Changelog for the Beta Releases
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Where possible, notes in [brackets] indicate when the error was
introduced. Non-specific version numbers indicate the following:
- 2.0 (Introduced in TinyMUSH 2.0.10p6 or earlier.)
- 2.2 (Introduced in TinyMUSH 2.2.5 or earlier.)
- MUX (Introduced in TinyMUX 1.6 or earlier.)
- 3.0 (Introduced in TinyMUSH 3.0 at some point in time.)
The initial beta release was on 9/27/99.
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9/28/99: Beta 2
- Fix: Compilation problem with MEMORY_BASED defined. [3.0]
- Fix: XFREE macro missing argument compiler error. [3.0]
- Fix: Fatal error in let(). [3.0a8]
- Fix: Off-by-one, integer overflow, and bounds-checking issues. Verified
with Purify.
- Fix: Cannot set/reset ROBOT flag on players. [MUX]
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9/29/99: Beta 3
- Fix: Pueblo support works again. [3.0]
- Fix: Structure names cannot contain periods. [3.0a8]
- Fix: translate() works as documented, and handles backslashes correctly.
[MUX]
- Fix: pmatch() correctly handles dbrefs. [3.0]
- Fix: Command switch issues fixed for @mail, @malias, @wipe. [2.0]
- Fix: Side-effect function permissions are checked more thoroughly. [MUX]
- Fix: Double-free issue in switchall(). [3.0a8]
- Change: mix() can take up to twelve arguments (rather than ten).
- Cosmetic: Dealt with a compiler warning in flags.c.
- Docs: Updated mailing list subscription info in help.
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9/30/99: Beta 4
- Fix: @clone correctly copies all flags. [3.0]
- Fix: @open requires the invoker to have contents. [2.0]
- Fix: Parent recursion issues have been prevented in various places. [2.0]
- Fix: parse() checks function invocations in a manner identical to iter().
[2.0]
- Fix: Slaves are reaped with waitpid() so zombies are not created by
@restart (may be Linux-specific problem). [MUX]
- Fix: Signals are unblocked at startup, allowing SIGUSR1 to be invoked
for later instances in restarts. [MUX]
- Misc: The unused parentable_control_lock parameter has been removed.
- Misc: A variety of compiler warnings related to uninitialized variables,
unused variables, implicit function declarations, etc. have been taken
care of.
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10/2/99: Beta 5
- Feature: lstructures() and linstances() functions added.
- Fix: @dbclean has been rewritten, and now works (and is more efficient).
[3.0]
- Fix: Where pow() is used in conjunction with htonl(), it is cast to
unsigned int. This fixes a compilation issue with Linux and gcc -O.
[3.0]
- Fix: Some structures are no longer allocated as lbufs, but are explicitly
malloc'd in a type-specific manner. [2.0]
- Fix: Forwardlists are loaded before startups are run. [2.0]
- Fix: @mail/fwd now explicitly checks to see if a mail message is in
progress. [MUX]
- Fix: INFO now works when used by logged-in players. [3.0]
- Fix: trunc() truncates rather than rounds. [MUX]
- Fix: Dumping and shutdown check to make sure the game is not already
dumping. [2.0]
- Fix: The display of exit destinations for Transparent rooms now handles
"special" exit destinations. [2.2/MUX]
- Fix: Some oddities with attribute renaming have been taken care of. [2.0]
- Fix: The static buffers for Name and PureName are of the appropriate type.
[MUX]
- Fix: Instance name lengths are restricted to half an sbuf. [3.0a8]
- Fix: Startmush handles checking if the game is running in a better manner.
- Misc: The GDBM bucket cache size has been reduced to 1 bucket.
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10/4/99: Beta 6
- Fix: Money is no longer deducted twice when creating an object. [3.0]
- Fix: Another pow()/htonl() fix. [3.0]
- Fix: Various compile-time option #ifdef's cleaned up.
- Fix: Removed spurious spaces in columns() when a string is truncated.
[3.0b2]
- Fix: Cosmetic change to @list textfiles.
- Misc: chown_anything also lets you @chown to anyone.
- Misc: Doubled the size of the function and user function hash tables.
- Misc: Got rid of the SIDE_EFFECT_FUNCTIONS compile-time option, since
you can simply function_access the side-effect functions to 'disabled'.
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10/5/99: Beta 7
- Feature: New conf parameter stripped_flags determines what flags are
stripped when an object is subject to a @chown, @chownall, or @clone.
These commands now take a /nostrip switch, which negates stripping.
For consistency, @clone/inherit no longer preserves IMMORTAL (only
INHERIT).
- Fix: Side-effect function prototypes exist again. [3.0b6]
- Fix: You can no longer set the cost of non-things in @clone (consistent
with other object-creation commands). [MUX]
- Fix: The value of @clone'd objects is now correctly set. (Previously,
all cloned objects had a value, i.e. Pennies, of zero.) [MUX]
- Misc: All @clone switches except /inventory and /location can be combined.
- Misc: @clone/preserve can be used by anyone, but you must control the
original object's owner.
- Misc: ansi() compacts the ANSI codes, and makes a better attempt against
avoiding bleeding.
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10/7/99: Beta 8
- Feature: @cron implemented, providing Unix-style cron scheduling.
@daily has been re-implemented using the @cron facility.
- Feature: Functions that take output delimiters can now take a null
output delimiter, signified by the token '@@'.
- Feature: The examine command has a new switch, /pairs. This shows
paren/bracket/braces-matching in ANSI color. (Based on the engine
from ChaoticMUX's parenmatch() function.)
- Feature: New conf directive raw_helpfile allows the addition of
non-evaluated helpfiles.
- Feature: Added the MUSH Manual to the distribution in helpfile format.
(Thanks to Alierak and sTiLe.)
- Feature: delete(), mid(), left() and right() no longer strip ANSI
characters.
- Fix: SQL queries error out properly when support is not compiled in.
[3.0a13]
- Fix: @clone/nostrip can be combined with all other @clone switches.
[3.0b7]
- Fix: The 2.2 database conversion converts the Builder flag to the
Builder power, rather than just discarding the flag. [3.0a4]
- Fix: Comtitles are terminated with ANSI_NORMAL where appropriate. [MUX]
- Fix: sortby() no longer ignores its output delimiter. [2.2]
- Fix: translate() can handle compacted ANSI strings generated by
ansi(). [3.0b7]
- Fix: hastype() can be used on an object, even if you can't examine it,
since you can type() anything. [MUX]
- Misc: Typecast time_t to int when using it in conjunction with printf().
- Did a diff between ChaoticMUX-S3, and TinyMUX 1.6p0. Derived a suite
of bugfixes and some enhancements, as follows:
- Feature: @function/noeval defines a user-defined function whose
arguments are not pre-evaluated.
- Feature: An ANSI underline code, %xu, has been added.
- Feature: log() can take an optional second argument, the base.
- Fix: elock() obeys the pass_locks power. [MUX]
- Fix: Pool headers are 64-bit aligned. [2.0]
- Fix: Calls to site_check() check the return value ANDed against the flag.
[2.0]
- Fix: The overflow buffer for functions is terminated properly. [MUX]
- Fix: Missed some places where see_hidden should apply. [3.0a14]
- OUTPUTSUFFIX without OUTPUTPREFIX works. [2.0]
- Misc: All calls to abort() log a message.
- Misc: mail() and mailfrom() check arg ranges in the standard way.
- Misc: ANSI defines are used rather than embedding raw codes.
- Misc: No spurious extra args to raw_broadcast() calls.