Miranda New Generation Release Notes --------------------------------------- www.miranda-ng.org Contents -------- 1. Installation instructions 2. General notes 3. Troubleshooting 4. Compatibility issues 5. Contact 6. Support 7. License and Copyright 1. Installation Instructions ---------------------------- * Upgrading To upgrade an existing Miranda NG installation, run the installer and choose to install to the same folder. Your message history, settings and contact list will be saved. * First Installation Run the installer and follow the instructions. 2. General Notes ---------------- Unlock the power of your new Miranda NG with plugins! There are hundreds of plugins available for free bundled with original Miranda NG distribution. 3. Troubleshooting ------------------ If you have problems with Miranda: a) Disable all plugins. If the problem is gone now, it was probably a bug in one of the plugins and not in Miranda NG itself. b) Update to the latest alpha version. We regularly fix bugs in Miranda NG. If you are having a problem it might help to upgrade to the latest alpha version, maybe we already fixed it. You will find the "Nightly alpha builds" in the "Development" section of our website. c) Check the list of known bugs. The official bug list is available at: https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/issues Look here before you submit a new report, don't submit a new report if it has already been reported. d) Submit a bug report. 4. Compatibility issues ----------------------- Miranda NG doesn't support any of Windows 9x. Miranda NG only supports Windows 2000 and later. Beta versions are not supported. b) Plugins - Third party plugins may have different requirements than Miranda NG itself. The Miranda NG developers cannot guarantee that all plugins will work on your system. 5. Contact ---------- The official webpage for the Miranda NG team is https://www.miranda-ng.org. 6. Support ---------- Miranda NG is provided free of charge but without any warranty or support. If you have difficulties using Miranda NG, you can find a lot of resources in the Support section of the website. You can also ask for help in the official forums and someone will try to help. But remember; everyone involved in the Miranda NG team are volunteers, as in "does not get paid". So please be friendly and your chances of getting help will increase. 7. License and Copyright ------------------------ Source code is available at: https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/ Miranda NG is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See "LICENSE" for more details. Miranda IM is copyright 2000-2012 by the people listed in contributors.txt. Miranda NG is copyright 2012-2018 by the people listed in contributors.txt. The plugins included with this release are copyrighted by their authors. See the documentation for each plugin for more information.