File transfer/Video Conferencing in GTalk

Google today released an update to Libjingle. For those of us, who do not know Libjingle, let me
tell you that Libjingle is Google Talk's implementation of Jingle and Jingle-Audio (proposed extensions to XMPP) to interoperate with Google Talk's peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilites.

The notable changes in libjingle version 0.2.0 are build support for Windows using Visual Studio Express, TLS Support (used encryption of data), and a new "tunnel" session type, being the most important one.

This new "tunnel" session type can be used to reliably transfer a TCP-like stream of data over Jingle's peer-to-peer connections. That would directly mean, gtalk will offer video-conferencing, file transfer support shortly. voila!!!