I am pleased to release version 4.34 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.

Improvements

• Added extensive support for "miniwindows". For a great deal more detail see Miniwindows in MUSHclient - Introduction

This release might be considered a "beta" standard release - the extra features are so extensive, that unless you are planning to use them, you may be better off staying with version 4.33 for now. Having said that, if you don't use them, MUSHclient should be as reliable as ever. Any scripters or plugin writers who want to test the new features are most welcome to do so, and post any problems they find on this forum.

Download

You can view the release notes for version 4.34

You can download MUSHclient 4.34 now from ...

• http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/mushclient434.exe (2.25 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 mushclient434.exe you should get this result:

a9ad1433a36440c45a128e459dcf3d8e

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 4.33 are at http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/src/version_4.34_diffs.txt

The md5sum for the diffs file is e8ed5050c1008fa83d2b2cb7f70e5d1c.

Also a new file has been added, http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/src/MiniWindow_v4.34.cpp - this is the source for MiniWindow.cpp as at version 4.34. The md5sum for this file is 3c274af8b63a334ad8b980cb431e0c95.