Pidgin On Maemo updated to v2.4.3
 

Pidgin On Maemo has been updated to v2.4.3 from 2.3.1 its in Chinook repo and the author Gabriel Schulhof says it will be in diablo repo soon

"Version 2.4.3 of Pidgin restores ICQ functionality. It's currently only out for Chinook. I'll figure out how to upload it to Diablo as well."

Just giving people the heads up on the new release
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/pidgin/

I did use the search before this post but could not find a post about it