BZFlag 2.0.16 "No Foolin'" (2010-04-01)
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* Fix command line options in Windows launcher - Scott Wichser
* Fix regression in protocol handling by server - Jeff Makey, Scott Wichser
* Add bullet tails as seen out the viewport - trepan
* Add observer mouse controls for roaming and tracking modes - trepan
* Add the /forceradar client-side command for observers - trepan
* Minor cleanup of source and build system - Jeff Makey
* Explicitly link to the dl library when needed - Jeff Makey
* Remove unused dependency on Xi library - Jeff Makey
* Clarify copyright assignment terms for developers - Jeff Myers
* Allow only one Enter message per player instance - Jeff Makey
* Add TimeLimit plugin - Steven Mertens
* Remove broken vocaliser and obsolete torBlock plugins - Jeff Myers
BZFlag 2.0.14 "This isn't the release you are looking for." (2010-02-15)
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* Add Options -> Display -> AntiFlicker option - trepan
* Add Options -> Input -> Confine Mouse (MotionBox) - trepan
* Adjust advanced ground rendering for texture flicker - trepan
* Change the default stencil bitplanes to 1 to fix stencil shadows and various
other stencil features - trepan
* Backport fix for /idbanlist and /hostbanlist crashes - trepan
* Add support for gcc-4.4 and libtool-2.2 - Jeff Makey
* Update to Microsoft Visual C++ 9 from 8.0 - Jeff Myers
* Update to directInput 8 from 7 - Jeff Myers
* Fix player ghosting failure - Steven Mertens
* Provide API support for using bz_moveFlag on team flags - Scott Wichser
* Add pushstats plugin for future statistics gathering system - Jeff Myers
* Increase restrictions on incompletely joined players - Jeff Myers, Scott W.
* Announce saved file name in recordmatch plugin - Jeff Makey
* Fix buffer overflow in menu subsystem - Jeff Myers
* Fully support glob-style wildcards in hostbans and make name comparisons
case insensitive - Bryan Jennings
* Properly limit maximum message size in /showgroup command - Jeff Makey
* Reset team scores in case of a capture during a countdown - Jeff Makey
* Block spoofed /me messages - Scott Wichser
* Keep flags within the world boundary - Jeff Makey
* Add the "roamView" BZDB variable - trepan
* Change fonts to DejaVu - Jeff Myers, Tim Riker
* Source cleanup - Tim Riker
* /hostban based on hostmask when adns is available - Nils McCarthy
* server option to disallow autopilot - Nils McCarthy
* Bots are smarter - Frank Thilo
* Fixed the little hop on spawn at some sites - Alfredo Tupone
* Fixed issue of players add/removing others from groups - Alfredo Tupone
* Fixed false positive filter matches involving apostrophes - Sean Morrison
* Curing ghost/duplicated/ungetable flag - Alfredo Tupone
* Fixed 0 height flag, no more flags inside buildings - Alfredo Tupone
* Observers see Masquerade tank with their true color - Alfredo Tupone
* Password file now supports callsigns with non alphanumerics - Alfredo Tupone
* Correctly read PNG textures with multiple IDAT chunks - Daniel Remenak
* Add aggressive filtering support for all platforms - Sean Morrison
* Fixed bug that allowed empty callsigns - Frank Thilo
* Allow variable number of team flags per team with +f bzfs option
* bots now fully handle collision check
* Notify players when reassigned to a different team on join
* Allow multiple bases per team
* Alt-Tab & resolution changes do not mess up the screen
* No shooting allowed if OO flag is lost in a building
* Unclean client disconnects are recognized earlier
* Color carried team flags according to their team
* Start of better spawn positions based on tanks
* Various texture improvements
* Add experimental quality setting for enhanced effects
* Increase moon segments for exp. quality
* Stop infinite spawn loop with complex worlds containing big pyramids
* Don't spawn in multiple locations based on multiple r-clicks
* Fix Respawning after non-shot kills
* Relax kick tolerances and soften kick messages
* Remove bad lite effects with Thief steal
* Protect against crashes due to bad shot ids
* Relax flag drop time for speed checking
* Better unresponsive player removal messages
* Let genocided players spawn again
* Many other bugfixes
The ChangeLog is huge. Selected new features include:
* vote based kicking
* tunable game parameters like gravity and world size
* smarter bots
* world weapons
* bzadmin text client
* autopilot
* rabbit game style
* single port networking
And more... please review Changelog for a detailed list of changes.
pkgsrc changes:
o USE_X11BASE not needed anymore.
I'm sorry, only tested on NetBSD/FreeBSD x86, I need more hardware...
