Fedora 11 Update: pidgin-2.6.1-1.fc11

August 21, 2009

2.6.1 fixes an issue where pidgin can crash if you are sent a certain type of URL over Yahoo.

Summary

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.

Update Information:

2.6.1 fixes an issue where pidgin can crash if you are sent a certain type of URL over Yahoo.

Change Log

* Wed Aug 19 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.1-1 - 2.6.1: Fix a crash when some users send you a link in a Yahoo IM * Tue Aug 18 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-1 - CVE-2009-2694 - Voice and Video support via farsight2 (Fedora 11+) - Numerous other bug fixes * Thu Aug 6 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.11.20090812 - new snapshot at the request of maiku * Thu Aug 6 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.10.20090806 - new snapshot - theoretically better sound quality in voice chat * Tue Aug 4 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.9.20090804 - new snapshot * Mon Jul 27 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.8.20090727 - new snapshot * Mon Jul 27 2009 Stu Tomlinson 2.6.0-0.6.20090721 - Prevent main libpurple & pidgin packages depending on perl (#513902) * Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.6.0-0.5.20090721 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 22 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.4.20090721 - rebuild * Tue Jul 21 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.3.20090721 - prevent crash with no camera when closing vv window * Tue Jul 21 2009 Warren Togami 2.6.0-0.1.20090721 - 2.6.0 snapshot with voice and video support via farsight2 * Sat Jul 11 2009 Stu Tomlison 2.5.8-2 - Backport patch from upstream to enable NSS to recognize root CA certificates that use MD2 & MD4 algorithms in their signature, as used by some MSN and XMPP servers* Sun Jun 28 2009 Warren Togami 2.5.8-1 - 2.5.8 with several important bug fixes * Mon Jun 22 2009 Warren Togami 2.5.7-2 - glib2 compat with RHEL-4 * Sat Jun 20 2009 Warren Togami 2.5.7-1 - 2.5.7 with Yahoo Protocol 16 support * Wed May 20 2009 Stu Tomlinson 2.5.6-1 - 2.5.6 * Mon Apr 20 2009 Warren Togami 2.5.5-3 - F12+ removed krb4

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-8874 2009-08-22 00:05:58 Name : pidgin Product : Fedora 11 Version : 2.6.1 Release : 1.fc11 URL : http://pidgin.im/ Summary : A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client 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.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pidgin' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .