Miranda IM is een programma waarmee verschillende Instant Messaging-netwerken benaderd kunnen worden. Hierdoor is het mogelijk om vanuit één programma te communiceren met mensen op verschillende netwerken. Zo is ondersteuning voor ICQ, AIM, MSN, IRC en Jabber standaard al aanwezig maar door plug-ins te gebruiken worden ook Gadu-Gadu, ICQ Groupware, Yahoo, Netsend, EmLanProto, Vypress Chat, POP3, Tlen en velen anderen ondersteund. Daarnaast zijn er al honderden plug-ins beschikbaar die van alles mogelijk maken, zoals onder andere een spamfilter, extra configuratie mogelijkheden, intergratie met andere software en het aanpassen van de interface. De ontwikkelaars hebben de vijfde preview release van Miranda IM 0.5 vrijgegeven met de volgende lijst van aanpassingen sinds de vorige vermelding in de meuktracker:
Version 0.5 Preview Release 5:Version 0.5 Preview Release 4:
- Fixed tray menu issue
Version 0.5 Preview Release 3:
- Added installer option to install quicklaunch icons
- Zip files contain protocol icons
- xstatus icons now located in Icons directory (ICQ).
- Fixed unclosed switchboards (MSN)
- Fixed indirect file transfer hangups (MSN)
- Fixed avatar sessions bug (MSN)
- Unicode fix for jabber password dialog (Jabber)
- Crash in Jabber VJUD search (Jabber)
- Proper nick creation for groupchat autojoin (Jabber)
- Fixed memory leak in tray menu
- Fixed -1 unread emails issue (MSN)
- Fixed the edit msn profile url (MSN)
- Connection issue with TLS (Jabber)
- Fixed a bug that causes a crash on an buddy addition failure (AIM)
- Fixed an accidental usage of utf for non-utf miranda (AIM)
- Fixed some group addition bugs (AIM)
- Fixed a bug causing unknown to be written over known clients on status change (AIM)
- Offline all contacts on miranda startup (AIM)
- Changed how aimoscar writes the MirVer string to the db- so that client change notifications don’t happen twice (AIM)
- Set a timeout for peer connection attempts so that it doesn’t attempt for 45+ seconds (AIM)
- Hotmail inbox didn’t work (MSN)
- Fix for -1 unread mails (MSN)
- Fix for edit msn profile url (MSN)
Version 0.5 Preview Release 2:
- Fixes an issue of “?” overwriting the fingerprint modules “SMS” (AIM)
- Fixed bug in adding contacts to list by event contacts (ICQ)
- Fixed updater registration (ICQ)
- New installer using NSIS
- Adding install option to use %APPDATA% for profile location (new installs only)
- Installer now installs dbtool correctly
- Installer now installs default aim invisible status icon
- Fixed MSN connection issue with MSN’s new protocol changes
- Memory leak fix for Yahoo
- Included DBTool and fixed a critical issue with clearing RTL events
- Installer should now run on Windows 95