Pidgin 2.5.7

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Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.


Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.


Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box:

AIM
ICQ
Google Talk
Jabber/XMPP
MSN Messenger
Yahoo!
Bonjour
Gadu-Gadu
IRC
Novell GroupWise Messenger
QQ
Lotus Sametime
SILC
SIMPLE
MySpaceIM
Zephyr

It can support many more with plugins.


Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications.
Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin's functionality above and beyond the standard features.


Pidgin integrates with the system tray on Windows, GNOME2, and KDE 3.1.


Pidgin is under constant development.
Releases are usually frequent and driven by user contributions, such as bug reports and patches.


Pidgin is free and contains no ads.
All our code is open source and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
This means you can get Pidgin's underlying code and modify it to suit your needs, as long as you publish the changes you make for everyone to benefit from as well.


Supported Languages

Pidgin is translated into many different languages, thanks to the generous contributions of our volunteer translators.

Afrikaans
Albanian
American English
Arabic
Australian English
Belarusian Latin
Bengali
Bokmal Norwegian
Bosnian
British English
Bulgarian
Canadian English
Catalan
Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch, Flemish
Dzongkha
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Euskera(Basque)
Finnish
French
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hong Kong Chinese
Hungarian
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Lao
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian Nynorsk
Occitan
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese-Brazil
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Simplified Chinese
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Traditional Chinese
Turkish
Urdu
Vietnamese



Changelog:


Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)

Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per connection. (Rob Taft)

Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.

When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don't get network ID's for them.