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CVS update: web
Date: Thursday January 20, 19100 @ 16:36
Author: cameron
Update of /home/netrek/cvsroot/web
In directory swashbuckler.fortress.real-time.com:/var/tmp/cvs-serv12124
Modified Files:
index.html
Log Message:
release 2.9pl4
****************************************
Index: web/index.html
diff -u web/index.html:1.14 web/index.html:1.15
--- web/index.html:1.14 Mon Nov 1 03:10:48 1999
+++ web/index.html Thu Jan 20 16:36:18 2000
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
- <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) [Netscape]">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="James Cameron">
<TITLE>Netrek Vanilla Server</TITLE>
</HEAD>
@@ -24,102 +23,65 @@
<h4>Latest Release</h4>
-Version 2.9pl3 of the Netrek Vanilla Server was released on 13th July 1999
+Version 2.9pl4 of the Netrek Vanilla Server was released on 30th December 1999
and may be downloaded from:<p>
<ul>
-<li><a href=ftp://ftp.netrek.org/pub/netrek/servers/vanilla/Vanilla-2.9pl3.tar.bz2>ftp://ftp.netrek.org/pub/netrek/servers/vanilla/Vanilla-2.9pl3.tar.bz2</a>
+<li><a href=ftp://ftp.netrek.org/pub/netrek/servers/vanilla/Vanilla-2.9pl4.tar.gz>ftp://ftp.netrek.org/pub/netrek/servers/vanilla/Vanilla-2.9pl4.tar.gz</a>
-<li><a href=ftp://ftp.real-time.com/pub/games/netrek/servers/src/Vanilla-2.9pl3.tar.bz2>ftp://ftp.real-time.com/pub/games/netrek/servers/src/Vanilla-2.9pl3.tar.bz2</a>
+<li><a href=ftp://ftp.real-time.com/pub/games/netrek/servers/src/Vanilla-2.9pl4.tar.gz>ftp://ftp.real-time.com/pub/games/netrek/servers/src/Vanilla-2.9pl4.tar.gz</a>
-<li><a href=ftp://bigbang.astro.indiana.edu/pub/netrek/Vanilla-2.9pl3.tar.bz2>ftp://bigbang.astro.indiana.edu/put/netrek/Vanilla-2.9pl3.tar.bz2</a>
</ul>
-The md5sum of Vanilla-2.9pl3.tar.bz2 is 9860a16a4dc35f62bad4950392a77b36.
+The md5sum of Vanilla-2.9pl4.tar.gz is 4a17ff6fdc665e25da21cff572fe416e.
<p>
Installation instructions are in the file INSTALL. Further instructions for
INL server installation can be found in the file INSTALL.INL.<p>
-Changes for 2.9pl3 were:<p>
+Changes for 2.9pl4 were:<p>
<ul>
-<li>game design,
- <ul>
- <li>refit to starbase defaults docking state on,
- <li>new code for Calvin style transwarp, (as a #define),
- <li>new command "queue hosts" displays host names of players in queues,
- <li>fix voting frequency restriction,
- <li>reset pending ejection vote if the player slot is re-used,
- <li>ejection messages re-worked,
- <li>balance was giving starbase explosions instead of normal,
- <li>messages to GOD encourage player to leave a return e-mail address,
- </ul>
-<li>INL mode,
- <ul>
- <li>either captain can free slots,
- <li>observers can now captain,
- <li>game time must now be agreed before start,
- <li>"time" command now displays time remaining in minutes and seconds,
- <li>added "30 minutes left" message,
- <li>no iggy in pre-game,
- <li>no surrender countdown,
- <li>genocide detection fixed, move check to robot from daemon,
- <li>allow restart after completed game,
- <li>free slot now reports player letter instead of slot number,
- </ul>
-<li>Dogfight mode,
- <ul>
- <li>torps were not hostile,
- </ul>
-<li>addition of LTD stats,
-<li>progress towards Linux packaging,
-<li>server side game recordings with cambot, (no playback yet),
-<li>scores in HTML generator added,
-<li>uses newer res-rsa version,
-<li>connection handling,
- <ul>
- <li>fix ghostbust on login caused by previous changes,
- <li>initial version packet timer increased from 10 to 30 seconds,
- <li>disconnection timer lengthened for new connections (six minutes),
- <li>disconnection timer shortened for refits (three minutes),
- <li>verbose per-slot logging added for diagnosing problems,
- <li>code added for UDP connections via firewalls,
- <li>avoid daemon inheritance of network sockets to allow restartability,
- <li>ghostbust reconnection retry attempts limited to ten second intervals
- (they were many minutes before),
- </ul>
-<li>data stream,
+<li>Game Design
+
<ul>
- <li>new default ten updates per second,
- <li>enabled TCP_NODELAY to avoid packet amalgamation,
+ <li>Adjust transwarp abort conditions so that they work.
+ <li>Fix starbase to starbase docking; attempting to do so caused
+ loss of control by the bases involved.
+ <li>Change INL team advice message to be two lines instead of one.
+ <li>Add option to not credit chung
+ (plasma self or team member against wall) army kills.
</ul>
-<li>metaserver,
+
+<li>Observers
+
<ul>
- <li>fix server crash caused by solicit packet size explosion,
- <li>solicit packet now made once and sent to all metaservers,
- <li>adjusted default host names for metaservers,
- <li>removed invalid characters in player and host names,
- <li>include RSAness in metaserver update packet, (version 'b')
- <li>include full server state in metaserver update packet, (version 'b')
+ <li>Force observers to teams involved in t-mode.
+ <li>Exclude observers from count of players on each team.
+ <li>Avoid dropping observer armies on home planet.
+ <li>Allow independant observers to lock on to any player or planet.
</ul>
-<li>security,
+
+<li>Packaging
+
<ul>
- <li>code added to prevent process table denial of service attacks,
- <li>display significant portion of host name if truncated,
+ <li>Red Hat Linux V6.1 RPMS built.
+ <li>Fix broken statistics line on sample ports file.
+ <li>netrekd replaces newstartd and includes more intelligence.
</ul>
-<li>portability, code quality,
+
+<li>Protocol
+
<ul>
- <li>removal of gets() calls,
- <li>correct buffer sizes for fgets() calls,
- <li>removal of setjmp() and longjmp() calls,
- <li>some work towards clean compile with -Wall,
- <li>correct use of crypt() seeds,
- <li>some work towards ANSIfication of prototypes,
- <li>signal() issues resolved,
- <li>simplification of socket binding (newstartd),
- <li>avoid starting an update of the universe during an update (daemon),
+ <li>Accept CLOAK_MAXWARP feature.
+ <li>Enable portswap mode.
+ <li>Metaserver solicitation fix for blank and invalid text fields.
</ul>
+
+<li>Remove one total server crash caused by beaming down.
+
+<li>Add colour output to message monitoring program.
+
</ul>
<p>
@@ -139,35 +101,24 @@
</pre><p>
More information on CVS, along with source kits, may be found at
<a href=http://www.cyclic.com/>Cyclic</a>. Updates to the CVS repository
-are mailed to vanilla-devel list, an <a
-href=http://archives.real-time.com/vanilla-devel>archive</a> of which is available for
-browsing.<p>
+are mailed to vanilla-devel list, an
+<a href=http://archives.real-time.com/vanilla-devel>archive</a> of which is
+available for browsing.<p>
<hr width=30%>
<h4>Development Community</h4>
The community of developers who work on the server source code use a mailing
list to coordinate the work. To join this mailing list, send a message to
-<a href=mailto:vanilla-list-subscribe@us.netrek.org>vanilla-list-subscribe@us.netrek.org</a>, no subject or body required.
-The discussions are also <a
-href=http://archives.real-time.com/vanilla-list>archived</a>.<p>
-
-Some developers also occupy the #netrek channel on the IRC openprojects
-network, server irc.linux.org.au or koontz.openprojects.net.<p>
-
-<hr width=30%>
-<h4>gum 0.2</h4>
-
-The server control GUI is under development. This program is for use by
-administrators of servers and provides:
-<ul>
-<li>maintenance of the server .ports file,
-<li>maintenance of the server .sysdef file,
-<li>control of the process that accepts client connections.
-</ul><p>
-
-Some <a href=gum/shots/>screen shots</a> may be interesting.
-The code is beta and is available from CVS as module "gum".<p>
+<a href=mailto:vanilla-list-subscribe@us.netrek.org>vanilla-list-subscribe@us.netrek.org</a>,
+no subject or body required.
+The discussions are also
+<a href=http://archives.real-time.com/vanilla-list>archived</a>.<p>
+
+Some developers also occupy the #netrek channel on the IRC
+openprojects network, server irc.linux.org.au or
+koontz.openprojects.net. Quozl, Basic and Unbelver are the usual
+occupants and can assist with development or installation issues.<p>
<hr width=30%>
<h4>Futures</h4>
@@ -178,20 +129,16 @@
<li>improved ejection logic, to promote proper use and to assist in training
those who are ejected,
-<li>implement the LTD stats package,
-<i>(done, final testing needed, July 1999)</i>
+<li>test the LTD stats package,
<li>embed server within client for offline practice,
-<li>prepare binary RPMs for Red Hat Linux users,
-<i>(in progress, July 1999)</i>
-<li>finish port to Microsoft Windows.
</ul><p>
If you wish to assist, please join the mailing list.<p>
<hr>
-<a href="http://www.netrek.org/">Netrek Continuum</a>.
+<a href="mailto:quozl@us.netrek.org">quozl@us.netrek.org</a>.
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