Download Miranda IM 0.4.0.1

Miranda IM is a program with which various Instant Messaging networks can be accessed. This makes it possible to communicate with people on different networks from one program. Standard support for ICQ, AIM, MSN, IRC and Jabber is provided but using plugins also supports Gadu-Gadu, ICQ Groupware, Yahoo, Netsend, EmLanProto, Vypress Chat, POP3, Tlen and many others. In addition, there are already around 445 plug-ins available that can do everything, such as a spam filter, extra configuration options, integration with other software and customizing the interface. The developers have released version 0.4.0.1 with the following changes:

New in 0.4.0.1

Miranda:

• Support for Windows 95 (message loop was broken)
• Now waits upto 1.2 seconds if a connection attempt was made less than one second ago. Helps with XP SP2 which has a lower connection limit per second.
• User details could show invalid local times
• Buttons didn’t always draw their icons the correct size
• memory leak in send/recv file dialogs, email menu item, font leak in buttons
• Find/Add trims any spaces from emails and user IDs whilst pasting
• Idle didn’t change back to online message if going from autoaway back to online
• Added too many blackslashes when sending a root directory to a contact

Database:

• Writing a string setting over another setting type can crash
• Added back default profile support (incl AutoCreate)
• Cached writes only do actual writes if needed
• Static fetching of BLOBs didn’t work correctly

Contact List:

• Running a profile that is locked will show the window for the Miranda running it
• Right clicking on a contact crashed if no menus were added
• Ask before deleting groups in the CList
• When drawing text, ignore linefeeds in nickname text (fixes forced next line bug)
• memory leak in contact list, tray icon
• Limit preference reading during resizing
• Added back ‘click to focus’ transparency

Message Window (SRMM):

• Files can be Drag&Dropped into a contact’s message window and sent to them
• Position of divders didn’t get saved if the avatar icon was displayed
• Message window strangeness if a message failed to be sent
• Disabling avatars via options hides existing avatar icons in dialogs
• Status modes didn’t display correctly if built with Unicode
• Smoother window resizing
• Hide istyping notifications if contact goes offline
• Can now show seconds in timestamps

chat:

• Icons in statusbar are changed when proto icons are updated
• Relative paths for chat.dll logs

AIM:

• Added a menu item for private messages via aim group chat UI
• Invite crash
• Show whisper messages as notices in aim group chat
• AIM now uses chat.dll for group chat
• New icons from valkyre
• Better handling of AIM: left

ICQ:

• Main server loop could malfunction causing 100% CPU usage
• Associated avatar info isn’t cleared if the server sends back an error
• Do not move contacts to non existant server groups
• Error in error reporting code (hm.. )
• Better handling or offline messaging
• Detect UTF8 in auth messages
• If auth is from a contact on your list it will show it as a local request
• Added hidden setting to disable sending unicode to Trillian/IM2 per contact
• Actually obey rate limit when doing user info and status message requests
• Added better UTF8 detection
• Handle “sign on warnings” to login even if they are issued
• Don’t try and store avatars bigger than protocol level limitations (could crash)
• If a contact in the server list has no nickname, query it from the server
• Server can intentionally send random garbage as an avatar, only set if its in a known image format
• Network string is now Translate() able
• Could crash if server returned string was reported wrong size

IRC:

• Don’t crash if handling a faulty MODE +/-k or i/-i command
• Don’t steal focus if joining with /JOINM
• Add network name to notices
• /AWAY can not be used from a perform buffer
• Handle ‘connecting whilst dying’ suitations
• Improved user status detection
• Failed to load if Windows DEP was enabled
• Online notification stopped working after manual /WHO

MSN:

• MSN Personal messages (aka status messages)
• MSN V7 support (logging in via MSNP11)
• Messages could get lost (line ending issue)
• Better ‘invisible’ support whilst using MSN v7
• Changes to how MSN hotmail website is opened
• Now shows you if a contact is using WebMessenger in the user details
• Group renaming now ignores case when looking for existing groups
• Keep alive shuts down better
• Keep alive thread could cause crash on exit (hah irony.)
• PCs with multiple IPs are handled better during P2P
• Actually knows what the ‘Occupied’ status message is (wtf..)
• If deleting a contact add them to the block list
• Better handling of empty contact list sent by the server
• memory leak in file transfers

jabber:

• Jabber group chat is now implemented via chat.dll
• Messages to a disconnected jabber conference caused a crash
• Improved Jabber resource handling
• XML specials in add contact
• Better handling of vcards
• Better status message monitoring
• A user can appear more than once in a group chat roster list
• Doesn’t show chat items in the group chat menu
• Contacts renaming is handled better
• Shutdown code is now thread safe

yahoo:

• Custom messages support
• Better support for status messages
• Added gamer status, shows what game a contact is playing if any.
• Better handling of status change requests whilst connecting
• Logging in Invisible actually works
• Authorization issues if contact is on list but a temporary
• Authorization issues if a contact was added via an event (such as search)
• Added support for mTooltip photos
• Changes in popup support, color changes now work better
• If away message is empty it will use a standard away message
• Contacts with custom messages are shown as ‘away’ rather than occupied
• Custom message whilst idle is handled better
• Going ‘online’ via setting another status did not work as expected, now also uses that status message
• Can rename files during file transfer
• Rejection of requests done whilst yahoo is offline (like add)
• Check for password before using it internally