Er is een nieuwe stabiele uitgave van 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 7.44 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:
- Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.2g, PCRE 8.38, and TagLib 1.11 libraries.
- Extended $regex() to allow unlimited backreferences.
- Updated all file dialogs, including the send file dialog, to use modern file dialogs.
- Updated to NSIS 2.50 installer and related plugins.
- Fixed mode +q event being processed as on OWNER/DEOWNER event on networks that use +q as a channel mode.
- Fixed if/while bracket parsing bug that caused mIRC to freeze with a certain combination of separators and brackets.
- Added check for servers that include MONITOR in numeric 005 but do not actually support it. mIRC reverts back to ISON in this case.
- Added "Certficate" menu item to status window system menu that allows viewing of the SSL certificate for an SSL connection.
- Added $regmlex(name,M,N) that returns array of matches in the case of a /g global match.
- Extended $url to work with browsers that do not support DDE, like Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.
- Updated $os and manifest files for Windows 10 compatibility.
- Added support for extended numeric 338 reply with IPv6 address.
- Added /sockopen -46 switches to specify the IPv4/IPv6 context when resolving named addresses.
- Changed /server to base its IPv4/IPv6 context on the IP address if one is used.
- Fixed $msgtags not being reset immediately after an event.
- Fixed $eval() bug that caused over-evaluation in some cases.
- Fixed log view dialog file size bug with large log files.
- Extended $com() to allow passing parameters in from and results out to binary variables.
- Updated code signing certificate to SHA-256. Binaries are now dual code-signed with SHA-1 and SHA-256.
- Other changes and bug fixes.