I am pleased to release version 4.53 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.
Improvements
- Upgraded PCRE and zLib libraries
- Fixed a couple of bugs
- Some option-setting functions now take booleans as arguments in Lua
- Added/changed a few obscure things for scripting
- Upgraded InfoBox.lua to the new version supplied by Willfa
- You can now use %N in the "send" box of triggers and aliases, which will be replaced by the label (name or internal name) of the trigger or alias
Download
You can view the release notes for version 4.53
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You are strongly advised to backup (make a copy of) your existing MUSHclient world files before upgrading. Just in case.
If there are any problems, please post messages to the Bug Reports, Suggestions, or General parts of this forum.
MD5 sum for the installer
If you do an md5sum on mushclient453.exe you should get this result:
7bcf6e7708f5a38fbdf8f5b7cde67357
The forum post a small script to sumcheck the MUSHclient download shows how you can write a small script in MUSHclient to do the sumcheck. It also lists some places you can download md5sum.exe to do the sumcheck (if this is the first time you have downloaded MUSHclient).
One way of doing an md5sum is to download the Installer_sumcheck plugin from the Plugins page (RH click that link and "save link as" to get the plugin). Then install the plugin (see the File menu -> Plugins) and type "md5sum" which lets you browse to the installer file, load it, and display the sumcheck.
Message about "Failed to load resources file"
Some users are reporting getting a message like "Failed to load resources file: C:\Programme\MUSHclient\locale\DE.dll - trying English file" when starting MUSHclient (the DE.dll part might be another language like FR.dll).
This will be because you have customized the "locale" of MUSHclient to other than EN (English).
See the How to localize MUSHclient messages into other languages forum posting for more details about localization.
To fix this, find the directory you installed MUSHclient into (eg. "C:\Program Files\MUSHclient\") and then locate the subdirectory "locale". In that you will find a file en.dll. Copy or rename that file to match the missing file in the message (eg. copy en.dll to de.dll).
Alternative suggestion: Go into the File menu -> Global Preferences -> General, and change the field "Locale code" back to "EN" (English) and then it should look for EN.DLL next time.
Warning about Lua 5.1 upgrade
MUSHclient version 3.80 upgraded the Lua script engine from Lua 5.0.2 to 5.1.1. If you are upgrading to this version from an earlier version than 3.80, you should read Version 3.80 released - with Lua 5.1 script engine - this post has recommendations about what is required if you use Lua scripting or Lua plugins. Note: Since version 3.80 was released, the version of Lua has been upgraded. It is currently 5.1.4. Some versions (versions 4.49 to 4.52 of MUSHclient) may incorrectly report they are using Lua 5.1.1 when you open a world.
Warning about upgrading from versions prior to 3.21
MUSHclient version 3.85 (onwards) no longer reads the old "binary" world files produced by versions prior to 3.21. For more information about this please read the forum post Versions 3.85 onwards no longer support world files created prior to version 3.21 - this post has recommendations about how to upgrade your world files if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 3.21.
Note that version 3.21 was released quite a few years ago (May 2002), so people who have recently installed MUSHclient should not have any problems.
Source code
The source code for this version is available from GitHub:
http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/tree/v4.53
You can directly download the source from the Downloads page (http://github.com/nickgammon/mushclient/downloads), or preferably install Git and use the appropriate commands to clone or pull the source. For some suggestions about getting the source from Git see MUSHclient source being made available on GitHub forum posting.
If you install Git, subsequent downloads (of new versions) will be much faster as it only needs to download the changes, not the whole source. Also by using Git you can find out exactly what has changed from version to the next.
Summary of changes in this version
$ git diff v4.52..v4.53 --stat
MUSHclient.dsp | 43 +++++++---
MUSHclient.rc | 8 +-
ProcessPreviousLine.cpp | 4 +-
Utilities.cpp | 2 +-
doc.cpp | 10 ++-
doc.h | 7 +-
evaluate.cpp | 43 +++++++++-
install/readme.txt | 4 +-
lua.h | 11 ++-
lua/InfoBox.lua | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
pcre/config.h | 2 +-
pcre/readme.txt | 6 +-
plugins.cpp | 3 +
regexp.cpp | 55 +++++++------
regexp.h | 12 +--
scripting/lua_methods.cpp | 40 +++++++--
scripting/lua_scripting.cpp | 22 ++----
scripting/methods.cpp | 82 ++++++++++++++++++-
zlib/readme.txt | 6 +-
19 files changed, 405 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)
Commit log (date order)
$ git --no-pager log --pretty=oneline --reverse --abbrev-commit v4.52..v4.53
d668d77 Changed version number to 4.53
2b5dfa1 Fixed reporting of Lua version to be 5.1.4
5a747a4 Clear variable-changed-flag on successful save
bfb6462 Upgraded PCRE to 8.10, fixed possible memory leak in PCRE
eb4880e Upgraded zLib from 1.2.3 to 1.2.5
b73a97e Removed limit of 1000 wildcards in a regular expression
f7ab822 Fixes to changes to regular expression handling
1b6558e Over-egging the pudding a bit here
c7989ba A couple of tidy ups regarding strings
db1fd0e Accept wider range of options for boolean for SetXXXOption
a6f49a1 Accept true/false for SetOption, SetChatOption
6226850 Allow nil to be substituted for false in some SetxxxOption functions
f0c83c5 Fixed places where m_CurrentPlugin was not restored in ExecutePluginScript (Lua)
d4408b2 Allow %N for the name of the trigger/alias in send box
a3943a0 Added selectors to GetTriggerInfo, GetAliasInfo to show time taken to match
2387aa3 Added selectors to GetTriggerInfo, GetAliasInfo to show number of match attempts
25e0958 Updated InfoBox.lua module - thanks to Willfa
1d8f377 Removed automatic quoting of 'script_editor_argument'
4eb3c8c Changed release date in readme file
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