- No support for Linux/Macos yet
- Need to remove old update system
- Need standalone server updater
- Some more validation on version info string formatting
* Server connection back
Get the server connection working again that was lost by the Archive
mode changes.
Key changes:
- Fix server connection bugs caused by the new Archive mode
- Update Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.Core to 10.0.2
- Add allOpenable config flag for free roam lot transitions for normal
servers.
- Add city and lot server configuration options
- Make UCP.InitArchive public for CoreGameScreenController
- Archive UI improvements (join dialog with direct server IP join)
* Keyboard navigation
Add full keyboard and Tab navigation support to the UI framework.
Key changes:
- Tab/Shift+Tab navigation between focusable UI elements
- Keyboard support for UIButton, UISlider, UIListBox, UICombobox
- UIRadioButton arrow key navigation within groups
- Mouse wheel scrolling for UIListBox
- UIContextMenu keyboard navigation (arrow keys, Enter, Escape)
- UIGridViewer keyboard support
- Focus management via InputManager with IFocusableUI interface
* FSO.Unix cross-platform support
Add FSO.Unix project for native Linux and macOS support.
Key changes:
- New FSO.Unix project with cross-platform entry point
- macOS .app bundle creation and deploy script for macOS/Linux
- Native dialogs via osascript (macOS) and zenity (Linux)
- ImageSharp-based bitmap/PNG handling instead of Windows drawing library
for non-Windows platforms
- GameLocator path fixes for TSO on macOS and Linux
* Docker containers
Add Docker configuration files for running a FreeSO server.
Key changes:
- Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml for server deployment
- Entrypoint script with secret generation
- OCI image labels for container metadata
- Default server configuration template (config.json)
* Spectator mode
Allow non-roommate visitors to open and explore lots in a read-only
spectator mode. Spectators can walk around and observe but cannot
modify the lot (build, buy, delete objects, or use most interactions).
Key features:
- Basic spectator mode for non-roommate lot opening
- Block VM commands, cross-room routing, and portal interactions for spectators
- Block pie menu on lot objects with error feedback
- Spectator-to-writable transition when a roommate/owner joins
- Reload lot save and transition back when lot owner joins
- Walls up with roof on spectator lot entry
- Spectator label shown in UI
- Admins excluded from spectator mode restrictions
- Chat event when lot transitions from spectator mode
- Allow spectators to use direct control
- No spectator lots in Archive mode
Also includes: cursor fixes for macOS/Linux, PriorityQueue pathfinder
optimization, UIListBox focus fix, CurLoader BMP header fix, API
config cleanup, and various other minor fixes.
* Spector mode improvements
* [Server, Client] Add Free Vote
A mechanism that allows avatars in neighborhoods without elections to
vote in an ongoing election of their choosing.
* [Server] Free Vote, Github Releases, Restore Lot Tool, Test Utils
Still need to fix an issue with the unauthenticated disconnect.
* [Server] Improvements, Account Lockout
- Too many failed password attempts can now cause an account lockout.
- More reasonable CORS policy that doesn't spam warnings.
* [UI] Add Free Vote Confirmation Text
- New updates system, trigger updates from the admin utility. WIP
- Connection re-establish for Lot and City. When a client disconnects,
their session is kept alive for 30 seconds for them to reconnect to it
(with their session key). WIP
- WorldGeometry stuff for Simitone.
- Automatic TSO patching for installing the wrong version of TSO.
- New patcher application with better handling for errors, multiple
queued incremental updates and rollback.
- 3D mode's build/buy grid now uses a grid texture rather than relying
on wireframe rendering.
- FSOMarkDonated tso call.
- Better server validation for interaction commands.
- Various optimisations.
- A full rework of the neighborhoods system, introducing mayors.
- Bezier Path Routing
- New font renderer
- Data Service modification
- .NET Core support
- Gamma Correction
- Many other changes
