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+title: "2.14.0 Released!"

+date: 2020-06-10T04:05:23-05:00

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+Well it's been awhile, but we've finally released Pidgin 2.14.0. This is a

+special release for a number of reasons, which we'll get into below. That

+said, you can find the source release on

+[SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/Pidgin/2.14.0/) as

+well as on [Bintray](https://bintray.com/pidgin/releases/pidgin/2.14.0).

+First of all we moved libgnt, the GLib NCurses Toolkit, to its own

+[repository](https://keep.imfreedom.org/libgnt/libgnt). It is the user

+interface library that was created for Finch. We did this for a number of

+reasons most notably to let libgnt step outside of Pidgin's shadow and get the

+attention it deserves as a stand alone project. That said, if you want to

+build Finch, you need to first install libgnt. You can find the source for it

+at [SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/libgnt/2.14.0/)

+or [Bintray](https://bintray.com/pidgin/releases/libgnt/2.14.0).

+Secondly, this is most likely the last release that will be on Bitbucket. As

+many of you know, on July 1st Atlassian is deleting all Mercurial repositories.

+We are mostly done with migrating off of Bitbucket but there's still some loose

+ends that need to be dealt with. Gary will be addressing this in an up coming

+townhall style meeting who's details will follow in the near future. In the

+mean time those loose ends need to be taken care of before that meeting.

+However, you can find the new home of the repository at

+[keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin](https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin).

+Also due to the deletion of Mercurial repositories from Bitbucket we have added

+a new mirroring site for our downloads. We understand that many people still

+have trust issues with SourceForge but they are still the primary source for

+our files which we do cryptographically sign. For those of you that still

+prefer another option we have started mirroring our downloads on

+[Bintray](https://bintray.com/pidgin/releases). We will eventually be putting

+all of our previous releases there as well, but right now it just contains

+the 2.14.0 releases.

+Finally, this release will be the last 2.x.0 release of Pidgin. What that

+means is that we will no longer be writing nor accepting new features into the

+Pidgin 2 code base. We are doing this to put all of our focus going forward on

+Pidgin 3. However, if there are bug fixes or security issues we will of course

+release Pidgin 2.14.1, 2.14.2, etc as necessary.

+With that, I hope everyone enjoys the release and if you have any questions or

+comments please feel free to

+[reach out to us](https://pidgin.im/about/community/).

+--

+Gary Kramlich