-Changes to Empire 4.3.30 - Sun Apr 29 18:27:41 UTC 2012
+Changes to Empire 4.3.31 - Sun May 12 16:58:34 UTC 2013
+ * Fix read beyond end of conditional argument on missing operand.
+ * Don't put broken links into info pages formatted as HTML.
+ * Permit ships that can drop depth charges, but not fire. No such
+ ships exist in the stock game.
+ * Consistently require guns for dropping depth charges. Before, only
+ the fire command required guns (since 4.3.12 and before 4.0.6).
+ * Change econfig key rollover_avail_max from 0 to 50.
+ * Make sector production more predictable. Commands production and
+ budget are now a bit more accurate.
+ * Fix bugs that messed up xdump lost and xdump trade on big endian
+ hosts (broken in 4.3.8), and made the server fail during startup on
+ most big endian hosts (broken in 4.3.12).
+ * Build process robustness fixes.
+ * Use "Level: Obsolete" to mark obsolete info pages, and drop "info
+ Obsolete".
+ * Server now uses IPv4 format for IPv4-mapped addresses. Simplifies
+ safe use of econfig key privip.
+ * Server logs a few more network connection details.
+ * Fixes and workarounds for econfig key listen_addr "" (which is the
+ default) when the system has both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
+ configured:
+ - Server accepted only IPv6 connections on Windows and BSDs. Fix
+ to accept IPv4 ones, too.
+ - Except for OpenBSD, where the fix doesn't work. Accept IPv4
+ connections instead of IPv6 ones there, and document how to get
+ IPv6 accepted instead.
+ - Linux systems are frequently configured in a way that makes the
+ server accept only IPv4 connections. Document workaround: use
+ listen_addr "::".
+ * Change fairland island size probability distribution: roll two dice
+ instead of one. This makes extreme sizes much less likely.
+ * Make fairland record the island number in the deity territory.
+ * Fix extension of market bidding time when high bidder changes.
+ Introduced broken in 4.0.7, with insufficient fixes in 4.0.9 and
+ 4.2.0.
+ * Fix market not to mess up ridiculously high unit prices. Has been
+ broken since 4.0.0 introduced the market.
+ * Fix melting of big piles of stuff by ridiculously heavy fallout.
+ Has been broken since fallout exists.
+ * Fix crash on edit s, p, u key 'U' with negative argument.
+ * When a deity builds ships or land units in foreign sectors, they're
+ given to the sector owner. This lets POGO build them, and it's how
+ build works for planes and nukes.
+ * Fix PRNG (pseudo-random number generator) seeding to resist
+ guessing: seed with a kernel random number. If we can't get one,
+ fall back to a hash of high-resolution time and process ID. This
+ should happen only on old systems or Windows. Far worse than a
+ kernel random number, but far better than just low-resolution time.
+ Fairland's seeding used to be low-resolution time and process ID,
+ but regressed in 4.2.20 to just time.
+ * Switch PRNG from BSD random() to Mersenne Twister. This is a is a
+ proven, high-quality PRNG.
+ * Fix tiny error in distribution of some die rolls.
+ * Increase land unit retreat chance and nuclear damage's chance to
+ destroy a nuke by one percentage point, for simplicity.
+ * Merge news items a bit more aggressively.
+ * Fix a year 2038 bug in news item merging.
+ * Retire the nightly build.
+ * New make target check. Just a few tests for now, derived from the
+ smoke test that used to be part of the nightly build.
+ * Really fix accepting connections from "long" IPv6 address. The fix
+ in 4.3.23 could mess up player's host address in player output and
+ logs, and cause extra "Last connection" messages.
+ * Take ship cost into account when picking missile interdiction
+ target. Broken in 4.3.8.
+ * Really fix give, setsector and setresource not to wipe out
+ concurrent updates. The fix in 4.3.27 was insufficient.
+ * Fix setsector not to disclose number of landmines to occupier.
+ * Make capital fail more nicely when the sector is unsuitable. Its
+ argument must now be a single sector. Before, it silently picked
+ the first suitable one when the argument selected several. Has
+ always been that way, and never documented.
+ * Changes to option GODNEWS:
+ - Deity command give could downgrade the deity's relations to the
+ sector owner when GODNEWS was enabled. No more.
+ - Likewise, deity commands edit and setsector can no longer
+ downgrade the victim's relations to the deity.
+ - News enabled by GODNEWS no longer affect news headlines.
+ * Fix bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sweep to again accept a
+ destination sector equal to the assembly point. Broken in 4.3.27.
+ * Fix portability bug in configure test for Windows API.
+ * More user friendly server startup: journal open errors are detected
+ while the server still runs in the foreground, which makes it
+ possible to complain to stderr and to exit unsuccessfully.
+ * Market changes:
+ - Forbid selling conquered populace. Only relevant when the deity
+ allows selling civilians, which is probably a bad idea.
+ - Permit selling military by default.
+ - Forbid selling ships and land units carrying unsalable cargo.
+ * Scrapping ships and land units now spreads the plague
+ * Don't let scrap give away civilians, kill them off instead.
+ * Pilots and air cargo now spread the plague.
+ * Don't let fly and drop give away civilians.
+ * Fix fly to permit flying civs to a carrier in an occupied sector.
+ Broken in 4.2.17.
+ * Don't let planes fly to a carrier without sufficient space.
+ Before, planes that didn't fit were teleported home, which could be
+ abused. Broken in 4.3.17. Almost the same bug was previously
+ fixed in 4.2.17.
+ * Fix tend to foreign ships:
+ - Refuse to tend civilians to foreign ships.
+ - Don't leak friendly foreign ships' commodity cargo.
+ - Continue with remaining target ships after skipping a foreign one
+ when tending a negative amount of commodities.
+ All broken when Chainsaw 2 added tending to allies.
+ * march sub-command 'm' can now sweep own landmines.
+ * Land units no longer sweep allied landmines, except when executing
+ march sub-command 'm'. They don't hit them since 4.3.27. Sweeping
+ was forgotten then.
+ * Fix bmap commands not to parse empty flags argument as "revert".
+ Broken in 4.3.27.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+ * Info page fixes and clarifications.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.30 - Tue May 22 18:34:52 UTC 2012
+ * Disable damage to base sector or ship when missile explodes on
+ launch for now, because damage done to other missiles there can be
+ wiped out in some cases. Broken in Empire 2.
+ * Fix navigate and march not to wipe out concurrent updates.
+ Abusable, but probably not worthwhile.
+ * Fix some buffer overruns in fairland. Has always been broken.
* Fix arm to require nuke and plane to be in the same sector. A
remote nuke got teleported to its plane when the plane moved.
Broken in 4.3.3.
they lost. Bug goes back to Empire 2. Patched partially or
unsuccessfully in 4.2.10, 4.2.12, 4.2.20, 4.3.6, 4.3.10 and 4.3.23.
The race was hard to lose in practice, until an unrelated
- "simplification" in 4.3.32 could get player threads stuck sending
+ "simplification" in 4.3.23 could get player threads stuck sending
output after shutdown aborted a command.
* Idle timeout changes:
- The grace period for clients to complete login and logout is now
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