[Arianne-announce] Stendhal 0.80 and Marauroa 3.3 released

[Katie R. <kat...@gm...>]

Hi,

Stendhal 0.80 and Marauroa 3.3 have been released!

Stendhal 0.80 introduces a Trade Manager NPC to facilitate
player-player trading, a list of items with their stats, images and
prices for NPCs buying or selling items, new quests for Carmen, Jenny
and Mrs. Yeti, a maze below Haizen's, and /ignore now working for
public chat. For more information please see the changelog below.

Marauroa 3.3 introduces new features: RPEvents can have RPSlots. This
means that events sent from the server to the client can contain more
complex data. Games using Marauroa can now check the structure of the
database using doesTableExist and doesColumnExist in order to update
it. There are also some bug fixes, to make Marauroa more stable, for
example in the case of database errors. Full details can be found in
the changelog below.

Changelog
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Stendhal 0.80
*features*
- Player-to-player trading facilitated by Harold in Semos Tavern
- a maze created especially for you by Haizen
- Help Mrs. Yeti quest
- Herbs For Carmen quest
- Kill Gnomes quest
- Sarzina has nicer answers when asking about your karma
- ShopSigns show item images, price and stats in a popup window
- /ignore <player> ignores public chat from player as well as private
*bug fixes*
- Semos Village and south east of Semos city redesigned to direct new
players better
- '/sound mute on' command is now simply '/mute'
- /mute is remembered across restarts
- fixed unwanted popping up of minimized keyring window
- collision fixes
- entwives are faster, entrance to them has level check
- allowed distance to pass an item on the ground now matches the
allowed distance to throw from bag
- tell the user where the chatlog has been written after they
right-click 'save' it
- black pearl image is larger, in line with the other gems
- /altercreature works
- keyring cannot be used at all till enabled by quest
- add warning if a player is too far away from fish,gold,well source to use it
- order corrected for using/removing scroll
*code*
- use item transformer for loading items
- QuestCompletedSeller and Buyer types
- NPC chat and creature noises using RPEvent
*website*
- nicer urls for subpages on the website
- a new version of the atlas with dungeon entrances:
http://stendhal.game-host.org/wiki/index.php/File:WorldWithMarkedDungeons091122.png
- dedicated testing page on wiki
http://stendhal.game-host.org/wiki/index.php/Stendhal_Testing
- Stendhal Manual on the wiki updated with new images

Marauroa 3.3
- games can now check the structure of the database using
doesTableExist and doesColumnExist in order to update it automatically
- RPEvents can now have RPSlots
- RPObject.getContainer() and RPObject.getContainerBase() continue to
return an RPObject, use the new getContainerOwner() and
getContainerOwnerBase() method to get a SlotOwner object
- properly free transactions in case of exceptions
- fixed a problem which caused parts of messages to be dropped when
the size field was split across two tcp-packets

Happy new year from Arianne RPG!