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I am pleased to release version 4.28 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.

Improvements

• Event handlers such as "world open" or "connect" can now be aliases or scripts.
• Tab-completion now adds a space after the completed word
• New Lua module getworld.lua added to the distribution
• Improved the wait.lua module
• Extensive improved sound support added for playing multiple simultaneous sounds, see: New sound support in MUSHclient
• Fixed bug where if you checked "carriage-return clears line" you might get a lot of blank lines
• New script function SetCommandWindowHeight for scripting the command window height.
• The Lua "check" function is now automatically included in the Lua script space.
• Improved the installer to remove problems with not being able to install various files, like constants.vbs
• New column in the timers list, which shows when each timer will fire next.

Download

You can view the release notes for version 4.28

You can download MUSHclient 4.28 now from ...

• http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/mushclient428.exe (2.2 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 mushclient428.exe you should get this result:

5808dbf11d550a3122038eeec4150641

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.

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.

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.

The Bazaar source repository is at http://www.binarygoblins.com/mushclient/bzr/.

The diffs for the source compared to version 4.27 are at http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/src/version_4.28_diffs.txt

The md5sum for the diffs file is d6e5f811b88b429ec68c7ecd44fd2a19.