Im not sure who compiled the Facebook Support on repos but they are not connected with the plugin makers, so version 1.36 must have been the latest version available when they compiled it.

Also if you remove the Pidgin Facebook Support with Application Manager you will probably have to manually install the facebook icons, which can be downloaded here

http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-face...s.zip&can=2&q=

Unzip them and place them in /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols