
The first public release, version 0.0.1, was released on 6 February 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 2 February 2000. ( December 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Non-important content should likely be moved to another article or removed. Please help improve this section by clarifying or removing indiscriminate details. This section contains information of unclear or questionable importance or relevance to the article's subject. Other protocols available via plugins include Bonjour Fetion, Facebook Messenger, Inter-Asterisk eXchange, Lotus Sametime, NetSend, Myspace, Tencent QQ, SIP, Skype (requires Skype),, Xfire. NET, Live, etc.), XMPP (& Google Talk), and Yahoo! Messenger. The protocol plugins included with Miranda IM are AIM, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Microsoft Messenger service (a.k.a. Security/Privacy: Saves history on hard disk.
Contact details or photos visible with mouseover. Simple recall or deletion with the DB Tool or History Sweeper plugin. Management and organization of hundreds of IM buddies on many IM networks. Customized look and function according to each individual's needs. Support for various IM protocols and additional features is implemented through optional plugins, some of which come bundled with Miranda IM by default the rest (over 500) were in the past available on the official addons site. Miranda IM provides a basic client framework, GUI, and an advanced plugin architecture. The main differences between the original client and the fork are: a switch to Visual Studio 2010's compiler, dropping support for Windows 95/98/ME and non-Unicode plugins, and the fact that the core and plugins development was combined and that they share a unified repository.Īs of April 2023 the latest version of Miranda NG is 0.96.2, released on 2 March 2023. The reasons were a shift in the development team and the slow-paced development of the original Miranda IM. In May 2012 Miranda IM was forked to Miranda NG (New Generation). Miranda NG is free software distributed under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later.
Miranda NG is an open-source multiprotocol instant messaging application, designed for Microsoft Windows.