1.10 Releases

The 1.10.x series had 5 releases total.

Release Version:	Release Date:
BZFlag 1.10.0	12/09/2003
BZFlag 1.10.2	12/23/2003
BZFlag 1.10.4	01/24/2004
BZFlag 1.10.6	05/14/2004
BZFlag 1.10.8	10/05/2004

1.10.0

BZFlag version 1.10.0 is a version of the BZFlag game that was released on 2003-12-09 under the title "Break the world".

• control spawn on buildings with -sb - Frank Thilo
• Initial Docbook documentation - Sean Morrison
• Persistent bans with -banfile <filename> - Lars Luthman
• Streamroll collision detection is now compressed in height - Alfredo Tupone
• Rendering options are actuated immediately - Alfredo Tupone
• Height of base thickness (in world files) goes over the wire - Alfredo Tupone
• Fixed collision-detection for many cases - Alfredo Tupone
  • falling through floor when lagging
  • being stuck when tank expands
  • shot going into the ground
  • collision with pyramids
• Avoiding stuck on connection - Alfredo Tupone
• Web/Database based list server - Alfredo Tupone, ...
• Fixed bugs in the bzfs manual and the bzfs help output - KR (through Lars)
• Save world files from the client - Dave Brosius
• Drop flags on pause after timeout - Sean Morrison
• Set size of shots on radar - Sean Morrison
• Server spawn positions - Dave Brosius
• Added client-side automatic team selection - Alfredo Tupone, Sean Morrison
• Calc jitter based on client timestamps in MsgPlayerUpdate - Frank Thilo
• Add /reset var server cmd - Dave Brosius
• Add /set var value server cmd - Dave Brosius
• improved /ban /banlist added reason and time parsing - Dennis Pedersen
• Shortened GM to 0.95 normal shot (tuneable) - Tim Riker
• tarball now supports "rpm -tb <foo>.tar.gz" - Tim Riker
• bzfs uses 1 port instead of 2 - Alfredo Tupone
• bzflag is officially assigned port 5154 as default - IANA, Tim Riker
• bots (-solo) game is by far more playable - Alfredo Tupone
• Added client-side chat filtering - Sean Morrison
• Configuration files and cache is stored in ~/.bzf/ on *IX - Lars Luthman
• Added team ID to shots for TK reasons (1.9.2) - Jeff Myers
• Changed version numbers to be xx.xx.xx and display the build OS & Date - Jeff Myers & others for auto tools
• Added voting sytem with /poll, /vote, and /veto commands - Sean Morrison
• Added bzadmin - Lars Luthman
• Munitions now bounce off buildings/ground in z direction - Dave Brosius
• World object and -worldsize paramaters - Jeff Myers
• Server side world parm (bzdb) file [clo] - Dave Brosius
• MsgTeamUpdate, MsgFlagUpdate coalesced - Dave Brosius
• Burrow Flag - Dave Brosius
• Observer is a first class team - Dave Brosius
• AutoPilot from 1.8 - Dave Brosius
• Thief Flag - Dave Brosius
• MsgPlayerUpdate now has order, reject ooo packets - Dave Brosius
• Removed old UDP queueing code and headers - Micah Dowty
• Convert closed FlagIds to flexible FlagType's - Micah Dowty, Dave Brosius, Tim Riker
• Add back PNG support from 1.8 - Dave Brosius, Sean Morrison
• Add back BZDB from 1.8 - David Trowbridge, Dave Brosius
• Seer, Masquerade Flags - Dave Brosius
• Don't broadcast single player messages - Dave Brosius
• Customizable map size in maps - Jeff Myers
• Drive and Shoot thru options in maps - Jeff Myers
• Show Team kill score in Scoreboard - Dave Brosius
• Beginnings of flag 'negotiation' - Dave Brosius
• Pass reason in MsgKilled, add support for SR noise - Dave Brosius
• Remove unnessary MsgScore from player to server - Dave Brosius
• Remove old lag pings - Dave Brosius
• BeOS port - François Revol
• Collision detection fixes - David Trowbridge, Jeff Myers
• PlayerId -> ubyte - David Trowbridge, Frank Thilo
• Get rid of reconnect port - David Trowbridge
• Hunt opponent in HUD - Adam Krell, David Trowbridge
• Flag system cleanup - Dave Brosius
• Server-side callsign and improved chat filtering - Sean Morrison
• Rabbit game style - David Trowbridge, Dave Brosius

1.10.2

BZFlag version 1.10.2 is a version of the BZFlag game that was released on 2003-12-23.

• improved transparent proxy support for server - Frank Thilo, Alfredo Tupone
• Stop infinite spawn loop with complex worlds containing big pyramids
• Misc Swear processing fixes - Sean Morrison
• Allow banfile to be empty or not exist
• Don't let zoned tanks flatten Burrowed tanks
• Don't spawn in multiple locations based on multiple r-clicks
• Don't get speed kicked ejecting from buildings due to expansion
• Fix game style menu position
• Take flipz collisions in account for pyramids
• Fix Respawning after non-shot kills (Geno, Self Destruct, etc)
• More caching of BZBD vars - Frank Thilo
• ServerList uses strict http/1.1 - Frank Thilo
• Fix playercounts in rabbit mode
• GM now tracks player in slot 0
• Relax kick tolerances and soften kick messages - Sean Morrison
• Better lag stats - Frank Thilo
• Server-side Autoteam - Sean Morrison, Tupone Alfredo, Frank Thilo
• Remove bad lite effects with Thief steal
• Protect against crashes due to bad shot ids
• Better key binding - Tupone Alfredo, Dave Brosius
• Relax flag drop time for speed checking - Sean Morrison
• Better unresponsive player removal messages
• added kill messages as an option to bzadmin - Lars Luthman
• let genocided players spawn again - Lars Luthman
• auto team is now handled solely in the server - Frank Thilo
• increase averaging for jitter and loss values in lagstats - Frank Thilo
• mrtg script updated - Tim Riker

1.10.4

BZFlag version 1.10.4 is a version of the BZFlag game that was released on 2004-01-24 under the title "not a smurf".

• Allow user to define quickMessages via the menu system - Frank Thilo
• Defaults vars are written to config but commented out - Dave Brosius
• Added -show and -hide options to bzadmin for messages - Lars Luthman
• Added support for more message types to bzadmin - Ian Agar, Lars Luthman
• Added menu w/ BZDB editor and playerlist to bzadmin curses UI - Lars Luthman
• can freeze tod in client, if allowed, via -time hh:mm:ss - Tupone Alfredo
• Allow variable number team flags per team with +f bzfs option - Dave Brosius
• Added private and team chat sounds - Sean Morrison
• Specify a world file on the Start Server menu gui - Sean Morrison
• Server sends warning to privmsg sender to an invalid target - Lars Luthman
• bots now fully handle collision check - Tupone Alfredo
• -filterCallsigns filters email too now - Lars Luthman
• allow multiple team flags per team thru -c 5 - Dave Brosius
• -maxidle handles idle / paused players the same - Frank Thilo
• Added optional density to generated maps - Sean Morrison, Frank Thilo
• Add pause time to /idlestats - Sean Morrison
• Notify players when reassigned to a different team on join - Sean Morrison
• Allow multiple bases per team - Dave Brosius
• Use cyan for observer messages in old console color mode - Frank Thilo
• Config file based auto-identify - Tupone Alfredo, Sean Morrison, Frank Thilo
• List Server checks ip of requesting server - Tupone Alfredo
• AutoPilot does not base path on stealth echo anymore - Dave Brosius
• Alt-Tab & resolution changes does not mess up the screen - Tupone Alfredo
• No shooting allowed if OO flag is lost in a building - Tupone Alfredo
• Killed player stop drifting & clean dirty tank pieces - Tupone Alfredo
• Rabbit score changed and values displayed on HUD - Tupone Alfredo
• Sound samples are resampled since bzflag doesn't - Tupone Alfredo
• Unclean client disconnects are recognized earlier - Tupone Alfredo
• Async communication between bzfs and list server - Tupone Alfredo
• Added bzfs -rabbit option selection algorithm support - Nils McCarthy
• Added the REQUIREIDENTIFY permission - Nils McCarthy
• Added bzfs option to deny clients that do not identify - Nils McCarthy
• Color carried team flags according to their team - Sean Morrison
• Start of better spawn positions based on tanks - Dave Brosius
• PNG image writing for screenshots - Daniel Remenak
• Texture Manager only loads textures when needed - Jeff Myers
• Renamed and reorganized texture resources - Jeff Myers
• BZDB alternate image dir added - Jeff Myers
• Improved transparent proxy support - Alfredo Tupone, Sean Morrison
• Ground Texture Repeat added to BZDB, default increased to 0.1 - Jeff Myers
• Added ability to have and use per-team colored textures - Jeff Myers
• Added support for colored and zoned ground textures - Jeff Myers
• Hunter tanks try to use "hunter" texture if found - Jeff Myers
• Hunter tanks are colored orange color if not using a texture - Jeff Myers
• Menu uses its own image for the arrow, menu_arrow.png - Jeff Myers
• Rename team based datafiles to have the team in the name - Jeff Myers
• Map objects search for colored textures and use them if found - Jeff Myers
• Bases search for colored team textures and use them if found - Jeff Myers
• Added object-specified texture support for tanks & maps - Jeff Myers
• Menu Arrow supports animations - Jeff Myers
• Base wall and top textures - Jeff Myers
• Hunter name used for kill, lock, and info messages - Jeff Myers
• Increase resolution of textures to look better - Jeff Myers
• Add experimental quality setting for enhanced effects - Jeff Myers
• Turn off tank LOD, and ground grid for experimental quality - Jeff Myers
• Add sides to the body of the hightank model - Jeff Myers
• Improve flag texture for high and experimental quality levels - Jeff Myers
• Increase moon segments for exp. quality - Jeff Myers
• Replace flag texture with one from pyBZFlag - Jeff Myers
• Added ability to set flagpole width for exp. quality level - Jeff Myers
• Don't do teleporter fog when roaming as an observer - Jeff Myers
• Pull many world textures from pyBZFlag - Jeff Myers

1.10.6

BZFlag version 1.10.6 is a version of the BZFlag game that was released on 2004-05-14 under the title "the little hop".

• 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
• Support for building BZAdmin with PDCurses on Windows - Daniel Remenak
• Correctly read PNG textures with multiple IDAT chunks - Daniel Remenak
• Add aggressive filtering support for all platforms - Sean Morrison
• bans based on hostmask (/hostban, ...) when adns is available - Nils McCarthy
• Fixed bug that allowed empty callsigns - Frank Thilo
• server option to disallow autopilot - Nils McCarthy
• Bots drive around corners faster - Frank Thilo
• Bots aim better, try to evade shots - Frank Thilo

1.10.8

BZFlag version 1.10.8 is a version of the BZFlag game that was released on 2004-10-05 under the title "lightning strikes back - list server returns".

1.10.8 only included a few small fixes - most noticably the new list server address.

• New list server URL
• Added admin message sounds - Cameron Mandrake, Sean Morrison
• Throw away bad or early links in world files - Tim Riker