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Version 0.96.3 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Fix potential infinite loop when playing sounds with loop start >= end
  (e.g. misc/forcefield.wav from Madfox's kaptlog.zip)
• Fix possible overflow when resampling very big sounds (e.g. gram1.wav
  from the 'A day like no other' mod.)
• Change Sky_ClipPoly to allocate on the heap in if MAX_CLIP_VERTS limit
  is reached (e.g. with lim_daviddg from Liminal Spaces Jam)
• Minor code cleanups. Updates to third party code.
• Thanks to Andrei Drexler, Vincent Sonnier, Alexey Lysiuk, and Jaycie
  Ewald for patches.

Version 0.96.2 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Fix stack buffer overrun Mod_PolyForUnlitSurface: fixes crash when
  loading lim_daviddg.bsp from Liminal Spaces Jam.
• Fix potential buffer overflow in progs global string functions.
• Fix potential buffer overflow in Mod_LoadAliasFrame()
• Optimize BoxOnPlaneSide()
• Reserve enough space in PF_makestatic() for worst case scenarios.
• Improve handling of huge entities in SV_FindTouchedLeafs()
• Warn about bad maps with only 1 or 2 edges per face (e.g.: mj4m?,
  alk_dancing, ej3_bizz, rotj_entsoy...)
• Apply FOV gun scaling for r_showtris
• Sliders with visible values in options menu.
• game command now refuses setting a non-existing game directory
• Fix build in C23 mode.
• Minor code cleanups. Updated third party code, e.g. SDL, music
  codecs, etc.
• Thanks to Andrei Drexler, Alexey Lysiuk, Diordany van Hemert, and
  Jaime Moreira for patches.

Version 0.96.1 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Fix demo recording as client-only after connection to server (was
  broken by signon changes in 0.96.0. Thanks to Jozsef Szalontai for
  issue report.)
• Fix potential buffer overflow in COM_Parse(), e.g. with maps with
  oversized 'wad' fields. (Thanks to Andrei Drexler.)
• Minor code cleanups.

Version 0.96.0 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Adjustments to joystick defaults and behaviour. (See the
  "Controller support / Cvars" section in the README.)
• Fix for a mouse grabbing issue on macOS.
• Add missing support for -ip command line option on unix / macOS.
• Backport angled sprites code from FTEQW (spriteframetype: 2, must
  have 8 frames per group.)
• Bump the progs execution runaway loop limit to 16M.
• Add signon buffer fragmentation to fix SZ_GetSpace errors on
  certain maps when using protocol 999.
• Increased MAX_DATAGRAM to 64000 to overcome packet overflows.
• Bump the MAXALIASFRAMES limit to 1024.
• Fix arrays to have proper sizes in gl mesh code, reflecting
  MAXALIASTRIS and MAXALIASVERTS correctly. (fixes SIGSEGV in
  mj4m4/mj4m5.)
• Increased default value of gl_farclip to 65536.
• Increase chase cam target trace distance to allow for chasecam to
  function in large open maps (useful e.g. for the func_vehicle mod.)
• Raised default maximum number of particles to 16384 (can be set
  up to 32768 with -particles on the command line.)
• Fix on-screen keyboard showing up suddenly on Steam Deck when
  starting a map.
• Fix viewmodel interpolation with >10Hz animations.
• Fix a memory leak when exiting game in SDL2 builds.
• Fix a possible crash when handling clipboard data on macOS.
• Fix a potential crash after loading of saved game.
• Fix possible out-of-bound reads when handling progs type sizes.
• Fix Dutch angle VP_PARALLEL_UPRIGHT sprites.
• Fix an issue with lights blending by using 10 bit color depth for
  lightmaps. (For GLSL mode only.) Disable with "-nopackedpixels",
  if necessary.
• No relative motions when the window is not focused.
• Status bar and intermission screen tweaks.
• Properly display monster counts > 3 digits.
• Fix console animation with scr_conspeed <= 0.
• Fix mouselook not working upon game quickload during a demo play.
• Haiku operating system support.
• Fix console when server is run noninteractively with stdin
  redirected from /dev/null.
• Updated Visual Studio project files.
• Minor code cleanups. Updated third party code, e.g. SDL, music
  codecs, etc.
• Thanks to Andrei Drexler, Alexey Lysiuk, Andrey Budko, Boris I.
  Bendovsky, Chris Cowan, Maciej Olędzki, Simon McVittie, OscarL,
  Eric Wasylishen, Jaycie Ewald and Spike for patches.

Version 0.95.1 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Allow mixing lit and unlit textures in the same map.
• Water texture mipmapping support - fixes glistening effect on
  distant water.
• Fix screen flashes in some maps with AMD's new drivers.
• Defend against zero-sized textures, e.g. __TB_empty in qbj_grue.bsp
• Fix possible file pointer leak in game load code.
• Minor code cleanups. Updated third party code, e.g. SDL, music
  codecs, etc.
• Thanks to 'temx' for his patches.

Version 0.95.0 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Add support for lit water (patch contributed by Josiah Jack, with
  fixes from Eric Wasylishen.)
• Add model scale support -- requires protocol 999. (Original patch
  contributed by Josiah Jack with fixes from temx and Andrei Drexler.
  Thanks to Eric Wasylishen, MH and Spike for useful discussions.)
• Add sv_cheats cvar for 2021 rerelease (patch from Andrei Drexler).
• Clear the startdemo list on game change (patch by Andrei Drexler).
• Try light trace from entity origin first (patch by Andrei Drexler).
• Backport a few fixes to the bundled SDL2-2.0.22 version.

Version 0.94.7 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Fix console history buffer wrapping.
• Fix wrong external texture use after vid_restart.
• Update lodepng from mainstream git.
• Miscellaneous source code cleanups.

Version 0.94.6 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Server protocol size check fixes for sounds and particles.
• An invalid memory access fix in the jpg screenshot writer.
• Basic dependency tracking in Makefiles.
• Backported a few fixes to the bundled SDL2-2.0.22 version.
• Minor build fix for C++ compilers.
• Other small improvements elsewhere in the code.

Version 0.94.5 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Compatibility with new SDL2 versioning scheme.
• Revised min/max/clamp macros' usage.
• Fixed a potential undefined behavior in R_DrawAliasModel.
• Fixed parsing of the time argument of svc_fog server message. (it
  has been broken for more than 20 years and has never seem to have
  been used.)
• Other small improvements elsewhere in the code.
• Backported a few fixes to the bundled SDL2-2.0.22 version.

Version 0.94.4 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Fixed getting stuck with loading plaque upon attempting to load a
  bad save from the menu
• Fixed SZ_GetSpace server crashes, e.g. in ad_magna or ad_mountain
• Fixed intermission camera angles during demo playback
• Don't reset onground flag on every new server message
• Re-enabled title demos by default (turn off with cl_startdemos 0)
• Don't autoplay next demo after a timedemo
• Fixed bad parsing of cdtrack in hipdemo1 from Scourge of Armagon
• Fixed serverinfo off-by-one nummodels/numsounds for protocol 15
• Support for Quake 2021 update 3
• Implemented quad/pentagram dlights for Quake 2021 rerelease
• Implemented 2021 rerelease localsound builtin & svc_localsound (56)
• Several other improvements to Quake 2021 rerelease support
• Several other small fixes and improvements all over the code
• Updated third party code (SDL, lodepng, miniz, some of the codecs,
  etc.)
• Thanks to Andrei Drexler, 'atsb' and 'temx' for their several
  patches.

Version 0.94.3 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• Handle sky textures with non-standard sizes and warn about them
  (e.g. ad_tears)
• Allow loading textures not aligned to 16 pixels and warn about them
  (eg. the horde2 map of Dimension of the Machine from 2021 rerelease
  update/2.)
• Updated included SDL2 to latest version 2.0.18.

Version 0.94.2 of QuakeSpasm is released.

Changes since the previous version:

• 2021 rerelease: Support for playing the latest update.
• 2021 rerelease: Fix pitch black models in lit areas in DOTM.
• 2021 rerelease: Fix black candles in the DOTM start map.
• 2021 rerelease: Look for QuakeEX.kpf under userdir, too.

Version 0.94.1 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:
- Fixes lightmap issues introduced in v0.94.0 (sf.net bug/50)

Version 0.94.0 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

• Initial support for playing the 'Quake 2021 re-release' content
  (thanks to Andrei Drexler for bulk of the work, Guillaume Plourde
  for Q64 bsp format support.)
• Fix rendering bug when cl_bobcycle was set to zero (sf.net bug/41)
• Fixed buffer overflow with large char skybox names (sf.net bug/38)
• Fixed a missing MAXALIASFRAMES bounds check (sf.net bug/37)
• OpenGL: workaround Intel UHD 600 driver bug (sf.net bug/39)
• OpenGL: merged surface mark & cull optimizations from vkQuake.
• Compensate viewmodel distortion at fov > 90 (based on code from
  Qrack, thanks to Andrei Drexler for the patch.)
• Raised MAX_GLTEXTURES limit from 2048 to 4096 for now.
• Changed 'model has a skin taller than 480' error into a warning
• Reject lit files if they're the wrong size (eg hipnotic/start.bsp
  vs id1/start.lit or just a bsp that no longer has any coloured
  lits, etc)
• External ent files are now versioned using 4 digit crc of the
  original map's ents, like e1m1@c49d.ent, which is much safer. The
  old method (e.g. e1m1.ent) still works but isn't recommended.
• Support for external vis files.
• Save: remove CR/LFs from level name to avoids broken saves, e.g.
  with autumn_sp map.
• Music: improvements to mp3 tag detection / skipping.
• Music: umx loader fix for malformed / crafted files.
• New console command music_jump: Jump to given order in music, like
  Unreal's music change - only for module (tracker) music.
• Updated third-party libraries (music codecs, SDL, etc.) Other minor
  fixes, tidy-ups and protability tweaks.
• Source repository moved to git.

Version 0.93.2 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

• Lightmaps are now dynamically allocated (from QSS), and
  BLOCK_WIDTH/HEIGHT raised from 128 to 256.
• Fixed several uncheked limits that would crash the Slayer's
  Testaments mod (sf.net bug #33).
• Raised MAXALIASTRIS from 2048 to 4096, so that the Slayer's
  Testaments mod works.
• Fixed 'pants' and 'shirt' types so that those textures load
  correctly on platforms where char is unsigned by default
  (sf.net bug #28).
• Windows audio: WASAPI-enabled SDL2 dlls function properly now.
• Update the third-party libraries. Other fixes/cleanups.

Version 0.93.1 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

• Fixed a fog regression which was introduced in 0.93.0.
• Fixed a crash (buffer overflow) with invalid vis data.
• Fixed buttons crushing players in 64-bit builds.
• Change controller movement to use cubic easing by default; added
  joy_exponent_move cvar.
• config.cfg is no longer written in case of a Sys_Error().
• Fixed Opus encoded cd tracks not being recognized as ripped tracks.
• Update the third-party libraries. Other fixes/cleanups.

Version 0.93.0 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

• Raise default "joy_deadzone_trigger" cvar to 0.2.
• Raise console buffer size to 1MB.
• Raise MAX_STATIC_ENTITIES from 512 to 4096.
• Raise MAX_STACK_DEPTH from 32 to 64.
• Raise command buffer size from 8K to 256K to support large configs.
• Remove MAX_EFRAGS and MAX_MAP_LEAFS limits.
• Remove "Loadgame buffer overflow" limit, which could happen when
  loading DP or QSS saves.
• Adjust "exceeds standard limit of" debug warnings to include the
  actual QS limit.
• Change "game" command to now exec quake.rc.
• Change "games" / "mods" commands to list all subdirectories.
• Restore vid_refreshrate from fitzquake-0.85 for SDL2 builds.
• Alpha-masked model support. (MF_HOLEY: 0x4000).
• Invalid skin index now draws skin 0 (WinQuake behaviour) instead of
  blue checkerboard.
• Change default screenshot format to png. The 'screenshot' command
  now supports optional format (tga, png or jpg) and quality (1-100)
  arguments.
• Revert "always run" changes from 0.85.9 and move the QuakeSpasm
  customizations to a new "cl_alwaysrun" cvar: Set to 1 in order to
  scale forward/side/up speed by "cl_movespeedkey" (usually 2), and
  to make "speedkey" act as "slowkey".
• Change "always run" menu option to offer three choices:
  -- off (cl_alwaysrun 0, cl_forwardspeed 200, cl_backspeed 200)
  -- vanilla (cl_alwaysrun 0, cl_forwardspeed 400, cl_backspeed 400)
  -- quakespasm (cl_alwaysrun 1, cl_forwardspeed 200, cl_backspeed 200)
• New "r_scale" cvar. Set to 2, 3, or 4 to render the view at 1/2,
  1/3, or 1/4 resolution.
• New "r_viewmodel_quake" cvar. Set to 1 for WinQuake gun position
  (from MarkV).
• New "find" / "apropos" command, searches for commands/cvar names
  for the given substring (from Spike).
• New "randmap" command for loading a random map.
• New "gl_cshiftpercent_contents", "gl_cshiftpercent_damage",
  "gl_cshiftpercent_bonus", "gl_cshiftpercent_powerup" cvars for
  tuning the strength of specic view blends.
• GL2 renderer: use a GLSL shader for world faces. Fixes reports of
  integrated+discrete GPU laptops having inconsistent fog rendering.
• Fix macOS startup delay (avoid calling gethostbyname() for ".local"
  hostnames).
• Fix memory corruption in PF_lightstyle with out of bounds
  lightstyles.
• Fix crash in BoundPoly with polygons extending beyond +/-9999.
• Fix QS window to stay on the current monitor when changing video
  modes (SDL2 only).
• Fix possible freeze in SV_TouchLinks regardless of what QC does in
  the touch function.
• Fix for maps with empty strings for vector keys (e.g. "origin");
  don't read uninitialized memory.
• Support for Open Watcom compiler.
• Update the third-party libraries.

Version 0.92.1 of QuakeSpasm is released: This is a minor bug-fix release.
Changes since the previous version:

• Fixed large menu scale factors (was broken in 0.92.0).
• Fixed PAUSE key (was broken in 0.92.0).
• Updated some of the third-party libraries.

Version 0.92.0 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

• SDL2 Game Controller support.

• Contrast support with new "contrast" cvar, behaving the same as
  MarkV. It may be a useful alternative to the existing gamma control
  for laptops in a bright environment, etc. Raising contrast gives
  less of a gray/washed out look than raising gamma, but at a
  disadvantage: colors near white get clipped to white.

• RMQ protocol (999) support, adapted from RMQEngine.
• New "-protocol x" command line option. Accepted values for 'x' are
  15 (NetQuake), 666 (FitzQuake, default), and 999 (RMQ).
• New "setpos" console command.
• New "vid_borderless" cvar for getting a borderless window.
• Increased MAX_MAP_LEAFS from 65535 to 70000 and MAX_LIGHTMAPS from
  256 to 512 in order to handle the oms3 map pack.
• Server edicts are now allocated using malloc instead of allocating
  on the hunk.
• gl_clear now defaults to 1.
• Fix items falling out of the world on oms3.bsp on SSE builds.
• Worked around an OSX 10.6 driver bug when using FSAA, which was
  leading to an unplayable HOM effect on the rest of the screen.
• Fix wrong trace endpoint from the tracepos console command.
• Updated some of the third-party libraries. Other fixes/clean-ups.

Version 0.91.0 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

Bugfixes:

• Fix unwanted fog mode change upon video restart.
• Work around Intel 855 bug in status bar drawing with "r_oldwater 0"
  and "scr_sbaralpha 0".
• Fix an obscure GLSL bug where changing gamma would result in the
  screen turning to noise.
• Fix GLSL gamma causing the tiled screen border to turn white when
  "sizedown" is used.
• Fix an alias model VBO renderer bug where a model not precached
  during map start wouldn't be drawn.
• Fix the order of OpenGL context creation and window creation in
  SDL2 video.
• Fix a calling convention issue in windows DPI awareness function
  pointers.
• Fix a random texture recoloring after video mode change.
• Fix a liquid turning to garbage after several video mode changes
  and "r_oldwater 0".
• Fix a wrong alpha-sorting bug introduced in 0.90.1.
• Fix "flush" command not reloading mdl's from disk (bug introduced
  in 0.90.1).
• Prevent a possible buffer overflow in Cbuf_Execute (old Q1/Q2 bug).
• Prevent a possible vulnerability in MSG_ReadString (old Q1/Q2 bug).... read more

Version 0.90.1 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

Bugfixes:

• Fix dynamic light artifact where changing lightmap are rendered one
  frame late (bug introduced in 0.90.0).
• Fix texture memory leak when changing video modes with SDL2.
• Fix rare incorrect mdl lighting on 64-bit builds. (details here:
  http://forums.inside3d.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5620)
• Fix fullbrights turning black after "kill" command (bug introduced
  in 0.90.0).
• Clear all fog values on map change to prevent colored fog carrying
  over to jam3_tronyn.bsp.
• Allow loading saves with } character in quoted strings, fixes issue
  with retrojam1_skacky.bsp.
• Fix viewmodel not lerping on extended-limit maps.
• Fix crash on out-of-bounds skin number.... read more

Version 0.90.0 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

• Fix issues on Windows systems with DPI scaling.
• Unix/Mac user directories support. Disabled by default,
  'make DO_USERDIRS=1' to enable it.
• SDL2 support. Disabled by default, 'make USE_SDL2=1' to enable it.
• Revised keyboard input code.
• Revised/improved the 'game' command, i.e. on-the-fly mod changing.
  It now accepts an optional second argument for mission packs or
  quoth support i.e. -hipnotic, -rogue, or -quoth. For example, for
  WarpSpasm: "game warp -quoth"
• Command line: "-game {quoth/hipnotic/rogue}" is now treated the
  same as -quoth, -hipnotic, or -rogue.
• Console speed now resolution-independent.
• Disabled gl_zfix, which caused glitches and is undesirable for new
  maps. Replacement .ent files to fix z-fighting for several id1 maps
  added to quakespasm.pak.
• PF_VarString buffer bumped to 1024, avoids truncated centerprints
  from the 'In The Shadows' mod.
• Support for opengl non-power-of-two-textures extension (disable
  with command line: "-notexturenpot".)
• Support for OpenGL vertex buffer objects (VBO, OpenGL 1.5 or newer)
  for world and brush models (disable with command line: "-novbo".)
• Antialiasing (FSAA) support (command line: -fsaa x, where x can be
  0, 2, 4, 8).
• Fence textures support.
• Dynamic light speedup. Speedup loading of tga and pcx external
  images.
• Brush model drawing speedup.
• Support for BSP2 and 2PSB map formats.
• Support for Opus, FLAC, and tracker music (S3M, IT, UMX, etc.), as
  compile-time options.
• Music and sfx now mixed at 44100Hz to avoid downsampling music.
  Low-pass filter applied to the sfx if -sndspeed is 11025 (the
  default), to preserve the same sound quality as 0.85.9. New
  -mixspeed option sets the rate for mixing sfx and music, and output
  to the OS (default 44100), setting it to 11025 reverts to 0.85.9
  behaviour. New snd_filterquality cvar, value can be between 1
  (emulate OS X resampler) and 5 (emulate Windows resampler),
  controls the sound of the low-pass filter.
• Better Hor+ field of view (FOV) scaling behavior.
• Better cross-map demo playback support.
• Fix screenshots when screen width isn't a multiple of 4.
• Fix a lighting glitch due to floating point precision.
• Fix a looping sounds glitch.
• Fix a vulnerability in file extension handling. Tighten path
  handling safety.
• Initialize opengl with 24-bit depth buffer at 32 bpp.
• Reset all models upon gamedir changes. (Fixes failures with mods
  using custom content.)
• Fix broken behavior upon gamedir changes if -basedir is specified
  on the command line.
• NET_MAXMESSAGE and MAX_MSGLEN limits bumped to 64000.
• MAX_EFRAGS bumped to 4096, and MAX_CHANNELS to 1024.
• MAX_ENT_LEAFS bumped from 16 to 32 to work around disappearing or
  flickering brush models in some situations. Also, if an entity is
  visible from MAX_ENT_LEAFS or more leafs, we now always send it to
  the client.
• Fix cvar cycle command not working sometimes.
• Host_Error upon missing models. (Prevents segmentation faults.)
• Change sv_aim default value to 1 (i.e. turn off autoaim)
• Add 'prev' and 'next' keywords to the 'cd' command.
• Work around a linux cdrom issue (playback might not start for a
  while after a stop).
• Quakespasm content customization moved from engine-embedded into a
  new optional quakespasm.pak file.
• Version bumped to 0.90.0 (because Quakespasm has a decent life of
  it's own)
• Other fixes and clean-ups.

Version 0.85.9 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

• fixes for several undefined behaviors in C code (gcc-4.8 support.)
• implemented Hor+ style field of view (FOV) scaling, useful for
  widescreen resolutions. configured by new cvar fov_adapt: set it to 1
  and your fov will be scaled automatically according to the resolution.
  enabled by default.
• adjusted string buffers for PR_ValueString and friends to fix crashes
  with excessively long global strings seen in some rude mods.
• toned down warning messages from PF_VarString() a bit.
• fixed fitzquake's map existence check in changelevel (used to leak
  file handles which would end up in a Sys_Error() due to consuming all
  free handles if many maps reside not in pak files.)
• fixes/cleanups in chat mode handling. client no longer gets stuck in
  chat mode upon disconnect.
• mouse grab/key_dest fixes and key cleanups.
• the "speedkey" now acts as "slowkey" when "always run" is on.
• support for demo recording after connection to server. (thanks to
  Baker for a patch)
• corner case fixes in COM_Parse() for quoted strings and support for
  C-style /*..*/ comments.
• changed lightmaps to GL_RGBA instead of GL_RGB.
• better parse for opengl extensions list (from quakeforge.)
• vsync saving/loading fixes.
• fixed pointfile loading.
• multiple cleanups in gl_vidsdl.c.
• Opus music decoding support (as an optional patch only.)
• several other minor fixes/cleanups.

Version 0.85.8 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

* Made Quake shareware 1.00 and 1.01 versions to be recognized properly.
* Fixed control-character handling in unicode mode. Keyboard input tweaks.
* Made the keypad keys to send separate key events in game mode.
* Text pasting support from OS clipboard to console. (Windows and Mac OS X.)
* Support for the Apple (Command) key on Mac OS X.
* Fixed increased (more than 32) dynamic lights.
* Music playback: Made sure that the file's channels count is supported.
* Support for Solaris.
* Switched to using libmad instead of libmpg123 for MP3 playback on Mac OS X.
* Better support for building the Mac OS X version using a makefile, support for cross-compiling on Linux.
* Fixed a minor intermissions glitch.
* Increased string buffer size from 256 to 384 for PF_VarString to work around broken mods such as UQC.
* Restored original behavior for Quake registered version detection.
* Minor demo recording/playback tweaks.
* Minor tweaks to the scale menu option.
* unbindall before loading stored bindings (configurable by new cvar cfg_unbindall, enabled by default.)
* New icon.
* Miscellaneous source code cleanups.

Version 0.85.7 of QuakeSpasm is released.
Changes since the previous version:

* Added support for cross-level demo playback
* gl_texturemode is reimplemented as a cvar with a callback and the
setting is automatically saved to the config
* Fixed execution of external files without a newline at the end
* Reduced memory usage during reloading of textures
* Fixed compilation on GNU/kFreeBSD (Debian bug #657793)
* Fixed backspace key on Mac OS X
* Disable mouse acceleration in Mac OS X
* Worked around recursive calling of the anisotropic filter callback
* Console word wrap and long input line fixes
* Verified correct compilation by clang (using v3.0)
* Several other small changes mostly invisible to the end-user