatting following mIRC ^O (#14436)
     107    * Fix crash when NAMES is empty. (James McLaughlin) (#14518)
     108
     109  * '''MSN'''
     110    * Fix incorrect handling of HTTP 100 responses when using the HTTP connection method.  This can lead to a crash. (Discovered by Marius Wachtler)
     111    * Fix seemingly random crashing. (#14307)
     112    * Fix a crash when the account is disconnected at the time we are doing a SB request. (Hanzz, ported by shlomif) (#12431)
     113
     114  * '''XMPP'''
     115    * Do not generate malformed XML ("</>") when setting an empty mood. (#14342)
     116    * Fix the /join <room> behavior.  (Broken when adding support for <room>@<server>)  (#14205)
     117
     118  * '''Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN'''
     119    * Fix coming out of idle while in an unavailable state
     120    * Fix logging into Yahoo! JAPAN.  (#14259)
     121
     122  * '''Windows-Specific Changes'''
     123    * Open an explorer.exe window at the location of the file when clicking on a file link instead of executing the file, because executing a file can be potentially dangerous.  (Discovered by James Burton of Insomnia Security) (Fixed by Eion Robb)
     124
     125
     126
     127== version 2.9.0 (06/23/2011) ==
     128[http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.9.0 View all closed tickets for this release.]
     129  * '''Pidgin'''
     130    * Fix a potential remote denial-of-service bug related to displaying buddy icons.
     131    * Significantly improved performance of larger IRC channels (regression introduced in 2.8.0).
     132    * Fix Conversation->Add on AIM and MSN.
     133    * Entries in the chat user list are sorted properly again.  This was inadvertenly broken in 2.8.0.
     134
     135  * '''Finch'''
     136    * Fix logging in to ICQ.
     137
     138  * '''libpurple'''
     139    * media: Actually use the specified TCP port from the TURN configuration to create a TCP relay candidate.
     140
     141  * '''AIM and ICQ'''
     142    * Fix crashes on some non-mainstream OSes when attempting to printf("%s", NULL).  (Clemens Huebner) (#14297)
     143
     144  * '''Plugins'''
     145    * The Evolution Integration plugin compiles again.
     146
     147
     148== version 2.8.0 (06/07/2011) ==
     149[http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&milestone=2.8.0 View all closed tickets for this release.]
     150  * '''General'''
     151    * Implement simple silence suppression for voice calls, preventing wasted bandwidth for silent periods during a call. (Jakub Adam) (half of #13180)
     152    * Added the DigiCert High Assurance CA-3 intermediate CA, needed for validation of the Facebook XMPP interface's certificate.
     153    * Removed the QQ protocol plugin.  It hasn't worked in a long time and isn't being maintained, therefore we no longer want it.
     154
     155  * '''Pidgin'''
     156    * Duplicate code cleanup.  (Gabriel Schulhof) (#10599)
     157    * Voice/Video call window adapts correctly to adding or removing streams on the fly. (Jakub Adam) (half of #13535)
     158    * Don't cancel an ongoing call when rejecting the addition of a stream to the existing call. (Jakub Adam) (#13537)
     159    * Pidgin plugins can now override tab completion and detect clicks on usernames in the chat userlist. (kawaii.neko) (#12599)
     160    * Fix the tooltip being destroyed when it is full of information and cover the mouse (dliang) (#10510)
     161
     162  * '''libpurple'''
     163    * media: Allow obtaining active local and remote candidates. (Jakub Adam) (#11830)
     164    * media: Allow getting/setting video capabilities. (Jakub Adam) (half of #13095)
     165    * Simple Silence Suppression is optional per-account. (Jakub Adam) (half of #13180)
     166    * Fix purple-url-handler being unable to find an account.
     167    * media: Allow adding/removing streams on the fly. (Jakub Adam) (half of #13535)
     168    * Support new connection states in NetworkManager 0.9. (Dan Williams) (#13505)
     169    * When removing a buddy, delete the pounces associated with it. (Kartik Mohta) (#1131)
     170    * media: Allow libpurple and plugins to set SDES properties for RTP conferences. (Jakub Adam) (#12981)
     171    * proxy: Add new "Tor/Privacy" proxy type that can be used to restrict operations that could leak potentially sensitive data (e.g. DNS queries).  (#11110, #13928)
     172    * media: Add support for using TCP relaying with TURN (will only work with libnice 0.1.0 and later).
     173
     174  * '''AIM'''
     175    * Fix setting icons with dimensions greater than 64x64 pixels by scaling them down to at most 64x64. (#12874, #13165)
     176
     177  * '''Gadu-Gadu'''
     178    * Allow showing your status only to buddies. (Mateusz Piękos) (#13358)
     179    * Updated internal libgadu to version 1.10.1. (Robert Matusewicz, Krzysztof Klinikowski) (#13525)
     180    * Updated internal libgadu to version 1.11.0. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#14248)
     181    * Suppress blank messages that happen when receiving inline images. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13554)
     182    * Fix sending inline images to remote users, don't crash when trying to send large (> 256kB) images. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13580)
     183    * Support typing notifications. (Jan Zachorowski, Tomasz Wasilczyk, Krzysztof Klinikowski) (#13362, #13590)
     184    * Require libgadu 1.11.0 to avoid using internal libgadu.
     185    * Optional SSL connection support for GNUTLS users (not on Windows yet!). (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13613, #13894)
     186    * Don't count received messages or statuses when determining whether to send a keepalive packet. (Jan Zachorowski) (#13699)
     187    * Fix a crash when receiving images on Windows or an incorrect timestamp in the log when receiving images on Linux. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#10268)
     188    * Support XML events, resulting in immediate update of other users' buddy icons. (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13739)
     189    * Accept poorly formatted URLs from other third-party clients in the same manner as the official client.  (Tomasz Wasilczyk) (#13886)
     190
     191  * '''ICQ'''
     192    * Fix setting icons with dimensions greater than 64x64 pixels by scaling them down to at most 64x64. (#12874, #13165)
     193    * Fix unsetting your mood when "None" is selected.  (Dustin Gathmann) (#11895)
     194    * Ignore Daylight Saving Time when performing calculations related to birthdays. (Dustin Gathmann) (#13533)
     195    * It is now possible to specify multiple encodings on the Advanced tab of an ICQ account's settings by using a comma-delimited list. (Dmitry Utkin (#13496))
     196
     197  * '''IRC'''
     198    * Add "authserv" service command.  (tomos) (#13337)
     199
     200  * '''MSN'''
     201    * Fix a hard-to-exploit crash in the MSN protocol when using the HTTP connection method (Reported by Marius Wachtler).
     202
     203  * '''MXit'''
     204    * Support for an Invite Message when adding a buddy.
     205    * Fixed bug in splitting-up of messages that contain a lot of links.
     206    * Fixed crash caused by timer not being disabled on disconnect.  (introduced in 2.7.11)
     207    * Clearing of the conversation window now works.
     208    * When receiving an invite you can display the sender's profile information, avatar image, invite message.
     209    * The Change PIN option was moved into separate action.
     210    * New profile attributes added and shown.
     211    * Update to protocol v6.3.
     212    * Added the ability to view and invite your Suggested Friends, and to search for contacts.
     213    * Also display the Status Message of offline contacts in their profile information.
     214
     215  * '''XMPP'''
     216    * Remember the previously entered user directory when searching.  (Keith Moyer) (#12451)
     217    * Correctly handle a buddy's unsetting his/her vCard-based avatar.  (Matthew W.S. Bell) (#13370)
     218    * Squash one more situation that resulted in duplicate entries in the roster (this one where the server reports the buddy as being in the same (empty) group.  (Reported by Danny Mayer)
     219
     220  * '''Plugins'''
     221    * The Voice/Video Settings plugin now includes the ability to test microphone settings. (Jakub Adam) (#13182)
     222    * Fix a crash when handling some saved settings in the Voice/Video Settings plugin. (Pat Erley) (13290, #13774)
     223
     224  * '''Windows-Specific Changes'''
     225    * Fix building libpurple with Visual C++ .NET 2005. This was accidentally broken in 2.7.11. (Florian Quèze)
     226    * Build internal libgadu using packed structs, fixing several long-standing Gadu-Gadu issues. (#11958, #6297)
     227
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    3229== version 2.7.11 (03/10/2011) ==
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