title: "2.14.4 Released!"
date: 2021-04-29T00:00:00-00:00
**Notice for Windows users:** We are aware of an issue with the installer
failing to download the dictionaries used for spellchecking. We are currently
working on a fix and hope to have this resolved as soon as possible.
Another minor version of Pidgin has been released, 2.14.4. It has been many
years since we were able to get three releases out to our users in such a short
amount of time (less than a month!), something that we are certainly very happy
to see and hope you are as well.
The complete changelog for this release is the following:
* Use
`LT_LIB_M` to find the math library. This should simplify things for
various distros including the BSD's. ({{% review 608 %}}) (and, Justin
* Removed a dangling reference to oscar that was causing the unit tests to fail.
({{% review 605 %}}) (Gary Kramlich)
* Update
`purple-remote` and
`purple-url-handler` to have a Python 3 shebang.
({{% review 609 %}}) (Richard Laager)
* Install our AppData file into the
`$prefix/share/metainfo`. ({{% review 607
* Re-enable the Gevolution plugin and set the evolution-data-server requirement
to >= 3.6. ({{% review 610 %}}) (Ed Catmur, Lars Wendler)
Windows-Specific Changes:
* Output pkg-config files so that our Windows builds can be seen by meson. Grim
owes a blog post on how this works. ({{% review 615 %}}) (Gary Kramlich)
* Update the debug symbols download in the installer to the inetc plugin. ({{%
review 627 %}}) (Gary Kramlich)
* Make sure the uninstaller removes all files that we install. ({{% review 612
[
SourceForge](
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/Pidgin/2.14.4/).
We hope everyone enjoys this release and the fixes it brings. Remember that if
you have any questions or comments we have a [
variety of channels](
{{< ref"about/community" >}}) where you can reach out to us.
