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Dear mIRC User,

mIRC v7.82 has been released today.

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:

Added $tip() support for permanent tray tips.
Added support for specifying a username for SASL Logins.
Added SASL disconnect on error server option.
Fixed percent encoding/decoding memory bug that would have caused intermittent crashes.
Fixed touchpad speed/sensitivity when scrolling in different types of windows.
Fixed handling of swapped mouse buttons in different contexts.
Fixed $urlget() crash bug when credentials are passed in URL.
Fixed features that were using the wrong default GUI font under Windows 10/11.
Fixed various Aero theme bugs relating to Windows display scale and text size options.
Updated all code and libraries in preparation for future 64bit / ARM64 versions.
Updated libraries to LibZip v1.11.4, LunaSVG v3.5.0, and TagLib v2.1.1.
Updated from the OpenSSL v3.0.x branch to v3.5.4.
Updated SSL code to remove use of 30+ deprecated OpenSSL APIs.
Updated CA root certificates cacert.pem file.

How to upgrade?
mIRC is distributed in an installer that installs mIRC on your computer for you. Simply download and run the installer from the download page on the mIRC website. Follow the instructions the installer gives to you. When upgrading all your old settings and scripts will stay as they were, if you want that. Read the questions the installer asks with care and nothing can go wrong. You will be chatting with the new mIRC in no time. If you get stuck or if you want to find out more about a certain feature, just click on a Help button or browse the Help file and you should find lots of hints to help you out.

Where to download?
As always, the latest version of mIRC can be downloaded from the download page on the mIRC website.

Registering mIRC
As you know, mIRC can be downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. If you find that you enjoy using mIRC, it would be great and much appreciated if you registered your copy. This licenses you to use your copy of mIRC and helps to support our continued work on mIRC. You can find out how to register here.

Full list of Fixes, Changes and Additions.
For a more detailed list of recent changes, please see the whatsnew.txt file. You will need to read through the help file to learn more about these changes and their impact. Some changes are obvious, some need getting used to - please take your time to play with them and see how they work. May we invite you to use these forums for all questions you might have? The forums offer great help with everything related to mIRC!

Thanks for using mIRC, have fun on IRC!

Great idea! But there's one nuance. What if the user wants some other ghost text to be displayed as an input example?

I propose extending the syntax by adding an additional colon-separated parameter (highlighted in red) to fill with ghost text to be displayed when the dialog edit field is empty. Besides, it would be more correct to call the style "ghost" or in this case it is possible to do without it altogether:

     edit "text":"(ghost text)", 3, 8 92 290 22, autohs ghost


Also, it would be possible to add a new switch for the command "did":

     /did -x <name> <id> [ghost text]

There are no betas available for testing at this time. Please download the latest version of mIRC from the mIRC website.