Website: http://www.miranda-im.org/ Software Provider: Miranda IM Project Current Version: Miranda IM 0.7.14 Operating Systems:Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista License: Open Source
* indicates versions supporting Windows 95, 98 and Me
New icon manager allows more icon skinning possibilities
Centralized font manager added to the options to manage fonts for all services
New avatar and image handling core plugins to better manage avatars
Improved memory and threading support
Menus are now customizable
Improved contact list plugin support
Implemented a new memory mapped database driver
Improved uPnP support
New plugin identification API
ICQ: Oscar File Transfers- like ICQ 5
ICQ: Client detection improvements
ICQ: Level 1 Rate management (global)
ICQ: Ability to send long offline messages (up to 4096 characters)
ICQ: Support for AIM contacts enhanced
ICQ: Better support for Miranda Ignore module
ICQ: URL events are now received as normal messages
Import: Supports UTF-8 and improved import speed
IRC: True Unicode support for servers with UTF-8 channels
IRC: Ability to set a codepage for a server and to convert a text from ASCII to Unicode properly
Jabber: Ability to choose contacts's resource to send message
Jabber: Bookmarks storage support (XEP-0048)
Jabber: Last activity support (XEP-0012)
Jabber: Jabber search (XEP-0055)
Jabber: Proper data forms support (XEP-0004)
Jabber: Transport gateway recognition
Jabber: Vcard in jabber chatrooms
Jabber: Ability to revoke authorization from a contact
Jabber: Entity time support (XEP-0202)
Jabber: Ad-hoc commands implementation (XEP-0050)
Jabber: Traffic compression (XEP-0138)
Jabber: Full support for socks5-bytestreams filetransfers (XEP-0065)
Jabber: In band bytestreams filetransfers support (XEP-0047)
Jabber: Entity capabilities support (XEP-0115 v1.3)
Jabber: User moods (XEP-0107)
Jabber: User tunes (XEP-0118, via ListeningTo plugin)
Jabber: Personal eventing protocol support (XEP-0163)
Jabber: Proper priority support (inc. negative priority) and displaing, priority change without reconnect
Jabber: Combobox with most popular resources in options
Jabber: Redesigned options dialogs
Jabber: Chat state notifications support (XEP-0085)
Jabber: Self contact support in a contact list
Jabber: Show participants real jid, affiliation/role and status messages in group chat
Jabber: Privacy lists (XEP-0016)
Jabber: Brand new service discovery, transports discovery
Jabber: Remote controlling clients (XEP-0146)
Jabber: Roster editor + backup/restore feature
Jabber: Protocol status show in group chat
Jabber: Pre-filled text controls in change nickname + set topic dialogs in group chat
Jabber: Delayed delivery support (XEP-0203)
Jabber: XML Console
Jabber: Option to disable sharing OS version information
Jabber: Partial extended stanza addressing support (XEP-0033)
Jabber: Message receipts preliminary support (XEP-0184, experimental)
Jabber: XMPP ping support (XEP-0199)
Jabber: XMPP Basic Client 2008 (XEP-0211)
Jabber: XMPP Intermediate IM Client 2008 (XEP-0213)
Jabber: Redesigned group chat invitation dialog with ability to invite multiple users
Jabber: Show ban reason in group chat
Jabber: Folders plugin support
MSN: Offline messaging (send/receive)
MSN: SMS messaging (send/receive)
MSN: Passport 3.0 authentication
MSN: JPEG avatar reception
MSN: Any size avatar support
MSN: Robustness improvements to P2P connections
MSN: MSN Alerts
MSN: Unicode Hotmail Notifications
Yahoo: Yahoo Client 7.x protocol support (client identification, protocol version, supported services upgraded to support this)
Yahoo: Avatar code cleanup/rewrite.
Yahoo: Avatar improvements (new AVS Support, different file caching strategy)
Yahoo: Adding pingbacks to signal errors during login.
Yahoo: Using "First Name and Last Name" as the Nick when somebody adds us.
Yahoo: Adding E-mail count service support
Yahoo: New Icons from Angi
Yahoo: Use japan mail server for those who set options that they are using Japan servers
Bugfixes:
IRC: Special symbols and cyrillic/chinese/japanese characters were handled incorrectly
ICQ: Fixed disconnections on long messages
ICQ: Fixed peer-to-peer session cookie checking
ICQ: Fixed SMS message handling
ICQ: Applied fix for re-requesting authorization
ICQ: Fixed handling of message acks & status message replies from ICQ 6
ICQ: Fixed handling of malformed messages acks
ICQ: Minor fixes for Popup plugin support
ICQ: Minor protocol related tweaks
ICQ: Fixed possible lags caused by typing notifications (on slow connections)
ICQ: Fixed message handling (fixes bug used for stealth invisibility detection)
ICQ: Several fixes to Rate Level 2 handling- more propper handling of message responses
ICQ: Fixed possible crashes caused by malformed langpacks
Jabber: Proper message delivery verification support, no more timeouts
Jabber: Proper handling of conference nicknames, including storing nicks to a roster
Jabber: Fixed group chat deadlocks
Jabber: Fixed private messages in groupchats
Jabber: Fixed NTLM authentication
Jabber: Fixed owner and admin list handling in groupchats
Jabber: Fixed jabber status message reading
Jabber: Proper status and away message displaying in contact list if more then one JID's resource available
Jabber: Fixed freezing miranda in jabber search dialog
Jabber: Removed search validation via vcards
MSN: P2P file/avatar transfer issues
MSN: Message timeout issues
MSN: Fixed lost message issues
Yahoo: Buffer overflow in incoming IM
Yahoo: Lots of bug fixes
About:
Miranda Instant Messenger is a minimalistic, free open source (GNU GPL) multiprotocol instant messaging application for Microsoft Windows.
Miranda provides a basic client framework and an advanced plugin architecture. Support for various IM protocols and additional features is implemented through optional plugins, some of which come bundled with Miranda by default while the rest can be downloaded from the Miranda IM website. This keeps Miranda lean and fast, since unused protocols can be removed. There are currently over 500 plugins for Miranda.
Miranda IM Features
Customized look and function according to each individual's needs.
Management and organization of hundreds of IM buddies on many IM networks
Full message archive database
Contact details or photos visible with mouseover
No advertising or spyware
Compact and portable: with few plugins, fits on a 1.44 MB floppy disk or USB flash drive with several plugins and even a large database.
