In build 27:
First of all, I must apologize for the significant delay with this build, but there were very serious changes.
Build 27 comes with the new, Windows-independent, image manager, advaimg.dll. It’s a port of well known FreeImage library for Miranda, completely independent from GDI+, OLE Picture and another Microsoft stuff. It provides the most correct way of the transparent images processing (PNG & GIF) even under Win95 (although Win95 is physically unable to display them).
Also the new version of loadavatars plugin was included into this build, specially oriented to use the advaimg.dll. The presence of both plugins is mandatory.
Therefore, build 27 OBSOLETES two plugins, previously included into nightly builds: png2dib & loadavatars. Miranda 0.7.0.27 was changed not to load them anyhow, so don’t panic if you won’t find them in Options -> Plugins, just delete these files.
Also in this build:
- Jabber XEP-0165 support (Entity Capabilities) was introduced, which helps to decrease the traffic volume;
- critical memory corruption bug was fixed by Jozef;
- some fixes for MSN, YAHOO & ICQ plugins were made.