I am pleased to release version 4.61 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.
Improvements
- Added plugin Automatic_Backup.xml to the distribution
- Added a couple of GetInfo selectors so you can see when the client started, and when the world was opened.
- Improved the filtering for trigger/alias/timer/variable lists in the GUI.
Download
You can view the release notes for version 4.61
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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 mushclient461.exe you should get this result:
d416dd92b09b94c4a0a2ef9fdda790e0
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/v4.61
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 --no-pager diff v4.60..v4.61 --stat
Example_filters.lua | 166 +++++++++---------
MUSHclient.cpp | 2 +
MUSHclient.h | 1 +
MUSHclient.rc | 8 +-
Utilities.cpp | 2 +-
dialogs/world_prefs/GenPropertyPage.h | 2 +
dialogs/world_prefs/genpropertypage.cpp | 3 +-
dialogs/world_prefs/prefspropertypages.cpp | 253 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
dialogs/world_prefs/prefspropertypages.h | 4 +
doc.h | 6 +-
doc_construct.cpp | 2 +
install/mushclient.nsi | 3 +
install/readme.txt | 4 +-
lua/Automatic_Backup.xml | 60 +++++++
lua_helpers.h | 2 +-
scripting/methods.cpp | 18 ++-
world_debug.cpp | 4 +-
xml/xml_save_world.cpp | 2 +-
18 files changed, 438 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
Commit log (date order)
$ git --no-pager log --pretty=oneline --reverse --abbrev-commit v4.60..v4.61
ba65467 Updated version number to 4.61
2702f19 Added Automatic_Backup.xml plugin to the distribution
a81aca4 Added delete of plugin_summary.xml to uninstaller
1da3306 Added GetInfo (305) - when the client started up
baa6353 Added GetInfo (306) - when the world started up
56b59bb Added NAWS status to Debug 'summary'
83b2dd3 Added second argument to filter function (for lists)
9c65986 Removed 'name' from variables filter, not really required
c26cacd Updated Example_filters.lua to use new filter method
b30eebc Final changes before release
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