mIRC (Internet Relay Chat - Интернет-чат в реальном времени) является виртуальным местом встречи, где люди со всего мира могут встречаться и разговаривать друг с другом, вводя текст сообщений с клавиатуры. Как пользователь, вы запускаете mIRC - небольшую программу, которая соединяется с сервером в IRC-сети. Все сервера соединены между собой и пропускают сообщения от пользователя к пользователю через IRC-сеть. Вы сможете принимать участие в дискуссиях на одном из тысяч IRC-каналов (комнат) в одной из сотен IRC-сетей, или разговаривать наедине с семьей или друзьями, в какой бы части света они ни находились. На IRC Вы найдете море людей, связанных общими интересами, идеями, проблемами

What's New in This Release:

This is the second stable release of the new Unicode version of mIRC and addresses a number of issues that have been reported by users since the last release. It includes improvements, changes and fixes to a number of features, including:

• A new and improved Log Files dialog has been added that allows you to search log files and to view them in a window in mIRC.
• A Clear History dialog has been added to the Tools menu that allows you to clear the history of a number of features.
• File transfers now display progress bars in different colors to indicate transfer status.
• DCC Send transfer speed has been improved.
• A "UTF-8 encode/decode messages" option has been added to the Messages dialog to enable or disable UTF-8 encoding/decoding of server messages.
• The DNS routines have been changed to only request IPv6 if you are using features that require it, which should speed up connections for some users.
• Many other changes and bug fixes

In total there have been almost 80 changes to this version.

A significant number of changes were needed to convert mIRC into a Unicode application (see the previous v7.1 release announcement for details) and this version builds on that to create a more stable and reliable mIRC. We should now be able to focus on adding some new and interesting features to the next version :-)