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pidgin - A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client

Website: http://pidgin.im/
License: GPLv2+ and GPLv2 and MIT
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/linux
Description:
Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging
protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu,
ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and
Zephyr.  These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to
use design.  To use a protocol, just add an account using the
account editor.

Pidgin supports many common features of other clients, as well as many
unique features, such as perl scripting, TCL scripting and C plugins.

Pidgin is not affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc.,
Microsoft Corporation, Yahoo! Inc., or ICQ Inc.

Packages

pidgin-2.6.6-2.el5_4.ia64 [1.7 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2010-03-04):
- Upstream backports:
    0e3079d15adeb12c1e57ceaf5bf037f9b71c8abd Fix AIM SSL clientLogin
    b14ee507e932a395a0e1f29298af162c8614ca0f Fix AIM clientLogin with proxy
pidgin-2.6.6-1.el5.ia64 [1.7 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2010-02-16):
- 2.6.6 with security and numerous minor bug fixes
  CVE-2010-0277 CVE-2010-0420 CVE-2010-0423
- Bug #528796: Get rid of #!/usr/bin/env python
pidgin-2.6.5-1.el5.ia64 [1.7 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2010-01-07):
- 2.6.5
- CVE-2010-0013
- Other bug fixes
pidgin-2.6.3-2.el5.ia64 [1.7 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2009-10-19):
- Upstream backport:
    3abad7606f4a2dfd1903df796f33924b12509a56 msn_servconn_disconnect-crash
pidgin-2.6.2-2.el5.ia64 [1.7 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2009-09-09):
- Upstream backports:
    97e003ed2bc2bafbb993693c9ae9c6d667731cc1 aim-buddy-status-grab
    37aa00d044431100d37466517568640cb082680c yahoo-buddy-idle-time
    40005b889ee276fbcd0a4e886a68d8a8cce45698 yahoo-status-change-away
    cb46b045aa6e927a3814d9053c2b1c0f08d6fa62 crash-validate-jid
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el5.ia64 [1.5 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2009-08-16):
- CVE-2009-2694
pidgin-2.5.8-1.el5.ia64 [1.5 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2009-06-28):
- 2.5.8 with several important bug fixes
pidgin-2.5.5-1.el5.ia64 [1.5 MiB] Changelog by Stu Tomlinson (2009-03-03):
- 2.5.5
pidgin-2.5.2-6.el5.ia64 [1.5 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2008-11-22):
- Automatically detect booleans to enable build features from dist tag
- Unify RHEL4 and RHEL5 spec with Fedora to make both easier to maintain
pidgin-2.3.1-2.el5_2.ia64 [1.4 MiB] Changelog by Warren Togami (2008-07-02):
- CVE-2008-2927 MSN integer overflow
- Fix ICQ login
- pidgin-2.3.1-reap-sound-children.patch
  pidgin-2.3.1-finch-x86_64.patch
  No change, but just noting that these went into upstream.

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