--- deliantra/server/Changes	2008/09/19 05:30:23	1.232
+++ deliantra/server/Changes	2008/12/04 22:32:41	1.272
@@ -7,16 +7,78 @@
 TODO: inscription cannot be readied.
 TODO: random destination transport may bring you tot nürnberg errornously, likely stoneville
 TODO: reasy_skill find traps does nto unapply the range slot item (bow)
+TODO: schmorp-neko-san force has sped zero but is on active lsit sometimes?
+TODO: worldmaps still get loaded on startup before the gridmap is ready
 
-TODO: skills command to perl etc.
-	- fix a disastrously "memleak" where temporray memory allocations
+TOOD: talk with elmex abotu summoning
+TODO: strange rign oif acid artifact description/story looks weird.
+TODO: destry_inv() should destroy, drop_inv_to_ground method?
+TODO: no detah messages for arena anymore
+TODO: palyerdialog doesn't autoclose when too far away
+TODO: remove curse should *maybe* work on players themselves
+TODO: remove curse in glyph/rune doesn't have any effect?
+TODO: nothing is written on it -> log-1
+
+	- fix overflow in lighting calculations.
+        - negative glow radii can no longer cause total darkness.
+
+2.72 Thu Dec  4 22:20:19 CET 2008
+	- (maps) completely redesigned scorn.
+	- "cast light" now works on oneself.
+        - bump max light radius to 9, rewrote glow lighting calculations, fix
+          negative glow radii again (they were totally broken before).
+	- the "worldmaps sometimes are black" bug is finally fixed.
+        - the "player objects are referenced in _GENxx globals" bug has finally
+          been fixed, by not relying on buggy perl internals when serialising.
+        - fixed a long standing bug in the anvil converters in armour shops.
+        - items shops weren't interested in don't vanish anymore, and are given
+          back to the player.
+	- attuned/repell and spell base level system reworked.
+	- rewrote skill cache (last_skill_ob) system and usage - might
+          be less erratic now.
+        - refuse to write the uuid file if the uuid is zero
+          (to avoid writing it in early crashes).
+	- pathsync the directory after saving a file for added slowdown^Wsafety.
+        - speed up emergency_save by not syncing every file separately.
+        - no longer reattach perl to every object on reload, it's slow, and no longer
+          necessary since we don't nuke stashes anymore.
+        - do not bootstrap perl from the commandline args, use separate eval for
+          better error reporting.
+        - fix a crash when pushing cone spells met ice attacks.
+        - pre-cache perl extension files on reload to speed up the reload.
+        - speed up map refresh in server a bit.
+        - refactored drop code and fixed some programming errors in it.
+        - fixed small regression in 'Slag Ex' potion extension.
+        - fixed a bug where some objects couldn't cross map tile boundaries.
+        - fixed a bug with weight update of the player, the client showed -0.0
+          as the current weight of the inventory.
+        - (arch) the dragonbreath spell is level 12 again, but the high level spell
+          dragonfire has been introduced for the non-dragon players.
+        - remove unused "tooltype", "start_holding" object slots.
+        - change "weapontype" object slot to uint8.
+        - convert "hide" object slot into flag.
+        - reorder object members for better locality of reference and codesize
+          decrease.
+        - correct rounding in lerp, add lerp_rd, lerp_ru.
+        - fix a crash when no skill could be found when killing amonster.
+        - fix a small memleak that would eat one pointer on the perl stack for
+          every completed aio operation.
+        - perl mapspace acessor methods now normalise (handle tiled maps)
+          and update mapspaces if necessary.
+
+2.71 Tue Sep 23 07:02:23 CEST 2008
+	- removed all command line parsing, only env variables are supported
+          anymore.
+        - region-specific monsters will now once more be on the worldmap.
+	- fix a disastrous "memleak" where temporary memory allocations
           would grow out of bounds.
-        - server now writes a pidfile and makes sure it's alter ego is killed.
+        - server now writes a pidfile and makes sure its alter ego is killed.
 	- fixed a double-escaping bug in the pod-parser.
         - rewrote the cfpod parser in C++.
 	- hintmode moved to C++, players need to re-set their hintmode if
           they dislike "show".
         - fix RIP inscription.
+	- bump login name length from 18 to 20 char max.
         - correctly support gender in emotes.
         - correctly support gender in the death messages.
         - correctly generate death messages for players only when they really die,
@@ -27,11 +89,17 @@
         - make sure Compress::LZF acquires the storable lock, might fix some
           data corruption bug.
         - tweak coredumping/monitoring a bit.
+        - completely redid server initialisation to hopefully avoid rare races.
         - do not crash in the loader when an inventory object could not be loaded
           (from a corrupted file).
+        - redid skills command to send output to proper channel.
+        - object->map is no longer refcounting.
         - add FLAG_DEBUG for internal debugging.
         - add NDI_VERBATIM flag to send_msg.
         - add perl backtraces to logBacktrace-initiated backtraces.
+        - player->exists is no longer a sync_job.
+        - split login.ext's player scheduler into
+          it's own player-scheduler.ext extension.
 
 2.7  Sun Sep  7 16:32:03 CEST 2008
 	- require perl 5.10.