HydraIRC is a handy IRC application, written in C++ using modern programs as Visual Studio 7 or WTL/ATL for a very fast, streamlined and efficient experience.
HydraIRC features a nice looking, intuitive, and highly customizable GUI, dockable windows, MDI client area, event based core (with user definable events), DLL plugin SDK, multi-server support, and more.
HydraIRC is NOT a script, plugin or any other kind of add-on for mIRC. In fact it's got nothing to do with mIRC at all.

· Written in C++ using modern tools (Visual Studio 7)
· Uses WTL/ATL for a Super fast, streamlined and efficient program!
· Uses XML for all config files, very minimal registry usage
· Dockable tabbed auto-hidable windows, tabbed MDI client area.
· Event based core (with user definable events)
· Nice looking, intuitive GUI, no skinnable ugly rubbish.
· Supports connecting to an unlimited number of servers
· Reliable server/network reconnects
· Supports private messages and Query windows
· Supports DCC chat and File transfer
· DCC File resumes with rollback and same-file checking.
· Nick Completion (in Server, Channel, DCC and Query windows!)
· FServe functions built in (e.g. auto-requeue on disconnect + more)
· User identities (username, nick list, etc) can be assigned on a per-server/per-network basis
· A user profile can store multiple identities.
· Highlighting can trigger events.
· Audio Mute function!
· Command profiles (a bunch of commands that are given to be run one after the other)
· Auto-Connect on startup list lets you connect to multiple servers on startup
· Auto Connect Command profiles can be attached on a per-server/per-network
· Auto Join Command profiles can be attach to channels on a per-network basis.
· User list icons denoting ops/voice, etc.
· Remembers nicks on a per-server or per-network basis, can auto-update the user profile automatically.
· Supports all known text style codes (colors, italics, bold, underline, etc)
· Supports changing fonts via control codes
· Toggleable channel userlists with additional dockable user list that shows the current channel's users
· DLL Plugin SDK.
· Scripting via way of DLL Plugins. (You can make plugins that can run scripts written in any scripting language!)

What's New in This Release:
· Added /listplugins - outputs plugin information to "Output" view.
· Made the winamp button appear on the toolbar again (broken in 0.3.162)
· Stripping of winamp tag changed in order to be compatible with Media Monkey (finally!)
· Re-worked the layout of the prefs window and it's treeview in preperation for some serious work
· Changed the default format for the winamp plugin so it doesn't say winamp as no-one seems to use winamp these days anyway
· Added /omsg to alias plugin