[xp-a] XPilot 4.5.5beta available for beta testing

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XPilot 4.5.5 is available for beta testing.
You can download it from ftp://ftp.xpilot.org/pub/beta/
or from http://www.xpilot.org/pub/xpilot/beta/.

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This is a summary of changes of release 4.5.5 compared to release 4.5.4.

When more than one instance of a sound was generated in a frame, all those
instances would be sent to the client, causing unnecessary network load and
deafening playback. This has been fixed by eliminating duplicate sounds in
single frames.

Added client support for playing sound through the Esound daemon.

Added a new server option -minItemMass.  This option gives
the mass per carried item for a player.  It's default value is 1.0.
This makes your ship really heavy when carrying lots of items.
Therefore player must become careful which items they pick up
and which ones to drop when they become too heavy.

Jarno van der Kolk submitted a new server option -maxClientsPerIP
which limits the number of clients for one IP address to 2.

Now there is a pause tax of 0.01 point per frame.  This is
to discourage the long pausing of players who have accumulated
a high score.

When the server option cloakedShield was on then deflectors could
not be turned on while being cloaked.  Fixed.  Thanks go to Paul Forman.

Kristian Söderblom contributed several important bugfixes.

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