Miranda IM 0.5

Posted on Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 15:30 CEST by LSDsmurf

Enhancements:

Unicode support was introduced
Database can store the Unicode strings (in utf8 format), and save and return these strings as ANSI, UCS2 and UTF8 strings
Most core protocols can send, receive & process the information in Unicode
The contact lists can display nicks, names and statuses in Unicode (under NT)
Message editors can display any user information in Unicode, display and enter the Unicode messages;
User details can process names, addresses, etc in Unicode
Language packs can provide the valid translation for the Miranda's interface, even when the default codepage doesn't match the langpack codepage
Two Miranda distributions are available since 0.5: the ANSI (for Win95/98/ME) and the Unicode one (for NT4/Win2k/XP/Win2003)
The standard was designed for all contact list plugins, to simplify the support for sorting, storing, grouping contacts
png2dib plugin was inserted into the distribution to provide the core-level support for PNG files
Support for sending files with the Unicode names (not mappable into the current codepage)
AIM: AIM protocol now using Oscar
ICQ: Messaging support enhanced (P2P messaging supported)
ICQ: Direct Connection support rewritten (with P2P messaging and reverse file-transfers)
ICQ: Temporary Visible List support
ICQ: New Features page in options to configure extra features
ICQ: Custom statuses just like icq5
needs clist_mw derivative (thx Big Muscle)
ICQ: New custom status icons (thx Angeli-ka)
ICQ: Enhanced Unicode & Ansi charsets support (each contact can have its own codepage)
ICQ: AIM cross-compatability (add/remove, search by mail, status, messaging, away messages)
ICQ: Secure MD5 login authentification
ICQ: Revoke authorization (Advanced Feature
see further)
removes you from contact's server-list
SRMM: RTL support for messages in Hebrew and some other languages.
Jabber: Avatars support (JEP-0008)
Jabber: Massive groupchat improvements, including private messages & invitations
MSN: Client version detection
MSN: Support for nudges
MSN: Support for some MSN Messenger 7.5 and Live Messenger 8.0 specifics
Yahoo: Ability to set your own avatar
Yahoo: Added new icons
Yahoo: Added address book and calendar links in the main menu
Yahoo: Added alerts support and link to the main menu
Yahoo: Added nick to Yahoo login information
Yahoo: Yahoo now uses new png2dib.dll services for avatar manipulation
Yahoo: Added Yahoo Japan support
Yahoo: Added buzz/nudge support
Yahoo: Offline IMs from blocked people get dropped
Yahoo: Added basic audible support
Yahoo: Yahoo File Transfer improvements

Bugfixes:

Clist classic: Right click on a tray icon results to the resource leak
ICQ: Our own contact in list now correctly handles events
ICQ: Proxy Gateway mode is working again
ICQ: File receiving from Trillian clients work again
ICQ: Message errors are now really displayed
ICQ: Fixed memory leak in avatar code
ICQ: File transfers with GnomeICU works now
ICQ: Fixed changing password in ICQ Details will not save it to DB if not there
ICQ: Fixed PING channel handling (caused connection drop)
ICQ: Fixed bug in changeinfo with translated listbox values
ICQ: Fixed error handling in avatar code for uploading avatar
ICQ: Fixed bug in Manage-Server list dialog, caused hang
ICQ: Fixed occasional losing of messages (message parsing was incomplete)
ICQ: Server-list management now stores all info
solves problems
ICQ: Fixed unknown errors during login were not reported sometimes
Jabber: resource names not UTF8 decoded
Jabber: people are trying to connect to jabber.org with empty usernames
MSN: Fix for the error 540 upon login, because of the invalid password hash calculation
MSN: Fixed the problem of locking the message sending queue by timeouts
MSN: Fixed disconnection issues for the HTTP gateway mode
MSN: Fixed some issues with the wrong Hotmail Inbox and Profile Editing URLs
MSN: Fix for error 911 inside switchboard threads
Yahoo: Fixed deletion of a buddy from your contact list
Yahoo: Made fixes to make more strings translatable
Yahoo: Fixed a bug that could crash srmm
Yahoo: Properly close the connections