Changes since 0.2.8.1: - Timestamps and teamscores added to scorelog.txt - Dedicated server now works on FreeBSD and OpenBSD - User running the dedicated server is called "armagetronad" again, the longer "armagetronad-dedicated" caused problems with BSD - Test versions refuse to connect to servers more than one version ahead - Prepared client for respawns - Team spawn formation is now configurable - Added reasons to bans - Added spectator autokicking - Added history to chat and console (wrtlprnft) - You only enter a game once your client is synced - /msg now prefers exact matches over partial matches - Cycles now have better memory for pending turns (wrtlprnft) - Added player join/leave/rename messages to ladderlog.txt with IPs - Ping variance influence on packet loss tolerance code is now clamped by the regular, configurable, packet loss tolerance: effect of variance can be no bigger than the effect of ping. - Spectators are now regular players and can chat - The /msg command now converts the entered pattern into the internal name so if you write "/msg öäü" and there is a user named "öäü" with an internal nick of "oau" it will still get matched - Team changes are now only executed when allowed, the need for the temporary/permanent team imbalance setting distinction has gone away - Added brake toggle button Bugfixes: - Client sometimes crashed when leaving a server with AIs on over the menu - Cycles could, if timed right, just pass through each other - The server starting scripts were chowning /var/run and /var/log to armagetronad - Short names could crash the server - Init scripts now installed correctly with --enable-initscripts - Hopeless pending team change wishes are deleted - Large timesteps are now broken down into smaller ones on the game level - Pretend keys are released before entering chat - Two cycle steering events were sent if you doublebound the brake - Large speed boosts out of game rule bounds were possible during network glitches - Debug recording reliability increased, function call with undefined return value eliminated - Recording and scorekeeping no longer conflict - Input during a recording now has an end marker, making quick keypresses after leaving a menu not break it - CYCLE_RUBBER_DELAY was overridden sometimes by packet loss tolerance - ALLOW_CONTROL_DURING_CHAT now ignores modifier keys like shift and has been reactivated - The camera sometimes got stuck in free mode for the first round you watch - Crashfix in hole blowing code when no cycle was set - After a "perfect" 180, you're more often on the right side of your own wall That code caused some havoc at first, so it has been reworked - The smart cam did not like fluctuating framerates - Improved debug recording reliability: multiple master server visits and too quick keypresses were causing trouble. - Canonical DESTDIR support and added ROOTDIR support for testing - Login floods are detected and ignored - Player name updates sanitized - Disabled complicated feasibility tests for team menu entries, they did not have the full information and were often wrong - Team score only added to player score if no teamplay is possible Changes since 0.2.8.0: - INCLUDE console command now gives a file not found error - ALL user given paths are validated for security problems in a special function - Fallback to default map on map load failure works again (broken sine 0.2.8.0_rc4) Changes since 0.2.8.0_rc4: Bugfixes: - SECURITY FIX: via a MAP_FILE path with included .., it was possible to write files anywhere, provided they did not exist previously. Clients with this vulnerability are locked out of the server now. - ALLOW_CONTROL_DURING_CHAT has been disabled for now. - Another connection termination bug. Changes since 0.2.8.0_rc3: - Added spectator mode toggle key. - Thresholds when a white background bar is rendered behind texts is now configurable in the expert section of settings.cfg. - Ingame menu trigger key is configurable now, only ESC stays hardcoded. - The map parser checks whether the map is stored at the right location. - Map validation errors are now visible on the client. - Made magic numbers used by the smart camera configurable for user tweaking. This is undocumented and unsupported. - The server browser now shows a B beside the score to mark bookmarked servers. Bugfixes: - -Os compile option is filtered out if GCC 3.3 is used, it makes the build go bad. - Extremely low values of CYCLE_DELAY were not honored, an arbitrary delay of .005s was added to it. - On entering a server, the camera would sometimes be stuck in free mode. Changes since 0.2.8.0_rc2: - Almost final artwork - Moviepacks can now also contain texture replacements for the default cycle model - Added number of teammates alive to HUD Bugfixes: - Dual textured floor rendering is now disabled without alpha blending as it did not work anyway. - Lag-O-Meter now has the correct size (the old, buggy one can be restored by setting LAG_O_METER_SCALE to .5). - The network system made some IDs randomly unusable, causing zombie cycles, invisible walls and disconnections. - The AI Team from a previous local game session was sometimes still visible on the score table in the following network game on a remote server. - The server did not start a new match when temporarily, only spectators were online. - Player walls were rendered twice. - The server wrote console center messages to stderr. - UNBAN_IP did not work at all. - The code that should kill a cycle in performance/DOS protection circumstances just crashed. Changes since 0.2.8.0_rc1: - Bugfixes: Dedicated server for Windows works again. Cycle turns are now executed more accurately on the server. Timer stuttering at end of round (was non-critical, but ugly). Custom camera did not turn when the internal camera was configured not to turn. Idle player kick code crashed when it kicked a client with many players. The code that removes inactive players after a while removed the AI players. - Reverted smart camera movement to pre-beta4 behavior, the new code made some players seasick :) - Ingame admin interface gives more useful information to the invoker - Small font rendering improvements - Zone conquest message, if it is not the one that ends the round, now states the name of the zone owning team. Changes since 0.2.8_beta4.2: - Fixed bugs: Random client disconnection Another vote-not-appearing-on-client bug Invisible wall segments right after turn Arena initialization before all settings are transmitted from the server The server was using more rubber than the client sometimes Crash with moviepack and some maps Object sync messages not accepted by client in second network session - Improved kill/suicide/team kill distinction (ENEMY_* settings) - Chatbots and idle players can be removed from the game and kicked (CHATTER/IDLE_REMOVE_TIME,IDLE_KICK_TIME) - Players/team leaders can pause the game before a rond starts (PLAYER_CHAT_WAIT*) - Color codes can be filtered from player names (FILTER_COLOR_NAMES) - New machine readable log file: ladderlog.txt - Configurable and better core dump/team kill/suicide distinction algorithm - Unknown settings are recognized now in configuration files - All global key bindings (Grab mouse, pause and texture reload were left) are now configurable - Player listing length limit adjusted so two teams/16 players fits on screen - Less verbose upgrade warning messages - Imposters can get a non-conflicting name (ALLOW_IMPOST[EO]RS) Changes since 0.2.8_beta4: - Fixed bugs: Windows version had a memory overwrite error causing crashes and weird behavior. The game quit when the chat key and a key bound to an instant chat were pressed to quickly. Votes expired too early on the client. Performance: a lot of unused temporary walls were hanging around each round. Cycles sometimes warped to odd locations. - Tweaked smart camera to not stay in front of the cycle so much. Tweaked smart camera custom glancing. Report back whether you like or hate it! - Made custom camera even more configurable, changed default settings. (old ones are still in settings.cfg) - Forced glancing end on cycle turn now looks better. - FOV settings now deal better with wide screens/splitscreen mode. - Increased ping measurements again by adding the fluctuations. The raw average ping caused the game logic to be too picky. Changes since 0.2.8_beta3: - Famous fixed bugs: Random huge felt lag or blank screen (it was actually a problem with the timer) is gone. Bogus "possible phase bug" message. Seemingly random walls popping out of nothing, only to disappear a second later. Random camera focus changes while you were still alive. Every 100th console line got deleted. - Reduced pings! Actually, just the measurement is improved, the actual latency stays the same. I hope nobody notices that. Good thing nobody reads NEWS files :) - New text editing convenience: Home and end keys work, and CTRL+left/right/del/backspace work on whole words. Thanks, Nemo! - New instant chat functions: There are now 25 instant chat strings. If an instant chat string ends in a \, it will not be sent immediately, it's opened to be edited by you. Pressing an instant chat key while already chatting will insert the string, provided the key does not produce a regular character. - If enabled by the server administrator: control your cycle while you chat. - Turning speed of custom and internal camera can be adjusted with CAMERA_CUSTOM_TURN_SPEED and CAMERA_IN_TURN_SPEED. - The custom camera zooms out from a closeup at round start. Useful to see your position in your team. Configurable with CAMERA_CUSTOM_ZOOM. - Master server redundancy enabled. Thanks to Lucifer for hosting the backup master! Changes since 0.2.8_beta2: - More bugfixes: most annoying was the crash/infinite loop a server got in when the master server was unreachable - Added zones to map specification - Reworked top level map format (sorry to the map makers for the inconvenience) - Windows: added start menu entries that open the system and user data directories - Bandwidth limitation now works. That means if you lowered the bandwidth limits in the network setup, they were not respected. You probably should readjust them. Changes since 0.2.8_beta1: - bugfixes, of course - added recording and playback startmenu entries for Windows - abuse prevention: added IP banning, player number per IP and client limit, doublebinding can be crippled on server command Changes since 0.2.7.1: - Server side cycle synchronization issues fixed: destination removal fixed lag sliding caused by different interpretation of grinding turn commands on client and server fixed niceness for older clients: sync interval decreased, no sync in front of wall to prevent local tunneling - Client side cycle synchronization issues fixed: smooth corrections now only affect the appearance, the correct values are used internally sync messages are no longer ignored, new extrapolating sync method implemented, ghosting fixed, wall ends sticking out fixed ( for enemy cycles ), the sophisticated distance based sync code implemented years ago is now actually used, oh dear. - Performance improvements: netobject synchronization does no longer traverse all netobjects disabled gameobject-gameobject interaction - added support for nonorthogonal driving directions - added support for debug recording and playback - switched to using automake Changes since 0.2.7.0: - Fixed security issues: fake message ID crash, fake peer ID crash ( both maybe could be used to execute arbitrary code ), fake logout exploit, fake connections DOS attack - The feared "left grid" error message has been replaced by recovery code - Fixed transfer of infinite floats over the network - Fixed network timer inaccuracies on long running servers - Fixed rip bug ( for those who like it: search and you will find ) - Fixed wall bending ( there is still some wall bending left, but it will be too small to notice ) - Fixed tunneling bugs ( you were able to move from one side of a wall to the other ) - Fixed bounce bug ( a small zigzag towards a wall sometimes put you further away from it, leaving a hole ) - Fixed massive reference counting overflow crash caused by repeated close grinding/180ing - Made rubber code customizable and frame rate independent ( new CYCLE_RUBBER_ variables in settings.cfg ) - For debugging and scripting: dedicated server console messages can be decorated with client ID and IP - Topology police: facility to catch tunneling issues after they happened. off by default - Cycle network code is more robust - Update frequency of cycle position now configurable and more frequent for client's own cycle that the rest by default - Corrected rc.d scripts to start the server as a system service - Voting more configurable: voters can be made public, spectators can't vote any more by default - Moviepack floor color fixed - Hostname lookup failure fixed - "PLAYER_1 nick" console command problems fixed - Windows libraries moved out of the main source tree - Source code now compatible with 64 bit and gcc 3.4 - Colored explosions! - HUD enhancements: customization, works in splitscreen mode - Directory scanning code added ( not yet visible, will be used for moviepack/cycle selection ) - Moviepack sky texture support - Master server can now run on windows, too - Explosion sound now actually works Changes since 0.2.6.0: - added HUD - Winzone may now be a deathzone Changes since 0.2.5.2: - Split custom camera into server defined and client defined custom camera - Fixed monster chat message exploit - Added local player silencing - Added Kick voting - Added player names on cycles ( implemented by Christian Reitwiessner ) - Harsher ( and configurable ) spam protection - Fixed strangely bent walls Changes since 0.2.5.1: - Fixed fullscreen toggle while chatting - Disabled trilinear filtering for ATI cards by default ( to avoid lockups ) - Worked around flawy S3 texture storage - Fixed crash when trying to change teams in spectator mode Changes since 0.2.5: - Another go at the "11th Round Bug" - Player list is now sorted after displayed score ( before: some invisible combination of team score and own score ) - Fixed brakes when connecting to a 0.2.4 or earlier server - Updated FAQ with server setting hints - Unified Windows and Unix network code - Fixed texture hardware mode - Less connection losses - Fixed network ID related crash - Added player names to information you get from a server - Added window-fullscreen toggle key and separate setting of screen resolution/window size Changes since 0.2.4: - Fixed online observer mode switching - Fixed command line options - Fixed player quit message - Fixed AI join message - Fixed double registration of some network objects ( had no known visible symptom ) - Added security checks to see if Armagetron is run correctly - Fixed big brother ( reporting of OS, graphic card and version to the master server ) - Disabled memory manager by default - Fixed single player exit game crash - Fixed zero length sting receive crash - Completed network version control - Added timestamps to logfiles ( code fragments by k_at_work ) - Added reason to login deny/kick messages - Fixed 11th round bug ( additional round started after match end ) - Added --doc command line switch to print offline version of online help - Fixed sign of rise/drop highscore messages - New console commands: quit/exit ( dedicated server only ), kick <player name>, center_message <message> and console_message <message> - New setting item: MAX_CLIENTS - Improved server browser, less skipping around - Added instant win zone - Cycle brake is now of limited duration Changes since 0.2.3: - Fixed score display ( really! ) - Fixed freestyle mode round counting - Fixed server freezer - Fixed explosion sync - Fixed AI crashes when player leaves in mid-battle - Fixed configure script: now really uses sdl-config - Speeded up deletion of unreachable servers - Fixed endless recursion bug ( "11th player bug" ) - Moved team start positions further apart - Player name is now taken from $USER on first start and player color is randomized Changes since 0.2.2: - Fixed highscores and ladder - Delayed score deletion after match end - Fixed autoexec.cfg loading - More automatic rebuilding - Fixed dedicated server idle quitting - Fixed auto AI - Fixed instant chat - Fixed score display for many players or long player names - Fixed very rare client crash - Fixed not so rare release only crash - Fixed balance-related typos - Tweaked smart camera so that it works well when braking - Fixed finish mode game setting Changes since 0.2.1: - Fixed another connection-loss bug - Fixed observer freeze - Observers now don't just get kicked when nobody else is online - Fixed software renderer detection - Updated FAQ - Fixed config file loading on some architectures - Improved team coloring - Fixed stuck brake bug Changes since 0.2.0: - Fixed crash when watching a quitting player Changes since 0.2.pre4: - Fixed crashes - Fixed windows network connection problems - Fixed clour related problems - Added marker for own cycle to avoid confusion in team mode - Changed directory placement: configuration resides in /etc/armagetron, user configuration in ~/.armagetron/var - Data files added to ~/.armagetron/textures ( or /models or /sounds ) are now loaded in favor of original data, allowing user specific mods Changes since 0.2.pre3: - Fixed some more rare crashes and lockups - Fixed team handling: all team change operations now get only active on next round address - Fixed moviesounds - Fixed server-master server communications - new installation method: make update ( keeps user configuration ) Changes since 0.2.pre2: - Fixed some rare crashes and lockups - Improved cycle handling over network - It is now allowed to fight with an arbitrary large team against the AI regardless of the balancing settings - improved rendering precision: z-fighting artefact are now uncommon, and at the same time early clipping on the near clipping plane Changes since 0.2.pre: - got rid of "zombie" players - corrected team messages - fixed chatting - fixed 32 bit rendering Changes since 0.1.4.9: - it is now possible for players to form teams - explosion now can blow holes in player walls - delay added to wall disappearance after death - finite wall length supported for snake-style gameplay - arena size and game speed configurable in the menu - the AI has been greatly improved - there is an Internet master server active - support for localization has been added, currently featuring English and German - AI players now have names - the moviepack title screen is displayed - Linux version: easier system-wide installation with RPM packages or "make install"
