2.2 Release

ratlifc@hestia
Tue, 02 Apr 96 07:40:56 -0500

The 2.2 Release of lilyCore will be happening this Monday, April 8th.
If there are any changes which are not in the included list, please submit
bug reports to lily-bugs@lily.org as soon as possible. Also, if anyone would
like to participate in an alpha test, a copy of the Core will be available
on Wednesday, April 3rd. If you wish to alpha, or discuss some aspect of
the release, please contact <release@lily.org>
The review patch being made for Garance this week will be in the alpha on
Wednesday. [fingers crossed!]

Key to CHANGES:
o completed fix
* patch applied elsewhere, not on dev Core
() user who submitted bug report
{} user who requested feature

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2.2
o /blurb's tick counting code was removed
o /group now prints the group name during add and del operations (Rob@RPI)
o /finger-able people have a character in the /who output {thinker@RPI}
o variables are more helpful during errors {brett@RPI}
o sorting order is /set-able for /who-idle-names and /what {Deven@RPI}
o /finger shows only those elements which have a value {??@RPI}
o $player:disc_cleanup() needs a suspend (Isis@RPI)
o /blurb's stupid little personalization was removed {GArrow@RPI}
o `$rebuild users' suspends when it needs to (Isis@RPI)
o `/set idle_threshold' had a misspelling (Isis@RPI)
o `/finger' now processes _ like other commands do (Garance@RPI)
o all of the /who-related commands should use the info/finger flag (brett@RPI)
o in `/set' '(s)' are now programmaticly optional 's' (Coke@RPI)
o help is now provided for "who_order" and "what_order" (Coke@RPI)
o online `/submit' system {Deven@RPI}
o a misspelling in `/alias' is corrected (Coke@RPI)
o a misspelling in `/send' is corrected (thinker@RPI)
o the output of `/alias' is now sorted {Coke@RPI}
o `/ask off' traceback problem resolved (Jordan@RPI)
o sendlist processor now handles the empty string "" properly (Montezuma@RPI)
o MOO escape processing is not longer causing tracebacks (She@RPI)
o go ahead, Ceej yourself, I dare you :) {Ceej@RPI}
o users are prompted to review their detached output automaticly {Ceej@RPI}
o `/how' now shows server stats and a count of discussions _the user_
cannot see {Montezuma@RPI}
o when the server starts up it now properly enumerates the detached users
(Isis@RPI,bp@RPI)
o fixed references to 'player' in some #0 verbs (THANKS! To Achorrath!)
o the '%connected' message is now held until _AFTER_ review is completed
(Shiva@RPI, Nala@RPI)
o `/fast' and `/slow' are now removed since compatilbity in that respect is
no longer a concern (Coke@RPI)
o emotes (both sent and reviewed) had an extra , in them (Ceej@RPI)
o autoreview now uses the proper review timestamp (Deven@RPI)
o `/set autoreview' is now automatically spelled correctly (Whammy@RPI)
o "(detached by accident)" messages are once again sent during redirection
(bp@RPI, happy@RPI)
o web_page is now 70 characters long {Nautilus@RPI}
o brackets are now masked-out characters for `/print' {Montezuma@RPI}
o discussions now properly work with `/oops' when there is a colliding group
or discussion name (Shiva@RPI)
o a substring which matches both a discussion and a user name will now notify
the user of the collision (Deven@RPI,Jordan@RPI)
o admins will see some object counts when they do a /how
o `/ask' now looks ahead to find a discussion name and masks it. {Jordan@RPI}
o To remove a user's question from the queue without giving it the floor use
the `/allow [discussion] user clear' command {Jordan@RPI}
o The `/allow' command is now called `/answer' {Jordan@RPI}
o To grant the floor to people without selecting a question use the `/talk'
command. {Jordan@RPI}
o Code to move users between releases is now available, events are still
not release portable.
o Old $transfer and $xferstat code is gone
o `suspend(0)'s which bracket @property have been removed
o administrators can change the name of a user and unreserve names as well
{Alan@NASA}
o The ? cannot be in a name and is now in the printed exclusion list (Ceej@RPI)
o '\' alone on a line no longer causes a traceback (Aragon@RPI)
o The info message for discussions now indicates it is a discussion being
referenced (FeRD@RPI)
o It is no longer possible to reserve the name 'off' (Derek@RPI)
o "Pseudo" was spelled incorrectly in the /finger command (SamuraiCat@RPI)
o Fingerable information can be cleared with '/finger off' {Raven@RPI}
* Messages you receive should wrap to your terminal size, not the messages
you send! (Nala@RPI)
o When you idle "away" you should not be unidled (Eric@CTron)
o Consulting clients now work properly with a '/who' (bp@RPI)
* new moderated discussions code
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