Miranda IM, customized with plugins and skins. ZDNet.be reviewed release 0.3, complimenting its "effortless" contact importing, low memory usage, and extensive variety of plugins, and stating, "Miranda is a strong recommendation for people who have a system tray populated by several IM applications." Version 0.4.x During this period many variations (including SRAMM, SRMM_mod, etc.) offered different new features and improvements over the standard implementation. This reduced the size of the executable file and encouraged rapid development of messaging modules.
Īnother major change was the removal of the Send-Receive Messaging Module from the core into a plugin, SRMM. IRC support was added later by Jörgen Persson (m8rix) to the official release of version 0.3.1, on August 8, 2003. The Yahoo! protocol was not included in the package. Protocol plugins bundled in version 0.3 included ICQ, MSN, AIM, and XMPP. The project moved to a new site at featuring a new discussion board and file listing. From now on, Miranda could run without the ICQ application being installed. The major change in version 0.3, released on June 23, 2003, was the removal of ICQ from the core into a plugin. The first release under the new name occurred on February 1, 2003, about three years after the beginning of the project, and a bug fix version came two weeks later. Due to the increase of protocol support, the project was officially renamed to Miranda IM on December 17, 2002. These added a contact to contact list for the purpose of displaying information to the user rather than chatting.ĭiscussion about renaming of the program and removal of ICQ from the core began about this time. The first of the non-IM plugins, including RSS News and Weather, were released within this period. The Yahoo! plugin was closed source, and lost reliability as the official Yahoo! Messenger protocol changed over time - it was later re-written by new developer Gennady Feldman. The MSN protocol was taken over by Rako Shizuka who also developed the first version of Yahoo! Messenger protocol, which was the third protocol supported by Miranda. Version 0.2.xĪfter the mysterious disappearance of cyreve in June, 2002, the developers Martin Öberg (Strickz), Robert Rainwater (rainwater), Sam K (egoDust), and Lyon Lim (lynlimz) took over the project. Lizard development stopped soon after, due to the instability it caused. At the time the new Lizard plugin enabled skinning support the only time Miranda supported skins. With version 0.1.2.1 (February 28, 2002), there were approximately 50 plugins available. Miranda hence had multi-protocol, multi-language instant messenger features.Īfter v0.1.0.0, Miranda plugin development grew rapidly. This was also the first official release to support language pack translations. Net Messenger Service protocol plugin appeared around the time of version 0.1.1.0 release becoming the second messaging protocol to be supported by Miranda. The split message dialog bundled with this release became the first messaging module to be put into a plugin. His first release, version 0.1.0.0 on Apwas improved through a major rewrite. Version 0.1.xĪfter the release of version 0.0.6.1 on December 26, 2000, the original developers left, and Richard "cyreve" Hughes took over the project. Logger Plugin was the first plugin bundled with the official release. Plugin support was added with version 0.0.6. This release used LibICQ, had no support for message history, database, and plugins, and had a distribution size of less than 100 KB.Ī major new feature of version 0.0.4 was the MegaHAL chat bot, which enabled automatic chatting between Miranda and other ICQ users. The first public release, version 0.0.1, was released on February 6, 2000. At that time, it was a minimalist ICQ clone and officially called Miranda ICQ. Miranda IM was first started by Roland Rabien (figbug) on February 2, 2000.
Other protocols available via plugins include Bonjour Fetion, Facebook (chat client), Inter-Asterisk eXchange, Lotus Sametime, MRA, NetSend, MySpace, Tencent QQ, SIP, Skype (requires Skype),, Xfire. MSN), XMPP (& Google Talk), and Yahoo! Messenger. The protocol plugins included with Miranda IM are AIM, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC.
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