The author states that its subsequent popularity allowed him to make a living out of mIRC. He then continued developing it due to the challenge and the fact that people appreciated his work. Mardam-Bey states that he decided to create mIRC because he felt the first IRC clients for Windows lacked some basic IRC features. He began developing the software in late 1994, and released its first version on 28 February 1995. MIRC was created by Khaled Mardam-Bey ( Arabic: خالد مردم بي), a British programmer. In 2003, Nielsen/NetRatings ranked mIRC among the top ten most popular Internet applications. MIRC has been described as 'one of the most popular IRC clients available for Windows.' It has been downloaded over 40 million times from CNET's service. It is a fully functional chat utility and its integrated scripting language makes it extensible and versatile. In total, there have been around 30 changes since the last release.įor a full list of recent changes, please see the versions.txt file.Īs always, the latest version of mIRC can be downloaded from the download page.MIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for Windows, created in 1995. Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file. It includes improvements, changes and fixes, including:Ĭhanged the way Windows system libraries are loaded to prevent DLL hijacking.Īdded tray tip warning on startup if mIRC has been minimized to the system tray but Windows has hidden its icon.įixed colons being stripped out of nick, alternative nick, user, emails, /nick, and server list entries.įixed /hsave -i intermittent crash bug caused by a data race / race condition across multiple threads.Ĭhanged CTCP PING to not reply to text containing CTCP control codes to mitigate NAT-AGAIN Linux kernel NAT bug (CVE-2022-2663).įixed tab key evaluation of identifiers in editboxes that contain multiple CR/LF-delimited lines.įixed nested single-line while loop break bug.įixed /socklisten -pu with UPnP, IPv6 address, and dual stack not opening an IPv4 UPnP port on the router.įixed Aero theme bug where if /window +b was used, a miniature titlebar was being drawn.įixed alternative nick bug when left empty in connect dialog. This is a small update that adds features and addresses a number of issues reported by users since the last release.

MIRC 7.71 has been released! (October 1 st 2022)

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