What is Pandion?
Pandion is an instant messaging client for XMPP and Jabber networks. Pandion is designed for usability and standards compliance.
Because we think security is not a feature but a necessity, Pandion automatically encrypts your connection to XMPP servers.
Pandion makes it simple to use cool features like custom emoticons, avatars, and text markup.
You can easily extend the functionality of Pandion by installing plug-ins. Creating your own extensions requires only some knowledge of HTML and JScript.
Get Pandion Now
Visit the download page and follow the instructions to install Pandion.
If you want to learn more about Pandion's many features, read the documentation.
For technical assistance and answers to all your questions, visit the support area.
Get Involved
Pandion would not be where it is today without the help of volunteers. There are several ways for you to contribute to Pandion.
If you speak a language that Pandion is not yet available in, or if you want to improve an existing translation, read the translation guide.
The documentation is another area where contributions are more than welcome. Contact us if you are interested in writing or updating the software manual.
Telling other people about Pandion or placing a link to Pandion on your homepage are also easy and effective ways to help.
News: Documentation Published January 12th, 2006
Greatly improved documentation is now available to Pandion users.
Topics ranging from initial account registration to adding people to your contact list to installing plug-ins are explained in clear, simple terms.
The documentation is published under a Creative Commons license to help as many people as possible. Everyone is free to edit, translate, print, and share the documentation.
News: Pandion 2.5 update January 7th, 2006
We're pleased to announce the release of Pandion 2.5.
Since the last official release there have been a ridiculous number of improvements and an equally ridiculous long beta stage.
Here are the main changes, listed in no particular order.
- Data compression to dramatically lower bandwidth usage.
- Bigger and better emoticons palette that can resize itself to show hundreds of emoticons.
- Handy connection settings dialog for those with special network configurations. Not to worry, the default choices are fine in most cases.
- Many new and updated translations have been contributed. Thanks to these wonderful volunteers most of the world can now use Pandion. Still missing Esperanto though.
- A huge effort went into changing the XML parser and rewriting the networking code of Pandion. Users on dialup connections will have a much more reliable instant messaging session. Those on fast connections may find better performance, especially with long messages.
- Single Sign-On using Windows Integrated Authentication (NTLM/Kerberos) for SoapBox Server users. If this sounds like gibberish just ignore it.
- The user interface has been made more intuitive. Buttons, links, and clickable areas have been given visual feedback. Shortkeys have been added for keyboard navigation. Wizards have been re-ordered. Clutter has been removed from menus and windows.
- Conference rooms can be bookmarked and also joined automatically when you log in.
- Owners of conference rooms have better control over other occupants. Occupants can see who are the moderators and owners of the room.
- As always many, many bugfixes and small features.
It also seems that people were actually reading the end-user license agreement. Who knew.
The agreement for previous versions of Pandion (up to 2.1.2 beta) was not perfectly clear on the topic of using Pandion as a company-wide IM client. Just to clarify: that's completely allowed. We are more than happy whenever an organization chooses Pandion for its internal communications.
The license agreement has been rewritten to make this absolutely clear.
Don't forget to let us know what you want in future versions of Pandion. Visit the Pandion forums to share your ideas.
We wish all Pandion users a happy new year!
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