В последнее время все популярные интернет-пейджеры становятся все более непривлекательными для простого пользователя. ICQ и Odigo пестрят рекламой, а Trillian стал платным. Никому не хочется пользоваться программой, которая насыщена баннерами или требует денег за регистрацию. Miranda - это реальный выход из сложившейся ситуации. Среди ее особенностей можно отметить простоту, небольшие размеры (как дистрибутива, так и в оперативной памяти) и поддержку скинов и плагинов. На последнем пункте, пожалуй, стоит остановиться поподробнее. Так как Miranda - это продукт с открытым исходным кодом, разработать плагин для нее может практически любой программист. Дополнений к программе существует огромное количество на любой вкус и цвет. Среди плагинов попадаются очень полезные - автоматическая проверка почты, проверка выхода новой версии, всплывающие полупрозрачные окна, появляющиеся при определенных событиях и т. д.

· Database and contact list control moved to plugins
· Relative paths for icons, sounds, and contact list background
· Scroll through past messages with ctrl+up/dn in message window
· New idle module to handle autoaway and protocol idleness
· Pin to desktop option in Window options
· Dim idle contacts option
· Use windows colours option for contact list
· New status bar options (hide bevel, hide gripper)
· Database I/O improvements
· Option to hide vertical scroll bar
· Opening a URL blocked I/O
· AIM: Show mobile users as 'on the phone'
· MSN: Sending/receiving avatar support
· MSN: Peer to peer support
· IRC: DCC filetransfers and Chats
· IRC: Reversed filetransfers
· IRC: Send-ahead support
· IRC: Incoming TDCC support
· IRC: CTCP support (all the usual commands)
· IRC: Configurable quit message
· IRC: Option to show addresses in joins/quits etc
· IRC: Formatting of outgoing text
· IRC: Optional SSL support
· Bug fixes

version 0.0.0.21
% [hotfix] Fixed Options dialogs
version 0.0.0.20
+ Added Notepad (save text from input memo,and can use it later) Can Be shown from Context Menu (right click)
+ On Exit if there unsent messages(just entered) shows warning!
% Fixed crashes on exit (with unsent messages)
% Fixed Enter of symbols with ALT (ALT+253 for ex

[*] try also to load _ISeeIcons.dll. remove \"IconsPackXP\" entry
[*] new icon for privacy menu root for mw_clist
[*] 'CenterICQ', 'Agile Messenger' & 'Trilian v3' detection (test it!)
[-] fix disconnect on sending long msg with auto-use ASCII bit set (+8)
[+] ability to override proto version and other params (FP1, FP2, FP3)
[*] improved autodetection of utf-8 in msgs & auth requests. (now always on)
[*] do not store unicode msgs that can be converted to default ansi code page
[+] support for server broadcast msgs
[-] fix new Gaim detection
[+] merge with ChangeInfo
[*] icons order changed. new icon added for grant auth (Thanx Faith!)

[+] ISee & status iconpacks were added to archive. Thanx to Angeli-Ka!
[*] changeinfo now TLV based (all info is updated via single packet)
[+] ability to set own interests, past background, affiliation, origin & etc
[*] warning added: ZIP/postcodes can not be deleted once applied...
[-] categories were parsed incorrect in advanced search
[-] age & gender were incorrect in non advanced search results
[*] ability to use \"old\" search mode. returns different results in some cases
[-] not all info was shown in 'background' page (workaround for miranda bug)
[*] 'System up since' field was removed from userinfo page
[+] keep all user info in 'ICQ' tab but gray outdated items (fixed)
[+] show own idle time in self user info
[+] some Flags are shown in userinfo\ICQ page - WebAware, Auth, UTF, RTF, MTN
[-] webaware & auth settings were not saved on server & were not retrieved
[+] show real status, logon & idle times after receiving msg from hidden user
[+] IM2, QIP 2005 & some spam bots detection.
[-] it was not possible to send files to IM2 (and probably to some other clients)
[-] 'Trillian v3' detection fixed, workaround for sending unicode to it
[-] autodecode of recieved sms from UTF-8 is off by default again
[!] DB value 'UTF8DecodeMode' is now called 'UnicodeDecodeMode' & its state is reversed
[+] ability to recieve & decode plain UCS-2 offline msgs ((BYTE)UnicodeDecodeMode + 16)
[+] ability to send UTF-8 offline msgs. ((BYTE)UnicodeSend + 16)
[!] auto fallback in local list mode when server's side list is unavaliable
[*] allow offline msgs to be 3 days behind last even
[-] other bugfixes & code changes