Pidgin 2.5.6

version 2.5.6 (05/19/2009):

libpurple:

• Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving.  (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
• Fix various crashes on exit.
• 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).
• Many security related fixes

IRC:

• Correctly handle WHOIS for users who are joined to a large number of channels.
• Notify the user if a /nick command fails, rather than trying fallback nicks.

MSN:

• Fix a race condition causing occasional Pidgin crashes.
• Fix some errors about the friendly name changing too fast caused by MSN/Yahoo integration buddies.

XMPP:

• Less likely to pop up a new conversation window in disregard of the "Hide new IM conversations" preference.

Yahoo:

• Fix a crash when sending very long messages.
• Fix a bug where UTF-8 status messages get garbled when going idle.