version 2.13.0 (03/08/2018):
libpurple:
* Unified string comparison. (PR #186) (Arkadiy Illarionov)
* Properlly shell escape URI's when opening them. (PR #271 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
* Fix a one byte buffer overread in function purple_markup_linkify
* Fix an issue were utf8 was incorrectly truncated which could lead to
crashes as we were potentially feeding garbage into glib/gtk.
libgnt:
* Fixed build against curses 6.0 with opaque structs set. (#16764 dimstar)
(PR #268 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
* Fixed a crash when resizing the window. (#16680 marcus) (PR #269 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
General:
* Fixed bashism in autotools. (#16836 lameventanas) (PR #267 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
XMPP:
* Show XEP-0066 OOB URLs in any message, not just headlines
* Fix a user after free (#17200 debarshiray) (PR #266 Ethan Blanton)
* Removed pipelining from BOSH connections (#17025 PR #295 Tom Li)
* Don't try to TLS already secured BOSH connections (#17270 PR #293 Tom Li)
IRC:
* Fix "Registration timeout" on SASL auth with InspIRCd servers
(and possibly others not based on charybdis/ratbox/ircd-seven)
* Fix issues with plugins that modify outgoing messages
(such as the custom PART/QUIT feature of the IRC More plugin)
* Fix IRC buffer handling. (#12562 PR #272 Shivaram Lingamneni)
* Properly handle AUTHENTICATE as a normal command with server prefix.
(PR #316 dx)
* Fix a crash caused by a use after free of the MOTD.
* Fix an out of bounds read in irc_nick_skip_mode.
* Fix a write of a single byte before the start of a buffer in
irc_parse_ctcp.
Pidgin:
* Better support for dark themes. (#12572 Alyssa Rosenzweig and Gary Kramlich)
* Fixed IPv6 links by not escaping []'s. (#16391 cyisfor) (PR #270 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
* Only write buddy icons to the cache if they're not already cached. (PR #276 David Woodhouse)
* Rejoin persistent chats after reconnect. (#15687 PR #285 Christof Meerwald)
* Made the WIN32 Transparency plugin work on all platforms. (#3124 PR #287 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
* Ensure search results buttons are labeled (Backport from de2d88e575ee)
* Fix matching unicode smilies. (#17232 gnubfx PR #262 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
* Correctly update mute/unmute status when the remote side mutes/unmutes us. (#17273 PR #302 David Woodhouse)
* Rework the status icon blinking to not used deprecated API. (#17174 zelch PR #264 Daniel Kamil Kozar)
* Don't allow adding a buddy to protocols that don't have an add_buddy callback. (#4061 Paradox)
Finch:
* Fix handling of search results (#17238 David Woodhouse)
Voice & Video:
* Port backend-fs to newer api for farstream relay-info property (#17274 bellet)
version 2.12.0 (03/09/2017):
libpurple:
* Fix an out of bounds memory read in purple_markup_unescape_entity.
CVE-2017-2640
* 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
September 2016. See
https://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2016-September/024078.htm
* Removed the MySpaceIM protocol plugin. The service has been defunct for a
long time. (#15356)
* Remove the Yahoo! protocol plugin. Yahoo has completely
reimplemented their protocol, so this version is no longer operable as
of August 5th, 2016:
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)
General
* Replaced instances of d.pidgin.im with developer.pidgin.im and updated the
urls to use https. (#17036)
IRC
* 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):
General:
* 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
the mistake until after 2.10.12 was released, but we're fixing it now.
See ChangeLog.API for more information.
* Include the Mozilla certificate bundle. This fixes connecting to servers
with certificates from Let's Encrypt.
* Remove all 1024-bit CAs
libpurple:
* media: fix an issue with ximagesink displaying only a corner cut-out of
a larger webcam video (Jakub Adam)
* mediamanager: update output window destruction so that it reflects recent
changes in the media pipeline structure (Jakub Adam)
* Ported Instantbird's CommandUiOps to libpurple (Dequis)
Pidgin:
* Fixed#14962
* Fixed alignment of incoming right-to-left messages in protocols that
don't support rich text
* Fix a potential crash while exiting pidgin
Windows-Specific Changes:
* Use getaddrinfo for DNS to enable IPv6 (#1075)
* Updates to dependencies:
* NSS 3.24 and NSPR 4.12.
AIM:
* Add support for the newer kerberos-based authentication of AIM 8.x
Bonjour
* Fixed building on Mac OSX (Patrick Cloke) (#16883)
ICQ:
* Stop truncating passwords to 8 characters like old ICQ clients did.
(#16692). If you actually needed this, truncate your password
manually by pressing backspace a few times.
IRC:
* Base64-decode SASL messages before passing to libsasl (#16268)
MXit
* Fixed a buffer overflow. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos.
(TALOS-CAN-0120)
* Fixed a remote out-of-bounds read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco
Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0140)
* Fixed a remote out-of-band read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco
Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0138, TALOS-CAN-0135)
* Fixed an invalid read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos
(TALOS-CAN-0118)
* Fixed a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. Discovered by Yves
Younan of Cisco Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0119)
* Fixed an out-of-bounds read discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos.
(TALOS-CAN-0123)
* Fixed a directory traversal issue. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco
Talos (TALOS-CAN-0128)
* Fixed a remote denial of service vulnerability that could result in
a null pointer dereference. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos.
(TALOS-CAN-0133)
* Fixed a remote denial of service that could result in an out-of-bounds
read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos (TALOS-CAN-0134)
* Fixed multiple remote buffer overflows. Discovered by Yves Younan of
Cisco Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0136)
* Fixed a remote NULL pointer dereference. Discovered by Yves Younan of
Cisco Talos (TALOS-CAN-0137)
* Fixed a remote code execution issue discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco
Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0142)
* Fixed a remote denial of service vulnerability in contact mood
handling. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco Talos (TALOS-CAN-0141)
* Fixed a remote out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Discovered by Yves
Younan of Cisco Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0139)
* Fix a remote out-of-bounds read. Discovered by Yves Younan of Cisco
Talos. (TALOS-CAN-0143)
gstreamer is not an option any longer.
version 2.10.12 (MM/DD/YY):
Windows-Specific Changes:
* Updates to dependencies:
* Cyrus SASL 2.1.26
* libxml2 2.9.2
* NSS 3.17.3 and NSPR 4.10.7
* Perl 5.20.1
* SILC 1.1.12
* Remove support for Tcl plugins
Gadu-Gadu:
* Updated internal libgadu to version 1.12.1.
version 2.10.11 (11/23/14):
General:
* Fix handling of Self-Signed SSL/TLS Certificates when using the NSS
plugin (#16412)
* Improve default cipher suites used with the NSS plugin (#16262)
* Add NSS Preferences plugin which allows the SSL/TLS Versions and
cipher suites to be configured (#8061)
Gadu-Gadu:
* Fix a bug that prevented plugin to load when compiled without GnuTLS.
(mancha) (#16431)
* Fix build for platforms without AF_LOCAL definition. (#16404)
MSN:
* Fix broken login due to server change (dx, TReKiE). (#16451, #16455)
* Fail early when buddy list is unavailable instead of wasting bandwidth
endlessly re-trying.
version 2.10.10 (10/22/14):
General:
* Check the basic constraints extension when validating SSL/TLS
certificates. This fixes a security hole that allowed a malicious
man-in-the-middle to impersonate an IM server or any other https
endpoint. This affected both the NSS and GnuTLS plugins. (Discovered
by an anonymous person and Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project, with
thanks to Moxie Marlinspike for first publishing about this type of
vulnerability. Thanks to Kai Engert for guidance and for some of the
NSS changes) (CVE-2014-3694)
* Allow and prefer TLS 1.2 and 1.1 when using the NSS plugin for SSL.
(Elrond and Ashish Gupta) (#15909)
libpurple3 compatibility:
* Encrypted account passwords are preserved until the new one is set.
* Fix loading Google Talk and Facebook XMPP accounts.
Windows-Specific Changes:
* Don't allow overwriting arbitrary files on the file system when the
user installs a smiley theme via drag-and-drop. (Discovered by Yves
Younan of Cisco Talos) (CVE-2014-3697)
* Updates to dependencies:
* NSS 3.17.1 and NSPR 4.10.7
Finch:
* Fix build against Python 3. (Ed Catmur) (#15969)
Gadu-Gadu:
* Updated internal libgadu to version 1.12.0.
Groupwise:
* Fix potential remote crash parsing server message that indicates that
a large amount of memory should be allocated. (Discovered by Yves Younan
and Richard Johnson of Cisco Talos) (CVE-2014-3696)
IRC:
* Fix a possible leak of unencrypted data when using /me command
with OTR. (Thijs Alkemade) (#15750)
MXit:
* Fix potential remote crash parsing a malformed emoticon response.
(Discovered by Yves Younan and Richard Johnson of Cisco Talos)
(CVE-2014-3695)
XMPP:
* Fix potential information leak where a malicious XMPP server and
possibly even a malicious remote user could create a carefully crafted
XMPP message that causes libpurple to send an XMPP message containing
arbitrary memory. (Discovered and fixed by Thijs Alkemade and Paul
Aurich) (CVE-2014-3698)
* Fix Facebook XMPP roster quirks. (#15041, #15957)
Yahoo:
* Fix login when using the GnuTLS library for TLS connections. (#16172)
finch does not compile with python-3.3. Since libpurple is not versioned
and finch pulls it in, we have to mark libpurple too, and then pidgin
because of libpurple. It's all one codebase anyway...
version 2.10.8 (1/28/2014):
General:
* Python build scripts and example plugins are now compatible with
Python 3. (Ashish Gupta) (#15624)
libpurple:
* Fix potential crash if libpurple gets an error attempting to read a
reply from a STUN server. (Discovered by Coverity static analysis)
(CVE-2013-6484)
* Fix potential crash parsing a malformed HTTP response. (Discovered by
Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project) (CVE-2013-6479)
* Fix buffer overflow when parsing a malformed HTTP response with
chunked Transfer-Encoding. (Discovered by Matt Jones, Volvent)
(CVE-2013-6485)
* Better handling of HTTP proxy responses with negative Content-Lengths.
(Discovered by Matt Jones, Volvent)
* Fix handling of SSL certificates without subjects when using libnss.
* Fix handling of SSL certificates with timestamps in the distant future
when using libnss. (#15586)
* Impose maximum download size for all HTTP fetches.
Pidgin:
* Fix crash displaying tooltip of long URLs. (CVE-2013-6478)
* Better handling of URLs longer than 1000 letters.
* Fix handling of multibyte UTF-8 characters in smiley themes. (#15756)
Windows-Specific Changes:
* When clicking file:// links, show the file in Explorer rather than
attempting to run the file. This reduces the chances of a user
clicking on a link and mistakenly running a malicious file.
(Originally discovered by James Burton, Insomnia Security. Rediscovered
by Yves Younan of Sourcefire VRT.) (CVE-2013-6486)
* Fix Tcl scripts. (#15520)
* Fix crash-on-startup when ASLR is always on. (#15521)
* Updates to dependencies:
* NSS 3.15.4 and NSPR 4.10.2
* Pango 1.29.4-1daa
Patched for https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668154
AIM:
* Fix untrusted certificate error.
AIM and ICQ:
* Fix a possible crash when receiving a malformed message in a Direct IM
session.
Gadu-Gadu:
* Fix buffer overflow with remote code execution potential. Only
triggerable by a Gadu-Gadu server or a man-in-the-middle.
(Discovered by Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney of Sourcefire VRT)
(CVE-2013-6487)
* Disabled buddy list import/export from/to server (it didn't work
anymore). Buddy list synchronization will be implemented in 3.0.0.
* Disabled new account registration and password change options, as it
didn't work either. Account registration also caused a crash. Both
functions are available using official Gadu-Gadu website.
IRC:
* Fix bug where a malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger
a crash by not sending enough arguments with various messages.
(Discovered by Daniel Atallah) (CVE-2014-0020)
* Fix bug where initial IRC status would not be set correctly.
* Fix bug where IRC wasn't available when libpurple was compiled with
Cyrus SASL support. (#15517)
MSN:
* Fix NULL pointer dereference parsing headers in MSN.
(Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger of the
University of Goettingen) (CVE-2013-6482)
* Fix NULL pointer dereference parsing OIM data in MSN.
(Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger of the
University of Goettingen) (CVE-2013-6482)
* Fix NULL pointer dereference parsing SOAP data in MSN.
(Discovered by Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger of the
University of Goettingen) (CVE-2013-6482)
* Fix possible crash when sending very long messages. Not
remotely-triggerable. (Discovered by Matt Jones, Volvent)
MXit:
* Fix buffer overflow with remote code execution potential.
(Discovered by Yves Younan and Pawel Janic of Sourcefire VRT)
(CVE-2013-6487)
* Fix sporadic crashes that can happen after user is disconnected.
* Fix crash when attempting to add a contact via search results.
* Show error message if file transfer fails.
* Fix compiling with InstantBird.
* Fix display of some custom emoticons.
SILC:
* Correctly set whiteboard dimensions in whiteboard sessions.
SIMPLE:
* Fix buffer overflow with remote code execution potential.
(Discovered by Yves Younan of Sourcefire VRT) (CVE-2013-6487)
XMPP:
* Prevent spoofing of iq replies by verifying that the 'from' address
matches the 'to' address of the iq request. (Discovered by Fabian
Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger of the University of Goettingen)
(CVE-2013-6483)
* Fix crash on some systems when receiving fake delay timestamps with
extreme values. (Discovered by Jaime Breva Ribes) (CVE-2013-6477)
* Fix possible crash or other erratic behavior when selecting a very
small file for your own buddy icon.
* Fix crash if the user tries to initiate a voice/video session with a
resourceless JID.
* Fix login errors when the first two available auth mechanisms fail but
a subsequent mechanism would otherwise work when using Cyrus SASL.
(#15524)
* Fix dropping incoming stanzas on BOSH connections when we receive
multiple HTTP responses at once. (Issa Gorissen) (#15684)
Yahoo!:
* Fix possible crashes handling incoming strings that are not UTF-8.
(Discovered by Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse) (CVE-2012-6152)
* Fix a bug reading a peer to peer message where a remote user could
trigger a crash. (CVE-2013-6481)
Plugins:
* Fix crash in contact availability plugin.
* Fix perl function Purple::Network::ip_atoi
* Add Unity integration plugin.
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
version 2.10.7 (02/13/2013):
Alien hatchery:
* No changes
General:
* The configure script will now exit with status 1 when specifying
invalid protocol plugins using the --with-static-prpls and
--with-dynamic-prpls arguments. (Michael Fiedler) (#15316)
libpurple:
* Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values.
(CVE-2013-0274)
* Don't link directly to libgcrypt when building with GnuTLS support.
(Bartosz Brachaczek) (#15329)
* Fix UPnP mappings on routers that return empty <URLBase/> elements
in their response. (Ferdinand Stehle) (#15373)
* Tcl plugin uses saner, race-free plugin loading.
* Fix the Tcl signals-test plugin for savedstatus-changed.
(Andrew Shadura) (#15443)
Pidgin:
* Make Pidgin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts' +no_x11
variant.
Gadu-Gadu:
* Fix a crash at startup with large contact list. Avatar support for
buddies will be disabled until 3.0.0. (#15226, #14305)
IRC:
* Support for SASL authentication. (Thijs Alkemade, Andy Spencer)
(#13270)
* Print topic setter information at channel join. (#13317)
MSN:
* Fix SSL certificate issue when signing into MSN for some users.
* Fix a crash when removing a user before its icon is loaded. (Mark
Barfield) (#15217)
MXit:
* Fix a bug where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local
file path to be written to. (CVE-2013-0271)
* Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could
potentially send specially crafted data that could overflow a buffer
and lead to a crash or remote code execution. (CVE-2013-0272)
* Display farewell messages in a different colour to distinguish
them from normal messages.
* Add support for typing notification.
* Add support for the Relationship Status profile attribute.
* Remove all reference to Hidden Number.
* Ignore new invites to join a GroupChat if you're already joined, or
still have a pending invite.
* The buddy's name was not centered vertically in the buddy-list if they
did not have a status-message or mood set.
* Fix decoding of font-size changes in the markup of received messages.
* Increase the maximum file size that can be transferred to 1 MB.
* When setting an avatar image, no longer downscale it to 96x96.
Sametime:
* Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends us an abnormally
long user ID. (CVE-2013-0273)
Yahoo!:
* Fix a double-free in profile/picture loading code. (Mihai Serban)
(#15053)
* Fix retrieving server-side buddy aliases. (Catalin Salgu) (#15381)
Plugins:
* The Voice/Video Settings plugin supports using the sndio GStreamer
backends. (Brad Smith) (#14414)
* Fix a crash in the Contact Availability Detection plugin. (Mark)
(#15327)
* Make the Message Notification plugin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+,
such as MacPorts' +no_x11 variant.
version 2.10.4 (05/06/2012):
General:
* Support building against Farstream in addition to Farsight.
(Olivier Crete) (#14936)
IRC:
* Disable periodic WHO timer. IRC channel user lists will no
longer automatically display away status, but libpurple will be
much kinder to the network.
* Print unknown numerics to channel windows if we can associate
them. Thanks to Marien Zwart. (#15090)
MSN:
* Fix a possible crash when receiving messages with certain characters
or character encodings. Thanks to Fabian Yamaguchi for reporting
this!
XMPP:
* Fix a possible crash when receiving a series of specially crafted
file transfer requests. Thanks to José Valentín Gutiérrez for
reporting this! (CVE-2012-2214)
Windows-Specific Changes:
* Words added to spell check dictionaries are saved across restarts of
Pidgin (#11886)
(fixes CVE-2011-3594, CVE-2011-4601, CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-4603, CVE-2011-4939
and CVE-2012-1178)
version 2.10.3 (03/26/2012):
* Fix buddies not going offline.
version 2.10.2 (03/14/2012):
General:
* Fix compilation when using binutils 2.22 and new GDK pixbuf. (#14799)
* Fix compilation of the MXit protocol plugin with GLib 2.31. (#14773)
Pidgin:
* Add support for the GNOME3 Network dialog. (#13882)
* Fix rare crash. (#14392)
* Add support for the GNOME3 Default Application dialog for configuring
the Browser.
libpurple:
* Support new connection states and signals for NetworkManager 0.9+.
(Dan Williams) (#13859)
AIM and ICQ:
* Fix a possible crash when receiving an unexpected message
from the server. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14983)
* Allow signing on with usernames containing periods and
underscores. (#13500)
* Allow adding buddies containing periods and underscores. (#13500)
* Don't try to format ICQ usernames entered as email addresses.
Gets rid of an "Unable to format username" error at login. (#13883)
MSN:
* Fix possible crashes caused by not validating incoming messages as
UTF-8. (Thijs Alkemade) (#14884)
* Support new protocol version MSNP18. (#14753)
* Fix messages to offline contacts. (#14302)
Windows-Specific Changes:
* Fix the installer downloading of spell-checking dictionaries (#14612)
* Fix compilation of the Bonjour protocol plugin. (#14802)
Plugins:
* The autoaccept plugin will no longer reset the preference for unknown
buddies to "Auto Reject" in certain cases. (#14964)
version 2.10.1 (12/06/2011):
Finch:
* Fix compilation on OpenBSD.
AIM and ICQ:
* Fix remotely-triggerable crashes by validating strings in a few
messages related to buddy list management. Thanks to Evgeny Boger
for reporting this! (#14682)
Bonjour:
* IPv6 fixes (Linus Lüssing)
Gadu-Gadu:
* Fix problems linking against GnuTLS. (#14544)
IRC:
* Fix a memory leak when admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary
encoding. (#14700)
Jabber:
* Fix crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice
and video requests. Thanks to Thijs Alkemade for reporting this!
Sametime:
* Separate "username" and "server" when adding new Sametime accounts.
(#14608)
* Fix compilation in Visual C++. (#14608)
SILC:
* Fix CVE-2011-3594, by UTF-8 validating incoming messages before
passing them to glib or libpurple. Identified by Diego Bauche
Madero from IOActive. (#14636)
Yahoo!:
* Fetch buddy icons in some cases where we previously weren't. (#13050)
Windows-Specific Changes:
* Fix compilation
