Portable mIRC 7.57
mIRC is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by millions of people, and thousands of organizations, to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving the Internet community for over a decade, mIRC has evolved into a powerful, reliable and fun piece of technology.
mIRC is a full featured Internet Relay Chat client for Windows that can be used to communicate, share, play or work with others on IRC networks around the world, either in multi-user group conferences or in one-to-one private discussions. It has a clean, practical interface that is highly configurable and supports features such as buddy lists, file transfers, multi-server connections, SSL encryption, proxy support, UTF-8 display, customizable sounds, spoken messages, tray notifications, message logging, and more.
mIRC also has a powerful scripting language that can be used both to automate mIRC and to create applications that perform a wide range of functions from network communications to playing games.
mIRC 7.57 has been released! (July 25th 2019)
This release includes improvements, changes and fixes to a number of features, including:
- Fixed OpenSSL issue that was causing R6034 error on startup for some users.
- Updated OpenSSL library to v1.1.1c.
- Changed /url, /run, and other features to use alternative method to open links.
- Fixed STS/SSL server/port parsing bug.
- Fixed handling of 64bit timestamp value for several features.
- Changed $crc() to use larger read buffer with files to improve speed.
- Fixed script parser bug that caused binary variables to be unset in some contexts.
- Added $urlget() identifier that downloads content from http/https addresses.
- Fixed $regml().pos bug with multibyte characters.
- Updated libraries OpenSSL to v1.1.1b, LibZip to v1.5.2, and PCRE to v8.43.
- Reverted changes to $gmt(N) and $gmt(format).
- Fixed $astime() and other time/date features applying DST incorrectly.
- Changed time/date features to use threadsafe versions of CRT time functions.
- Changed $encode()/$decode() to allow non-literal keys longer than 56 characters.
- Fixed “try next server in group” option being incorrectly applied.
- Changed time/date routines to use Windows APIs, allowing extended date range 1601 to 9999.
- Changed /msg -switches support to enable backwards compatibility with certain BNCs.
- Added /server [-key filename] to set private key file to use for an SSL connection.
- Changed nickserv logon method to increase delay before triggering perform.
- Changed status window connect icons to distinguish between valid/non-valid SSL connections.