在Linux平台上很好用的整合性IM軟體Pidgin釋出了重大升級版本2.1.0，雖然官方網站還沒更新首頁內容，現階段官方的檔案已經放在SF提供下載了。它能夠同時整合了MSN Messenger、Yahoo Messenger、AOL Messenger、ICQ、GoogleTalk、QQ等多種不同的IM軟體，Windows的用戶透過先安裝GTK+ for Windows套件，也能安裝Windows版本的Pidgin，享受這套整合多種IM軟體的魅力。
Pidgin的優點在於軟體本身的功能多，可以針對聯絡人作動作、狀態的更新通知或管理，IM還提供分頁的功能，減少混亂的IM視窗。他是用GTK+ 開發，並以libpurple 為基礎，同時提供AIM、MSN、Yahoo!、XMPP、ICQ、IRC、SILC、SIP/SIMPLE、Novell GroupWise、Lotus Sametime、Bonjour、Zephyr、Gadu-Gadu 及 QQ 等多種IM同時在同一個軟體視窗的功能。
這個版本開始改變了IM視窗了一些設定與版面，可以使用下拉式選單進行表情符號、字體顏色等設置的儲存，也更動的頭像圖片的位置。
如果等不及deb或rmp套件格式的更新，Linux用戶可以直接先下載2.1.0透過編譯的方式安裝，指令如下：
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev libnss3-dev gettext html2text
./configure
make
sudo make install
Pidgin 2.1.0下載網址
Windows用戶可選擇包含GTK套件的版本下載會比較方便
Pidgin 2.1.0詳細的更新內容如下：
version 2.1.0 (07/28/2007):
libpurple:
* Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling.
Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use
g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows
glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency.
(Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
* No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part
notifications in chats
* With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved.
NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
* Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
Pidgin:
* Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration
directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a
second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
* Undo capability in the conversation window
* The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
* A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to
provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon,
protocol and status message.
* Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
Finch:
* There’s support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
* There’s a new custom window manager, Irssi
* Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
* Some bugs regarding search results fixed
* A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
* Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)
