The new Pidgin 2.12 abandons various messaging protocols

The multiprotocol messaging app Pidgin get a new update and remove support from some customers that have been abandoned by their own creators. This program allows you, from the same interface, control various messaging accounts, with the comfort that this entails.

With the arrival of customers via the web, Pidgin lost some relevance within the users' desktop, but it is always a convincing tool with which achieve a more sober environment.

The new version of the Pidgin 2.12 messaging client is now available. In this update, support for various protocols such as: Facebook XMPP, MSN, MySpace, maxit, Yahoo! Y Yahoo! Japan. The rest of the protocols are not affected.

If you still have any of the accounts that have been affected, they will be listed in the section Unknown in the configuration offered by the program. In short, you can eliminate them, since they are not expected to be supported by their creators again.

Another novelty included in this new version of Pidgin is the support, through third party plugins, of new messaging protocols. For example,  Purple facebook now allows access to the chat and contacts hosted on that portal, skype4pidgin enables messaging elements through Skype for Web and FunYahoo ++ provides access to Yahoo chat through its new protocol.

In addition to the changes indicated, the new update includes as always various security and performance enhancements. In addition, the number of characters has been increased to 500 (divided into two parts) thanks to the replacement of the instance d.pidgin.im by developer version developer.pidgin.im.

The future of Pidgin is in question in a time like the present in which most protocols are closed and are based on web platforms, such as WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger, etc.

Source: OMGUbuntu!