+Changes to Empire 4.3.1 - Sat Apr 15 11:40:47 UTC 2006
+ * Fix check of game state on server startup (new in 4.3.0).
+ * sail now accepts a destination sector.
+ * Tend could send bogus bulletins (broken in 4.3.0).
+ * Plug memory leaks in mission command.
+ * Close loophole in navigate that allowed players to find all sectors
+ that are unfriendly or inefficient harbors or bridges.
+ * Server didn't start when default econfig was missing and user
+ didn't supply one with -e (broken in 4.3.0).
+ * Retreat condition 'h' (helpless) never worked, fix.
+ * Fix retreating mine sweepers to use mobility for sweeping.
+ * Fix retreating land units to hit mines with the same probability
+ and to take the same damage as in normal movement. Before,
+ hit probability was higher, and damage was lower.
+ * Ships could retreat into sectors owned by whoever made them
+ retreat, but not in their owner's sectors.
+ * Fix 'm' at the movement prompt of transport and test.
+ * Fix march and test not to apply conditionals to sectors mapped,
+ which led to spurious error messages.
+ * Fix break not to respect conditionals. The bug let players keep
+ sanctuaries.
+ * Fix retreat code not to respect conditionals. Attackers could
+ abuse this to suppress fleet and army retreat orders.
+ * Fix retreat and edit to zero-terminate retreat paths.
+ Theoretically abusable for gaining information.
+ * Fix format string crash bugs in load, spy and bomb.
+ * Fix the telegram editor: empty telegrams were broken in 4.2.21, and
+ ~p before the first line of text never worked.
+ * Fix ancient bridge building race condition that could break the
+ test whether the player can afford the bridge.
+ * Fix trade lot change detection in set command. Probably abusable.
+ * The pthread code now compiles under Solaris.
+ * navigate and march now permit any whitespace between route and
+ optional argument for radar, lookout, sonar, not just spaces.
+ * Fix canal navigation (was broken in 4.3.0).
+ * Info file fixes.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.0 - Sun Mar 19 08:13:10 UTC 2006
+ * version no longer pretends option SHIPNAMES still exists.
+ * Remove files auth and ban. They could be used to restrict client
+ address and user. Restricting user is useless, because players can
+ send whatever they want. Banning IPs is better done with a packet
+ filter. That leaves restricting deity IPs. Provide new econfig
+ key privip for that. Apply it to session kill as well as login.
+ * xdump escapes GUINEA_PIGS status:
+ - xdump is now enabled unconditionally.
+ - xdump sect now dumps selector coastal, because it can't be
+ reliably computed from other xdump information.
+ - New xdump realm and country. Realm information is now stored in
+ a separate file, with appropriate selectors.
+ - Reviewed for completeness and information leaks. See info xdump
+ for remaining issues. New treaty selector uid, nat selectors
+ relations, contacts. Removed useless selectors: news and lost
+ uid, nat dayno.
+ - Command syntax changed.
+ - xdump opt is no more, option information is now in xdump ver.
+ - xdump can now dump meta-data.
+ - Header and footer changed to be more compact. You now need
+ meta-data to identify fields.
+ - Bug fixes.
+ - Documentation in doc/xdump.
+ * New econfig key builtindir.
+ * New econfig key custom_tables lets you customize configuration
+ tables without recompiling. Customizing tables other than unit
+ tables is not recommended for now. See doc/econfig for
+ instructions.
+ * Check configuration and game state are sane on server startup.
+ * Remove option NONUKES and NEUTRON. Deities can load a suitable
+ nuke table to get the same effect.
+ * Remove option DRNUKE. Use econfig key drnuke_const to control
+ whether nukes need research.
+ * Disqualify land units from performing missions while loaded on
+ ships or trains.
+ * Fix dump for strings without terminating zero.
+ * Fix login command option not to send an extra prompt.
+ * zdone now displays information about demand update vetoing.
+ * The Windows port now requires Winsock version 2.
+ * Remove econfig key powe_cost.
+ * version report now shows all the configurable settings of interest
+ to players.
+ * carg and lcarg now display people as well.
+ * ldump now dumps civ and uw as well.
+ * Fix dangling pointer dereference in dogfighting code.
+ * Tell sector owner when partisans take over. But don't disclose che
+ casualties then.
+ * emp_server, files, fairland now support options -h and -v.
+ * Simplify baroque version numbering to a single version number.
+ This affects output of version.
+ * New show item and show news.
+ * New build process:
+ - Follow the usual steps: configure; make; make install. The
+ latter is optional. The only file deities still have to edit is
+ econfig.
+ - Use GNU Autoconf for system configuration.
+ - Use GNU Make for portability and features.
+ - Support separate build trees.
+ - Remake out-of-date dependencies automatically.
+ - Remake out-of-date info files automatically.
+ - Flatten info directory.
+ - Formatted info files are no longer distributed in source tarball.
+ - Use LWP only with UCONTEXT. Autoconfiguring the other LWP
+ low-level options doesn't seem to be worth the effort, as
+ UCONTEXT should be pretty portable.
+ * Fix use of freed memory in sail.
+ * sail could let large ships enter big cities.
+ * Fix reject and accept not to require contact.
+ * Fix sharebmap and telegram to prompt for a missing first argument.
+ * Fix report to align column research correctly for deities.
+ * When the optional newspaper argument doesn't work because HIDDEN is
+ enabled, complain instead of ignoring it silently.
+ * When BLITZ is enabled, fairland no longer permutes country numbers
+ in newcap_script so that start islands are ordered from top left to
+ bottom right.
+ * Minimize output format differences between options:
+ - census shows column fall regardless of FALLOUT.
+ - show nuke now shows column res regardless of DRNUKE.
+ - report no longer suppress column status when HIDDEN is enabled.
+ HIDDEN limits status information like for the country command.
+ - relations column width differed depending on option SLOW_WAR.
+ Always use the wider format.
+ * Fix a bug in edit that suppressed the player notification telex on
+ military reserve change.
+ * Fix command dispatch not to let deities use commands that are
+ declared not to be available to them. The only command affected is
+ break.
+ * Fix the list command for visitor.
+ * econfig key m_m_p_d no longer applies to deities.
+ * Fix the origin command for country #0. Allow moving origin to
+ another country's origin. Allow deities to reset origin to
+ absolute 0,0. This turns origin into a superset of the offset
+ command. Remove offset command.
+ * Fix a bug that caused unpredictable flak damage when it should have
+ been maximum damage (was broken in 4.2.19).
+ * Don't store initial capital location, remove the associated nat
+ selectors xstart, ystart.
+ * Fix production command to consider resource depletion.
+ * Fix justification of coordinate output in cutoff and mission.
+ * Option UPDATESCHED is no longer optional. Disabling it didn't
+ work anyway.
+ * Support IPv6.
+ * Turn options into ordinary econfig keys.
+ * New econfig key start_cash.
+ * BTU regeneration now depends on the capital's work percentage.
+ * nation now supports an optional argument that lets deities ask for
+ somebody else's nation report.
+ * Fix nation to display SANCTUARY instead of VISITOR for countries in
+ sanctuary.
+ * Fix capital to let you use a regained sacked capital without
+ activating another one in between.
+ * Don't move capital when it is sacked.
+ * New ship capability canal, replacing obscure formula based on build
+ materials.
+ * You now need a capital to request a demand update.
+ * power now ignores landspies.
+ * Fix LWP stack checking.
+ * Clean up LWP, drop dead machine-specific code, fix portability bugs
+ in UCONTEXT code.
+ * census now shows the old owner instead of `*'. dump is unchanged
+ to avoid breaking clients.
+ * peek no longer prints the old owner.
+ * When a bombed land unit retreated, collateral damage was applied to
+ the wrong sector.
+ * paradrop, drop and fly can no longer abandon the base sector.
+ * Tending foreign ships now sends a bulletin to the owner.
+ * Fix bug that permitted login for inactive countries, including ""
+ * Fix tend for spies.
+ * Change launch to fire all missiles selected at the same target.
+ Previously, it prompted for a new target after each missile.
+ * add, consider, build, launch and fire no longer re-prompt when
+ supplied with a bad argument, they just fail. Consequently, the
+ build command no longer lets you list types you can build. It
+ points to the show command instead.
+ * Fix add not to truncate country number.
+ * Fix selector coastal to be accurate at all times.
+ * Fix obscure bug in fairland: the sector added last to an island
+ wasn't considered coastal. Affected resource computation.
+ * Fix sector wiping in add command.
+ * Remove options NO_LCMS, NO_HCMS, NO_OIL. They were broken in many
+ ways. Custom configuration tables should become a serviceable
+ replacement eventually.
+ * Client no longer freezes on long lines of server output.
+ * Fix uninitialized signal mask bugs.
+ * Fix Windows service code's treatment of -e.
+ * Sub interdiction disclosed sub owner through news' actor selector.
+ * country reports on all countries, but carefully limits information
+ disclosed to mortals. Output format changed.
+ * Market no longer forces sellers to grant loans.
+ * Fix potential crash bug in set command. Friendlier prompt and
+ diagnostics.
+ * Substantial code cleanup and portability fixes.
+ * Extend empfile abstraction to cover game configuration.
+ * Overhaul of game state storage.
+ * The above includes major contributions from Ron Koenderink. Many
+ thanks!
+
+Changes to Empire 4.2.23 - Sun Oct 23 09:28:26 UTC 2005
+ * Make version pretend option SHIPNAMES still exists, for the benefit
+ of clients that still depend on it.
+ * The change to conv in 4.2.22 could crash or compute incorrect
+ maximum population.
+ * Info updates missing in 4.2.22.
+ * A few code cleanups.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.2.22 - Tue Oct 11 20:23:51 UTC 2005
+ * Log player login, logout and session kill.
+ * Close loophole in assembly point rules that allowed players to find
+ all unowned sectors. The assembly point must now be owned by you
+ or an ally, or you or an ally must have a ship there.
+ * Don't let embarked land units fire flak.
+ * Fix display of the last connection's host when the host name was
+ not resolved.
+ * Fix change command to accept full length representative (password),
+ currently 19 characters. It used to chop off after eight
+ characters.
+ * Non-recon missions no longer establish contact to owners of
+ overflown sectors, because those missions do not identify the
+ owner. This matches info Hidden.
+ * The following events now establish contact:
+ - Catching a spy
+ - Sighting a ship when toggle coastwatch is off
+ - Spotting overflying planes
+ - satellite spotting land units
+ - lookout and llookout spotting ships, planes and land units
+ - Any relations change
+ * The country command's `temporary' state of disorder ended after
+ ten years.
+ * Telegram notifications could get lost in exotic circumstances,
+ e.g. while a second client attempted to connect. Abusable.
+ * Remove option SNEAK_ATTACK.
+ * Fix lboard not to let you board dead land units.
+ * Fix stack smash in bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail.
+ Remote hole!
+ * bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail now deal with EOF
+ correctly.
+ * Fix fly to let the player abort the command at the last prompt.
+ * Client no longer reads execute scripts in binary mode under
+ Windows.
+ * New econfig key listen_address.
+ * econfig key port can now be a service name. Service empire no
+ longer takes precedence over econfig.
+ * Client falls back to compiled-in host only if environment doesn't
+ supply one, not if it can't be resolved. Same for port.
+ * Oil derrick could extract slightly more oil than was in the ground.
+ * test command checked start sector for space and some other things
+ instead of end sector.
+ * convert now silently limits conversions to avoid exceeding maximum
+ population.
+ * shoot no longer limits you to 999 victims.
+ * 4.2.19 broke pin bombing commodities on some platforms.
+ * Don't block on output while update is pending. This is required to
+ ensure the update can abort commands.
+ * Commands submitted while the update is waiting for commands to
+ abort now fail.
+ * The force command no longer waits for the specified time. It
+ starts a scheduling thread instead, just like shutdown.
+ * Correct grammar and punctuation in output of version.
+ * Option SHIPNAMES is no longer optional.
+ * Fix output of qorder and sorder for ships with sail path.
+ * Don't change capital to agribusiness on retake. From Pat Loney.
+ * bdes prompt for new designation was messed up for empty bmaps.
+ * Client now supports pipes under Windows.
+ * Care for subtle Windows socket incompatibilities.
+ * Fix strength command not to lie about units reacting into
+ mountains.
+ * strength now yields the processor periodically, to keep the game
+ responsive.
+ * Schedule commands more fairly. Previously, a sufficiently fast
+ player could starve out the others.
+ * launch assumed plane maximum mobility 127 for calculating when
+ satellites will be ready to use.
+ * Drop support for for DCE threads.
+ * Drop support for pthread implementations lacking pthread_kill().
+ This includes ancient versions of OS X.
+ * Code cleanups.
+ * Minor info file fixes.
+ * The above includes major contributions from Ron Koenderink. Many
+ thanks!
+
+Changes to Empire 4.2.21 - Sat Jul 16 17:51:01 UTC 2005
+ * Don't let threads block on output to another player thread's
+ socket. Such blocking violates basic design assumptions and can
+ cause all kinds of grief. In particular, it causes player session
+ hangs under Windows with 4.2.20. Broken since the introduction of
+ flash and asynchronous telegram notification many years ago.
+ * Threads sleeping until a specified time could return early under
+ Windows. This could cause double-updates.
+ * Fix fallout damage (was broken in 4.2.19).
+ * Fix show sector s (was broken in 4.2.19).
+ * Fix deliver not to deliver friendly civilians into occupied
+ sectors.
+ * Fix mil duplication in board (was broken in 4.2.14).
+ * Fix stack smash in lrange, shoot and execute. Remote holes, and
+ the last one doesn't even require authentication.
+ * Fix crash bug in emp_config parsing.
+ * Fix buffer overruns in turn and shutdown.
+ * Fix second argument of shutdown.
+ * tele and turn now abort on EOF.
+ * Fix display of MOTD and game down message of maximum size.
+ * Correctly support telnet line termination on input. Previously,
+ carriage returns could slip into ship names and such.
+ * Fix flash not to lie about recipients that are just logging in.
+ * Remove obscure login command list.
+ * Convert client from obsolete termcap to terminfo, and clean up
+ terminal handling.
+ * New fairland option -h to print usage information. Improved
+ command line syntax diagnostics. Exit unsuccessfully on unknown
+ options.
+ * fleet and army now copy retreat orders of the fleet's or army's
+ first member with group retreat orders in the same sector.
+ Previously, they used the retreat orders of the first fleet or army
+ member, which is less than useful, and failed to take ownership
+ into account, which is an abusable bug.
+ * New xdump nation.
+ * Fix xdump not to disclose other countries' losses.
+ * Fix exit status of files program when it can't create files.
+ * Support UTF-8 encoded Unicode in human-human communications. This
+ affects MOTD, game down message, telexes, announcements and flash
+ 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.
+ * emp_client -u now requests UTF-8. This requires a terminal that
+ understands UTF-8.
+ * Fix news for land unit defensive support.
+ * Properly mark sea mines hit by retreating ships. Unmark mines
+ cleared by bridges.
+ * Fix diagnostics for unknown selector names in conditionals (was
+ broken in 4.2.20).
+ * Fix selector name clashes: rename ship selector mobquota to mquota,
+ land selector for reaction range limit from rad to rmax.
+ * Fix Windows services for relative file names on command line or in
+ econfig (was broken in 4.2.20).
+ * econfig keys ship_grow_scale, plane_grow_scale and land_grow_scale
+ are now float. This gives deities finer control over maximum
+ efficiency gain.
+ * Fix production command for sectors with 60% efficiency.
+ * Improve syntax of read for deities.
+ * Code cleanups.
+ * Some info topic names differed only in case, which loses on
+ case-insensitive file systems, and is a bad user interface even
+ when it works. Change those names. Rename deity command hidden to
+ peek because its info topic clashed with that of option HIDDEN.
+ * Thanks to Doug Wescott sheep are finally covered properly in info.
+ * Documentation fixes.
+ * Much of the above was contributed by Ron Koenderink. Many thanks!
+
Changes to Empire 4.2.20 - Tue Mar 22 21:07:18 UTC 2005
* When units in different sectors marched, only units in the sector
with the highest-numbered unit were interdicted. A marching
Other programs only support -e. Remove option -D. Use -e
DIR/econfig instead of -D DIR.
* New server option -v shows version information.
- * Fix the server's exit status with -h broken in 4.2.19.
+ * Fix the server's exit status with -h. Broken in 4.2.19.
* The linux-pthreads build failed to shut down on signals.
* Fix threading bugs in the native Windows build that made shutdown
unsafe and screwed up update aborting commands.
* Added sstat command to list the statistics of your ships.
* Added nmap command to show a map of your sectors after their new
designations have taken place.
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