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1 11th December 2020
2 dopewars-1.6.1 released. This improves the appearance of the text-mode
3 client, adds a British English translation, and fixes a bug selecting sounds
4 from the options dialog of the Windows client.
5
6 6th December 2020
7 dopewars-1.6.0 released. The metaserver, broken since SourceForge moved
8 to HTTPS, should work again. This release also adds support for modern 64-bit
9 operating systems, and newer software libraries such as GTK+3 and SDL 2.
10
11 30th December 2005
12 dopewars-1.5.11 released. This is largely a security bugfix release,
13 fixing a potential exploit against the Windows server when running as an
14 NT serivce.
15
16 24th October 2004
17 dopewars-1.5.10 released. This is largely a bugfix release, fixing a
18 server DOS and some minor bugs in the text-mode client.
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20 7th June 2003
21 dopewars-1.5.9 released. This is largely a bugfix release, fixing a
22 crash on pressing the "drop drugs" button, and adding minor improvements
23 to the text-mode client.
24
25 21st October 2002
26 dopewars-1.5.8 released. The Windows and GTK+2.0 builds now have fairly
27 complete Unicode support. A default set of sounds is now provided, and
28 Windows XP is better supported.
29
30 25th June 2002
31 dopewars-1.5.7 released. There is now sound support (ESD and/or SDL
32 on Unix systems, WinMM on Win32) although you have to provide your own WAVs
33 (musicians take note - if you can provide suitable copyright-free sounds,
34 then they can be included in future releases). Some minor bugs have been
35 fixed, and overall security has been tightened up.
36
37 29th April 2002
38 dopewars-1.5.6 released. This corrects some problems with the GTK+2.0
39 client in non-UTF8 locales, fixes a server memory corruption bug, and adds
40 extra sanity checks to the server to foil cheating clients.
41
42 13th April 2002
43 dopewars-1.5.5 released. The code should now compile with GTK+2.0,
44 and several minor glitches have been fixed.
45
46 3rd March 2002
47 dopewars-1.5.4 released. This fixes bugs observed on the PPC platform,
48 and adds a configuration file editor to the graphical client.
49
50 4th February 2002
51 dopewars-1.5.3 released. This fixes several bugs and annoyances in the
52 Windows version, and supports running the Windows server as an "NT Service".
53 The Unix server is now also more daemon-like.
54
55 16th October 2001
56 dopewars-1.5.2 released. This features a new networking subsystem, with
57 HTTP/1.0 and SOCKS4&5 support, and now has a familiar install/uninstall
58 program for Windows systems.
59
60 19th June 2001
61 dopewars-1.5.1 released. This fixes a few minor bugs, and supports the
62 "new" metaserver on SourceForge.
63
64 13th May 2001
65 dopewars-1.5.0 released. This improves on 1.4.8 by adding a graphical
66 client, and features many security and usability fixes.
67
68 29th April 2001
69 Second beta release of 1.5.0, fixing several bugs that were reported
70 with the first beta.
71
72 9th April 2001
73 Beta release of the new dopewars version, 1.5.0, which features a
74 graphical client, internationalisation, and rewrites of many parts of the code.
75
76 10th September 2000
77 The dopewars project, previously hosted solely at
78 http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/~ben/dopewars/ now has an additional home at
79 SourceForge! This is to allow developers easier access to development codes
80 (by CVS) and to take advantage of SourceForge's mailing lists and forums.
81 Translators are particularly needed for translation of the development
82 version of the dopewars code into other languages!
83
84 2nd August 2000
85 The German translation now has its home at
86 http://www.ideenpark.de/dopewars/. This site also mirrors the original
87 English version of the program.
88
89 28th July 2000
90 A German translation of dopewars is now available, at
91 http://www.rLUG.de/files/dopewars-german/.
92
93 9th July 2000
94 dopewars 1.4.8 released. This features a complete revamp of the
95 metaserver interface - new servers now report game data, such as current
96 number of players and high scores, to the metaserver. Several bugs, mainly
97 in the Win32 networking code, have been fixed.
98
99 2nd July 2000
100 A mirror in the US is now available for dopewars downloads. Follow the US
101 links (as opposed to the UK links) on the download page to download from this
102 site.
103
104 14th January 2000
105 dopewars 1.4.7 released. This now uses autoconf to build on a variety
106 of "odd" Unices, and also "out of the box" under Cygwin (Win32). Servers for
107 which the IP is incorrectly resolved by the metaserver can now set a
108 preferred hostname with the "MetaServer.LocalName" variable.
109
110 31st Decemeber 1999
111 The Polish version of dopewars has moved to http://dresswars.mtl.pl/
112
113 12th November 1999
114 dopewars 1.4.6 released. This fixes a few minor bugs with 1.4.5, and is now
115 also available on the popular Windows platform. A Win32 binary can be downloaded
116 from the download page,
117 http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/~ben/dopewars/download.html.
118
119 8th November 1999
120 A translation of the dopewars pages and dopewars client software into
121 Polish is now available at http://naboo.mtl.pl/~dopewars/.
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123 21st October 1999
124 dopewars 1.4.5 released. Client players can now be instructed to connect to
125 the metaserver, to present a "nice" list of available servers for the user to
126 select from; more configuration options; metaserver almost works with web
127 proxies now.
128
129 11th October 1999
130 Snapshots of the latest in-development version of dopewars are now made
131 available on a semi-regular basis at the main download page. HTML documentation
132 is also now available.
133
134 16th September 1999
135 dopewars 1.4.4 released. This handles connection to the new metaserver
136 automatically, so that the list of dopewars servers can be easily kept up to
137 date. Other minor changes fix small bugs from earlier versions.
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139 15th September 1999
140 Servers can now be registered by completing the form at
141 http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/~ben/dopewars/serverform.html. The upcoming
142 version 1.4.4 of dopewars will be able to handle the connection to the web and
143 the completion of registration details automatically.
144
145 23rd June 1999
146 dopewars 1.4.3 released. This adds many new features (while hopefully not
147 adding any new bugs) such as much better fight handling, and the ability to
148 customise dopewars servers and clients.
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150 16th May 1999
151 dopewars 1.4.2 released. This version fixes numerous minor bugs and makes
152 many small improvements - most noticeable is the support for AI players in
153 multiplayer games (dopewars -c).
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155 28th April 1999
156 Interim release of dopewars 1.4.1b, which fixes a segfault problem with the
157 server.
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159 28th April 1999
160 Interim release of dopewars 1.4.1a, which corrects a few minor bugs in
161 "antique" mode.
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163 27th April 1999
164 dopewars 1.4.1 released. This fixes a bug with the loan shark, which was
165 discovered by several people quick off the mark; dunno how that slipped past my
166 team of beta testers here at Oxford - they're obviously too busy doing "real"
167 work!
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169 27th April 1999
170 First GPL release of dopewars (1.4.0)
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