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Wolfpack Empire 4.3.3 released

This release fixes a security hole and minor abusable bugs. Player visible changes include updated nuke, transport and arm commands.

Deities are urged to use this release for new games. Upgrading mid-game is normally not supported, but upgrading from 4.3.0, 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 to 4.3.3 is, as long as your nuke file is empty.

There is no separate client release 4.3.3, as the client did not change since 4.3.0.

Our pthreads code has known problems with shutdown. In particular, the shutdown command may fail to terminate the server process. So far, this has been observed only with LinuxThreads under Linux 2.4 and earlier. Note that configure prefers LWP over pthreads when both are available, as they are on most platforms.

Solaris /bin/sh has a broken test builtin. Try passing SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH to make.

Attention, client writers: xdump nuke changed; it's now similar to xdump ship, plane and land. ndump changed subtly, see change log.

Posted by Markus Armbruster 2006-05-17

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