As you see - 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 and the whatsnew.txt on the Web to learn about the complete list of changes and their impact. Information on changes in older versions is available in the versions.txt. If you have additional questions, may we invite you to the Message Boards on this website? The boards offer great help with everything related to mIRC!

New collection of IRC servers. (October 7^th 2003)
A fresh list with a huge collection of IRC servers for mIRC is available in the servers.ini file on our website. Save the file to the mIRC directory on your harddisk (c:\mirc\ or similar), replacing the old file, and enjoy this refresh! The server list will immediately be available to you from within mIRC. Have fun exploring some new IRC networks!

mIRC 6.1 has been released! (August 29^th 2003)
A fresh new version of mIRC! With this new release we hope to address most of the comments, requests and remarks we received after the release of version 6.03. Discussions about the changes and features in this new version are very welcome on the message board. Have fun and download and try mIRC 6.1!

Lots of things have been fixed. Like the default browser issue, a /background bug, an editor dialog bug that most likely was the cause of odd script problems, a memory bug relating to registry handling, a /whois related memory bug, a problem with background pictures, and a popup menu resources bug.

Lots of other things have improved; All Socks5 firewall error messages are now displayed correctly, double-clicking on web/ftp hotlinks now displays a warning dialog before the site is opened, and an important change was made to the way files are created, opened, read, etc. for window logging, dcc sends/gets, and the list channels dialog. The amount of files opened for logging, sends/gets, etc. is no longer limited to a maximum total of 50 or so open files. DCC commands, such as /dcc send, ignore, etc. are now also handled in the form /dccsend, /dccignore, etc. and should also allow /dccallow etc.

Khaled is now using Visual C++ .NET 7.0 to compile mIRC. This also means nicknames are sorted a bit different, nicks beginning with certain non-alphabetic characters eg. _ ' etc. are being placed above normal nicks. This appears to be the standard sorting method in Windows, which Visual C++ abides by consistently. It now applies to the whole of mIRC. Support for the .jpeg extension has been added, custom file-handling commands and identifiers which allow you to open multiple files for reading and writing. A file type ignore warning explains why a file transfer is ignored, with a direct link to the options dialog, dcc ignore section. Also a new section was added to the servers.ini file from which mIRC will select an initial network to connect to. mIRC no longer defaults to DALnet.

Lots of interface changes this time; Check out the visual styles and new buttons, dialogs, menus etc. A single toolbar button replaces the previously separated aliases, remotes and popups button. The red light is now on when any of ctcp/event/raw are enabled, and off when they are all disabled. A right-click on the toolbar button displays a most recently used files list. At first this looks a bit odd, but it will just take some getting used to. With the color scheme option you can switch between different color schemes easily.

And scripters, there is lots of fun for you; with the $ event prefix the matchtext section of a remote event definition can now contain a regular expression! Binary variables no longer have an upper limit on the number of bytes that can be stored. And $compress() and $decompress() functions have been added that compress/decompress files and binary variables. The result is raw compressed data. Khaled managed to load a multi-megabyte file into a binary variable and compress, encode and write it to a new file, and then reverse the process. Fun stuff eh!

Since this version has far too many improvements, new features and functions to mention here in detail you'll have to dig through the help file and the whatsnew.txt on the Web to learn about the complete list of changes and their impact. Information on changes in older versions is available in the versions.txt. If you have additional questions, may we invite you to the Message Boards on this website? The boards offer great help with everything related to mIRC!

New collection of IRC servers. (June 25^th, July 9^th, July 30^th 2003)
A fresh list with a huge collection of IRC servers for mIRC is available in the servers.ini file on our website. Save the file to the mIRC directory on your harddisk (c:\mirc\ or similar), replacing the old file, and enjoy this refresh! The server list will immediately be available to you from within mIRC. Have fun exploring some new IRC networks!

Charity appeal: Iraq crisis (April 1^st 2003 - updated May 1^st 2003)
Thanks to all of the mIRC users who registered their copies of mIRC during the month of April to support our appeal, 100% of your registration has been donated to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for use in their Iraq crisis appeal. 1301 mIRC users registered, raising a total of $24,450.00. Many thanks to everyone who helped out! The appeal is over, however if you still have any questions about it please email Khaled or the Red Cross.

Message Board & Mailing list back online. (November 20^th 2002 - updated December 8^th 2002)
The Message Board and Mailing List have been down while we recovered from the fire that destroyed our webserver. We're happy to announce most of the services are back online! To our regret all recent discussions on the message board are lost. Therefore we decided to start from scratch with a new version of the software. Check it out and create a login?

Charity appeal: Southern Africa food crisis (August 1^st 2002 - updated September 2^nd 2002)
Thanks to all of the mIRC users who registered their copies of mIRC during the month of August to support our appeal, 100% of your registration has been donated to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for use in their Southern Africa food crisis appeal. 1873 mIRC users registered, raising a total of $32,160.00. Many thanks to everyone who helped out! The appeal is over, however if you still have any questions about it please email Khaled or the Red Cross.

mIRC v6.03 has been released! (August 16^th 2002)
With this new release we hope to address most, if not all, of the comments, requests and remarks we recieved over the past weeks. We tried to focus on fixing the few but annoying buggies found in the previous version, but of course added quite a few new features and functions.

The 'perform on connect' sorting mistake has been fixed, also the numeric 330 bug, the flickering menubar and toolbar, the ! on INPUT processing bug, the $read and a similar freeze bug with invalid filenames, a switchbar multi-line display bug, dcc ignore bug, a /timer bug, and a bug in the highlight feature are fixed. The $ticks has changed back to the old method because of a bug in Windows' high performance timer... *mumble*

Other fixes are the /load command that could trigger multiple on load events, a proxy authentication bug, the $asctime() bug, a small dcc server ignore bug, and an important memory bug in script parser, where mIRC checks if a script has been loaded/unloaded while a script is running.

mIRC now supports several IRCX events on any server that sends them, not just for IRCX servers, it will (again) try to rejoin a channel even if it was +i or +k, we improved the way mIRC determines what default web browser you use, rewrote the mark/copy routine, and added a $nick().idle property that returns the idle time for a person on a channel. You can also use this idle time feature in the nick color list dialog in the addressbook!

Contribute a translation. (June 7^th 2002)
As you might have noticed we have a huge collection of translations of the English download and install instructions available. To our regret we are missing translations in Bengali, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Gaelic, Latin, Maori, Pali, Tibetan and quite a few other languages. You are invited to help us and other mIRC users by translating our basic installation helpfile to your language. Translations of this file will be placed on mIRC's website and spread by our 'helpdesk'.