Pidgin 2.0 released

After two years of development, Pidgin 2.0 has been released (a popular cross-platform GTK-based IM client formerly known as Gaim, but renamed due to a conflict with AOL).

2.0 is the first release released under a new name. It supports 14 IM protocols, including XMPP, AIM, ICQ, etc. The new version fixes many bugs found since 2.0.0beta6 (which was included in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn) and since 2.0.0beta2-3 (which was in Ubuntu Edgy Eft). The appearance has been greatly changed, many icons have been changed, a lot of work has been done in the field of UI and usability (which is a good sign - it means the core of the program and its functionality are already very stable).

The site has currently published versions of Pidgin only for windows and for Fedora Core. And, of course, the source codes are laid out.

Personally, I have been using Gaim for a long time, and not only under Linux. I highly recommend trying this client for all windows users - most likely, you will like it because of its logic and correctness. You can download it in the download section of the official website.