We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the first experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.90.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users. The release can be found on SourceForge. Please see the README file in the source code for building instructions. We recommend you use a meson devenv instead of installing directly to your OS instal...
  • GTK4, Adwaita
  • Complete code base overall
  • Finch is removed
  • All protocols are removed (in the works from scratch)

P.S.: how it is still on SourceForge?😱

  • MetostopholesEnglish
    16•1 month ago

    That sure takes me back. Pidgin’s logging defaults are the reason I still have all my AIM chats from 2002 - 2010.

  • poVoq
    6•1 month ago

    I’m mildly interested to test it once their from scratch reimplementation of the XMPP backend works. Maybe I can then finally stop screaming at prople that still use Pidgin as an xmpp client despite it being at least 15 years out of date.

    • Serge MatveenkoOPEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      Personally, I’m looking forward for our to stabilize to try working on Matrix protocol support.

  • @hexagonwin
    2•1 month ago

    tbh GTK2 feels superior to GTK4, though I’m glad it’s still being developed.

  • @Roopappy@lemmy.world
    2•1 month ago

    So… back when I used Pidgin, I aggregated AIM, YahooIM, GoogleTalk, and Pre-MS Skype. What is the use case today?

    • Serge MatveenkoOPEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      Aggregating Matrix, xmpp, irc, and telegram could work for me. But I’d rather did this on my private matrix instance now though.