Windows/Mac/Linux: Pidgin has daylong been an cushy artefact to ingest lots of assorted chitchat systems on your desktop. With its 2.6 release, Pidgin’s eventually getting up to the video, audio, and enter designate offerings of Google Talk, Yahoo, and others.

The bounteous newborn feature in the 2.6 releases—already at a bug-fixing 2.6.1 as this is written—is recording and vocalise chitchat hold over XMPP, famous primarily as the Jabber/Google Talk protocol. Unfortunately, that recording and frequence chitchat hold isn’t employed on Windows at the time (kind of a bounteous direct to miss, no?), but the Pidgin aggroup says it’s reaching soon. In another areas, Pidgin reinforced its character enter designate powers, additional wrinkled hold for theming, and prefabricated a whole clump of another changes.

Pdigin’s 2.6.1 promulgation is acquirable as a maker download at the moment, but pre-compiled versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac (if you’re not in the Adium camp) should be actuation discover soon. Update: Ubuntu and Debian UNIX users crapper clutch pre-compiled packages at GetDeb. It’s a liberated download.