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1Deliantra MORPG Server, Maps and Archetypes ChangeLog. 1Deliantra MORPG Server, Maps and Archetypes ChangeLog.
2Version numbers sort like decimal numbers.
2 3
3TODO: picking up the torches in nimbus seemingly works, but after 4potionshop south: ~44k
4 a while (used up?) they seem to be gone from the inv but the client doesn't know about that. 5left of: 106k
5TODO: dragons should not be able to change their title via the settings tab in playerbook
6 6
72.51 7TODO: emergency swap mode is not working
8TODO: xs-warn doesn't end up in server log.
9TODO: 2008-07-13 00:41:27.8762 BUG: process_events(): removed object is on active list: {cnt:8720978,uuid:<1.37c8d364d>,name:"bomb",flags:[2,11],type:102}
10TODO: inscription cannot be readied.
11TODO: random destination transport may bring you tot nürnberg errornously, likely stoneville
12TODO: reasy_skill find traps does nto unapply the range slot item (bow)
13TODO: schmorp-neko-san force has sped zero but is on active lsit sometimes?
14TODO: worldmaps still get loaded on startup before the gridmap is ready
15
16TODO: strange rign oif acid artifact description/story looks weird.
17TODO: destry_inv() should destroy, drop_inv_to_ground method?
18TODO: no detah messages for arena anymore
19TODO: palyerdialog doesn't autoclose when too far away
20TODO: remove curse should *maybe* work on players themselves
21TODO: remove curse in glyph/rune doesn't have any effect?
22TODO: nothing is written on it -> log-1
23TODO: fix magic ear w.r.t. player dialog
24TODO: rewrite highscore code
25TODO: saying open to the old man in tutorial makes the sign(?) say "@match..."
26
27TODO: fix map_Scroll, iff broken
28 - fix being able to see through walls a bit.
29 - completely replaced the line of sight algorithm with a variant
30 of spiral fov capable of visibility grades and arbitrary
31 shadow angles, that uses less memory and less code.
32 - the new los code supports arbitrary map rectangles and loosens
33 other restrictions of the old code, supporitng further optimisations.
34
352.73 Thu Dec 18 20:56:31 CET 2008
36 - this release is assumed to be very stable.
37 - (maps) radically redesigned and improved tutorial.
38 - directional casting no longer immediately removes the invisible effect.
39 - magic ears now trigger when used inside the NPC dialogue.
40 - fix overflow in lighting calculations.
41 - negative glow radii can no longer cause total darkness.
42 - allow lookat on spaces where we only barely see, as opposed to
43 only maximally-lit ones.
44 - class selection has been reworked completely and their documentation corrected.
45 - swashbucklers got the oratory skill now.
46 - jump skill was fixed to adhere to all the flags a mapspace has got.
47 - (maps) small fix w.r.t. magic ear in /scorn/houses/wizz.entry
48 - fix deadlock in Jeweler::improve_ring_by_plan.
49 - use Coro::SemaphoreSet instead of our own lock management
50 (which was probably broken, too).
51 - support negative glow radii during daytime, too.
52 - use circular, not rectangular, viewing area.
53 - use minimum viewing distance of 2 in outdoor maps.
54 - negative glow is stronger than viewing area or lamps.
55 - (arch) new darkness spell face.
56
572.72 Thu Dec 4 22:20:19 CET 2008
58 - (maps) completely redesigned scorn.
59 - "cast light" now works on oneself.
60 - bump max light radius to 9, rewrote glow lighting calculations, fix
61 negative glow radii again (they were totally broken before).
62 - the "worldmaps sometimes are black" bug is finally fixed.
63 - the "player objects are referenced in _GENxx globals" bug has finally
64 been fixed, by not relying on buggy perl internals when serialising.
65 - fixed a long standing bug in the anvil converters in armour shops.
66 - items shops weren't interested in don't vanish anymore, and are given
67 back to the player.
68 - attuned/repell and spell base level system reworked.
69 - rewrote skill cache (last_skill_ob) system and usage - might
70 be less erratic now.
71 - refuse to write the uuid file if the uuid is zero
72 (to avoid writing it in early crashes).
73 - pathsync the directory after saving a file for added slowdown^Wsafety.
74 - speed up emergency_save by not syncing every file separately.
75 - no longer reattach perl to every object on reload, it's slow, and no longer
76 necessary since we don't nuke stashes anymore.
77 - do not bootstrap perl from the commandline args, use separate eval for
78 better error reporting.
79 - fix a crash when pushing cone spells met ice attacks.
80 - pre-cache perl extension files on reload to speed up the reload.
81 - speed up map refresh in server a bit.
82 - refactored drop code and fixed some programming errors in it.
83 - fixed small regression in 'Slag Ex' potion extension.
84 - fixed a bug where some objects couldn't cross map tile boundaries.
85 - fixed a bug with weight update of the player, the client showed -0.0
86 as the current weight of the inventory.
87 - (arch) the dragonbreath spell is level 12 again, but the high level spell
88 dragonfire has been introduced for the non-dragon players.
89 - remove unused "tooltype", "start_holding" object slots.
90 - change "weapontype" object slot to uint8.
91 - convert "hide" object slot into flag.
92 - reorder object members for better locality of reference and codesize
93 decrease.
94 - correct rounding in lerp, add lerp_rd, lerp_ru.
95 - fix a crash when no skill could be found when killing amonster.
96 - fix a small memleak that would eat one pointer on the perl stack for
97 every completed aio operation.
98 - perl mapspace acessor methods now normalise (handle tiled maps)
99 and update mapspaces if necessary.
100
1012.71 Tue Sep 23 07:02:23 CEST 2008
102 - removed all command line parsing, only env variables are supported
103 anymore.
104 - region-specific monsters will now once more be on the worldmap.
105 - fix a disastrous "memleak" where temporary memory allocations
106 would grow out of bounds.
107 - server now writes a pidfile and makes sure its alter ego is killed.
108 - fixed a double-escaping bug in the pod-parser.
109 - rewrote the cfpod parser in C++.
110 - hintmode moved to C++, players need to re-set their hintmode if
111 they dislike "show".
112 - fix RIP inscription.
113 - bump login name length from 18 to 20 char max.
114 - correctly support gender in emotes.
115 - correctly support gender in the death messages.
116 - correctly generate death messages for players only when they really die,
117 with increased information.
118 - fix a bug in the dynbuf code that could potentially lead to crashes
119 and data corruption (but apparently was never triggered).
120 - close the $ENV{LOCKUTIL_LOCK_FD} fd if in the env, for lockutil.
121 - make sure Compress::LZF acquires the storable lock, might fix some
122 data corruption bug.
123 - tweak coredumping/monitoring a bit.
124 - completely redid server initialisation to hopefully avoid rare races.
125 - do not crash in the loader when an inventory object could not be loaded
126 (from a corrupted file).
127 - redid skills command to send output to proper channel.
128 - object->map is no longer refcounting.
129 - add FLAG_DEBUG for internal debugging.
130 - add NDI_VERBATIM flag to send_msg.
131 - add perl backtraces to logBacktrace-initiated backtraces.
132 - player->exists is no longer a sync_job.
133 - split login.ext's player scheduler into
134 it's own player-scheduler.ext extension.
135
1362.7 Sun Sep 7 16:32:03 CEST 2008
137 - require perl 5.10.
138 - make nrof signed, so that code that checks for underflow actually works.
139 - swap player and observed count's on the map when observing.
140 - add (mostly untested) mapspace perl class and accessors.
141 - re-"calibrate" value/weight autopickup to be silver/kg >= pickup*100.
142 - fix a crash in cast_bless (restoration et al.) when no target
143 could be found.
144 - pits now have a configurable "random spread" range and default
145 to a radius of two now.
146 - rewrite pay_player_arch.
147 - use a more stable perl_reload implementation.
148 - do not use Symbol::delete_package (causes crashes after perl-reload),
149 use our own, safer, clear_package instead.
150 - when asynchronously dumping core, close all file handles to allow
151 the server to restart concurrently.
152 - improve the cfpod parser to generate proper xml from proper cfpod
153 sequences, without double-encoding. it should be faster, too.
154 - the above fixes wrong display of help tetx and many other issues.
155 - use lzf and frag packets for large messages for clients supporting them
156 (0.9976+), use it for long books and other messages.
157 - eradicate listen command and corresponding code.
158 - eradicate logs command.
159 - let the client log into the server log, used for crash backtraces.
160 - fixed rods/wands/etc. with randomitem spells on maps, but broke
161 old style spell objects with the spell magic bullet.
162 - (arch) fixed skill less rods in the archetypes
163
1642.61 Sun Aug 3 17:59:50 CEST 2008
165 - made jeweler workbench larger and some other minor map
166 changes in jeweler town.
167 - fixed wrong item handling in jeweler skill code.
168 - (arch) use a special "key_random_map" for random map keys
169 that are used up.
170 - fix a crash when the player who was observed has logged out long
171 enough for his region/map to be gone.
172 - port to g++-4.3's incompatible tr1 changes.
173 - add some missing dependencies.
174 - log to /var/log/deliantra/ by default.
175 - hack observe code to enable smooth movmenet when observing.
176
1772.6 Sun Jul 20 18:58:08 CEST 2008
178 - (maps) extension of the jeweler quest/skill/town
179 - correctly move gsay to the party channel.
180 - fix a crash when animate weapon was used in some areas.
181 - fixed unnecessary identification of by converters created objects.
182 - (maps) tutorial now contains clues about chatting and talking
183 with NPCs.
184 - (arch) dragon scales got proper type now
185 - object::decrease would sometimes cause container weights to
186 be wrong, this has been fixed.
187 - do not send time updates for newly-seen items.
188 - thawing an icecube will once more drop its contents to the ground.
189 - fix cone spells etc. going through walls sometimes.
190 - fix a weight update bug that sometimes left containers
191 with wrong weights.
192 - added auto_apply event and extension for shop tiles.
193 - work around get_map_flags invoking perl and switching the stack.
194 - make sure the map is loaded when using a town portal return.
195 - fixed a bug with caching of sp/grace/food points for spells
196 where healing spells didn't cost any grace.
197 - fix starvation kill reason.
198 - fix pk killer name message.
199 - don't let people apply signs with @match.
200 - add support for berkeley db 4.7 (the new BDB module also fixes
201 what seems to be the biggets memleak in the server).
202
2032.56 Wed Jun 4 10:50:40 CEST 2008
204 - require Coro 4.73 which contains an important performance-bugfix.
205 - use anyevent to manage listen ports (this enables IPv6 support).
206 - server supports ipv6 client connections now.
207 - use newly-available Coro::AnyEvent.
208 - get rid of the AnyEvent::AIO watcher, start the event thread earlier
209 to let it handle AIO requests.
210
2112.55 Sat May 24 19:52:52 CEST 2008
212 - avoid newmap commands when crossing tiled map boundaries. this speeds up
213 processing considerably (especially in the client) and reduces data transfers
214 (saves roughly 1kb each crossing in typical configs). works even with gcfclient.
215 - (arch) fix typo in ixalovh treasurelist causing empty_archetypes to appear.
216 - (map) fixed npc dialogue in pup_land/s_f/special.
217 - bugfix: fix a crash when a player casts a swarm spell and then logs out
218 (swarm spells now stay in the player's inventory).
219 - bugfix: when unapplying skills also remove them from the range/combat slots.
220 - bugfix: do not merge items whose archetype name merges, use the
221 archetype *archname* (chairs of different facings were merged).
222 - bugfix: fix a potential crash issue in find_object_name (not used
223 normally).
224 - bugfix: locked doors cnanot be bashed down by magical means
225 (destruction, magic missile etc.).
226 - swarm spells without a direction now use various spiral patterns
227 instead of being fully random.
228 - update AnyEvent API to 3.4 and above.
229
2302.54 Thu May 8 22:01:22 CEST 2008
231 - change floorbox item ordering to enable more efficient protocol and to
232 stay in sync with the 0.9971 client update which also reverses ordering.
233 - bugfix: the jumping skill now gives experience for jumping
234 and for attacking monsters. it also takes about one second to do a jump.
235 - bugfix: players couldn't starve in 2.53 :(
236 - bugfix: correctly send the client a del_spell when a spell gets removed.
237 - bugfix: spell effects like word of recall are removed on death.
238 - bugfix: fix a crash when objects with treasure on top (ground...)
239 were created outside a map.
240 - bugfix: couldn't apply inventory items when levitating, but ground items
241 (fixed by reversing the logic).
242 - bugfix: fixed a mismatched '"' in the debugging description of objects
243 - bugfix: the random map generator no longer leaks key objects.
244 - bugfix: support random maps >127x127.
245 - (maps) fixed the death certificate system in nimbus.
246 - (maps) rebalance onefang, build a road to onefang, temporarily closed zorn.
247 - (arch) the material 'wood' was undefined, it's now a burnable material.
248 - (arch) give ball lightning a real name.
249 - (arch) fixed material of bones (was 'wood', is now 'bone')
250 - support cfpod in ex replies (client item tooltips).
251 - unapply item in range slow when readying a spell.
252 - bugfix: account for rounding errors in weight updates.
253 - remove synchronous mkdir in chargen_race_done.
254 - fix per-race starting maps.
255 - check hiscore on suicide and quit as well.
256 - tell players when they are starving.
257 - get rid of costly object_from_name conversion for altar effects.
258 - fix map difficulty calculation for generators.
259 - slightly more intelligent handling of "is_animated" flag.
260 - support no_drop map header flag (before it was only available internally).
261 - make random-map-generated keys crumble after one hour, use more unique slaying.
262
2632.53 Sun May 4 17:32:48 CEST 2008
264 - bugfix: custom skill settings were not saved by the server.
265 - bugfix: remove did not actually remove items from the inventory, leaving
266 ghost items.
267 - bugfix: properly update items identified on the ground.
268 - bugfix: use localtime_r in the logger thread.
269 - bugfix: player starvation will now give the correct kill reason.
270 - bugfix: archetype reloads could crash the server.
271 - bugfix: the mailscrolls are now correctly handed out even when the destination
272 player is not logged in.
273 - bugfix: make list_logins non-blocking (glaring oversight). this caused the lag at
274 server startup.
275 - bugfix: fix the door surround check in the random map generator.
276 - (maps) fix heaven quest difficulty progression.
277 - (maps) fix some random map styles.
278 - dropping items a shop is not interested in won't sell them anymore.
279 - rods and horns with a too low maximum charge allow now at least one discharge.
280 - implement kill & death statistics.
281 - random map preparation is no longer synchronous.
282 - rewrite find_style in perl, no longer does synchronous I/O.
283 - improve random map specials placement.
284 - make the killer a real object pointer instead of a string, improved
285 kill reason messages.
286 - take advantage of new aio_close and aio_chmod.
287 - implement archetype::get, object::deep_clone and update callers.
288 - change_abil is much faster.
289 - update the floorbox more often to work around the reverses item order
290 display in clients.
291 - cleaned up object copying by encapsulating it to a single place.
292 - add hints to the invite messages.
293 - rewrote key<->value pair handling.
294 - use an independent random number generator for the random map generator.
295
2962.52 Thu Apr 24 11:47:19 CEST 2008
297 - completely automate the item add/delete on remove/insert. this should fix
298 all "ghost" item bugs caused by sloppy coding, as sloppy coding is now correct :)
299 - completely automate the weight handling, should fix all weight
300 accounting bugs caused by sloppy coding, as sloppy coding is now correct :)
301 - reloading archetypes while a user was in the character creation phase
302 could crash the server.
303 - fix a nontrivial number of cases of code commented similar
304 to "is this really correct?", as many of those cases are now handles
305 automatically by lower level code.
306 - replace many ad-hoc checks for client visibility by object::visible_to,
307 should result in broader applicability of functions using it.
308 - merge items with different arch pointers refering to the same arch
309 (due to archetype reloads).
310 - refactored the object remove/insert functions and most related
311 functions (decrease, split, merge_ob etc.).
312 - make it compile better on freebsd (reported by pippijn).
313 - remove GT_UPDATE_INV (no longer applicable).
314 - fix the longstanding "container stays open" bug.
315 - improved floorbox updating to be incremental and other protocol
316 optimisations.
317 - get rid of update_after_inventory_change and only do update stats
318 for weight once/tick/player at max.
319 - rewrite party commands, use party channel.
320
3212.51 Sun Apr 20 21:27:37 CEST 2008
8 - properly link against libgthread as that is needed to make the slice 322 - properly link against libgthread as that is needed to make the slice
9 allocator thread-safe. 323 allocator thread-safe.
10 - support perls not compiled with 64 bit support (though this is not a 324 - support perls not compiled with 64 bit support (though this is not a
11 recommended configuration) (reported by Samuel Gondouin). 325 recommended configuration) (reported by Samuel Gondouin).
326 - always put godgiven items into the player inventory, never any containers.
327 - (maps, arch) the scorn go club was founded!
328 - (arch) do no longer support player abilities, they didn't work anyways.
329 - (arch) the alchemy spell is now of the alchemy spell school, which
330 became a real spell-class.
331 - (arch) the alchemist class now get an alchemy spell book for new characters.
332 - (arch) considerably strengthened spark shower and destruction.
12 - match archetypes by name, not by ptr, in treasure.C, this makes archetypes 333 - match archetypes by name, not by ptr, in treasure.C, this makes archetypes
13 finally reloadable at runtime. 334 finally reloadable at runtime.
14 - always put godgiven items into the player inventory, never any containers.
15 - changed archetype loading algorithm to only require one pass and 335 - changed archetype loading algorithm to only require one pass and
16 use delayed resolving of references. 336 use delayed resolving of references.
337 - examine command now uses the examine infobox.
17 - implement an "incremental garbage collector" for archetypes. 338 - implement an "incremental garbage collector" for archetypes.
18 - (maps, arch) the scorn go club was founded!
19 - (arch) do no longer support player abilities, they didn't work anyways.
20<<<<<<< Changes
21 - (arch) the alchemy spell is now of the alchemy spell school, which
22 became a real spell-class.
23 - examine comamnd now uses the examine infobox.
24 - enable slice allocator again, was accidentally disabled in 2.5.
25=======
26 - (arch) the alchemy spell is now of the alchemy spell school.
27 - (arch) the alchemist class now get an alchemy spell book for new characters.
28 - enable slice allocator again. 339 - enable slice allocator again.
29>>>>>>> 1.99
30 - implement optional free memory poisoning. 340 - implement optional free memory poisoning.
31 341
322.5 Wed Apr 16 15:06:53 CEST 2008 3422.5 Wed Apr 16 15:06:53 CEST 2008
33 - the two handed weapon skill can no longer be used as unarmed combat 343 - the two handed weapon skill can no longer be used as unarmed combat
34 skill. 344 skill.

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