Download Pidgin 2.12.0 software

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Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously.

Whats new in version 2.12.0:
General:
• Python build scripts and example plugins are now compatible with Python 3. libpurple:
• Fix potential crash if libpurple gets an error attempting to read a reply from a STUN server.
• Fix potential crash parsing a malformed HTTP response.
• Fix buffer overflow when parsing a malformed HTTP response with chunked Transfer-Encoding.
• Better handling of HTTP proxy responses with negative Content-Lengths.
• Fix handling of SSL certificates without subjects when using libnss
• Fix handling of SSL certificates with timestamps in the distant future when using libnss.
• Impose maximum download size for all HTTP fetches Pidgin:
• Fix crash displaying tooltip of long URLs.
• Better handling of URLs longer than 1000 letters
• Fix handling of multibyte UTF-8 characters in smiley themes. Windows-Specific Changes:
• When clicking file:// links, show the file in Explorer rather than attempting to run the file. This reduces the chances of a user clicking on a link and mistakenly running a malicious file....