mIRC 7.71 has been released! (October 1st 2022)

mIRC 7.71 has been released! (October 1st 2022)

This is a small update that adds features and addresses a number of issues reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes, including:

• Changed the way Windows system libraries are loaded to prevent DLL hijacking.
• Added tray tip warning on startup if mIRC has been minimized to the system tray but Windows has hidden its icon.
• Fixed colons being stripped out of nick, alternative nick, user, emails, /nick, and server list entries.
• Fixed /hsave -i intermittent crash bug caused by a data race / race condition across multiple threads.
• Changed CTCP PING to not reply to text containing CTCP control codes to mitigate NAT-AGAIN Linux kernel NAT bug (CVE-2022-2663).
• Fixed tab key evaluation of identifiers in editboxes that contain multiple CR/LF-delimited lines.
• Fixed nested single-line while loop break bug.
• Fixed /socklisten -pu with UPnP, IPv6 address, and dual stack not opening an IPv4 UPnP port on the router.
• Fixed Aero theme bug where if /window +b was used, a miniature titlebar was being drawn.
• Fixed alternative nick bug when left empty in connect dialog.
• Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

In total, there have been around 30 changes since the last release.

For a full list of recent changes, please see the versions.txt file.

As always, the latest version of mIRC can be downloaded from the download page.