Pidgin 2.1.0
Posted by Mihai Asmanow on 29 July 2007 - 07:31 · 36 comments & 11056 views
Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more. Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).



Download: Pidgin 2.1.0 freeware
Screenshot: >> Click here <<
View: What's New
Link: Pidgin Home Page


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Praeses on 29 Jul 2007 - 08:13
This isn't on the pidgin website nor do the sourceforge links work (infinite redirects). According to the pidgin website 2.1.0 is only 62% done?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Draje on 29 Jul 2007 - 08:14
^^ I see I was already beat.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Jexel on 29 Jul 2007 - 08:28
i guess they didn't want to delay it further. The rest of the tickets will probably be added to 2.1.1
(5 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Diaboli on 29 Jul 2007 - 11:08
i ran this thing 4 a while
it wasnt any faster than running MSN
its memory usage hit 150 at some points
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by Jexel on 29 Jul 2007 - 11:27
i've never seen my pidgin gone past 30...it generally sits around 18...i'm using the linux version though
Quote this comment #4.2 Posted by Praeses on 29 Jul 2007 - 11:31
Mine is at 12MB. I've chatted a lot his morning and it has been running for 8 or so hours now.
Quote this comment #4.3 Posted by ThaCrip on 29 Jul 2007 - 12:48
i usually never go more than about 30-40MB TOPS and thats usually running for days in cases like that.

right now it's at 18MB.
Quote this comment #4.4 Posted by Jonny6pak on 30 Jul 2007 - 10:22
I'm sitting at 20MB and it's been running for 4 days on my XP SP2 box.
Quote this comment #4.5 Posted by CheeseCow on 31 Jul 2007 - 09:40
Quote - (Diaboli said @ #4)
i ran this thing 4 a while
it wasnt any faster than running MSN
its memory usage hit 150 at some points

I hate such posts. Slower than MSN in what way? Memory usage at 150MB? What were you doing at that time? Posts like that may cause people to not download this software, because they actually believe you to be a representative of the crowd. You need to give the details if it is supposed to help anyone.

I'm running Pidgin all day long at work, signed in to the gTalk and MSN protocols, right now it uses 12MB when docked to the side of the screen. It's snappy and much less cluttered than MSN Messenger.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Selecta on 29 Jul 2007 - 12:58
has anyone a working mirror?
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by Mieky242 on 29 Jul 2007 - 13:18
yeah i cant seem to get it from sourceforge either...
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by JiveMasterT on 29 Jul 2007 - 14:54
I don't think this has been released.

Heck, even the screenshots are from beta 7.

Last edited by JiveMasterT on 29 Jul 2007 - 15:37
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by ViperAFK on 29 Jul 2007 - 14:59
Way to jump the gun
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by ensiform on 29 Jul 2007 - 15:46
The poster did not jump the gun, it is out. 2.1.0 is no longer on the roadmap:

http://developer.pidgin.im/roadmap

It takes time to update all the servers and the pages.

Mozilla releases Firefox updates without updating the home page for a few days as well.
Quote this comment #8.1 Posted by th3rEsa on 29 Jul 2007 - 16:55
Firefox is not "released" until the home page tells so!

It is on the webservers yet, but they are filled to provide enough mirrors before the release is published...
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by bangbang023 on 29 Jul 2007 - 17:47
Anyone have screenshots of the reorganized chat window?
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by water.hammer on 30 Jul 2007 - 00:38
Here's a screenshot. http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/508/scdn0.png
Quote this comment #9.2 Posted by bangbang023 on 30 Jul 2007 - 02:38
Quote - (water.hammer said @ #9.1)
Here's a screenshot. http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/508/scdn0.png

Thanks. Seeing that tab not be the entire width of the window is very promising. I'll give this a whirl when the exe's are out.
Quote this comment #9.3 Posted by Toology on 30 Jul 2007 - 03:55
Beaten to it. Oh well, another couldn't hurt.

(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by Nightwind Hawk on 29 Jul 2007 - 17:54
None of the download links work, it's not listed anywhere on their site... maybe they pulled it? Not really a release!
Quote this comment #10.1 Posted by teh_apple on 29 Jul 2007 - 18:10
Milestone: 2.1.0

Completed 14 hours ago

Edit: Downloads seem to work fine for me, just dont see a windows link yet.
Quote this comment #10.2 Posted by Nightwind Hawk on 29 Jul 2007 - 18:20
Quote - (teh_apple said @ #10.1)
Milestone: 2.1.0

Completed 14 hours ago

Edit: Downloads seem to work fine for me, just dont see a windows link yet.

ahh they just added those maybe an exe is coming soon!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by Mister Fish on 29 Jul 2007 - 18:22
Direct link to source -

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading...n-2.1.0.tar.bz2
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by Toology on 29 Jul 2007 - 18:38
Yeah, the source is out but the compiled binaries have yet to be added to the mirrors.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by ThaCrip on 29 Jul 2007 - 22:57
links dont seem to work.... the ones that the people posted here is linux crap.
Quote this comment #13.1 Posted by CaKeY on 29 Jul 2007 - 23:02
<<removed>>

Last edited by bangbang023 on 31 Jul 2007 - 00:31
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by Mephistopheles on 29 Jul 2007 - 23:58
The binaries are available as well now.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #15 Posted by Xilo on 30 Jul 2007 - 02:55
Icon looks like ****. Typical of Linux open source software, nothing ever looks good...
Quote this comment #15.1 Posted by Jexel on 30 Jul 2007 - 03:07
not everybody chooses an im client based on the icon...
Quote this comment #15.2 Posted by ataris_kid on 30 Jul 2007 - 04:28
OH NOES! NOT THE ICON!!!
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #16 Posted by bangbang023 on 30 Jul 2007 - 03:33
Man, the chat window still looks like ass in Vista.
Quote this comment #16.1 Posted by JiveMasterT on 30 Jul 2007 - 05:18
Yeah I'm not terribly pleased with the latest changes. I guess I gotta play with it more.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #17 Posted by pNoy.r3D28 on 30 Jul 2007 - 09:25
Direct Link to .exe..

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading...idgin-2.1.0.exe
Quote this comment #17.1 Posted by PSYPH3RiUM on 30 Jul 2007 - 10:57
Cool, thanks man!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #18 Posted by Azmodan on 30 Jul 2007 - 20:32
Cool, can't wait for the Portable Edition.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #19 Posted by drygnfyre on 31 Jul 2007 - 03:31
Is the reason there isn't a native Mac OS X version because Adium is largely based on Pidgin? You can build from source, but there aren't any disk images.
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