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LDMud 3.2.11

Version: 3.2.11 Release Date: 19. Mar 2004 Maintained by: Lars "Mateese" Düning E-mail:	Download the source (2.1MB) from - Bearnip (USA) by HTTP (ditto as relative link) Older releases: 3.2.10, 3.2.9, 3.2.8, 3.2.7, 3.2.6.
MD5-Sum: b80a6c9b820a6a8d0d305d5f636c7db9 ldmud-3211.tar.gz

About this release...

While it took longer than expected, here is a mostly-bugfix release of the venerable 3.2 branch of LDMud. The biggest new feature is the addition of TLS (using either OpenSSL or GnuTLS); accompanied by other small improvements.

My thanks go to all my faithful testers and critics - without them I wouldn't have been able to deliver this work!

History

19-Feb-2005 (Lars Duening) -- Release 3.2.11

• Changed efuns:
  • db_*(): mySQL efuns trigger a privilege violation ("mysql", "efun name").
  • get_dir(): New flags GETDIR_ACCESS and GETDIR_MODES to return the file access times and file modes.
  • input_to(): New flag INPUT_NO_TELNET to modify the INPUT_CHARMODE behaviour.
  • input_to(): New flag INPUT_APPEND to queue input_to()s.
  • present(): The argument form (str, n) allows for ids with embedded numbers.
  • tell_object(): The efun can now take an array as second argument, and then calls catch_msg() in the target.
  • shutdown(): Added an argument to set the process exit code.
  • to_int(): The base prefixes '0x', '0o' and '0b' are supported.
• Corrected efuns:
  • deep_copy(): Deep-copying mappings with shared arrays as keys could corrupt memory.
  • net_connect(): On multi-homed machines, the created socket is bound to the hostname given at program start.
  • save_object(): Matching the documentation, the efun really removes a trailing '.c' from the filename.
  • save_{value, object}(), restore_{value, object}(): Some operator closures could not be saved and restored.
• New efuns:
  • tls_query_connection_state(), tls_query_connection_info(), tls_init_connection(), tls_deinit_connection(), tls_error(), tls_available(), tls_check_certificate(): Optional: Support for TLS connections.
• Fixed Crashers:
  • A shadow executing remove_action(1, shadowee).
  • A too-large allocation (like in " "*MAX_INT) no longer crashes the mud unless done in SYSTEM allocation mode.
  • Allocating an array enough elements to exceed the internal numeric limits.
  • Warnings printed during the generation of a closure crashed the driver.
  • The traceback generation was limited by the array limits, and thus could throw an error again.
  • to_array('symbol) caused a crash.
  • An error in save_{object, value}() followed by a GC left behind an invalid pointer.
  • Error while loading an object with a too-long filename.
  • Restoring non-existing (simul-)efun closures created illegal closure values.
  • Specifying a fieldsize or precision beyond the numerical limits in sprintf()/printf().
  • Indexing a 0-width mapping yielded invalid values.
• Language:
  • The macros __FLOAT_MIN__ and __FLOAT_MAX__ gave a too-small range.
  • Float variables without an initializer are now properly initialized to float-0 instead of number-0.
  • New pragma (no_)warn_function_inconsistent to control the handling of function redefinitions which differ in return or argument types.
  • Implemented closures explicitely referencing inherited functions (#'super::fun).
• Runtime:
  • Closures now work correctly when used as mapping keys.
  • The tracedepth wasn't calculated correctly.
  • A 'Command too long' error now also prints the beginning of the offending command as debugging aid.
  • Corrected a number of memory leaks in runtime errors.
  • Corrected a memory leak in MCCP.
  • An error during a call-out causes all pending call-outs for the same user in the same cycle to be re-scheduled to the next cycle.
  • If an ERQ callback accepts an array, the numbers in the array are all positive in the range 0..255.
  • Calls from destructed objects to other objects (including simul-efun calls) elicit a warning.
  • The garbage collection now zeroes out closures found to be bound to destructed objects. The old behaviour was to change them into 'undef' closures.

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