With a great help from LRN, who sent initial set of patches for fixing autotools-based build for win32 and assisted in the work, I have finally managed to make 3.0.0 cross compilation possible and easy. It also involved fixing minor win32 problems and enabling features that were not accessible for this platform before. Continue reading
I have put a lot of effort into a feature that I don’t even use: graphical emoticons. As usual, the small issue resulted in a large code refactoring. I had the task of fixing regression bugs from Pidgin 2.x.y, so I took care of broken remote smileys. It’s a pleasant feature, that allows defining the list of custom smileys to use in outgoing messages. Continue reading
Modern instant messengers claims about security and privacy. And users trusts them. But companies that delivers such services sometimes fails protecting their users privacy. The point is, that user doesn’t have any control over confidentiality of his private conversations – the service provider does it. Continue reading
Previous libpurple version suffers from poor HTTP implementation. Ordinary user won’t notice that, because plugins tries to fill the hole. However, when every single component that uses HTTP have to deal with the same issues, there must be some mess left.
Nearly a year ago, I’ve decided to put some effort here and implement new, flexible HTTP API. Now, I’ve came even deeper, replacing existing implementations with my new tool. Continue reading
I just did another long desired feature: Video conferences support for Windows. There already were attempts to do it, but they were not finished nor even published – this one is already in Pidgin’s tree, so it’s a matter of time to get them released (just wait for 3.0.0). If you don’t want to wait, you can always grab a development build. Continue reading
The Pidgin’s master password branch, which engaged me for the last two months is now ready to show to the public eye. Moreover, it depended on the other security-related task: taking care of Windows build – this one is also mostly done now. Today, I would like to present the current results of my work. Continue reading
Some time ago, Google contacted me regarding security concerns related to Pidgin. After a long discussion, they decided to make a donation to Instant Messaging Freedom foundation, which was then able to sponsor some work related to Pidgin’s security improvements.
Therefore, I will periodically publish here news about work being done (of course, containing only the non-sensitive information). Continue reading
I’ve just shared a page containing Pidgin development builds with GG11 support. Probably, we’ll have to wait for official release a little more, so I’ve prepared it to make testing of new features (described on this blog) easier. Continue reading
I’ve just managed to create a fully working implementation of new file transfer method in GG11. That means, Pidgin is the first alternative IM with support for it. This also means, I’ve managed to fulfill the most expected promise from this year’s GSoC. Continue reading
I have just finished new http support module for libpurple. Old one was a bit poor, so it didn’t allowed well-designed file transfer implementation for Gadu-Gadu. So, I decided to put here some more work and do it well. Continue reading