## Summary
Migrates the Old Guild System (pre-AOS guild stones) gumps from the legacy `Gump` class to `DynamicGump`, following the same pattern used for the Quest gump migration in #2416. All concrete gumps now have private constructors gated by static `DisplayTo` entry points (empty-gump rule), and `Singleton => true` is set across the board so reopening a sibling dialog automatically closes the previous one.
**Migrated gumps:**
- `GuildGump` - main guild dialog
- `GuildmasterGump` - guildmaster functions
- `GuildCharterGump` - charter and website display
- `GuildWarGump` - warfare status (kept as player-facing)
- `GuildWarAdminGump` - war menu (retained as player-facing - reachable from `GuildmasterGump`'s WAR button by guildmasters)
- `GuildChangeTypeGump` - Standard/Order/Chaos selection
**Abstract bases:** `GuildListGump` and `GuildMobileListGump` keep their shared list-rendering chrome inside a single concrete `BuildLayout` on the abstract class and expose a `protected abstract void BuildHeader(ref DynamicGumpBuilder builder)` hook for subclasses (replacing the old `Design()` override). This mirrors the abstract-base treatment used for the ML quest base in the quest-gump migration PR.
**Concrete subclasses migrated alongside the abstract bases:**
- `GuildListGump` subclasses: `GuildAcceptWarGump`, `GuildDeclarePeaceGump`, `GuildDeclareWarGump`, `GuildRejectWarGump`, `GuildRescindDeclarationGump`
- `GuildMobileListGump` subclasses: `DeclareFealtyGump`, `GrantGuildTitleGump`, `GuildAdminCandidatesGump`, `GuildCandidatesGump`, `GuildDismissGump`, `GuildRosterGump`
**Cliloc rule:** Every gump bakes per-instance dynamic content (guild names, member names, war declarations, candidate lists), which would defeat `StaticGump<T>` caching. Per the cliloc rule, all are `DynamicGump`.
**External callers updated:** the prompt files (`GuildAbbrvPrompt`, `GuildCharterPrompt`, `GuildDeclareWarPrompt`, `GuildNamePrompt`, `GuildTitlePrompt`, `GuildWebsitePrompt`), `RecruitTarget`, the `Guildstone` item, and the New Guild System `GuildInfoGump`'s Order/Chaos handler all now go through static `DisplayTo` entry points instead of `new XGump(...)`.
## Summary
Server-side movement throttle that prevents speed hacking while accurately identifying cheaters with detection of lagging connections.
**Key features:**
- Credit buffer (200ms) absorbs timing jitter from legitimate players
- Movement queue handles larger bursts, draining at proper game-tick intervals
- RTT measurement distinguishes network lag from speed hacks
- Queue depth detection catches ACK-throttled speed hacks (going straight)
## How It Works
**Throttle** (prevention): Movements arriving too early either consume credit or get queued. The queue drains at
correct intervals, so speed hackers can't move faster regardless of what they send.
**Detection** (identification): Combines multiple signals to identify cheaters:
| Signal | What it catches |
|--------|-----------------|
| Queue depth ≥4 sustained | ACK-throttled speed hacks (client limits unacked moves to 5) |
| Movement rate >1.05x | Direction-change speed hacks where timing is visible |
| Stable RTT + high queue | Eliminates false positives from laggy players |
**RTT-Aware Logic:**
- Probes only sent to players actively moving (event-driven, not global loop)
- Stable low-latency + problems = suspicious
- Unstable/high-latency + problems = probably just lag, throttle handles it
## Configuration
```json
{
"movementThrottle.maxCredit": 200,
"movementThrottle.softQueueLimit": 6,
"movementThrottle.hardQueueLimit": 10,
"movementThrottle.debugLogging": false
}
```
### Summary
- Bump IORingGroup 1.0.0 → 1.0.1 — fixes a disconnect handling bug in the native ring layer
- Fix ghost NetStates — Dispose() set _running = false before checking it, so the "force immediate disconnect" path
was dead code. Capture wasRunning before clearing it, add [Obsolete] guard, and route internal callers through
DisposeInternal()
- Fix unauthenticated socket cleanup — graceful disconnect on unauthed connections could get stuck with pending sends;
now force-immediate after Disconnect() if DisconnectPending is already set
- Replace ConcurrentQueue<NetState> _disposed with Queue<NetState> — server is single-threaded; moved the field into
the Network partial class where it's consumed
- Move ConnectingSocketIdleLimit into the Network partial class alongside DisconnectUnattachedSockets
- Reset activity timer on receive, not just send — receiving data directly proves liveness instead of relying on the
ping→pong→send round-trip to reset the timer
- Move CheckAllAlive from Timer into Slice — the timer fired before I/O completions were processed, so after server
stalls (world saves), buffered client pings hadn't reset timestamps yet, causing false disconnects. Now runs at the
end of Slice() after all recv completions are handled
- Lower inactivity timeout 90s → 30s, check interval 90s → 5s — clients ping every ~1s, so 30s of silence is ~30
missed pings; worst-case detection drops from ~180s to ~35s
- Simplify CheckAlive — early-return when socket is null or alive; force-kill stuck DisconnectPending sockets
immediately instead of calling Disconnect() again
- Remove unused imports from GameEncryption.cs
> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Breaking Changes**
> - DecodePacket and EncodePacket delegates replaced with IClientEncryption interface
> - NetState.Connection (Socket) replaced with internal RingSocket management
> - NetState.RecvPipe and NetState.SendPipe removed (buffers managed internally)
## Summary
Upgrades the networking stack from PollGroup-based I/O to io_uring, significantly improving I/O performance on Linux.
This also adds native client encryption support for encrypted UO clients.
## Major Changes
io_uring Networking Architecture
- Replaced PollGroup with IORingGroup for async socket I/O operations
- Removed Pipe.cs (mirrored ring buffer) and TcpServer.cs in favor of RingSocketManager
- Added NetState.Network.cs - centralized network infrastructure handling accept, recv, send, and disconnect
completions
- Added SocketHelper.cs - platform-specific socket utilities for raw socket handle operations (getpeername,
getsockname)
- Buffer management now handled by RingSocketManager with configurable slab allocation
### Client Encryption Support
- Added full encryption stack in Network/Encryption/:
- EncryptionConfig.cs - configurable encryption modes (None, Unencrypted, Encrypted, Both)
- EncryptionManager.cs - encryption detection and initialization for login/game packets
- LoginEncryption.cs - handles login packet encryption with version-derived keys
- GameEncryption.cs - handles game server encryption using Twofish
- TwofishEngine.cs - optimized Twofish block cipher implementation
- LoginKeys.cs - encryption key table for client versions
- IClientEncryption.cs - interface for client encryption implementations
### NetState Improvements
- Replaced Socket Connection with RingSocket _socket for managed socket lifecycle
- Changed from GCHandle polling to event-based completion processing
- Disconnect handling now properly waits for pending sends to flush
- Simplified connecting socket management using lazy queue removal
### Configuration
- New settings: network.encryptionMode and network.encryptionDebug
- Encryption mode flags: Unencrypted, Encrypted, or Both
### Dependencies
- Replaced PollGroup NuGet package with IORingGroup
- Linux requires liburing-dev / liburing-devel package
### Test plan
- Verify server starts and accepts connections on Linux with io_uring
- Verify server starts and accepts connections on Windows (fallback to IOCP)
- Test unencrypted client connections (ClassicUO with encryption disabled)
- Test encrypted client connections if available
- Verify graceful disconnect flushes pending data
- Confirm CI builds pass on all target platforms
### Summary
* Bumps to .NET 9 with updated dependencies
* Comparing a value type against null is no longer allowed
* CI/CD now uses the version specified in global.json
* Serialization generator updated to .NET 9 with bug fixes, fixes to turkish language, and parallelization
### Summary
- Puts back `EventSink.SocketConnect`.
- Reverts networking change to push the networking to a separate thread.
- Reverts changes to the firewall by removing the firewall queue.
- Fixes listeners not shutting down with the server.
- Fixes race condition causing connections to get stuck even after they are disposed.
> [!NOTE]
> **Developer Note**
> Networking has been reverted back to using the main thread instead of a background thread. This alleviated complexity and the requirement for concurrent queues all over the place.
> [!Important]
> **Developer Note**
> This code change will **completely move gumps out of the core**
### Summary
- Adds `GetGumps()` convenience which exposes methods to Find/Close/Send multiple gumps. This helper is a performance improvement by eliminating the Dictionary<Player, List> lookup for gumps.
### Summary
- Fixes various exploits that can crash the shard when the client misbehaves.
- Clients will now be disconnected if they send packets that are marked as out of game only (new flag), while they are in-game.
> [!Note]
> **Developer Note**
> Added an `OutOfGameOnly` which should be used to flag packets as only available out of the game.
> This is the opposite of, yet not the converse to `InGameOnly`.
> [!Warning]
> **Developer Warning**
> The `PacketThrottle` callback return value is now reversed. `true` indicates the connection is _throttled_.
### Summary
- Fixes an issue where connections get stalled forever
- Fixes an issue where the throttler is not working properly
- Removes account attack limiter
- Rewrites IP limiter
- Removes IP restrictions (they weren't used, and not practical)
- Fixes issue where IP limiter was counting before firewall was blocking.
View without whitespace:
https://github.com/modernuo/ModernUO/pull/1796/files?diff=split&w=1
# New Gump API
We are pleased to release a new API that is faster, allocates nearly zero memory, and still feels very similar to the original API. The API is broken into 3 types of gumps, dynamic, static with placeholders, and static without placeholders.
### Dynamic Gumps
These gumps will inherit `DynamicGump` and are meant for gumps that have a dynamic layout. This includes specifying dynamic arguments to HtmlLocalized entries.
## Static Gumps
Static gumps are those where the function to the build the layout is called only once and cached forever. They can optionally have placeholders. These placeholders allow the developer to specify the string values later, dynamically in a `BuildStrings` method on the gump. If a gump does not have any placeholders, the string entries will also be cached forever.
## Benchmarks
To make sure we were going in the right direction and not wasting time, we took copious benchmarks. Here are the final benchmarks for a really simple gump.
Note:
* The majority of creating a gump is compressing the layout and the strings. Compressing each section takes ~6,000ns (12us total).
```cs
| Method | Mean | Error | StdDev | Median | Ratio | RatioSD | Gen0 | Allocated | Alloc Ratio |
|------------------------------- |-------------:|-------------:|-------------:|-------------:|------:|--------:|-------:|----------:|------------:|
| OldGump | 13,308.29 ns | 1,059.695 ns | 1,883.608 ns | 14,330.72 ns | 1.000 | 0.00 | 0.1526 | 2400 B | 1.00 |
| DynamicLayoutGump | 13,357.86 ns | 129.144 ns | 226.185 ns | 13,323.60 ns | 1.029 | 0.17 | - | 48 B | 0.02 |
| StaticLayoutDynamicStringsGump | 6,653.10 ns | 81.815 ns | 143.292 ns | 6,617.45 ns | 0.514 | 0.09 | - | 40 B | 0.02 |
| StaticLayoutGump | 86.33 ns | 0.760 ns | 1.350 ns | 86.07 ns | 0.007 | 0.00 | 0.0020 | 32 B | 0.01 |
```
# Non-Breaking Changes
* All gump components in the core have been moved to `Gumps/Legacy`.
* All legacy gumps will still inherit `Gump`, which now inherits `BaseGump`
# Special Thanks
Thank you to @stefanomerotta for considerable contributions/benchmarking/testing to make this effort a reality! We collectively went through over 10 iterations, but it is finally ready.
## Breaking Changes
* The Firewall and IP Limiter have been rewritten. Please read the notes carefully!
* `TcpServer.Instances` moved back to `NetState.Instances` - sorry - it was stupid to move it to begin with.
> [!Note]
> Sockets that fail the IP Limiter or Firewall will be immediately and forcibly disconnected.
> This means they will be stuck at "Verifying account..." if it was a real client.
### Summary
- Removes firewall wildcard support.
- Removes `AccessRestrictions`.
- Moves Firewall/IPLimiter to the core.
- Moves `TcpServer` to its own thread.
- Removes the `SocketConnect` and `SocketDisconnect` event sinks.
- Moves `Instances` back to `NetState.Instances`.
- Fixes a long standing bug with bad handling of duplicate listener addresses.
#### Firewall
The firewall has been completely rewritten. There is now an "Admin Firewall" which saves to the config file. Secondarily, there is an internal firewall used exclusively by the TcpServer while processing sockets. The Admin firewall mirrors it's additions/deletions to the internal firewall by adding requests to a queue.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Wildcard firewall entries, such as `X`, `*`, `?` are not allowed.**
> **Ranges in between IP classes or sextets are not allowed.**
> **Please make sure to use one of the following:**
> * IP Address - `192.168.1.1`
> * CIDR - `192.168.1.0/24`
> * Range - `192.168.1.1-192.168.1.100`
#### IP Limiter
The IP Limiter has been completely rewritten. The available configurations are:
```json
"ipLimiter.enable": "True",
"ipLimiter.maxConnectionsPerIP": 10,
"ipLimiter.clearConnectionAttemptsDuration": "00:00:00:10",
"ipLimiter.clearThrottledDuration": "00:00:02:00",
```
The IP Limiter is set up to prevent spamming connections from the same IP. Every time an IP connects, it is added to a connection list. After 10 attempts, the IP is added to the throttle list. To keep the system fast, the connection list is entirely wiped every 10 seconds, and the throttle list is entirely wiped every 2 minutes.
### Summary
* Fixes syntax compile error when THREADGUARD is enabled.
* Removes `int packetLength` from incoming packet handles since they aren't needed.
### Developer Notes
Incoming packet handler `SpanReader` is now properly scoped to that packet by length.
## Breaking Changes
Incoming packet registration signature has changed to:
```cs
delegate* void OnReceiveCallback(NetState state, SpanReader reader, int packetLength);
IncomingPackets.Register(int packetID, int length, bool ingame, OnReceiveCallback onReceive);
```
For example, an incoming packet handler signature would now look like this:
```cs
public static void SomeIncomingPacket(NetState state, SpanReader reader, int packetLength)
{
// Parse the data
}
```
## Summary
Updates the network Pipe class to use a mirrored memory technique. This technique involves mapping the same physical memory to two contiguous virtual memory spaces so the byte buffer appears duplicated. This allows writing to a double-sized array to wrap around without the need for the `CircularBuffer` classes.
In practice this allows us to use `Span<byte>` as if the buffer was a regular array.
### Bug Fixes
- [X] Fixes bad fixed length string parsing
### Summary
- Removes Fastwalk system
- Removed the following settings:
- `movement.enableFastWalkPrevention`
- `movement.fastwalkExemptionLevel`
- Adds movement throttle system.
- Adds the following settings:
- `movement.throttleReset` - Default value is `1000` (1 second).
- `movement.throttleThreshold` - Default value is `400` (400ms).
### Movement Throttling
This new system will trigger if a player requests 400ms (configurable) worth of movements quicker than wall clock time. When this happens, the player is throttled (all incoming packets to the server are halted) until wall clock time catches up with the requests. Upon each throttle, the player receives enough credit to handle up to 400ms of "lag" as a grace/catch-up.
### Developer Notes
We use two throttle queues to prevent an infinite loop.
**Only one functional change**
* Fixes a bug in LogFactory where `Warning` is being logged as `Information`
Non-functional changes:
* Updates/Fixes copyright headers
* Removes namespace scopes for core files.
View with [whitespace off](https://github.com/modernuo/ModernUO/pull/1187/files?w=1).
- [X] Fixes issue with wepoll losing GCHandle.
- [X] `NetState.Disconnect()` is no longer thread safe.
- Use `Core.LoopContext.Post()` to post disconnects
- [X] Optimizes PollGroup by not processing IntPtr -> GCHandle for discard polls.
Fixes an issue with DropReq where an old client was sending in 14 bytes, but the server was expecting 15 bytes.
To fix this we introduced a new packet handler, `ContainerGridPacketHandler` and changed the code to determine the length of the packet dynamically using `GetLength(NetState)`.
Also fixed throttling so dropped packets are properly skipped.
* Adds MinRequired and MaxRequired settings
* Removes god client detection
* Streamlines the kick messaging
* Fixes detecting client version on mac/linux
### Enabling Packet Logging
`[packetlogging on` and target the user.
Supports command modifiers such as:
`[online packetlogging on where accesslevel = player`
Logs are saved in `path/<ip address>/packets.log`. It is a simple append-format log with no date splitting.
* Now reads Prof.txt to get the professions
* The templated professions are based on profession `TrueName`
* Adds missing starting equipment
* Implements gargish starting equipment
* Consolidates some of the code
* Moves TC stuff to the TC file.
* Fixes some starting equipment that was wrong.
Note:
* Implementing the original T2A professions is possible on the client side, but requires moving the old clilocs to the current clilocs file. In the current file the entries are blank.
* Using the original LBR professions (they match AOS but without necromancy/chivalry) is kind of confusing because the profession indexes are ripped out of the UOTD/UOR ones and have non-sequential indexes. This will probably cause confusion and people will get no templated items when they select the wrong profession.
