<s>
Miranda	B-Protocol
NG	I-Protocol
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
multiprotocol	B-Application
instant	I-Application
messaging	I-Application
application	I-Application
,	O
designed	O
for	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Miranda	B-Protocol
NG	I-Protocol
is	O
free	B-Application
software	I-Application
distributed	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
GPL-2.0-or-later	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2012	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
forked	O
to	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
NG	I-Protocol
(	O
New	O
Generation	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
reasons	O
were	O
a	O
shift	O
in	O
the	O
development	O
team	O
and	O
the	O
slow-paced	O
development	O
of	O
the	O
original	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
main	O
differences	O
between	O
the	O
original	O
client	B-Protocol
and	O
the	O
fork	O
are	O
:	O
a	O
switch	O
to	O
Visual	O
Studio	O
2010	O
's	O
compiler	O
,	O
dropping	O
support	O
for	O
Windows	O
95/98/ME	O
and	O
non-Unicode	O
plugins	B-Application
,	O
and	O
the	O
fact	O
that	O
the	O
core	O
and	O
plugins	B-Application
development	O
was	O
combined	O
and	O
that	O
they	O
share	O
a	O
unified	O
repository	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
latest	O
version	O
of	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
NG	I-Protocol
is	O
0.96.2	O
,	O
released	O
on	O
2	O
March	O
2023	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
provides	O
a	O
basic	O
client	B-Protocol
framework	O
,	O
GUI	O
,	O
and	O
an	O
advanced	O
plugin	B-Application
architecture	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Support	O
for	O
various	O
IM	O
protocols	O
and	O
additional	O
features	O
is	O
implemented	O
through	O
optional	O
plugins	B-Application
,	O
some	O
of	O
which	O
come	O
bundled	O
with	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
by	O
default	O
;	O
the	O
rest	O
(	O
over	O
500	O
)	O
were	O
in	O
the	O
past	O
available	O
on	O
the	O
official	O
addons	O
site	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Simple	O
recall	O
or	O
deletion	O
with	O
the	O
DB	O
Tool	O
or	O
History	O
Sweeper	O
plugin	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
protocol	O
plugins	B-Application
included	O
with	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
are	O
AIM	B-Protocol
,	O
Gadu-Gadu	B-Application
,	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
,	O
IRC	B-Protocol
,	O
Microsoft	O
Messenger	B-Protocol
service	O
(	O
a.k.a.	O
</s>
<s>
MSN	B-Protocol
,	O
.NET	O
,	O
Live	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
)	O
,	O
XMPP	B-Protocol
( &	O
Google	B-Application
Talk	I-Application
)	O
,	O
and	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	O
</s>
<s>
Messenger	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
protocols	O
available	O
via	O
plugins	B-Application
include	O
Bonjour	B-Application
Fetion	B-Language
,	O
Facebook	B-Protocol
Messenger	I-Protocol
,	O
Inter-Asterisk	B-Protocol
eXchange	I-Protocol
,	O
Lotus	B-Protocol
Sametime	I-Protocol
,	O
NetSend	B-Protocol
,	O
Myspace	B-Application
,	O
Tencent	B-Operating_System
QQ	I-Operating_System
,	O
SIP	B-Application
,	O
Skype	B-Application
(	O
requires	O
Skype	B-Application
)	O
,	O
Tlen.pl,	O
Xfire	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
first	O
started	O
by	O
Roland	O
Rabien	O
(	O
figbug	O
)	O
on	O
2	O
February	O
2000	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
that	O
time	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
a	O
minimalist	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
clone	O
and	O
officially	O
called	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
ICQ	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
public	O
release	O
,	O
version	O
0.0.1	O
,	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
6	O
February	O
2000	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
release	O
used	O
LibICQ	O
,	O
had	O
no	O
support	O
for	O
message	O
history	O
,	O
database	O
,	O
and	O
plugins	B-Application
,	O
and	O
had	O
a	O
distribution	O
size	O
of	O
less	O
than	O
100	O
KB	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
major	O
new	O
feature	O
of	O
version	O
0.0.4	O
was	O
the	O
MegaHAL	B-Protocol
chat	O
bot	O
,	O
which	O
enabled	O
automatic	O
chatting	O
between	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
and	O
other	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Plugin	B-Application
support	O
was	O
added	O
with	O
version	O
0.0.6	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Logger	O
Plugin	B-Application
was	O
the	O
first	O
plugin	B-Application
bundled	O
with	O
the	O
official	O
release	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
version	O
0.0.6.1	O
on	O
26	O
December	O
2000	B-Application
,	O
the	O
original	O
developers	O
left	O
,	O
and	O
Richard	O
"	O
cyreve	O
"	O
Hughes	O
took	O
over	O
the	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
split	O
message	O
dialog	O
bundled	O
with	O
this	O
release	O
became	O
the	O
first	O
messaging	B-Protocol
module	O
to	O
be	O
put	O
into	O
a	O
plugin	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
.Net	O
Messenger	B-Protocol
Service	O
protocol	O
plugin	B-Application
appeared	O
around	O
the	O
time	O
of	O
version	O
0.1.1.0	O
release	O
becoming	O
the	O
second	O
messaging	B-Protocol
protocol	O
to	O
be	O
supported	O
by	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Miranda	B-Protocol
hence	O
had	O
multi-protocol	O
,	O
multi-language	O
instant	B-Application
messenger	I-Application
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
v0.1.0.0	O
,	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
plugin	B-Application
development	O
grew	O
rapidly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
version	O
0.1.2.1	O
(	O
28	O
February	O
2002	O
)	O
,	O
there	O
were	O
approximately	O
50	O
plugins	B-Application
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
time	O
the	O
new	O
Lizard	O
plugin	B-Application
enabled	O
skinning	O
support	O
;	O
the	O
only	O
time	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
supported	O
skins	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MSN	B-Protocol
protocol	O
was	O
taken	O
over	O
by	O
Rako	O
Shizuka	O
who	O
also	O
developed	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	O
</s>
<s>
Messenger	B-Protocol
protocol	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
the	O
third	O
protocol	O
supported	O
by	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	O
</s>
<s>
plugin	B-Application
was	O
closed	O
source	O
,	O
and	O
lost	O
reliability	O
as	O
the	O
official	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	O
</s>
<s>
Messenger	B-Protocol
protocol	O
changed	O
over	O
time	O
–	O
it	O
was	O
later	O
re-written	O
by	O
new	O
developer	O
Gennady	O
Feldman	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
of	O
the	O
non-IM	O
plugins	B-Application
,	O
including	O
RSS	O
News	O
and	O
Weather	O
,	O
were	O
released	O
within	O
this	O
period	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Discussion	O
about	O
renaming	O
of	O
the	O
program	O
and	O
removal	O
of	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
from	O
the	O
core	O
began	O
about	O
this	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Due	O
to	O
the	O
increase	O
of	O
protocol	O
support	O
,	O
the	O
project	O
was	O
officially	O
renamed	O
to	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
on	O
17	O
December	O
2002	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
major	O
change	O
in	O
version	O
0.3	O
,	O
released	O
on	O
23	O
June	O
2003	O
,	O
was	O
the	O
removal	O
of	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
from	O
the	O
core	O
into	O
a	O
plugin	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
now	O
on	O
,	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
could	O
run	O
without	O
the	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
application	O
being	O
installed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Protocol	O
plugins	B-Application
bundled	O
in	O
version	O
0.3	O
included	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
,	O
MSN	B-Protocol
,	O
AIM	B-Protocol
,	O
and	O
XMPP	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	O
</s>
<s>
IRC	B-Protocol
support	O
was	O
added	O
later	O
by	O
Jörgen	O
Persson	O
(	O
m8rix	O
)	O
to	O
the	O
official	O
release	O
of	O
version	O
0.3.1	O
,	O
on	O
August	O
8	O
,	O
2003	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Another	O
major	O
change	O
was	O
the	O
removal	O
of	O
the	O
Send-Receive	O
Messaging	B-Protocol
Module	O
from	O
the	O
core	O
into	O
a	O
plugin	B-Application
,	O
SRMM	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
reduced	O
the	O
size	O
of	O
the	O
executable	O
file	O
and	O
encouraged	O
rapid	O
development	O
of	O
messaging	B-Protocol
modules	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ZDNet.be	O
reviewed	O
release	O
0.3	O
,	O
complimenting	O
its	O
"	O
effortless	O
"	O
contact	O
importing	O
,	O
low	O
memory	O
usage	O
,	O
and	O
extensive	O
variety	O
of	O
plugins	B-Application
,	O
and	O
stating	O
,	O
"	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
is	O
a	O
strong	O
recommendation	O
for	O
people	O
who	O
have	O
a	O
system	O
tray	O
populated	O
by	O
several	O
IM	O
applications.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
0.4	O
of	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
released	O
on	O
7	O
April	O
2005	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
to	O
have	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
major	O
changes	O
included	O
the	O
removal	O
of	O
contact	O
list	O
and	O
database	O
module	O
from	O
the	O
core	O
into	O
plugins	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
popular	O
plugins	B-Application
released	O
within	O
this	O
period	O
included	O
tabbed	O
message	O
window	O
(	O
tabsrmm	O
and	O
scriver	O
)	O
,	O
HTML	O
based	O
message	O
log	O
support	O
IE	O
view	O
,	O
scripting	O
plugin	B-Application
mbot	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
meta	O
contact	O
plugin	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
0.5	O
of	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
released	O
on	O
28	O
July	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
to	O
have	O
Unicode	O
support	O
available	O
as	O
a	O
download	O
option	O
for	O
Windows	B-Device
NT	I-Device
,	O
2000	B-Application
and	O
XP	B-Application
users	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Another	O
new	O
feature	O
is	O
the	O
introduction	O
of	O
AIM	B-Protocol
Oscar	B-Application
,	O
first	O
released	O
in	O
early	O
2006	O
,	O
allowing	O
users	O
to	O
transfer	O
files	O
and	O
receive	O
away	O
messages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
version	O
also	O
provided	O
more	O
support	O
for	O
avatars	B-Application
among	O
the	O
various	O
protocols	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
0.6	O
of	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
released	O
on	O
December	O
29	O
,	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
version	O
introduced	O
UPnP	B-Application
support	O
to	O
improve	O
file	O
transfer	O
and	O
direct	O
connect	O
reliability	O
through	O
routers	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
0.7	O
of	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
released	O
on	O
1	O
October	O
2007	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
large	O
change	O
is	O
a	O
new	O
way	O
to	O
uniquely	O
identify	O
plugins	B-Application
and	O
the	O
interfaces	O
they	O
implement	O
which	O
may	O
break	O
backward	O
compatibility	O
in	O
the	O
future	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Techzine.nl	O
reviewed	O
this	O
version	O
,	O
listing	O
its	O
positive	O
attributes	O
as	O
"	O
support	O
for	O
many	O
protocols	O
;	O
small	O
and	O
fast	O
;	O
a	O
lot	O
of	O
plug-ins	B-Application
and	O
skins	O
;	O
many	O
settings	O
"	O
and	O
writing	O
it	O
"	O
will	O
not	O
look	O
bad	O
on	O
your	O
computer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Especially	O
if	O
you	O
are	O
looking	O
for	O
a	O
simple	O
client	B-Protocol
on	O
a	O
USB	O
stick	O
then	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
is	O
a	O
good	O
choice.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
the	O
other	O
hand	O
,	O
"	O
if	O
you	O
are	O
using	O
WLM	O
(	O
Windows	B-Protocol
Live	I-Protocol
Messenger	I-Protocol
)	O
and	O
you	O
find	O
the	O
settings	O
of	O
the	O
program	O
hard	O
,	O
 [ we ] 	O
can	O
not	O
recommend	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
You	O
do	O
get	O
that	O
functionality	O
by	O
the	O
wide	O
choice	O
of	O
skins	O
and	O
plug-ins	B-Application
,	O
but	O
for	O
that	O
you	O
do	O
some	O
research	O
and	O
setting	O
work.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Authors	O
Lui	O
and	O
Chan	O
in	O
Software	O
Development	O
Rhythms	O
describe	O
using	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
's	O
plugin	B-Application
architecture	O
to	O
copy	O
,	O
modify	O
,	O
and	O
test	O
existing	O
plugins	B-Application
in	O
order	O
to	O
develop	O
"	O
NAMMIK	O
"	O
,	O
a	O
scriptable	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
chatting	O
bot	O
used	O
to	O
interview	O
people	O
;	O
they	O
refer	O
to	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
's	O
architecture	O
as	O
"	O
simple	O
and	O
flexible	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
0.8	O
of	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
released	O
on	O
17	O
June	O
2009	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
included	O
a	O
new	O
Account	O
Manager	O
which	O
supports	O
multiple	O
accounts	O
per	O
protocol	O
(	O
doing	O
away	O
with	O
DLL	O
renaming	O
)	O
,	O
built-in	O
SSL	B-Protocol
support	O
,	O
various	O
enhancements	O
and	O
bugfixes	O
for	O
the	O
core	O
and	O
plugins	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
PCWorld	O
Magazine	O
review	O
of	O
version	O
0.8.16	O
noted	O
its	O
addon	O
capability	O
,	O
but	O
stated	O
,	O
"	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
's	O
user	O
interface	O
leaves	O
something	O
to	O
be	O
desired	O
"	O
while	O
referring	O
to	O
its	O
login	O
status	O
icons	O
,	O
wishing	O
for	O
easier	O
management	O
and	O
grouping	O
of	O
contacts	O
,	O
easy	O
blocking/reporting	O
of	O
spammers	O
,	O
and	O
ultimately	O
recommending	O
it	O
"	O
for	O
those	O
who	O
use	O
only	O
surface	O
capabilities	O
of	O
instant	O
messengers.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
0.9	O
of	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
released	O
on	O
24	O
August	O
2010	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
also	O
the	O
first	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
version	O
to	O
feature	O
an	O
official	O
64-bit	O
build	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
0.10	O
of	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
was	O
released	O
on	O
18	O
July	O
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
consists	O
of	O
enhancements	O
to	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
0.9.x	O
including	O
improved	O
language	O
support	O
and	O
improved	O
networking	O
support	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sometime	O
in	O
August	O
2019	O
the	O
official	O
Miranda	B-Protocol
IM	I-Protocol
website	O
disappeared	O
and	O
was	O
replaced	O
by	O
irrelevant	O
boilerplate	O
content	O
.	O
</s>
