Pidgin IM final beta out - final release due this week

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Pidgin IM final beta out - final release due this week

by Brad Linder May 1st 2007

Chat client Pidgin IM (formerly known as Gaim) version 2.00 beta 7 is out, with a final 2.0 release scheduled for later this week.

The program performs very similarly to GAIM 2.00 beta 6, with some cosmetic changes, including a new Pidgin logo (which unsurprisingly looks like a pigeon). The redesign does include some under the hood changes as well, so the developers caution that this beta is actually less stable than earlier beta releases, and recommend backing up your Gaim directory before running Pidgin.

Some preferences may be lost, or buddy icons may not work, and some plugins may fail to work. In previous versions, you could easily tell whether your contacts were using AOL IM, MSN Messenger, IRC, or other chat protocols at a glance by looking at the color of their icons. Now you're presented with a green circle for each of your contacts. Hopefully this will be one of the items fixed before the final release.

Tags: aol im, AolIm, gaim, instant messenger, InstantMessenger, msn messenger, MsnMessenger, pidgin

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shunnabunich said 2:04PM on 5-01-2007

Oh God, I just realized we're probably going to have to deal with a whole new generation of kids growing up thinking "pigeon" is spelled "pidgin" because of this thing.

Grammar freak said 4:15PM on 5-01-2007

I am starting to have a major problem with the gaim devs. They keep dropping the kind of features that make gaim better than trillian, aim, etc. And when they are confronted about it, instead of maybe adding the options back in (making it configurable) they get very belligerent and want to tell you that it's their way or the highway. I work for a software company and if I treated our customers that way I'd get canned pretty fast.

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