From http://planet.pidgin.im/

Well, we finally kicked Pidgin 2.5.3 out of the nest, two days late. It’s spreading its wings and flying.

Noteworthy in this release are that 58 bullet points are in the ChangeLog (not counting the headers for libpurple, Pidgin, Finch, and the protocols) and 85 tickets were closed, 40 of which were marked in trac as patches. Also of note is the insane amount of work Mark Doliner put into our MSN and MySpace plugins, which should resolve a number of crashes and the MySpace “doesn’t sign off” issue.

Read the entire post here.

With that, I’m anxious to download and try out the new release of Pidgin. You can download it for free here.

Let me know what you think of the newest release of Pidgin.