# \#announcement

**URL:** https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/announcement/16.md

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## [Discourse Hosting](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/discourse-hosting/441)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [October 21, 2026, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/discourse-hosting/441 "2026-10-21T03:45:14Z")

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Greetings Programs! This post is the first new one from our new Discourse hosting from Discourse! They are now graciously hosting this instance pro-bono (for free) as part of their Open Source support. This is awesome …

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## [Conference.pidgin.im muc closures](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/conference-pidgin-im-muc-closures/341)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [January 9, 2026, 7:46am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/conference-pidgin-im-muc-closures/341 "2026-01-09T07:46:54Z")

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I just went through and closed all public XMPP Multi User Chats on conference.pidgin.im. I don’t have the desire nor the time they require specifically whatever people were trying to do in general@conference.pidgin.im. d…

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## [We're federated now!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/were-federated-now/294)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 26, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/were-federated-now/294 "2025-06-26T20:09:56Z")

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Greetings Programs! I just wanted to let you know that the announcement, news, and release tags on discourse.imfreedom.org are now available directly on the Fediverse! Comments are not currently enabled between Discours…

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## [Seagull 0.4.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-4-0-has-been-released/293)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 25, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-4-0-has-been-released/293 "2025-06-25T06:27:26Z")

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We’re pleased to announce that Seagull 0.4.0 has been released! Downloads are available on Sourceforge. ChangeLog Add aliases for columns (RR 3926) (Gary Kramlich) Add seagull\_statement\_bind\_object (SEAGULL-3) (RR 402…

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## [Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 2 (2.91.0) has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-experimental-2-2-91-0-has-been-released/262)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 14, 2025, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-experimental-2-2-91-0-has-been-released/262 "2025-06-14T09:25:24Z")

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We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the second experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.91.0. We will continue releasing in this fashion until w…

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## [State of the Bird May 2025](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/state-of-the-bird-may-2025/291)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [June 9, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/state-of-the-bird-may-2025/291 "2025-06-09T05:40:51Z")

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State of the Bird May 2025 The State of the Bird is a recap of what has been happening in the project. We used to do these quarterly as an interactive live stream, but we’re now doing these as a monthly posts instead. …

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## [Birb 0.4.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/birb-0-4-0-has-been-released/281)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 17, 2025, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/birb-0-4-0-has-been-released/281 "2025-05-17T02:51:27Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Birb 0.4.0 has been released! Downloads are on Sourceforge ChangeLog Add a license file (BIRB-9) (RR 3786) (Gary Kramlich) Annotate constructor that returns a base type (RR 3834) (Ellio…

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## [State of the Bird April 2025](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/state-of-the-bird-april-2025/276)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [May 3, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/state-of-the-bird-april-2025/276 "2025-05-03T07:06:45Z")

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State of the Bird April 2025 The State of the Bird is a recap of what has been happening in the project. We used to do these quarterly as an interactive live stream, but we’re now aiming to do these as a monthly posts …

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## [Ibis 0.14.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-14-0-has-been-released/273)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 30, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-14-0-has-been-released/273 "2025-04-30T23:25:58Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Ibis 0.14.0 has been released! Ibis is nearing feature completion as far as we can tell, so we’ll probably be doing a 1.0 in a bit once we finish the last few features we have remaining. …

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## [Ibis 0.13.1 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-13-1-has-been-released/261)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 31, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-13-1-has-been-released/261 "2025-03-31T03:16:52Z")

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We pleased to announce that Ibis 0.13.1 has been release. This is a bug fix release that fixes a few oversights in the new formatting stuff from Ibis 0.13.0. Downloads are available on Sourceforge ChangeLog Fix a few…

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## [Ibis 0.13.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-13-0-has-been-released/260)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 30, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-13-0-has-been-released/260 "2025-03-30T19:49:17Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Ibis 0.13.0 has been released! There’s really only one change in this release, but it’s a big one, the ability to parse incoming formatting into a format that user interfaces can use to di…

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## [Seagull 0.3.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-3-0-has-been-released/258)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 22, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-3-0-has-been-released/258 "2025-03-22T09:24:16Z")

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We’re pleased to announce that Seagull 0.3.0 has been released! Downloads are available on Sourceforge ChangeLog Create the initial statement object (SEAGULL-2) (RR 3833) (Gary Kramlich) Add Seagull.Statement.get\_expa…

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## [Ibis 0.12.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-12-0-has-been-released/256)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-12-0-has-been-released/256 "2025-03-14T07:40:34Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Ibis 0.12.0 has been released! This is a big release for us as it should finally have everything for handling modes and we also added support for handling batches! Downloads are available…

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## [Pidgin Chat and other XMPP services having authentication issues](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-chat-and-other-xmpp-services-having-authentication-issues/255)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 20, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-chat-and-other-xmpp-services-having-authentication-issues/255 "2025-02-20T19:03:09Z")

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A few hours ago we updated the software that runs hub.imfreedom.org. That software is used to authenticate users for our XMPP service and other services. However, something went wrong and the login integration does not …

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## [Seagull 0.2.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-2-0-has-been-released/250)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-2-0-has-been-released/250 "2025-02-11T04:11:08Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Seagull 0.2.0 has just been released! This update includes some of the new helper API for interacting with Sqlite3 with much more to come in later releases! Downloads are available on Sou…

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## [Seagull 0.1.1 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-1-1-has-been-released/249)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-1-1-has-been-released/249 "2025-02-07T04:24:02Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Seagull 0.1.1 has been released! This is a bug fix release with no new features. Downloads are available on Sourceforge ChangeLog Fix the description in the docs (RR 3816) (Gary Kramlic…

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## [Seagull 0.1.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-1-0-has-been-released/248)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 7, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/seagull-0-1-0-has-been-released/248 "2025-02-07T03:51:34Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Seagull 0.1.0 has been released. This is the first Seagull release and is basically just the PurpleSqlite3 API from purple3. Namespaces and errors were adjust but that’s about it. Downloa…

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## [Ibis 0.11.2 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-11-2-has-been-released/246)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 4, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-11-2-has-been-released/246 "2025-02-04T04:47:42Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Ibis 0.11.2 has been released! This is mostly a bug fix release but the ability to send commands at startup of the cli is really nifty for testing! Downloads are available on Sourceforge …

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## [Ibis 0.11.1 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-11-1-has-been-released/243)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 1, 2025, 6:11am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-11-1-has-been-released/243 "2025-02-01T06:11:12Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Ibis 0.11.1 has been released. This is mostly a bug fix release, but we did finally add support for automatically attempting alternate nicks! Downloads are available on Sourceforge Chang…

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## [Pidgin 2.14.14 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-2-14-14-has-been-released/241)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 23, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-2-14-14-has-been-released/241 "2025-01-23T03:39:30Z")

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We are pleased to announce that Pidgin 2.14.14 has been released! This release contains the much anticipated fix for the certificate popups when using NSS. It also contains a bunch of fixes to work with GCC14 and GCC15! …

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## [Birb 0.3.1 has been released](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/birb-0-3-1-has-been-released/239)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 17, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/birb-0-3-1-has-been-released/239 "2025-01-17T03:18:09Z")

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Hot on the heels of Birb 0.3.0 is Birb 0.3.1. This fixes an issue where you couldn’t use Birb from a C++ project. Downloads are available on Sourceforge ChangeLog Fix C++ extern header bracketing (RR 3764) (Elliott Sa…

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## [Birb 0.3.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/birb-0-3-0-has-been-released/238)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 15, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/birb-0-3-0-has-been-released/238 "2025-01-15T21:07:32Z")

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We’re excited to announce that we just released Birb 0.3.0! Downloads are available on Sourceforge ChangeLog Create BirbCustomFilter (BIRB-3) (RR 3338) (Gary Kramlich) Add a fedora-40-amd64 build (RR 3340) (Gary Kraml…

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## [HASL 0.4.0 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/hasl-0-4-0-has-been-released/233)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 13, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/hasl-0-4-0-has-been-released/233 "2025-01-13T19:26:41Z")

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We’re pleased to announce that HASL 0.4.0 has been released! Downloads can be found on Sourceforge. ChangeLog Bump minimum GLib to 2.76 (RR 3727) (Elliott Sales de Andrade) Use g\_string\_free\_and\_steal (RR 3728) (Ellio…

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## [Pidgin 3 on Flathub Beta](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-on-flathub-beta/230)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-on-flathub-beta/230 "2025-01-02T22:09:58Z")

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As mentioned in Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released!, we were in the process of getting Pidgin 3 up on Flathub Beta. Well, the good news is that it is there now! To get started with it please make sure you have …

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## [Pidgin 2.90.1 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-2-90-1-has-been-released/228)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [January 1, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-2-90-1-has-been-released/228 "2025-01-01T21:54:53Z")

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We’re happy to announce that Pidgin 2.90.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release to 2.90.1, aka Experimental 1. It turns out that we missed some issues that cropped up with new users and this release fixes them an…

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## [Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-experimental-1-has-been-released/227)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [January 1, 2025, 4:36am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-experimental-1-has-been-released/227 "2025-01-01T04:36:38Z")

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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…

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## [Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-0-experimental-1-announcement/216)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [November 22, 2024, 4:55am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-0-experimental-1-announcement/216 "2024-11-22T04:55:30Z")

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Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and kept forgetting to write it. Anyways, we are officially announcing that we will be releasing the first experimental release of Pidgin …

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## [Stickers, Keychains, and Magnets 50% off!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/stickers-keychains-and-magnets-50-off/211)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
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**Last updated:** [November 11, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/stickers-keychains-and-magnets-50-off/211 "2024-11-11T21:45:22Z")

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If you didn’t know @grim has a shopify store full of Pidgin stickers, magnets, and keychains, and from now to the end of the year everything is 50% off! The discount is automatic and will show up in your shopping cart. A…

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## [Upcoming Pidgin 2.14.14 release](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/upcoming-pidgin-2-14-14-release/208)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/upcoming-pidgin-2-14-14-release/208 "2024-10-25T19:55:06Z")

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Greetings Programs! Some time in the near future we will be releasing Pidgin 2.14.14 to fix at least one of the TLS Certificate Prompt annoyances. However, this is likely to be one of the last if not last Pidgin 2 rele…

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## [Ibis 0.10.1 has been released!](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-10-1-has-been-released/207)

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**Author:** [@grim](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/u/grim)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 18, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/ibis-0-10-1-has-been-released/207 "2024-10-18T08:00:02Z")

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We are pleased to announce that the 0.10.1 version of Ibis has been released! Downloads can be found here ChangeLog Fix some bugs with registration (RR 3600) (Gary Kramlich) Add a require-sasl command line argument to…

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