--- a/htdocs/ChangeLog Thu Mar 09 20:03:23 2017 -0600
+++ b/htdocs/ChangeLog Thu Mar 09 20:05:18 2017 -0600
@@ -1,6 +1,48 @@
Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
-version 2.11.0 (06/21/16):+version 2.12.0 (03/09/2017): + * Fix an out of bounds memory read in purple_markup_unescape_entity. + * Fix use of uninitialised memory if running non-debug-enabled versions of glib + * Updated AIM dev and dist ID's to new ones that were assigned by AOL. + * TLS certificate verification now uses SHA-256 checksums. + * Fixed SASL external auth for Freenode. + * Removed the MSN protocol plugin. It has been unusable and dormant for some + time. MSNP18 has been discontinued and the protocol plugin would require a + large update to start working again. See: http://ismsndeadyet.com/ The + third-party Pidgin SkypeWeb plugin, however, should provide enough + functionality as a replacement if people still want to use MSN: + https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypeweb + * Removed Mxit protocol plugin. The service was closed at the end of + https://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2016-September/024078.htm + * Removed the MySpaceIM protocol plugin. The service has been defunct for a + * Remove the Yahoo! protocol plugin. Yahoo has completely + reimplemented their protocol, so this version is no longer operable as + https://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/145715934739/q2-2016-progress-report-on-our-product + A new protocol plugin has been written to support the new protocol. + It can be found here: https://github.com/EionRobb/funyahoo-plusplus + This also removes support for Yahoo! Japan. According to + http://messenger.yahoo.co.jp/ the service ended March 26th, 2014. + * Remove the Facebook (XMPP) account option. According to + https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat the XMPP Chat API service + ended April 30th, 2015. A new protocol plugin has been written, + using a different method, to support Facebook. It can be found at + https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki + * Fixed gnutls certificate validation errors that mainly affected google (Dequis) + * Replaced instances of d.pidgin.im with developer.pidgin.im and updated the + urls to use https. (#17036) + * Fixed issue of messages being silently cut off at 500 characters. Large + messages are now split into parts and sent one by one. (#4753) +version 2.11.0 (06/21/2016): * 2.10.12 was accidentally released with new additions to the API and
should have been released as 2.11.0. Unfortunately, we did not catch
@@ -23,14 +65,14 @@
* Fix a potential crash while exiting pidgin
- * Add support for the newer kerberos-based authentication of AIM 8.x Windows-Specific Changes:
* Use getaddrinfo for DNS to enable IPv6 (#1075)
* Updates to dependencies:
* NSS 3.24 and NSPR 4.12.
+ * Add support for the newer kerberos-based authentication of AIM 8.x * Fixed building on Mac OSX (Patrick Cloke) (#16883)
@@ -75,7 +117,7 @@
* Fix a remote out-of-bounds read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco
-version 2.10.12 (12/31/15):+version 2.10.12 (12/31/2015): * purple-url-handler now works with Python 3.x (Daniël van Eeden)
* Fixed an issue where transient startup statuses could be deleted
@@ -96,7 +138,7 @@
* Updated internal libgadu to version 1.12.1.
-version 2.10.11 (11/23/14):+version 2.10.11 (11/23/2014): * Fix handling of Self-Signed SSL/TLS Certificates when using the NSS
@@ -114,7 +156,7 @@
* Fail early when buddy list is unavailable instead of wasting bandwidth
-version 2.10.10 (10/22/14):+version 2.10.10 (10/22/2014): * Check the basic constraints extension when validating SSL/TLS
certificates. This fixes a security hole that allowed a malicious
@@ -361,7 +403,7 @@
* Fix a double-free in profile/picture loading code. (Mihai Serban)
- * Fix retrieving server-side buddy aliases. (Catalin Salgu) (#15381)+ * Fix retrieving server-side buddy aliases. (Catalin Salgau) (#15381) * The Voice/Video Settings plugin supports using the sndio GStreamer
