Tarballs here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/files/Pidgin/2.8.0/ You can view the list of changes here: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog No RPMs, Windows installers or Ubuntu PPA packages yet. But I bet some cool people will make them soon! We also haven't updated the web site yet, but we'll probably do that soon, as well. --Mark