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I am pleased to release version 4.06 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.

Improvements

• A whole heap of changes to scripting functions for managing UTF-8 strings.
• Added a check when in UTF-8 mode (Unicode) that lines from the MUD were actually UTF-8 conformant, because if they were not, all triggers would fail with a "bad UTF-8" error.
• Added a few new selectors to GetInfo, GetTriggerInfo, GetAliasInfo to show if errors occurred during regular expression matching.
• Fixed documentation problem regarding os.date in Lua.
• Added support for duplicate wildcard names in trigger/alias matching, so you can now correctly extract the actual wildcard that matched by name, if there were duplicates.
• Added one-shot triggers and aliases. This lets you set up a trigger (presumably in a script) that only fires once, and then deletes itself.
• Reworked help files considerably, so that (almost) all Lua functions are in a separate page rather than in one big page (eg. each string function has its own page now).
• Added Lua standard functions (plus the MUSHclient extensions) to the auto-complete menu for script entry.
• Added Lua standard functions (plus the MUSHclient extensions) to the Help -> Functions List dialog.

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.

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 about 5 years ago, so people who have recently installed MUSHclient should not have any problems.

Download

You can view the release notes for version 4.06

You can download MUSHclient 4.06 now from ...

• http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/mushclient406.exe (1.90 Mb)

If there are any problems, please post messages to the Bug Reports, Suggestions, or General parts of this forum.

If you do an md5sum on the installer above you should get this result:

ec1c476468e13857073c0256edd37bb3

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.

The Source code for version 4.06 is now available.