I am pleased to release version 4.49 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.
Improvements
- A couple of improvements to the Functions List help dialog.
- Various improvements to the telnet negotiation changes started in version 4.48.
- Upgraded SQLite3 from 3.6.21 to 3.6.22 including FTS3 (Full Text Search) support.
- Upgraded PCRE library from 8.00 to 8.01.
- Upgraded PNG library from 1.2.41 to 1.4.0.
- Now shows the version number of included libraries (such as PNG, PCRE, zLib, SQLite) when opening a world window.
- Now shows some summary statistics when disconnecting from a MUD.
Warning - the changes made in the last couple of versions are fairly major, in the area of handling telnet negotiations. They have been tested, however they may possibly incorrectly handle MCCP, MCP, IAC GA, IAC EOR, IAC IAC, character set negotiation, NAWS, SGA, terminal type negotiation, chat system, colour codes. This version is intended to be tested by plugin authors, particularly those interested in writing plugins that use telnet negotiation, such as ATCP (Achaea), ZMP, and Aardwolf plugins. If you are not interested in such plugins, please do not install this version, in case something goes wrong. Please report problems on the forum as a new bug report, or to the forum thread Suggested protocol for server to client "out of band" messages.
Download
You can view the release notes for version 4.49
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You can download MUSHclient 4.49 now from ...
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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 mushclient449.exe you should get this result:
4c06c1104b6df7b5ea0dc4186b386358
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.
Source code
The source code for this version is available from GitHub:
http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/tree/v4.49
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 v4.48..v4.49 --stat
MUSHclient.dsp | 41 ++++-----
MUSHclient.rc | 8 +-
ProcessPreviousLine.cpp | 4 +-
dialogs/FunctionListDlg.cpp | 21 +++--
dialogs/FunctionListDlg.h | 2 +-
doc.cpp | 31 ++++++-
doc.h | 20 ++++-
doc_construct.cpp | 6 ++
evaluate.cpp | 2 +-
install/readme.txt | 4 +-
miniwindow.cpp | 95 +++++++++++++++++---
mushclient.clw | 10 +--
pcre/config.h | 8 +-
pcre/readme.txt | 22 +++--
png/.gitignore | 1 +
png/readme.txt | 7 +-
resource.h | 2 +-
scripting/functionlist.cpp | 6 +-
scripting/methods.cpp | 7 ++-
sqlite3/readme.txt | 6 +-
telnet_phases.cpp | 210 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
worldsock.cpp | 23 +++++
22 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 180 deletions(-)
Commit log (date order)
$ git log --pretty=oneline --reverse --abbrev-commit v4.48..v4.49
b6d775af Changed version number to 4.49
402d449d Fixed issues in function list dialog
dfae1fbd Experimenting with HSL colours
f9555095 Fixed problems with telnet negotiation
28516936 Fixed problem with trigger fired count being inaccurate
ec3c9d28 Updated SQLite3 to version 3.6.22
bac3a5d2 Increased size of function name for function help / completion
9ac78a6b Updated PCRE and PNG libraries
85a5a183 Fixed bug regarding OnPluginTelnetRequest
92628507 Added library version numbers to the welcome message
5c6585ba Moved version number messages around a bit
f1f5ef2e Added extra stats to be shown on disconnect.
70697d2b New GetInfo selectors for trigger/alias/timer counts
c2a0207f Final changes before release
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