Doomseeker 1.4.0 - Zandronum (2024)

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## [1.4] - 2023-01-21### Added- Upgrade the IpToCountry.dat file format to version 3. The license textwith translations and the database's homepage URL are now embedded intothe database itself.- Server filters can now be saved as presets. (#4079)- A tri-state filter for password-protected servers. (#4008)- A button to reset the game's master server back to default. (#3756)- New command line argument `--basedir` that changes the base directorywhere Doomseeker stores all of its managed files: settings, cache, manageddata. (#3452)- New command line arguments `--enable-plugin` and `--disable-plugin` forusers who wish to force allow or force deny loading of a plugin.- Check if the demo storage directory exists and is writable when demo recordingis enabled. If there's something wrong, warn the user. (#3501)- Granular filters for banned, "refreshed too soon" and not respondinggame servers. (#4002)- The additional files list in the create game box now responds to plus(add empty), minus and delete (both remove selected) keys on the keyboard.- Demo manager now openable with the F3 keyboard shortcut.- Hide/reveal password checkboxes to all password inputs.- Wadseeker: add a bunch of websites to the WAD search list: (#4053) - https://doomshack.org/wadlist.php - https://wads.firestick.games/ - https://euroboros.net/zandronum/wads/ - https://static.dudoomers.com/wads/- Cyprus country flag.- Zandronum, Q-Zandronum: add "Don't count monsters in the 'end level' sectortowards kills" checkbox to the Create Game box. (#4055)### Changed- The portable mode adjusted to truly support carrying Doomseeker ona portable device. The configurable paths will be saved and stored inthe configuration as relative to the location of Doomseeker's executable.If both the games and Doomseeker get placed on the same portable drive, itshould no longer matter under which letter/path the portable device appearsin the system. (#3354)- Refresh the servers in a randomized order rather than the orderin which they were provided by the plugin (ergo: by the masterserver, ergo: sorted by IP). This should be more fair, as the previousmethod favored servers that were in the lower IP ranges.- Updated Flag of Ukraine colors to DSTU 4512:2006. Previously, Doomseeker wasdisplaying the flag of Post-Soviet Ukraine, a design with lighter blue colorshade, from 1991-1992. (#3983)- DemoManager: demo playback can now be started with a double-click or enter.- In case if Doomseeker uses the old version 2 file format for IP2C,redirect the IP2C licensing info to a Doomseeker's webpage instead ofdisplaying anything that was hardcoded at the time when Doomseeker wascompiled and could potentially not be accurate anymore at the time ofviewing. (#3952)- Hide the IP2C update actions in the IP2C updater dialog box if theupdater determines that the local DB is the same as the remote one. (#3731)- When user attempts to join a game without having the game configured,the error box will now have the "Configure game" button instead of just openingthe config box indiscriminately. Also make the related error messages soundless robotic. (#4019)- Buttons for the custom parameters config stay in place, behave morepredictably, have tooltip descriptions. (#3754, #3755)- The master server messages (about the user being banned) will beautomatically cleared when the user starts a full server refresh. (#3584)- Don't count the spectators as joined players when showing how many playerscan still join a game. (#4038)- Doomseeker maintainers info in the about dialog is now labeled as suchand the email links are clickable with the `mailto:` prefix. (#4069, #4070)- Correction of various inconsistencies in the UI (#3676): - Use the standard dialog box buttons anywhere the custom "Close", "Cancel" and etc. buttons were. This will also ensure that these buttons are in-line with the current OS theme. - Use natural capitalization for buttons, etc. - All "Browse directory" buttons will now have the directory icon and an apt tooltip and the title where appropriate. No more mixing between "..." and "Browse". - The "Default" buttons will have the Doomseeker 'D' icon. - The "Clear" buttons will now use the "edit-clear" Freedesktop icon, defaulting to a broom icon if "edit-clear" isn't available; they don't use the same red X that the "Remove" buttons use. - Toggle the visibility of the server passwords in the config with a checkbox as in other places, not with a button. - Make the "Add defaults"/Add/Remove layout the same in both cases. - "Delete" text changed to "Remove" for consistency. - The program arguments help box's title will now include the name of the program. Also add the terminal icon to its main menu action. - The labeled "extra settings" in the Create Game box will end with colons (#4074).- The "Clear" button in the server filter renamed to "Reset filter". (#4078)- The additional files picker in the Create Game box reorganized to reclaimsome vertical space and make it more clear that the buttons next to itbelong to it. (#4072)- Hide the passwords by default!- UI improvements to the server passwords config box.- Plugin API: rewrite the documentation for `DataPaths`.- Wadseeker: make the "managed data" directory (Local) the default forWAD downloads.- Wadseeker: added `sigil_shreds` and `sigil_shreds_compat` to thelist of forbidden downloads.- Wadseeker: upgrade LZMA SDK to version 22.01. (#3934)- Odamex, Zandronum, Q-Zandronum: untie the max. clients and max. playerssettings when creating a server. Previously if max. clients was lower thanmax. players, max. clients was increased to the max. players value. NowDoomseeker won't make that correction anymore and just pass both numbersto the games as-is. (#4038)- Q-Zandronum: adapt plugin to Q-Zandronum 1.3.- Zandronum, Q-Zandronum: rely on Doomseeker's internal mechanism tocalculate the ping to the game server rather than using the port'sfeature where the timestamp is sent back in the challenge replypacket. (#3992)- Zandronum: remove the defunct IRC server.### Deprecated- Wadseeker: `Wadseeker::setWadArchiveEnabled()` (#4048)- Plugin API: - `DataPaths::canWrite()`, `DataPaths::setWorkingDirectory()`, `DataPaths::workingDirectory()`, `DataPaths::validateAppDataDirectory()`. - `Server::numTotalSlots()` (#4038)### Fixed- Use signed integers to display the dmflags in the server details. (#3944)- Buffer the messages in the RCon to fix performance issue when manysmall messages arrive. (#4026)- The "Put populated servers on top" option would not be applied to theserver list on program start if disabled. (#3772)- Wrong amount of free server slots was reported if server allowed moreplayers to join the game than clients to connect to the server. (#4038)- Bring up the context menu for the server list and for Wadseeker's WADstable when the keyboard menu key is pressed. (#3671)- Fix the layouting issues with progress bars in Wadseeker's dialog box. (#3707)- When Doomseeker opened a config box for a specific plugin, it failedto show the config page for that plugin, showing a blank page instead. (#4019)- Create Game box: display a proper error message if the game executablepath is empty. (#3839)- Create Game box, server page: fix the spacing of the form when variousinputs are hidden.- Fix imprecise issue tracker hyperlinks in the documentation. (#4063)- Pass all the original command line arguments from the auto-updaterback to Doomseeker after the update is installed.- Auto-updater will now create a log file in Doomseeker's current localdata directory, as intended.- When showing the command line for offline play, the demo recordcommand should use the unmanaged (relative) demo path, not the pathto Doomseeker's managed data storage.- Prevent horizontal scrollbar in the server filter panel by enforcinga minimal width.- The `true` values in the config sometimes interpreted as `false`, leadingto Zandronum's testing builds disabling themselves if user canceled the firsttime configuration. (#4080)- Sometimes the main window of the program was expected to exist even though theopposite could be the case, in which case the program would try to use theabsent main window anyway and crash. One such case was if the configuration boxwas opened from the Create Game box after the main window was closed. Fixed thatby adding some guards that check if the main window is gone. (#4087)- Wadseeker hyperlink in the about dialog made accessible with keyboard. (#4071)- Wadseeker: custom (server-provided) template URLs with the %WADNAME%placeholder wouldn't get the higher priority status that the plaincustom URLs normally enjoy. (#3996)- Windows: updater.exe will use `_splitpath()` instead of `_splitpath_s()`,allowing it to run again in Windows XP where the MSVCRT doesn't have the`_s` variant of the function.- Turok 2 Ex: fix writing beyond the size of the buffer when encrypting thechallenge packets. This used to work in Qt previously but is now deprecated.- Q-Zandronum: set the canonical name of the plugin to `zandronumq`, whichfixes the loading of the translation files.- Zandronum, Q-Zandronum: servers that emitted empty PWAD names in theirchallenge reply would appear as errored because the plugins failed toparse the subsequent MD5 checksum hashes for these PWADs. The pluginswill now sanitize such empty PWADs so that such servers can appearcorrectly on the list. (#3624)- Zandronum, Q-Zandronum: `+compatflags2` not set from the Create Gamebox if the (Q-)Zandronum tab was not selected. (#4088)- Zandronum: fix a failure to parse the version of the game for theservers, which resulted in the dmflags being displayed incorrectlyin the server details and the game's beta builds from beinginstalled. (#4020, #4024)- Zandronum: fix the game setup page (#4055): - "Keep teams after a map change" flag wasn't toggling its corresponding zadmflag. - Add proper voting flags and hide the obsolete for Zandronum 3.0. - Auto-correct the spin boxes in the flags page to the nearest allowed value instead of snapping to the previous one.- Zandronum: update the game icon to Zandronum 3.1's.### Removed- Config migration from Doomseeker 1.1. (#4081)- Wadseeker: Removed Wad Archive support due to the site shutdown. (#4048)- SRB2: plugin deprecated, discontinued and removed from Doomseeker. (#3958)

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