Dear mIRC User,
mIRC version 6.3 has been released Thursday August 16th, 2007. 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.
This version of mIRC offers full Vista compatability with support for
limited user accounts, U3 support, support for tips (those small text
balloons that pop up near the Windows tray) to notify you of various events
such as incoming messages or users in your notify list coming on or leaving
IRC, support for positioning the Treebar at top/bottom of the mIRC window,
and a feature that allows you to switch between Normal and Compact modes.
Compact mode makes mIRC behave like a messenger with the treebar filling the
main window, all windows opening on the desktop, and so on. Hey, doesn't
that sound like fun?
mIRC 6.3 fixes some buggy that made it stick to using a secure port if the
last connection was a secure one. And when connecting to an ip address from
a round robin dns pool, the original connect address is now remembered and
the connect message now has "dns pool" appended to it. By popular request
Khaled changed the logging method back to the simple plain old method, so
mIRC no longer uses the name.N.log filename format. Also a reload logs bug
where mIRC was loading logs in wrong order is fixed.
- Full Vista compatability, among others, means that new installations of
mIRC now save all settings in the User's "Application Data\mIRC" folder by
default. However, if the installer or mIRC find an old installation with a
mirc.ini in the same folder as mirc.exe they will use the mirc.exe folder
for all settings. If you are installing a new mIRC over an old version you
should see no change in behaviour. The installer is now also aware of
administrator and standard user accounts and installs mIRC accordingly.
Under an Administrator account, the installer will create icons for "All
Users". Under a Standard account, it will create icons only for the current
user. When run under Vista mIRC now checks for a corresponding virtual store
folder at startup. Vista creates virtual store folders for older non-Vista
compatible applications, such as older versions of mIRC. If mIRC finds such
a folder, it displays a dialog box allowing you to retrieve your old mIRC
files and settings.
- With the U3 support in mIRC we should be able to make an U3 package
available for mIRC with which you can take your mIRC wherever you want! U3
is a specification for applications to run from portable storage devices
(ie. flash drives) without leaving any settings/traces on the host system.
Look on U3.com for more info.
- The support for traytips can be used to notify you of various events such
as incoming messages or users in your notify list coming on or leaving IRC.
The tips only appear when mIRC is not the active application and are hidden
the moment mIRC becomes active. Tips can be fully configured and scripted to
show exactly what you want, even in combination with mIRC's highlight
function. and of course you can completely disable the tips ;-)
As always this new version of mIRC addresses many, if not all, of the issues
reported since the last release. A lot of time was spent tweaking new
features, fixing bugs, and a handful of other things. In total there are
over 100 changes in this version, making this a great new mIRC! We encourage
you to explore the versions.txt file for all changes. Some changes are
obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them
and see how they work.
* How to upgrade?
mIRC is distributed in a self-extracting cabinet (mirc63.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/mirc63.exe
United Kingdom http://mirc.orion-hosting.co.uk/mirc63.exe
Germany ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/mirc.com/mirc63.exe
Bulgaria ftp://ftp.headoff.com/Software/mIRC/mirc63.exe
Illinois http://www.efnet.org/clients/win32/mirc/mirc63.exe
Turkey http://www.ircoper.com/mirc/mirc63.exe
Singapore http://mirc.vodien.com/mirc63.exe
New York http://mirc.stealth.net/download/mirc63.exe
Denmark http://mirc.bigchief.dk/mirc63.exe
South Korea http://mirc.zice.net/mirc63.exe
On the mIRC websites also the new mIRC FAQ 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.
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