Dear HyperLobby Members

I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Let the coming year 2011 be prosperous joyful for all of us.

With my warm wishes,

Jiri Fojtasek

Hello all

After a while, next release of HL is done fixing outstanding issues reported by our members and adding few cool features ...

Here is cummulated changelog since lates 4.2.7 release:

Whats new:

• HL now can autostart game in to server mode via commandline option -a. First time you need setup game server options by classic way, then close HL and start it with -a parameter. HL connect to the HL server, register game session and autostart the game in to server mode. When the game exit , HL close itself. This feature is for example usefull to automatically run IL2 dedicated server within HL. This mode is compatible also with instancing.

Bug fixes:

• Do not show gameinfo popup when a mouse button is down. This will fix unwanted gameinfo popup during scrolling player lists with scrollbar.
• Friend list has not been cleared after room change.
• Slotkick has been issued when ignored user tried to use other game session. It was generated strange looking error messages from the server.
• When user is unignored his name may begin with character ?
• User from friendlist cannot be ignored anymore.
• Ignored user cannot be added in to your friendlist anymore.
• Save friendlist and ignorelist immediatly after its changed. It will prevent friendlist and ignorelist loss when HL or system crash.
• Mouse icon missing over player name in chat.
• Optimized network API.
• Fixed startup and profile selection sequence.
• Fixed several exploits.
• When DNS service fail HL will hung during reconnect session.
• Under poor network connection condition or HL server outage HL can leak socket handles during reconnect session.
• When user game end HL may fail reconnect back to HL server.

This release is primary published via HL autoupdate and support to older relases are dropped immediatly, since major bug fixes included.

If you got problems with autoupdate you may download and install this release manually from our download section and please report those issues in to our forum.

Jiri

Hello All

Some connection restrictions has been applied to the hyperlobby server to save bandwidth it consume. Those limits are max of 30 players in chat per HL room. This restrictions are not applied to users than are already in game since it not consume allmost any bandwidth.

Iam sory for this inconvenience, but i refused finance HL only by myself and for this i started HL donation system few months ago. Last moth was not enought to preserve HL service in state it was here for last ten years ...

Jiri

UPDATE: Problem has been fixed and the restrictions has been removed. Thanks guys for your support.

Hello all

Next release of HL is done. This version fixing long standing bug for users using East Asian regional settings and adding few new features.

Full changelog from latest 4.2.3 version:

Whats new:

• Popup menu have new submenu Options. Via Options menu you can show offline friends, disable friends status messages or disable automatic gameinfo.
• Added chat configuration interface. It allow configuration of any HL configuration values by a simple chat command. The commands are:
  
  /qc <item> - show value of <item> in [Configuration] section, example /qc scale will show actual scalling value
  /sc <item>=<value> - set <value> of <item> in [Configuration] section, example /sc scale=1.25 set scale value to 1.25
  /qg <item> - show value of <item> in curent game section, example /qc joinDelay will show time in seconds HL waiting before client session start
  /sg <item>=<value> - set <value> of <item> in curent game section, example /sg joinDelay=20 set wait time to 20 seconds
  
  This feature will help improve users support in future.

Bug fixes:

• HL crash when running with East Asian (China, Japan) Windows regional settings.
• Better error messages when creating HyperLobby data folder fail.
• Friendlist and ignorelist may be created in wrong location, whis can raise some runtime errors during startup.
• Some internal performance improvements.
• Input containing non ascii characters causes HL crash (4.2.6 hotfix)
• Pager messages do not accept newlines (4.2.7 hotfix)

Jiri

Hello all

After 2 weeks next release of HL is done. Its only bugfix release adding ability to adjust new gameinfo system. The problems fixed in this releas has been solved due to requests made by our forum members. Thanks guys.

Changes since 4.2.0:

Whats new:

• Added ability to change automatic gameinfo timing via settings editor, section [Configuration]:
  
  ;Gameinfo timing (in miliseconds)
  ;time to wait before gi show
  giwaitinterval=700
  ;during this period gi ignore mouse move
  giskipinterval=300
  ;timeout after mouse move to hide gi
  gileaveinterval=400
  
  To adjust those values copy them in to [Configuration] section manually or reset the configuration to default.
• autogi=0 in [Configuration] section of the settings will disable automatic gameinfo popup and enable show it via popup menu. This is an unsupported hack and may be removed from future releases.

Bug fixes:

• Installer will remember your last installed location and during autoupdate it will update previuos installation. If you had problem with this, skip autoupdate, download and install HL by standart way and select your destination folder. Next autoupdate will honor that destionation folder automatically.
• The gameinfo sometimes stayed open longer than was supposed.
• Fixes graphical glitches in gameinfo and the menu transitions.
• Optimized difficulty settings repaint in gameinfo.
• Removed ignore/uningnore menu item from games in progress and friendlist popup menu.
• Adjusted gameinfo timing to show the info later and hide sooner.
• TOS has been updated to version 2.0, TOS window is now bigger and content is better to understand.

Since 4.2.x development window is still open work at 4.3.x will delay.

Jiri