+Changes to Empire 4.3.28 - Sat Jul 16 11:30:53 UTC 2011
+ * Don't let POGO (#0) navigate dead ships, and march dead land units.
+ The ghosts even got sighted and interdicted, and could hit mines.
+ Has always been that way.
+ * llook can't see land units and planes loaded on land units anymore.
+ * Fix board to ignore land units loaded on land units when testing
+ whether a sector can board. Broken in 4.0.17.
+ * Fix transport to reject planes loaded on land units. The plane
+ remained on its carrier. When the land unit moved, the plane was
+ teleported right back to it. Broken since Chainsaw 3 added land
+ units.
+ * Fix lradar not to let land units loaded on land units use radar.
+ Broken since 4.0.0 added trains.
+ * Fix strength to ignore land units loaded on land units. Broken in
+ 4.2.0.
+ * Fix navigate and march to find paths longer than a few sectors
+ again (7 for 64 bit hosts, 3 for 32 bit hosts). Broken in 4.3.27.
+ * march sub-command 'i' now shows number of military and land units
+ loaded.
+ * New server option -F to force start even when state looks bad.
+ Risks crashes and further corruption, but gives deities a chance to
+ fix up a bad game state with edit commands and such.
+ * empdump -x no longer refuses to export game state that looks bad.
+ Gives deities another tool to fix up a bad game state.
+ * Land units loaded on land units fight che again, as they used to
+ before 4.3.26.
+ * When a land unit dies fighting che, land units loaded on it get
+ unloaded, and planes loaded on it die. Before, the update left
+ them stuck on their dead carrier. Impact like the next item.
+ Abusable. Broken since Chainsaw 3 added land units.
+ * The update no longer destroys ships, planes and land units for lack
+ of maintenance. Before, it left any embarked planes, land units
+ and nukes on their dead carrier. In this state, units behaved as
+ if their carrier was still alive, with additional protection from
+ the fact that a dead carrier can't be damaged or boarded. If
+ another unit with the same number got built, it picked up the stuck
+ cargo. The cargo got teleported to its new carrier when the
+ carrier moved. Abusable, but it involves going broke, so it's
+ rarely practical. Slightly more practical before 4.3.6 removed
+ budget priorities. Broken for ships and land units when Empire 2
+ added their maintenance cost, and for planes when v4.3.3 replaced
+ nuclear stockpiles by nuke units.
+ * Fix bogus internal error triggered by navigate and march
+ sub-commands 'r', 'l' and 's'. Broken in 4.3.27.
+ * Fix client not to reject redirections and execute containing
+ non-ASCII characters with a bogus scary warning when using UTF-8.
+ * Fix execute not to mangle non-ASCII characters in the argument when
+ prompting for it while login option utf-8 is on.
+ * Fix handling of non-ASCII and control characters in batch files.
+ * Conversion from UTF-8 to ASCII ate the character following a
+ replaced non-ASCII character. Buffer overrun possible if the
+ terminating zero gets eaten. Could happen in players, read, flash,
+ wall, and execute.
+ * Fix handling of empty commands:
+ - Time used was not updated.
+ - Mortal player wasn't logged off for game hours, game down, and
+ time limit.
+ - Notifications were delayed: going broke, becoming solvent, new
+ telegrams (toggle inform off only), new announcements, capital
+ lost.
+ * Minor tweaks to nightly build.
+ * Server's and empdump's sanity checking of configuration and game
+ state is now more rigorous.
+ * Deity xdump no longer dumps unused countries' realms.
+ * Remove option LANDSPIES. Deities can customize the land table to
+ disable spy units.
+ * Remove option TRADESHIPS. Deities can customize the ship table to
+ enable trade ships.
+ * Configuration table changes (builtin and custom):
+ - Rows must be in ascending uid order.
+ - Omitting rows in tables item, sect-chr and infrastructure is no
+ longer permitted.
+ - Custom tables now replace the builtin table completely. Before,
+ omitted rows defaulted to the builtin version, except at the end
+ of a table. Commenting out unwanted stuff just works now.
+ - Permit custom table product having fewer than 14 entries.
+ - Reject custom tables where customization has no effect (updates,
+ table, meta, all symbol tables) or where it's unsafe (news-chr).
+ - Input is checked more rigorously.
+ * empdump -i fixes:
+ - Don't touch plane file when import fails.
+ - Refuse import of incorrectly sized table instead of silently
+ creating one the server will reject.
+ - Replace old state completely. Before, omitted rows in the dump
+ defaulted to the old state, except at the end of a table.
+ - Input is checked more rigorously.
+ * Fix xdump updates not to dump bogus extra updates.
+ * Fix use-after-free when a plane got shot down or aborted by flak.
+ Broken in 4.3.27.
+ * Friendlier diagnostics in the build command.
+ * Fix build to set nuke's tech exactly like for ships, planes and
+ land units. It's not currently used for anything.
+ * Research required for nukes was slightly off sometimes due to
+ incorrect rounding.
+ * Bridge building required 0.005 tech less than advertised, fix.
+ * "show nuke" now obeys toggle techlists.
+ * Fix "show land s" to show columns xpl and lnd again. Broken in
+ 4.3.15.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+ * Documentation on custom tables, xdump updated.
+ * Info file fixes.
+
Changes to Empire 4.3.27 - Sun Apr 17 11:36:29 UTC 2011
* License upgrade to GPL version 3 or later.
* Fix buy not to wipe out concurrent updates. Can be abused to
* Don't let fighters, SAMs and ABMs intercept while on trading block.
* Don't let missiles interdict ships or land units while on trading
block.
- * Fix client to log long input lines untruncated
- * Fix client crash for long input lines
+ * Fix client to log long input lines untruncated.
+ * Fix client crash for long input lines.
* info subject pages now mark unusually long pages with a !.
* The edit command keys deprecated in 4.3.15, 4.3.17 and 4.3.20 are
now gone.
* Make bestpath work for deities in foreign land.
* More robust savecore example script.
* Fix buffer overruns in the lookout, spy, map and nmap commands when
- WORLD_X * WORLD_Y not a multiple of 16.
+ WORLD_X * WORLD_Y is not a multiple of 16.
* The path command's maps weren't always fitted to the path
correctly. Broken in 4.3.17.
* Land units no longer hit allied mines.
messages. See new doc/unicode for technical details.
* New login command `options' for client/server option negotiation.
See new doc/clients-howto for technical details. The only option
- so far is UTF-8.
+ so far is utf-8.
* emp_client -u now requests UTF-8. This requires a terminal that
understands UTF-8.
* Fix news for land unit defensive support.
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