Miranda IM 0.8.0 Preview Release 4 is the same as Preview Release 3 except for many changes to CList Nicer.

This release contains a fix for MSN SMS contacts, account deletion fixes, and a few other minor bug fixes.

0.8.0 Preview Release 7 is now available. Changes in this version include:

Added KAV 2010 AV detection
Fixed auto login on startup
Added sounds for auth requests and added notification
Remove “edit” item in account manager
Fixes for adding/deleting accounts
Fixed chat quit message in Jabber
Fixed issues sending files in Yahoo

Due to issues with the Preview Release 6 packages, the build has been re-released as Preview Release 7.

NTLM authentication fixes
Fixed crash during files transfer
Updated Jabber XMPP server urls
Fixed erroneous XMPP Ping stanza

Updated Jabber icons
Fixed rare crash
Fixed Modern contact list tray menu

* Updated Jabber icons
* Fixed rare crash
* Fixed Modern contact list tray menu

We are pleased to introduce Preview Release #10. Here’s the list of changes in this release:
Improved connection times
Improved file transfer screen refresh
Hyperlink control background fix
ICQ: Fixed user details handling of phones, interests, and timezone
ICQ: Fix for options dialog to fit in options window
Tabsrmm added new user variable %a
Fixed network locks in core
Fix exit on menu click
Fixed multiple status windows issue
Account manager crash fix and other UI fixes
Jabber: Fixed loading of server urls

The Miranda IM team is proud to introduce Miranda IM v0.8. Miranda IM v0.8 contains hundreds of new features including the ability to add and manage accounts from the new Account Manager. Also, SSL support is now built-in to take advantage of encrypted connections (no more configuration is needed). It is highly recommended that users upgrade to take advantage of all of the new features. Below, you will find a list of the many of the issues addressed in this release.

Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still providing a rich feature set, Miranda includes support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo and more. Additionally, with the choice of hundreds of plugins, icons, sounds and other content, Miranda IM gives you the ability to modify, customise and extend functionality to make it your own.
Enhancements
Support for multiple accounts (without dll renaming) for all protocols
SSL support has been added to the core
Support for compressed HTTP transactions
AIM: Unicode messaging, status messages, profiles
AIM: Offline messaging
AIM: Set/retrieve status message for any status
AIM: Ability to set your own avatar
AIM: Privacy settings & lists support
AIM: Server groups support
AIM: Group Chat support
AIM: SSL server connection support
ICQ: Fixed receiving of multi-part messages (only first part was received)
ICQ: Fixed processing of UTF-8 encoded status messages from QIP
ICQ: New offline messages protocol (supports unicode)
ICQ: New user details protocol support (fully unicode aware)
ICQ: Added support for status notes & moods
ICQ: URL events are now received as normal messages
ICQ: Ability to send/receive contacts to/from ICQ6 and AIM
ICQ: Server-list support now groups requests
IRC: IRC servers now stored in the database
IRC: Filter for IRC channel list
IRC: Enhanced identd processing
IRC: Added menu item for nickserv commands
IRC: Auto request client info on adding to contacts or private message
IRC: Enhanced WhoIs request
IRC: CTCP events are shown in the server window
IRC: Close windows with ESC button
IRC: Quick Connect now allows manual input of server parameters
Jabber: Bunch of new XMPP extensions implemented (XEPs: 70, 83, 108, 147, 184, 224, 232 and other)
Jabber: Massive improvements in filetransfers
Jabber: Improved GnuPG messages handling (using SecureIM/GPG plugins)
Jabber: Localized server messages support (xml:lang, RFC 3920 section 4.4)
Jabber: Server side notes (Miranda own extension)
Jabber: Ability to invite chat users to another rooms
Jabber: Directed presences, ability to change connection priority
Jabber: Display active resource of user in message window
Jabber: Jabber VCard moved integrated with user details
Jabber: Redesigned almost all dialogs (roster editor, bookmarks, privacy lists, groupchat join, user info and other)
Jabber: Redesigned menus (main menu in status bar, privacy lists menu, custom status, priority menu, groupchat menus and other)
Jabber: Added new and updated old icons, improvements in UI
Jabber: Added hotkeys and toolbar buttons
Jabber: Options to auto-accept authorization requests and auto-reject invites to conferences
Jabber: CTRL key shows disabled items in most menus
Jabber: Various improvements in groupchats (show online status, improved topic and nick change dialogs and other)
Jabber: Improved remote controlling (resources in forwarded messages, keep last options, leave groupchats)
Jabber: Added display of quit messages, ability to send quit and “slap” messages
Jabber: “Use hostname as resource” option
Jabber: Improvements in XML Console (filters, formatting)
Jabber: Ability to show jabber presence subscription states and errors
MSN: Rewritten to support WLM 8.5 protocol (and all it features)
MSN: Offline messaging
MSN: Added Hotmail Notifier functionality
Yahoo: Added Yahoo 9.x protocol support
Yahoo: File transfer overhauled with support for batches of files
Yahoo: Added user info dialog for Yahoo that shows more detailed information
Yahoo: Improved support for HTTP proxies
Yahoo: Yahoo Japan support
Yahoo: Yahoo now provides a Unicode version

Bugfixes
ICQ: Fixed receiving of multi-part messages (only first part was received)
ICQ: Fixed processing of UTF-8 encoded status messages from QIP
Jabber: Fixed various serious bugs (accidental account unregister, message sender spoofing, roster access by remote users)
Jabber: Fixed wrong timestamps in offline and forwarded messages, fixed xmpp time answers
Jabber: Various connection stability fixes (XMPP ping, ZLib keepalive and other)
Jabber: Fixed chat issues with autojoin and unstable connection
Jabber: Fixed displaying of active resource (including software info) in contact list
Yahoo: Tons of bug fixes

Added account rename on double click
Made account renaming Explorer style (click away – accept)
Fixed status bar icons after account upgrade
Pre 0.8 contact list plugins will no longer load (stability issues occurred)
Network list in options wasn’t sorted
Fixed Status menu when only one protocol exist
Fixed tray icon selection
Fixed crash in options on XP pre SP2
Fixed errors loading dlls on wrong OS
Yahoo: Show download progress properly
Yahoo: Cancel out in the middle of file receive.

Older contact lists and messaging plugins are now safely blocked.
Fixed drawing background in options search
Fixed tray icon with no accounts
MSN: Fixed renaming nickname from options

Fix crashes with corrupted db events
Fixed hotkey issue with some MS keyboards
Fixed account removal handling
Fixed menu/icon issues with protocol accounts
Fixed visibility calculation
Fixed legacy style popup menu creation
ICQ: Fixed AIM away message handling (caused online status to be seen as away in some clients)

Fixed possible memory corruptions in ANSI builds
Added warning if messaging plugin is missing
IRC: Fixed saving user info string in some cases
More account menu fixes
Fixed protocol sequence recovery logic
Fixed AIM profile setting
Fixed AIM memory leaks
Fixed crash of TabSRMM and %a

Update TabSRMM
Yahoo: Main menu fixes
More tray icon processing changes
Scriver: Re-introduce avatar resizing
Fixed connection failure when AIM receive multiple connection request in a row
IRC: Possible crash on particular alias

Enhancements:
Improved account deletion support
MSN: Non IM contacts removed from the contact list and database
Yahoo: Removed “Show Profile” for non Yahoo contacts

Bugfixes:
Fix for ssl errors when client tries to send on closed connection
AIM: File transfer fixes
IRC: Own actions were not always shown
Jabber: Random disconnect issue caused by timeouts

* Fixed contact list minimum row height determination
* AIM: Chat message processing improvements
* AIM: Fixed error messages during nickname upload
* AIM: File transfer improvements
* Jabber: Fix for saving the checkbox value in password dialog
* MSN: Away message api compatibility improvement

Ok, we are starting the new series of nightly builds. We have three main news:

1. From this build the 64-bit version of Miranda will be included. It requires the 64-bit Windows XP or Vista for x86-64 processors. Also it requires the MS Visual Studio 2008 runtime to be installed.

2. The archive’s format switched to 7-zip due to the huge file’s size. To unpack them you should download the extractor from www.7-zip.org or use any modern file manager (Total Commander, FAR Manager etc.)

3. Build 0.9.0.1 includes the brand new pure Unicode file transfers. Now all protocols supported by the core are able to transfer files with any names.

The Miranda IM team is proud to introduce Miranda IM v0.8.3. Miranda IM v0.8.3 contains bug fixes that address issues found in AIM chats along with other minor issues. Also, the Gadu-Gadu protocol is included in this release. It is highly recommended that users upgrade to take advantage of the latest changes. Below, you will find a complete list of the issues addressed in this release.

Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still providing a rich feature set, Miranda includes support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo and more. Additionally, with the choice of hundreds of plugins, icons, sounds and other content, Miranda IM gives you the ability to modify, customise and extend functionality to make it your own.

Bugfixes
Fixed contact list minimum row height determination
AIM: Chat message processing improvements
AIM: Fixed error messages during nickname upload
AIM: File transfer improvements
Jabber: Fix for saving the checkbox value in password dialog
MSN: Away message api compatibility improvement

Enhancements:
- Gadu-Gadu: Added option: ‘Show links from unknown contacts’
- Yahoo: Improved login error detection

Bugfixes:
- Installer uses safer method of previous installation choices detection
- AIM: Fixed mail notifications
- AIM: Filenames were not correct on file receive
- AIM: Fixed setting status message to not supported status
- Gadu-Gadu: Icons were not installed correctly
- Gadu-Gadu: Fixed crash opening new conference
- Gadu-Gadu: Removed ‘Show contacts not on my list having me on their list’ option due to the server changes
- ICQ: Advanced search was not working in some cases
- Jabber: Ignored Google Talk custom domains in account manager
- Jabber: Receiving messages stops if tag in response is incomplete
- Jabber: Group chat invites didn’t process non-legacy invites
- Jabber: Fix for rare crash
- MSN: Fixed setting status message to not supported status

Enhancements:
* Gadu-Gadu: Added option: ‘Show links from unknown contacts’
* Yahoo: Improved login error detection

Bugfixes:
* Installer uses safer method of previous installation choices detection
* AIM: Fixed mail notifications
* AIM: Filenames were not correct on file receive
* AIM: Fixed setting status message to not supported status
* Gadu-Gadu: Icons were not installed correctly
* Gadu-Gadu: Fixed crash opening new conference
* Gadu-Gadu: Removed ‘Show contacts not on my list having me on their list’ option due to the server changes
* ICQ: Advanced search was not working in some cases
* Jabber: Ignored Google Talk custom domains in account manager
* Jabber: Receiving messages stops if tag in response is incomplete
* Jabber: Group chat invites didn’t process non-legacy invites
* Jabber: Fix for rare crash
* Jabber: Handle realms correctly in Digest-MD5 SASL
* MSN: Fixed setting status message to not supported status