14 DAY TRIAL // The Empathy IM (Instant Messenger) client has been updated on March 16 with a handful of changes and improved translations. The most important change is the removal of Facebook chat support, as Facebook will shut down its integrated chat service in favor of the standalone Messenger app.
According to the raw changelog, two bugs have been fixed in the new maintenance release of Empathy, which stagnates at version 3.12, despite that fact that the current stable version of the GNOME desktop environment is 3.14 and we’re preparing for the 3.16 release at the end of the month, on March 25, 2015.
Debarshi Ray removed Facebook chat using Jabber from GNOME Online Accounts. And thanks to Michael Catanzaro, the text that suggested users to ignore SSL certificates errors when connecting to Jabber servers that don’t have a secure connection, has been modified.
Last but not least, several language translations have been updated for Empathy 3.12.8, including Czech, Finnish, German, Svenska, Dutch, Slovenian, Turkish, Bosnian, and Kazakh. Additionally, the Greek, Czech, Spanish, and German documentation translations have been updated.
Download the Empathy 3.12.8 sources right now from Softpedia, but it is highly recommended that you wait for your distribution vendor to add the new Empathy version on the main software repositories of the operating system and then update it from there when available.