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I am pleased to release version 4.43 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.

Improvements

• Fixed various bugs, including trigger colour matching, and the Chat system (amongst others).
• The installer now offers to launch MUSHclient after installation.
• The installer now makes the MUSHclient install directory the working directory for the Start menu shortcut.
• The font Dina is now supplied in the installation.
• Fixed problem where SQL errors in the preferences database would open lots of dialog boxes.
• Upgraded the version of SQLite database engine built into the program.

Note: Because of a change to the way the installer works, it may not find your global preferences file. This is probably not a big issue, but if it is you can find the file 'mushclient_prefs.sqlite' and copy it to the MUSHclient installation folder, if it isn't there already.

If you did not recently install version 4.42 you should also read the notes in the announcement for version 4.42 as well.

Download

You can view the release notes for version 4.43

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• http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/MUSHclient_4.43.zip (3.2 Mb).

  This second version (the .zip file) is an "installer-less" version. It is intended for situations where you want to put the MUSHclient directory somewhere you don't have administrator rights to install it to (eg. on a USB drive, on Vista if you are not an administrator, or on Ubuntu, or similar). The zip file contains a MUSHclient folder, and all the usual sub-folders. The preferences are already set up in the mushclient_prefs.sqlite database, with the various folder locations as relative paths (so they refer to sub-folders of wherever you install it). Once you unzip the archive, just execute MUSHclient.exe from that folder. The method I used for creating this "installer-less" version is here.

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.

If you do an md5sum on mushclient443.exe you should get this result:

96402ed1861d26af6d1268662cea066c

If you do an md5sum on MUSHclient_4.43.zip you should get this result:

43693cd502f65b7396a9b0662359a44c

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.

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 diffs for the source compared to version 4.42 are at http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/src/version_4.43_diffs.txt

The md5sum for the diffs file is 37fc7ab633ca5ccf56685fabe367689b.

The diffs file does not include the file sqlite3.c which is 106,738 lines long, or files sqlite3.h, or sqlite3ext.h. These files are identical to the download from the SQLite web site (http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-amalgamation-3_6_16.zip - unzipped) with a few lines added to the front of sqlite.c to suppress warnings and enable Soundex:

// These first few lines added by NJG
// version 3.6.16
#  pragma warning(disable: 4244)
#  pragma warning(disable: 4018)
#  pragma warning(disable: 4049)
#  pragma warning(disable: 4761)
#define SQLITE_SOUNDEX 1

The full source is available from: http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/src/mushclient_4.43_src.zip