Up to Main Index Up to Journal for October, 2021 JOURNAL FOR SUNDAY 31ST OCTOBER, 2021 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: WolfMUD v0.0.19-beta.1 released DATE: Sun 31 Oct 15:49:54 GMT 2021 The first beta release of the next WolfMUD, v0.0.19-beta.1, is now available for download[1]. I haven’t made snapshots or beta versions available before[2]. Instead I rely on interested parties to pull the latest changes from the Git repository. The next version of WolfMUD, v0.0.19, will be an almost complete rewrite from the ground up. As a result there there has been more interest from users, and not just developers, who have said they would like access to the work in progress. I don’t expect non-developers to have to mess around with Git and users have said as much. As a result I have made this beta version available, I plan on additional betas and release candidates going forwards. Time to get out the pumpkin again! __ /// / __ __ \ \/ __ \/ _ \/ _ \\/\/\// \ \/\/\/ / HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Main highlights from the release notes: Added - Player commands can now refer to SELF and MY. For example "examine self", "drop my sword", "drop all my weapon". The MY reference currently only works on items in a player's inventory. If a player drops an item it is no longer considered theirs until they pick it up again. Changed - Nearly everything... the experiment branch has moved to the dev branch. Version v0.0.19 will be a complete rewrite of WolfMUD v0.0.18 from the ground up. The only code kept from v0.0.18 is the recordjar package. The text package is mostly intact with some clean-up, Fold has been rewritten. - The zone files are the same as v0.0.18 apart from a few fixed typos. - The Makefile and build files are the same as v0.0.18, apart from a minor tweak for retrieving versions from Git. - The docs directory is from v0.0.18 and may be a little inaccurate. - Existing player files should continue working 'as is'. - Barriers to limit mobiles to an area are not implemented yet. - Player health is not implemented yet. - The player commands HIT, TALK, TELL, WHICH, WHISPER, WHO and /PROMPT are not implemented yet. - The behaviour of some player commands may differ to v0.0.18 and all player commands need to be reviewed. Known Bugs / Issues - The player display when quitting needs cleaning up. - Network quotas are not implemented yet. - IP addresses of players appear in the server log. - Configuration settings are hard-coded and not via a configuration file. - The commands #DUMP, #TELEPORT and #GOTO can be used by anyone. - The #DUMP command output can be messy if there are long "words" that cannot be broken on white-space. - Statistics are not periodically logged by the server yet. - Removal of stop words not implemented yet. This means "examine apple" will work while "examine the apple" will not. -- Diddymus [1] Download area: ../../../downloads/ [2] Actually, a decade ago I made three prototypes available. Do they count? Up to Main Index Up to Journal for October, 2021