I just did my -Syu and saw pidgin had been version-bumped to 2.6.5. Since my connection is dog-slow, I browsed to pidgin.im while waiting for the download to finish (I like to check change-logs). Lo and behold, the version advertised on Pidgin's official website was 2.6.4! Of course, the sourceforge was at 2.6.5. Which has just been uploaded today, 10th January. Now THAT'S what I call efficiency. Thanks guys. The PKGBUILD indicates Biru Ionut as the specific maintainer, but thanks to all the rest as well =).
