Dear mIRC User, mIRC version 6.14 has been released wednesday march 3rd, 2004. You are receiving this email 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.
* How to upgrade? mIRC is distributed in a self-extracting cabinet (mirc614.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/mirc614.exe Holland ftp://ftp.eu.uu.net/pub/windows/mirc/mirc614.exe Iowa ftp://ftp.pss.net/mirc614.exe Estonia http://mirc.estnet.org/mirc614.exe Australia http://mirror.pacific.net.au/mirc/mirc614.exe Turkey http://www.ircoper.com/mirc/mirc614.exe Singapore http://mirc.wonderchat.com/mirc614.exe New York http://mirc.kragoth.com/mirc614.exe Thailand http://www.karnt.com/mirc/mirc614.exe Italy http://mirc.azzurra.org/mirc/mirc614.exe Texas http://mirc.orion-hosting.co.uk/mirc614.exe On the mIRC websites also the new mIRC FAQ version 56 (mfaq56hp.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. * Fixes, improvements and new features. With this new release we think to address the most important comments, requests and remarks we received after the release of version 6.12. The new version fixes lots of the small but nevertheless annoying buggies found in the previous version. Among them the much discussed tooltip gpf bug and a daylight savings time offset bug. While we tried to focus on fixing things, of course some new features and functions have been added. Although some of these new things, like the SSL support, might have to mature a bit over the next versions, we think it is fun to play with them already! A few items I'd like to mention as useful changes: - Lots of work has been done on the support of multi-byte character encodings and the sjis-jis support. Khaled has added a "Multibyte editbox" option to the Messages dialog, which makes mIRC use a richedit editbox in all mIRC Windows for entering text. mIRC was using the standard Windows editbox before. The richedit editbox displays complex scripts properly. The Sjis/Jis and Multibyte options are now automatically enabled if mIRC detects a Multibyte version of Windows the first time mIRC is run. Khaled also fixed various multi-byte display/mark/copy bugs. - An option to 'reload' logs has been added to the /IRC/Logging/ dialog. It will make mIRC load the tail of a logfile into your channel and chat windows. Seems to work fine. However, various line attributes, such as color, are not (yet) saved in the log files, so the reloaded log is displayed in the normal text color. - Support for SSL has been added. You'll have to download some DLL's of OpenSSL 0.9.7c separately from mIRC and place them in the mIRC folder for this to work. mIRC will load the dll's automatically if it finds them, after which you can initiate a secure connection to an SSL capable IRC server. SSL settings can be found in the Connect/Options dialog, and are visible only when openssl dlls are loaded. Read more on http://www.mirc.co.uk/ssl.html. - A Sort dialog has been added to the Window Menu. It allows you to specify the sort order of Switchbar buttons and Window types. Buttons are always sorted into groups. With the /View/Options/Display/ sort option turned off, Switchbar buttons are sorted according to creation time within groups as opposed to alphabetical sorting. - By popular request Query/Chat windows now remember their individual font settings. We also moved the port range options, which now applies to all connections, to a /Connect/Advanced/ dialog, added a /cnick -sN switch, sorts item into Nth position, made the switchbar to allow up to eight lines in height and displays scroll buttons when it is vertical, fixed a $com() dispatch pointers bug, added an :error goto point, by which script errors can be caught, and improved the find dialog in the script editor a lot. As you see there are heaps of changes and improvements. Lots of little and larger changes to smoothen your IRC experience. You'll have to dig through the help file in mIRC and the whatsnew.txt on the website to learn about the complete list of changes and their impact. Some are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and see how it works. If you have questions, may we invite you to the Message Board on the website? The board offers great help with everything related to mIRC! 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 October 13. 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.
