will affect you, the player. These were coded as the Wolfpack project,
and bug-reports should be sent to <wolfpack@wolfpackempire.com>.
.NF
-Changes to Empire 4.3.21 - Sun Mar 8 17:23:37 UTC 2009
+Changes to Empire 4.3.25 - Tue Mar 16 20:40:54 UTC 2010
+ * Missile exploding on launch could not damage its base if it was
+ armed with a nuke. Broken in 4.3.23.
+ * When a torpedo attack triggered a return torpedo, the news reported
+ it to be fired by the attacker instead of the defender.
+ * Interdiction attacked submarines with surface-only weapons. Broken
+ in 4.3.24.
+ * Fix a bug in lradar, path, radar, route, satellite, sect and survey
+ that could leak maps to other players. Broken in 4.2.0. Fixed in
+ 4.2.8 for bmap, lbmap, lmap, map, nmap, pbmap, pmap, sbmap and smap
+ only.
+ * files could clobber the game when reading confirmation fails.
+ * fairland no longer rejects small worlds without trying.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.24 - Tue Jan 26 21:29:14 UTC 2010
+ * The client sometimes hung under Windows when the server closed the
+ connection. Broken in 4.3.23.
+ * Fix navigate and march not to crash the server when a path argument
+ consists of a valid path plus whitespace. Broken in 4.3.7.
+ * When a client sent a blank line in the login phase, the server
+ crashed on some systems.
+ * Fix crash bug in bomb, drop, fly, paradrop, recon and sail. Broken
+ in 4.3.16.
+ * Fix bogus internal error on escort, recon, and satellite launch.
+ Mostly harmless, as error recovery worked fine. Broken in 4.3.23.
+ * Stop ship and land unit movement on interdiction even when it does
+ no damage.
+ * When an interdiction did no or only collateral damage, the planes
+ that intercepted it from interdicted carriers used no petrol, and
+ interdicted land units were immune to collateral damage.
+ * The limit for the number of sectors, ships, planes, land units,
+ nukes, and so forth is now large enough not to matter. It used to
+ be 32768 on common machines. The sector limit was introduced in
+ 4.3.12. World x- and y-size are still limited to 65536 on common
+ machines.
+ * News use much less space, and thus I/O. Space was wasted in
+ 4.3.12. Side effects of the change:
+ - Expiry of old news no longer updates news timestamps. Updating
+ timestamps was wrong, because it defeated incremental xdump news.
+ - The empdump utility can no longer update timestamps of imported
+ news. Unfortunate, as it breaks incremental xdump news.
+ * New news selector duration, the time span covered by this news item
+ in seconds.
+ * ABMs failed to charge supplies when their sector was the
+ intercepted missile's target. The stock game's ABMs use no
+ supplies.
+ * Ship anti-missile defense failed to charge shells when the ship was
+ the missile's target.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.23 - Sun Dec 13 16:34:49 UTC 2009
+ * Fix missile interception not to intercept tactical and marine
+ missiles attacking missiles or satellites. No such missiles exist
+ in the stock game. Interception of tactical ABMs could crash the
+ server. Broken in Empire 2.
+ * Missiles missing their target do collateral damage again. Was
+ disabled because of bugs in 4.0.18 for manual launch and in 4.3.16
+ for automatic launch.
+ * News reported victim as actor for sub-launched anti-sat and ABM.
+ * Defense value of missiles vs. ABMs and satellites vs. anti-sats
+ failed to improve with tech.
+ * Fix a bug that let missiles interdict ships outside their op area.
+ This could happen when a group navigating together was partly
+ inside the op area.
+ * Only bomb strategic and launch at sector can use nukes. Before,
+ they could also be used by missions, bomb pinpoint, and launch at
+ ships, but there were several bugs and inconsistencies, and the
+ code was messy. The arm command now rejects marine missiles in
+ addition to satellites, ABMs and SAMs, and clears the mission. The
+ mission command now rejects planes armed with nukes.
+ * Missiles exploding on launch pad no longer set off their nukes.
+ * The launch command now more accurately reports why a missile can't
+ be equipped. It no longer draws supplies automatically.
+ * Manually launched anti-sat now always kills when it hits, for
+ consistency with automatically launched ones.
+ * Don't permit nukes on satellites, ABMs and SAMs. Nukes on
+ satellites could be armed and disarmed even in orbit. Nukes on
+ ABMs and SAMs were lost without effect when their missile
+ intercepted. The stock game is not affected, because its
+ satellites, ABMs and SAMs all have zero load.
+ * Remove obsolete plane capabilities stealth and half-stealth. Not
+ used by the stock game.
+ * Penalize fighter combat value for any load, not just bombs. The
+ stock game's fighters can't carry anything but bombs.
+ * Make bomb work for non-tactical cargo bomber. No such planes exist
+ in the stock game.
+ * Revised cargo plane rules: a cargo flight can be either an airlift
+ or an airdrop now. Airlifts carry more cargo than airdrops. A
+ cargo drop or paradrop with a non-VTOL plane is an airdrop.
+ Anything else is an airlift. This makes paradrop loads consistent
+ with drop loads. Paradrop with VTOL transports now carries twice
+ the punch, and drop with non-VTOL transports hauls less than fly.
+ In particular, the stock game's tr can't drop guns anymore.
+ * Enforce plane selection rules more tightly:
+ - bomb command can select only planes with capability bomber or
+ tactical. Before, other planes with non-zero load flew along,
+ but their bombs were silently lost.
+ - sweep command can select only planes with capability sweep.
+ Before, other planes performed ordinary reconnaissance instead.
+ - drop command can select only planes with capability cargo.
+ Before, other planes flew along but dropped nothing.
+ * Fix paradrop to fail without destroying the paratroopers when the
+ player owns the target sector.
+ * Launching an anti-sat now takes the target plane as argument.
+ Before, it took a sector argument, and targeted the lowest-numbered
+ satellite there. Rather inconvenient when your own satellite masks
+ one of the enemy's.
+ * Remove option PINPOINTMISSILE. Deities can customize the plane
+ table to disable marine missiles.
+ * Ridiculously impotent nukes could do unpredictable interdiction
+ damage. No such nukes exist in the stock game.
+ * The production command could mispredict resource-depleting level
+ production. No such products exist in the stock game. In fact,
+ they'd be highly unusual.
+ * The update could crash or corrupt the game when a (misconfigured)
+ product depleted resource "none".
+ * Revamp the Windows port based on ideas stolen from Gnulib. Share
+ the code between server and client.
+ * Don't log out player when update aborts a command under Windows.
+ Broken in 4.3.20, and not fully fixed in 4.3.21.
+ * Fix accepting connections from hosts with "long" IPv6 address. The
+ internal buffer had insufficient space.
+ * Delay shutdown up to 3s to let player output buffers drain.
+ * Fix a race between main thread and player threads, which could
+ theoretically make the server crash on start.
+ * Clean up synchronization between commands, update and shutdown, and
+ when player threads sleep on I/O.
+ * Clean up the cruft that has accumulated in and behind the empio
+ interface, and, to a lesser degree, the empthread interface.
+ * Fix time difference underflows in pthread and Windows code. They
+ could potentially cause hangs, although none have been observed.
+ * Make budget's "Sector building" line look better.
+ * Make sector maintenance cost configurable. New sect-chr selector
+ maint. Capitals now pay maintenance regardless of efficiency.
+ * Overhaul show sect b.
+ * Fix mine production resource limit for sector peffic != 100. This
+ affects mountains in the stock game, but only with an impractically
+ large number of ETUs per update.
+ * Code refactoring and cleanup.
+ * Info file fixes and improvements.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.22 - Sat Apr 25 11:56:29 UTC 2009
+ * Fix a Windows client bug that could lead to hangs, at least with
+ some versions of the C run-time. Broken in 4.3.11.
+ * Allow building without curses terminfo. Highlighting in the client
+ doesn't work then.
+ * Really fix bomb not to wipe out plane updates made while it asked
+ for pinpoint targets. The fix in 4.3.21 didn't cover escorts.
+ * Fix tend land not to wipe out concurrent updates.
+ * Fix a bug in automatic supply:
+ - Ships with just two shells could fire a torpedo to return fire or
+ interdict.
+ - Ships with just one shell could use their anti-missile defense.
+ - Land units were considered in supply even when they had not quite
+ enough supplies. Such land units could defend without penalty,
+ attack and react.
+ Broken in 4.3.20.
+ * Fix update to take dead units off carriers.
+ * Standalone client distribution built empire instead of empire.exe
+ for Windows. Broken in 4.3.0.
+ * Fix client to abort script execution on SIGINT.
+ * Fix Windows client not to hang on EOF on standard input when that
+ is a tty.
+ * Fix a client bug that could make it hang when EOF on standard input
+ follows an execute command closely.
+ * Seamines under bridge spans were disabled a long time ago, in
+ Empire 2. The drop command refuses to mine there. Change mine
+ command to do so as well.
+ * Seamines under bridge spans were mistaken for landmines by ground
+ combat, land units retreating from bombs, and non-land unit ground
+ movement.
+ * When a bridge tower collapsed, its landmines magically became
+ seamines.
+ * Don't log out player when he interrupts a command. Broken in
+ 4.3.19.
+ * Code cleanup and portability improvements.
+ * Info file and documentation fixes.
+
+Changes to Empire 4.3.21 - Mon Mar 9 21:34:52 UTC 2009
+ * Fix swapsector not to wipe out concurrent changes to the swapped
+ sectors.
+ * Fix a bug in crash dumping that could mess up the journal and, at
+ least in theory, mess up commands info, read, turn, and wire;
+ announcement expiry, and reading of econfig and schedule.
+ * Fix bomb not to wipe out plane updates made while it asked for
+ pinpoint targets.
* When bombing ships with a force containing both planes with and
without capability ASW, the bomb command could fail to report
presence of submarines, and could refuse to bomb ships when there
* Wipe orders when ships, planes, land units and nukes are taken over
violently or given away peacefully. Fleet, wing, army and mission
were already cleared in many, but not all cases. Other orders were
- never cleared: mission op areas (visible in xdump), ship autonav
+ never cleared: mission op-areas (visible in xdump), ship autonav
orders, ship sail path (including ship to follow and mobility
quota), land unit retreat orders, plane range limit, and land unit
retreat percentage.
* 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.
+ * announce, pray, telegram 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.
* Fixed missing -ltermcap in HP/UX build.
* Fixed setsector to limit mobility to 127 not 255 (255 was being caught
later and being reset to 0 anyway)
- * Fixed Sector-types.t to show a '\' instead of a '/' for wasteland,
+ * Fixed Sector-types.t to show a '\e' instead of a '/' for wasteland,
since that is what it really is.
* Fixed retreat.t documentation to reflect the "retreat upon failed
boarding" flag.
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