I am pleased to release version 4.57 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.
Improvements
- Added plugin Config_Option_Changer to the distribution (this lets you change options which are not in the GUI interface)
- Improvements to Debug ('summary')
- Improved function-name completion (for scriptwriters)
- The default Lua sandbox (in Global Preferences) now does nothing (see http://www.gammon.com.au/security)
- Added a line and hyperlink for "security tips" which is displayed when a world file is opened.
- Added the improved ATCP_Mapper.xml plugin (improvement allows you to do a "mapper where x" to find the speedwalk to any nearby room)
- Upgraded the SQLite3 library from 3.6.23.1 to 3.7.0.1
Download
You can view the release notes for version 4.57
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You are strongly advised to backup (make a copy of) your existing MUSHclient world files before upgrading. Just in case.
If there are any problems, please post messages to the Bug Reports, Suggestions, or General parts of this forum.
MD5 sum for the installer
If you do an md5sum on mushclient457.exe you should get this result:
e72df32f171dae65d11529548b0f5307
The forum post a small script to sumcheck the MUSHclient download shows how you can write a small script in MUSHclient to do the sumcheck. It also lists some places you can download md5sum.exe to do the sumcheck (if this is the first time you have downloaded MUSHclient).
One way of doing an md5sum is to download the Installer_sumcheck plugin from the Plugins page (RH click that link and "save link as" to get the plugin). Then install the plugin (see the File menu -> Plugins) and type "md5sum" which lets you browse to the installer file, load it, and display the sumcheck.
Message about "Failed to load resources file"
Some users are reporting getting a message like "Failed to load resources file: C:\Programme\MUSHclient\locale\DE.dll - trying English file" when starting MUSHclient (the DE.dll part might be another language like FR.dll).
This will be because you have customized the "locale" of MUSHclient to other than EN (English).
See the How to localize MUSHclient messages into other languages forum posting for more details about localization.
To fix this, find the directory you installed MUSHclient into (eg. "C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\") and then locate the subdirectory "locale". In that you will find a file en.dll. Copy or rename that file to match the missing file in the message (eg. copy en.dll to de.dll).
Alternative suggestion: Go into the File menu -> Global Preferences -> General, and change the field "Locale code" back to "EN" (English) and then it should look for EN.DLL next time.
Warning about Lua 5.1 upgrade
MUSHclient version 3.80 upgraded the Lua script engine from Lua 5.0.2 to 5.1.1. If you are upgrading to this version from an earlier version than 3.80, you should read Version 3.80 released - with Lua 5.1 script engine - this post has recommendations about what is required if you use Lua scripting or Lua plugins. Note: Since version 3.80 was released, the version of Lua has been upgraded. It is currently 5.1.4. Some versions (versions 4.49 to 4.52 of MUSHclient) may incorrectly report they are using Lua 5.1.1 when you open a world.
Warning about upgrading from versions prior to 3.21
MUSHclient version 3.85 (onwards) no longer reads the old "binary" world files produced by versions prior to 3.21. For more information about this please read the forum post Versions 3.85 onwards no longer support world files created prior to version 3.21 - this post has recommendations about how to upgrade your world files if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 3.21.
Note that version 3.21 was released quite a few years ago (May 2002), so people who have recently installed MUSHclient should not have any problems.
Source code
The source code for this version is available from GitHub:
http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/tree/v4.57
You can directly download the source from the Downloads page (http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/downloads), or preferably install Git and use the appropriate commands to clone or pull the source. For some suggestions about getting the source from Git see MUSHclient source being made available on GitHub forum posting.
If you install Git, subsequent downloads (of new versions) will be much faster as it only needs to download the changes, not the whole source. Also by using Git you can find out exactly what has changed from version to the next.
Summary of changes in this version
$ git diff v4.56..v4.57 --stat
MUSHclient.rc | 8 +-
dialogs/CompleteWordDlg.cpp | 19 +-
dialogs/CompleteWordDlg.h | 1 +
dialogs/FunctionListDlg.cpp | 8 +-
dialogs/world_prefs/prefspropertypages.cpp | 11 +-
doc.cpp | 22 +-
doc.h | 19 +-
doc_construct.cpp | 13 +-
globalregistryoptions.cpp | 33 +-
install/mushclient.nsi | 8 +-
install/readme.txt | 4 +-
lua/mapper.lua | 590 +++++-----
plugins/ATCP_Mapper.xml | 1891 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
plugins/Config_Option_Changer.xml | 242 ++++
scripting/functionlist.cpp | 957 ++++++++-------
scripting/lua_utils.cpp | 21 +-
scripting/methods.cpp | 9 +-
sqlite3/readme.txt | 4 +-
stdafx.h | 6 +
telnet_phases.cpp | 28 +-
world_debug.cpp | 267 ++++-
21 files changed, 3315 insertions(+), 846 deletions(-)
Commit log (date order)
$ git --no-pager log --pretty=oneline --reverse --abbrev-commit v4.56..v4.57
9e3a4b5 Updated version number to 4.57
d1f4b6e Added Config_Option_Changer plugin to the distribution
9afdffb Improved Config_Option_Changer plugin
a3cbe39 Improvements to Debug 'summary'
1d4b17d Improved Ctrl+Tab completion
2b84593 Improved Ctrl+Tab completion
722dbb9 Made Lua sandbox less intrusive, allow DLLs to be loaded by default
5d5764c Allowed for brackets when doing function list help
c30fbea Tidied up new sandbox code
ce229bb Added 'security tips' link when world starts up
5fb48b1 Made link to security page friendlier
30a9621 Changed mapper.lua to make find_paths non-local
a5db3d8 Added ATCP Mapper plugin to the distribution
6ea3fdc Added comment to mapper.lua
65921ff Debug 'summary' will now correctly show variables with newlines in them
f82819a Improved way variables with imbedded newlines are edited
5a4a59a Added light-weight ppi.lua module to the distribution
886c4d0 Reorganized mapper.lua to make layout more logical
ed5ea2c Shows version when you type 'mapper help'
8bb851c Upgraded SQLite3 from 3.6.23.1 to 3.7.0.1
013fcf3 Improved Debug 'summary'
58a8fcc Improved Debug 'summary'
695b098 Final changes before release
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