Software update: Miranda IM 0.4 stable

About four months after the release of the first beta release of version 0.4 of the open source chat program Miranda IM, the final has finally become available. Miranda can connect to the networks of AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and IRC by default. More networking and functionality can be added through plugins† The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Bug fixes:

• Crashes after warning about unsuccessful search
• ESC doesn’t work in User Detail
• Phrases with leading and trailing spaces not translateable
• Incorrect Local time in Userinfo
• CheckDlgButton didn’t draw correctly if used after creation in button control
• Offline users weren’t always shown in Typing Notify Options
• Ctrl+w closes message window
• Moving a group outside the CLC causes a crash
• Crash translating a menu
• Scrollbar still appeared sometimes if XP skinning was enabled
• Contact list control read-disk-on-paint bugs
• Many database bug fixes (crashes, corruption)
• Crash opening Find/Add dialog
• No & sign in the Open File button on the File Transfer window
• Visual defect in “OptionsContact ListIcons” when Expert options unchecked
• AIM: Removing user from deny list didn’t always update mode in Miranda
• AIM: Fixed file transfers with Mac users
• ICQ: Error alert blocked I/O
• ICQ: Newly added contact with privacy setting is not hidden anymore
• ICQ: Offline messages are no longer received older than existing ones
• ICQ: Fixed authorization reply
• ICQ: Fixed contact transfer ack
• ICQ: Now parses URL send ack correctly, no more timeout
• ICQ: Now sending ack on contacts receive
• ICQ: Fixed crash on receiving long message through P2P
• MSN: Connection/login fixes
• IRC: Many bug fixes
• Yahoo: Much cleaner/better/stable code

Enhancements:

• Database and contact list control moved to plugins
• Relative paths for icons, sounds, and contact list background
• Scroll through past messages with ctrl+up/dn in message window
• New idle module to handle autoaway and protocol idleness
• Pin to desktop option in Window options
• Dim idle contacts option
• Use windows colors option for contact list
• New status bar options (hide command, hide gripper)
• Database I/O improvements
• Option to hide vertical scroll bar
• Opening a URL blocked I/O
• AIM: Show mobile users as ‘on the phone’
• MSN: Sending/receiving avatar support
• MSN: Peer to peer support
• ICQ: Added avatar tab to user-details dialog to show avatar
• ICQ: My user-details now show more information & added idle since to ICQ tab
• ICQ: Added full unicode message support (requires SRMM Unicode)
• ICQ: Added support for sending and receiving Idle time
• ICQ: Added reliable client identification
• ICQ: Added support for avatar images (downloading & uploading).
• ICQ: Added Grant authorization option (send & recognize)
• IRC: Support for secured connections using OpenSSL
• IRC: Support for CTCP and DCC file transfers and chats
• IRC: New graphical user interface using Chat plugin
• Jabber: Unicode support
• Yahoo: Better Unicode support
• Yahoo: New Buddy Search
• Yahoo: File Transfer support
• Yahoo: Stealth support (Yahoo v6 visibility list)
• Yahoo: Idle support
• Yahoo: Avatar support (retrieval only)