Miranda IM - (Open Source)
Miranda is a great instant messaging software, compatible with most existing software such as ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, Netsend.
Miranda is a very flexible instant messaging client for chatting on multiple networks simultaneously. It is able to connect to ICQ, AIM, MSN, Facebook, Jabber, Yahoo!, Gadu Gadu, IRC and some other protocols.
The purpose of software is to make this kind of communication as simple as possible. It is also possible to copy Miranda on a USB stick or other removable.
Miranda is also customizable with many other plugins and skins, and boasts a very active community.
Enhancements:
- Ability to show unicode tooltips
- Improved uPnP handling for various routers
- Status menu width fix
- ICQ: Use new offline messaging protocol (supports unicode)
- ICQ: Ability to send/receive contacts to/from ICQ6 and AIM
- ICQ: Ability to view/set ICQ6 compatible custom statuses (icons only)
- ICQ: Reinvented known spam bot blocking
- Jabber: Group chat jid list filters implemented
- MSN: Added WLM 9 detection
- MSN: Added ability to receive GIF avatars
- MSN: Added custom smiley reception
- MSN: Added avatar display for the contact that is yourself
- MSN: Added error messages on failure to find / store avatar
Bugfixes:
- Fixed HTTP processing
- Fixed crashes in multiple conditions
- ICQ: Fixed receiving of multi-part messages (only first part was received)
- ICQ: Fixed connection problems with many contacts in the server-list
- ICQ: Do not lose server-list contacts due to too long nicknames/comments
- ICQ: Fixed possible crash during file transfer
- Jabber: Crash on group chat join from service discovery
- Jabber: Memory leak fixes in dialogs
- Jabber: Client version was wrongly updated when sending message to an offline contact
- MSN: Offline messaging for people with long nicknames
- MSN: Disconnect when receive Hotmail notification
- MSN: Inability to login with error 923
- MSN: Fixed disconnect / inability to login due to sending corrupted messages
- MSN: Fixed for nudge sending / receiving
- MSN: Fixed moving contact to root