-Changes to Empire 4.3.30 - Sat May 5 14:12:11 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.
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