--- deliantra/server/Changes 2008/04/13 13:32:47 1.83 +++ deliantra/server/Changes 2008/05/07 11:02:50 1.149 @@ -1,26 +1,137 @@ Deliantra MORPG Server, Maps and Archetypes ChangeLog. -TODO: picking up the torches in nimbus seemingly works, but after - a while (used up?) they seem to be gone from the inv but the client doesn't know about that. TODO: dragons should not be able to change their title via the settings tab in playerbook +TODO: emergency swap mode is not working -TODO: one cna apply two handed weapons into ones combat slot! +syncpoints: rules, news, motd, crossfiremail +""/opt/perl/lib/perl5/unicore/Canonical.pl", "/opt/perl/lib/perl5/unicore/To/Lower.pl" etc... - - append [drop xxx coins] to altar/trigger_altar/identify_table names - (also update all maps to use money instead of coins). +2.54 + - change floorbox item ordering to enable more efficient protocol and to + stay in sync with the 0.9971 client update which also reverses ordering. + - bugfix: players couldn't starve in 2.53 :( + - (maps) fixed the death certificate system in nimbus + - bugfix: correctly send the client a del_spell when a spell gets removed. + - bugfix: spell effects like word fo recall are removed when dieing. + - bugfix: fix a crash when objects with treasure on top (ground...) + were created outside a map. + - bugfix: couldn't apply inventory items when levitating, but ground items + (fixed by reversing the logic). + - (arch) give ball lightning a real name. + - unapply item in range slow when readying a spell. + - bugfix: account for rounding errors in weight updates. + - remove synchronous mkdir in chargen_race_done. + - fix per-race starting maps. + - check hiscore on suicide and quit as well. + - tell players when they are starving. + - get rid of costly object_from_name conversion for altar effects. + - fix map difficulty calculation for generators. + - slightly more intelligent handling of "is_animated" flag. + - support no_drop map header flag (before it was only available internally). + +2.53 Sun May 4 17:32:48 CEST 2008 + - bugfix: custom skill settings were not saved by the server. + - bugfix: remove did not actually remove items from the inventory, leaving + ghost items. + - bugfix: properly update items identified on the ground. + - bugfix: use localtime_r in the logger thread. + - bugfix: player starvation will now give the correct kill reason. + - bugfix: archetype reloads could crash the server. + - bugfix: the mailscrolls are now correctly handed out even when the destination + player is not logged in. + - bugfix: make list_logins non-blocking (glaring oversight). this caused the lag at + server startup. + - bugfix: fix the door surround check in the random map generator. + - (maps) fix heaven quest difficulty progression. + - (maps) fix some random map styles. + - dropping items a shop is not interested in won't sell them anymore. + - rods and horns with a too low maximum charge allow now at least one discharge. + - implement kill & death statistics. + - random map preparation is no longer synchronous. + - rewrite find_style in perl, no longer does synchronous I/O. + - improve random map specials placement. + - make the killer a real object pointer instead of a string, improved + kill reason messages. + - take advantage of new aio_close and aio_chmod. + - implement archetype::get, object::deep_clone and update callers. + - change_abil is much faster. + - update the floorbox more often to work around the reverses item order + display in clients. + - cleaned up object copying by encapsulating it to a single place. + - add hints to the invite messages. + - rewrote key<->value pair handling. + - use an independent random number generator for the random map generator. + +2.52 Thu Apr 24 11:47:19 CEST 2008 + - completely automate the item add/delete on remove/insert. this should fix + all "ghost" item bugs caused by sloppy coding, as sloppy coding is now correct :) + - completely automate the weight handling, should fix all weight + accounting bugs caused by sloppy coding, as sloppy coding is now correct :) + - reloading archetypes while a user was in the character creation phase + could crash the server. + - fix a nontrivial number of cases of code commented similar + to "is this really correct?", as many of those cases are now handles + automatically by lower level code. + - replace many ad-hoc checks for client visibility by object::visible_to, + should result in broader applicability of functions using it. + - merge items with different arch pointers refering to the same arch + (due to archetype reloads). + - refactored the object remove/insert functions and most related + functions (decrease, split, merge_ob etc.). + - make it compile better on freebsd (reported by pippijn). + - remove GT_UPDATE_INV (no longer applicable). + - fix the longstanding "container stays open" bug. + - improved floorbox updating to be incremental and other protocol + optimisations. + - get rid of update_after_inventory_change and only do update stats + for weight once/tick/player at max. + - rewrite party commands, use party channel. + +2.51 Sun Apr 20 21:27:37 CEST 2008 + - properly link against libgthread as that is needed to make the slice + allocator thread-safe. + - support perls not compiled with 64 bit support (though this is not a + recommended configuration) (reported by Samuel Gondouin). + - always put godgiven items into the player inventory, never any containers. + - (arch) + - (maps, arch) the scorn go club was founded! + - (arch) do no longer support player abilities, they didn't work anyways. + - (arch) the alchemy spell is now of the alchemy spell school, which + became a real spell-class. + - (arch) the alchemist class now get an alchemy spell book for new characters. + - (arch) considerably strengthened spark shower and destruction. + - match archetypes by name, not by ptr, in treasure.C, this makes archetypes + finally reloadable at runtime. + - changed archetype loading algorithm to only require one pass and + use delayed resolving of references. + - examine command now uses the examine infobox. + - implement an "incremental garbage collector" for archetypes. + - enable slice allocator again. + - implement optional free memory poisoning. + +2.5 Wed Apr 16 15:06:53 CEST 2008 + - the two handed weapon skill can no longer be used as unarmed combat + skill. + - append [drop xxx coins] to altar/trigger_altar/identify_table/converter + names (also update all maps to use money instead of coins). - add uuid accessors to perl. - add coin names and archetype accessors to perl. - fix runtime uuid file format to use "." instead of ",". - change perl extensions to not use hardcoded coins and values. - write uuids asynchronously (no hiccups due to uuid writes) and be more parsimonous of uuid usage by the exact value out on exit. + - write log messages in another thread, removing another sync point. + - support multi-line log messages in a nicer way. - be more portable w.r.t. uuids and format specifiers everywhere. - fix a minor memleak in the random map generator. - some parts of the random map generator are not coroutine-safe, so only call it "single-threaded". - major cleanup of memory management in random map generator. + - slight refactoring of the random map generator, faster too. - solve the "slice_alloc becomes negative" mystery - no allocation bug, bookkeeping bug. + - work around "player is on active list" problem by deactivating player + after loading. - garbage collect shstr's more evenly and adaptively only when there have in fact been allocations. - fix object::insert to do as documented and insert into the env @@ -29,6 +140,8 @@ - fix nrof overflow check in can_merge_slow. - fix converter code to handle >31 bit values. - added support for the player_sold flag + - converters no longer accept unpaid items. + - canonicalize random map meta files for better unification. 2.43 Sun Apr 6 20:35:29 CEST 2008 - work around a glibc bug that causes calloc to return non-zero memory