Pidgin 2.3.0 is already in development, but these open-source chat developers have pushed out a Pidgin 2.2.1 release to back-port some bug fixes on top of
Pidgin 2.2.0. The changes in Pidgin 2.2.1 include a few Solaris build fixes, improved Gmail notifications through libpurple, closing multiple memory leaks, and fixed detection of X11 with Pidgin are among the ten changes officially making up this minor release. There is also a Pidgin 2.2.2 release already planned. You can download Pidgin 2.2.1 from
Source Forge.