Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released!
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 are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users.
Please see the README file in the source code for building instructions. We recommend you use a meson devenv instead of installing directly to your OS installation.
This release has been the culmination of many years of work and a lot of churn. The ideas of this version started in 2008 but it wasn’t actually branched until 2011 (from what we can tell and remember).
This is a milestone release. It is something we think other tinkers and developers may want to start playing with, but it is not meant for end users. Most things are not implemented, the user interface has not been polished at all, and there are so many bugs. As such we are asking that packagers please do not package this for your users yet as the potential support requests will be too much for us to handle at this time.
Looking forward, we hope to be doing quarterly experimental releases with Experimental 2 scheduled for 2025-03-31. That release will most likely have a version number of 2.91.0 but things could change in the meantime.
