Er is een nieuwe stabiele uitgave van de irc-client mIRC verschenen. Met dit programma is het mogelijk om via verschillende kanalen en servers met elkaar te chatten, maar ook om via 'direct client-to-client' bestanden naar elkaar te sturen. Verder kunnen scripts worden gedraaid om bijvoorbeeld het beheren van kanalen eenvoudiger te maken. De irc-server van Tweakers draait op irc.tweakers.net, met #tweakers.net als het officiële kanaal en een groot aantal andere kanalen die dienstdoen als thuishaven voor de hardware- en softwarefanaat. Een overzicht van alle beschikbare kanalen kan via het commando /list worden opgevraagd. Via die lijst kan snel het gewenste kanaal worden gevonden. De changelog van deze release ziet er als volgt uit:
mIRC 7.42 has been released!
This is a small update that addresses a number of issues reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes to a number of features, including:In total there have been around 30 changes since the last release and although most of them are only small fixes and tweaks, we hope that they result in a more useful and stable mIRC for you. For a full version history of mIRC v7.x development, please see the list of changes starting with v7.0.
- Fixed tokenization bug related to strtok()'s use of an internal static varible.
- Fixed script error line number bug that was causing line number not to be reported in some contexts.
- Updated libraries to PCRE v8.37 and OpenSSL 1.0.1p.
- Fixed SSL certificate change warning bug that caused warnings to be displayed for valid certificates.
- Fixed /filter output to nul not working.
- Updated voice command support to work with newer versions of Windows.
- Extended /server to handle passwords with spaces.
- Changed drag-drop to only set focus on a window once a file has been dropped onto it.
- Fixed /play dialog not allowing long filenames to be typed into filename editbox.
- Fixed file dialog bug that prevented typing a folder name into the filename editbox to change into that folder.
- Fixed /exit bug that caused settings to be saved incorrectly when used in some contexts.
- Added $encode()/$decode() 'a' switch for base32 encoding.
- Added $hmac(text|&binvar|filename, key, hash, 0|1|2) identifier.
- Added $hotp(key, count, hash, digits) identifier.
- Added support for IRCv3 message tags and $msgtags(tag|N) identifier.
- Added on PARSELINE event that allows scripts to modify incoming/outgoing server messages.
- Fixed Event Beeps beep value not being applied resulting in repeated beeping during a flash event.
- Other changes and bug fixes.