mIRC 7.17 has been released! (December 17th 2010)

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

  • The active window now correctly receives the focus when maximized windows are switched or closed.
  • Hash table commands hadd/hinc/hdec when used with the -cuNz switches no longer cause data corruption in hash tables.
  • Custom DLLs that perform window/message hooking no longer cause mIRC to crash on exit.
  • The Alt+Minus key combination has been changed to allow the use of Alt+NumberPadMinus for zooming in screen readers.
  • The socket identifier $sock() now returns the correct saddr/sport values for UDP connections.
  • The Server and DCC connection issue that resulted in the “Address already in use” message should now be resolved.
  • Other changes and bug fixes.

This update builds on and improves the stability of the new Unicode version of mIRC (see the previous v7.1 release announcement for details).