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pidgin package

Update Pidgin to upstream 2.5.8 (fixes numerous issues)

Bug #393736 reported by Dominic Chen on 2009-06-30

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pidgin (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Iain Lane

Bug Description

Not only does the updated upstream fix the recent problems with Yahoo, but also includes security fixes (see 2.5.6 changelog; libpurple)

From http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog:

Version 2.5.8 (06/27/2009)
    * ICQ
          o Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)
    * MSN
          o Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!
    * MySpace
          o Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
          o Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM's web client.
    * Yahoo
          o Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.
          o Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.
          o Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
          o Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
          o The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method.
    * XMPP
          o Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.

Version 2.5.7 (06/20/2009)
    * 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.

Version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009)
    * libpurple
          o Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
          o Fix various crashes on exit.
          o Make XML parsing more resilient to interactions with other libraries. This, along with the fix for libxml2 bug 564217, fixes the crashes on connect in XMPP with recent gst-plugins-bad (see #8830 for details).
          o Many security related fixes
    * IRC
          o Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of channels.
          o Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying fallback nicks.
    * MSN
          o Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
          o Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.
    * XMPP
          o Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.
    * Yahoo
          o Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
          o Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/jaunty-security/pidgin

lp:ubuntu/intrepid-security/pidgin