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                    JOURNAL FOR MONDAY 5TH DECEMBER, 2016
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SUBJECT: v0.0.2 released
   DATE: Mon  5 Dec 22:29:03 GMT 2016

The next release of WolfMUD, v0.0.2, is now available for download[1].

Main highlights from the release notes:

Added

  - Text folding now has support for Unicode combining characters.
  - Added NONE as a runtime option to not load any configuration file.
    See docs/running-the-server.txt for details.
  - New messages package containing message buffers.
  - Message buffers now support a silent mode.
  - Commands now send coloured messages:
      - Red: Something bad / undesirable happened
      - Green: Something good / desirable happened
      - Yellow: Something informational happened
  - Server greeting can now contain embeded colour codes.
  - Added initial tests for text and message packages.
  - New docs/upgrading.txt

Changed

  - Improved performance of embedded colour codes.
  - text.Dictionary map now protected by sync.Mutex.
  - Message buffers moved from cmd/state to new message package.
  - Message buffers reimplemented, no longer based on bytes.Buffer.
  - Message buffers now use Send and Append methods instead of WriteJoin.
  - cmd/state and frontend both use new message package for buffers.
  - state.script method uses new message buffers.

Fixed

  - Fixed an issue with TELNET clients sending unprocessed strings containing
    DEL (ASCII 0x7F or \b) characters. Using delete in Windows TELNET client
    now works as expected.
  - Text folding should only preserve leading whitespace.
  - Fixed a panic in text.Fold with a width less than 1.
  - Fixed a panic if player only enters stop words.

Known bugs

  - An extra blank line is sometimes appended to the end of the greeting
    displayed when players connect. This seems to be an issue in the recordjar
    package.
  - If Send or Append is used to start a message and only a colour is written a
    subsequent Append will cause a space to be present at the start of the
    message.

Security

  - None :)

This release also contains many other small fixes and enhancements. The
complete list of changes is available in the WolfMUD git repository:


            git clone https://code.wolfmud.org/WolfMUD WolfMUD.git

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Diddymus

  [1] Download area: ../../../downloads/


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