After was seemed to be never-ending delays, Pidgin 2.0 final has finally been released. I haven’t noticed many graphical changes since the last Beta release which I wrote about not too long ago. If you use Windows the tray icon changed, and that’s about it in terms of appearance I think.
I tried to find a changelog, but since their website also went through a complete overhaul, it appears that right now it’s “impossible” to find proper documentation in the homepage right now. It’s hard to say whether it’s very stable or not, but so far, no crashes and no apparent memory leaks (right now it’s “consuming” 21Mb of RAM, even with some chat windows open).
Congratulations on the big 2.0 Pidgin team !
[...] Forever Geek is reporting today that my favorite instant messaging program Gaim is now known as Pidgin. I downloaded 2.0 this morning and so far I am really impressed. The interface is nice and, as always, I can incorporate all of my messaging screen names into one program (which at this point is only AIM and IRC). There is pretty superficial, but my favorite part so far is that they changed the noise you get when you receive a message to something quiet and not as obnoxious as the previous one. It might seem trivial, but I am thrilled to be able to keep the sound turned on for the new version. [...]
I was so lucky to have it hang on the first time i ran it.