Dear mIRC User, mIRC version 6.17 has been released friday February 17th, 2006. You are receiving this e-mail because you have subscribed to the mIRC release mailing list. The new version of mIRC is available from http://www.mirc.com/ and from all fast mirrors around the world. We have also provided a few download addresses below.
* Fixes, improvements and new features. Khaled added support for displaying UTF-8 text as unicode to mIRC. This works in status, channel, query, and other windows, and in nickname listboxes, window titlebars, switchbar, and tooltips. The display of UTF-8 can be enabled by default for all windows in the Options/IRC/Messages dialog, or individually for any window you like via the Fonts dialog. Use the /font command to open the Fonts dialog. Make sure you select a font that contains the characters or script (hebrew, arabic, greek, cyrillic,...) you want to see! The Fonts dialog also has an "Encode" option that encodes outgoing text in UTF-8 based on the script/codepage selected for that window. The Encode feature is selective, ie. it only encodes the parts of an outgoing message that are not already in UTF-8 format. It also takes into account if the IRC server is fully UTF-8 enabled or not. Various other changes: - mIRC now has a 'check for timed out connections' option in connect/options dialog. When this is set mIRC pings the server every so often if it hasn't heard form the server for a while to test your connection. - Support for initiating passive dcc send/chat connections has been added. - Changing the default font for a window type now affects all open windows of the same type immediately. - Most file dialogs are now resizable. - You can disable the $decode identifier (and various other "dangerous" commands) in the Lock options dialog. (The $decode is of course disabled by default.) - Lots of SSL things have improved and mIRC now also supports SSL connections for sockets This new version has extended support for MP3 id3v2 tags, better invite and except lists, and heaps of other little thingies and identifiers like $findfilen/$finddirn, $qt(text)/$noqt(text), $locked and $mouse.key improvements. Of course also some UTF-8 related idfentifiers like $utfencode(), $utfdecode() and $isutf() have been added. In total the versions.txt mentions over 160 changes. Some changes are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and see how they work. May we invite you to the Message Board on the website with all questions you might have? The board offers great help with everything related to mIRC! * How to upgrade? mIRC is distributed in a self-extracting cabinet (mirc617.exe) that helps you to install mIRC on your PC. Simply download the cabinet and run the installer. Follow the instructions the installer program gives to you. When upgrading all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were, if you want that. Read the questions the installer program asks with care and nothing can go wrong. You will be chatting with the new mIRC in no time. If you get stuck or if you want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on a Help button or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out. * Where to download? For the latest download addresses just go to the mIRC website. As a special service to you we included some links below where mIRC is available already; Holland ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/mirc/mirc617.exe New Jersey http://www.reverse.net/pub/mirc/mirc617.exe Turkey http://www.alfabe.org/mirc/mirc617.exe Quebec http://www.ctech.ca/mirc/mirc617.exe United Kingdom http://mirc.orion-hosting.co.uk/mirc617.exe Singapore http://mirc.sphereosoft.net/mirc617.exe Germany ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/mirc.com/mirc617.exe New York http://mirc.kragoth.com/mirc617.exe Greece ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/unix/irc/mirc/mirc617.exe Denmark http://www.mr-fister.dk/~mirc/mirc617.exe On the mIRC websites also the new mIRC FAQ version 59 (mfaq59hp.zip) is available. The FAQ answers a lot of questions regarding mIRC, IRC, DCC and the like. It also includes a tutorial on Aliases, Popups and on 'programming' the Tools/Remote section. * Shareware. As you might know mIRC is shareware. It can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. Assuming you find that you enjoy using mIRC, and you continue to use it, you have to register your copy. This licenses you to keep your copy of mIRC and it supports our continued work on mIRC. Khaled offers a one time registration, which works with all future versions of mIRC. You will never need to register again. Thanks for using mIRC, lots of fun on IRC, Tjerk Vonck. ________________________________________________________ * What is this mailing list and how can you unsubscribe? This mIRC release mailing list is a low volume, low frequency, announcement list. Typically you will get one message right after each mIRC release, only a few times a year. Last time was on July 7th 2004. The list is not a discussion list, there is only one person posting; me - the listmaster of mIRC Co. Ltd. We will not use or abuse this list for other messages. It is very easy to get removed from this list. Just use the unsubscribe form found on the mailing lists page on the mIRC website.
