
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.
