Download Miranda IM 0.5

Earlier this week we already reported the fifth pre-release version of Miranda IM 0.5, now the final release of this chat program has come out. Miranda IM is an open source instant messaging program that supports protocols such as ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen and Netsend through plugins. New in this release is support for Unicode, AIM Oscar (the ability to send files and away messages) and improved support for avatars. The full changelog looks like this:

Enhancements:

• Unicode support was introduced
• Database can store the Unicode strings (in utf8 format), and save and return these strings as ANSI, UCS2 and UTF8 strings
• Most core protocols can send, receive & process the information in Unicode
• The contact lists can display nicks, names and statuses in Unicode (under NT)
• Message editors can display any user information in Unicode, display and enter the Unicode messages;
• User details can process names, addresses, etc in Unicode
• Language packs can provide the valid translation for the Miranda’s interface, even when the default codepage doesn’t match the langpack codepage
• Two Miranda distributions are available since 0.5: the ANSI (for Win95/98/ME) and the Unicode one (for NT4/Win2k/XP/Win2003)
• The standard was designed for all contact list plugins, to simplify the support for sorting, storing, grouping contacts
• png2dib plugin was inserted into the distribution to provide the core-level support for PNG files
• Support for sending files with the Unicode names (not mappable into the current codepage)
• AIM: AIM protocol now using Oscar
• ICQ: Messaging support enhanced (P2P messaging supported)
• ICQ: Direct Connection support rewritten (with P2P messaging and reverse file transfers)
• ICQ: Temporary Visible List support
• ICQ: New Features page in options to configure extra features
• ICQ: Custom statuses just like icq5
• needs clist_mw derivative (thx Big Muscle)
• ICQ: New custom status icons (thx Angeli-ka)
• ICQ: Enhanced Unicode & Ansi charsets support (each contact can have its own codepage)
• ICQ: AIM cross-compatibility (add/remove, search by mail, status, messaging, away messages)
• ICQ: Secure MD5 login authentication
• ICQ: Revoke authorization (Advanced Feature
• see further)
• removes you from contact’s server list
• SRMM: RTL support for messages in Hebrew and some other languages.
• Jabber: Avatar support (JEP-0008)
• Jabber: Massive group chat improvements, including private messages & invitations
• MSN: Client version detection
• MSN: Support for nudges
• MSN: Support for some MSN Messenger 7.5 and Live Messenger 8.0 specifics
• Yahoo: Ability to set your own avatar
• Yahoo: Added new icons
• Yahoo: Added address book and calendar links in the main menu
• Yahoo: Added alerts support and link to the main menu
• Yahoo: Added nick to Yahoo login information
• Yahoo: Yahoo now uses new png2dib.dll services for avatar manipulation
• Yahoo: Added Yahoo Japan support
• Yahoo: Added buzz/nudge support
• Yahoo: Offline IMs from blocked people get dropped
• Yahoo: Added basic audible support
• Yahoo: Yahoo File Transfer improvements

Bug fixes:

• Clist classic: Right click on a tray icon results to the resource leak
• ICQ: Our own contact in list now correctly handles events
• ICQ: Proxy Gateway mode is working again
• ICQ: File receiving from Trillian clients work again
• ICQ: Message errors are now really displayed
• ICQ: Fixed memory leak in avatar code
• ICQ: File transfers with GnomeICU works now
• ICQ: Fixed changing password in ICQ Details will not save it to DB if not there
• ICQ: Fixed PING channel handling (caused connection drop)
• ICQ: Fixed bug in changeinfo with translated listbox values
• ICQ: Fixed error handling in avatar code for uploading avatar
• ICQ: Fixed bug in Manage-Server list dialog, caused hang
• ICQ: Fixed occasional losing of messages (message parsing was incomplete)
• ICQ: Server list management now stores all info
• solve problems
• ICQ: Fixed unknown errors during login were not reported sometimes
• Jabber: resource names not UTF8 decoded
• Jabber: people are trying to connect to jabber.org with empty usernames
• MSN: Fix for the error 540 upon login, because of the invalid password hash calculation
• MSN: Fixed the problem of locking the message sending queue by timeouts
• MSN: Fixed disconnection issues for the HTTP gateway mode
• MSN: Fixed some issues with the wrong Hotmail Inbox and Profile Editing URLs
• MSN: Fix for error 911 inside switchboard threads
• Yahoo: Fixed deletion of a buddy from your contact list
• Yahoo: Made fixes to make more strings translatable
• Yahoo: Fixed a bug that could crash srmm
• Yahoo: Properly close the connections

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