NEWS.md

XQF 1.0.6-current

Changes since 1.0.6:

• Add gettext template (online translation tool now hosted by Transifex)
• Add some Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Legacy mods (like TrueCombat mods)
• Add PO template generation script
• Recognize some OpenArena games hosted with Q3Arena and Q3Arena games hosted by OpenArena
• Update Catalan, French, German and Russian translation
• Update master server list
• Install icons in the correct hicolor per-size paths
• Generate games.c from games.xml at build time
• Move game launch option to appear before exit option
• Filter escape codes in Call Of Duty gametypes
• Fix Q3Rally and Warsow support (status2 packet)
• Fix Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Legacy empty server query
• Fix Unvanquished, Turtle Arena, Xonotic and Urban Terror LAN server browsing
• Fix gametype strings for a few games
• Fix ioquake3 and iostvef basegame gametype strings
• Fix Quake 3 memory settings
• Fix OpenArena protocol list
• Fix World of Padman gametype names
• Fix gamesxml2c compilation warnings
• Fix automake warnings
• Port some UI part to GtkBuilder, use GtkAboutDialog
• Port build system from autotools to cmake
• Allow out-of-tree compilation
• Clean up massively the source tree
• Remove GLib/GTK individual includes
• Remove i18n.h and use GLib's gi18n.h instead
• Remove GTK+1 remains
• Remove broken GTK+ classes
• Remove XMMS support
• Remove splash screen
• Remove trayicon
• Remove bzip2 support
• Use external minizip library

XQF 1.0.6 -- October 26, 2014

Changes since 1.0.5:

• New games: Unvanquished, Tremulous GPP, TremFusion, Xonotic, Smokin' Guns, Urban Terror, Alien Arena, Reaction, Q3 Rally, World of Padman, OpenArena, OpenTTD, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Enemy Territory: Legacy, ZEQ2 Lite, Jedi Outcast, Turtle Arena
• Add LAN broadcast for many games
• Add or substitute new master servers (like ioquake3 master substitute id master)
• Add Warsow protocol numbers
• Add Hexen World master server support
• Add scalable SVG icon
• Filter Unvanquished, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Savage extended color codes
• Reuse game descriptions for similar games (like Western Q3 and Smokin' Guns, or Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Enemy Territory: Legacy).
• Drop disabled master servers (like id master server for Quake 3)
• Drop GTK+1 support
• Enhance Steam applaunch support
• Follow XDG Base Directory Specification for user configuration directory and migrate previously created directory
• Workaround non ASCII characters in servers strings
• Rewrite the master and servers input callbacks with GIOChannel
• Rewrite many deprecated calls (like old strings functions)
• Fix build with newer linker versions
• Fix autotools, intltool
• Fix x11 build dependency
• Fix readline check
• Fix crash with 24 bit images
• Fix the q3_unescape routine, no longer segfaults when a string is terminated by an escape code
• Fix a string table of Quake 2 game properties
• Fix gamesxml2c compilation
• Fix compilation using clang
• Use a new Savage hack to query Savage master server
• Determine number of GeoIP countries at runtime
• Complete French translation

XQF 1.0.5 -- November 04, 2006

Changes since 1.0.4:

• New games: Warsow, Tremulous
• Fix Quake 4 RCON
• Add "Show only configured games" button again
• Fix SOF2 query
• Add new America's Army master server
• Support copying server info values to clipboard
• Fix build with newer GTK2 versions
• Don't pass -steam option to hl2 anymore
• Fix cursor navigation in server list
• Allow to also delete servers that are not in the Favorites list
• Split Half-Life support into old and new version
• New Polish translation

XQF 1.0.4 -- October 20, 2005

Changes since 1.0.3:

• New games: Nexuiz, Quake 4
• Add Epic's second UT2004 master
• New Finish translation
• Add q3a Excessive Plus gametypes
• Honor setting to ignore bots when copying server info to clipboard
• Add support for plugin scripts
• Support multiple sort modes per column

XQF 1.0.3 -- April 03, 2005

Changes since 1.0.2:

• New games: Half-Life 2 (wine)
• Make all icons themeable
• Use GTK2 colors and Raleigh theme by default in GTK1 version
• Add --nomapscan command line parameter
• Fix ut2k4 and doom3 master query not working after starting XQF
• Fix saving of quake2 passwords
• Fix doom3 protocol detection
• Fix q1/qw/q2 skin list update
• Fix crashes in GTK2 version

XQF 1.0.2 -- December 22, 2004

Changes since 1.0:

• New games: Netpanzer
• Support for Gslist (http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers.htm#gslist)
• Automatic detection of the Doom3 network protocol version
• Check osmask of Doom3 servers and warn if the server has no Linux support
• Configurable qstat source ip and port range for people with broken NAT
• Country statistics for game servers
• Additional Descent3 server listing
• UT2004 Master support
• xqf-rcon uses $XQF_RCON_PASSWORD for the rcon password if set
• Requires qstat 2.7

XQF 1.0 -- August 15, 2004

Changes since 0.9.14:

• New games: Doom3, Jedi Academy (wine), America's Army 2.1
• Redial understands free private slots and won't connect to password protected servers if there is no password defined by the user
• Support for the Half-Life steam master
• Support for America's Army 2.1
• Export the variables XQF_SERVER_NAME, XQF_SERVER_MAP, XQF_SERVER_HOSTNAME and XQF_SERVER_GAME when launching a game
• Custom arguments for RedOrchestra, Troopers, AlienSwarm UT2004 mods
• Animated tray icon for the GTK2 version
• Quake 3 gametypes for World of Padman
• Copy/Copy+ also copies to the CLIPBOARD instead of only PRIMARY to allow paste via CTRL-v
• Quick Filter on main screen to search in every server's name, hostname, map, game, gametype and rule value.
• Requires qstat 2.6

XQF 0.9.14 -- March 21, 2004

Changes since 0.9.13:

• New games: UT2004, Postal2, BF1942(wine). All without official master.
• Improved --launch parameter, now only requires IP address and asks for type if needed. It's possible now to use this together with e.g. XChat.
• Add --add parameter to just add a server to favorites
• Fix LAN browsing
• Add LAN masters by default
• Support password on Savage servers
• New server properties: Comment and "this server sucks"
• Add exec function for hexenworld (anyone ever played that game?)
• Switch to intltool for i18n
• Install desktop files

XQF 0.9.13 -- November 24, 2003

Changes since 0.9.12:

• New games: America's Army, Savage, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty(wine)
• New splash screen and desktop icons
• GeoIP support allows filtering by country
• Server side filtering for Half-Life
• Updated Enemy Territory default protocol number
• Quake III gametypes for TrueCombat 1.0 and Urban Terror 3
• Additional gametypes for some RTCW and ET mods
• Added custom arguments for Death Ball and FragOps UT2003 mods
• Detection of cheating-death on HalfLife servers
• Added twilight to q1 and qw command suggestion
• Display team of player for RTCW, ET and Q3 mods that provide the necessary information such as OSP and TrueCombat
• Command line option --launch to automatically add a server to favorites, ping it and then launch the game
• The environment variable XQF_SERVER_ANTICHEAT is now set before launching a game when the server requires some anti-cheat software.
• Option to stop current song in XMMS when launching a game
• Experimental GTK2 compilation support
• New French translation

XQF 0.9.12 -- June 10, 2003

Changes since 0.9.11:

• Added Enemy Territory Support support
• Added Serious Sam: The Second Encounter support
• Map scan function for q1, qw, q2 and hl to verify that you have the map installed before connecting to the server
• Ability to see level screenshot when clicking on the map column for jpg shots inside of PK3 files for Quake3 and Wolfenstein
• XQF startup splash screen support using gdk-pixbuf
• Allow filtering for map and server name
• Fix high cpu load when dialogs are shown during launch phase
• If more than 100 servers are to be updated, the screen is not immediately refreshed. This helps eliminate long delays with Half Life updates
• Pass RCON password on command line when launching Half-Life
• Minor memory leaks fixed
• Added QuakeForge's HexenWorld master
• Added Quake3 Western Q3 game type
• Default custom args for Rocket Arena removed as 1.6 does not need them anymore
• Now displays player team for Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory (skin column)
• With Half Life, private clients now set based on reserve_slots variable
• Display number of private clients in player column
• Option to not count bots as players
• Move server filter submenu to top level and remove rarely used buttons from toolbar
• Added docs/PreLaunch.example
• Hostname resolving now off by default
• Automatically creates qstat config if required
• gdk-pixbuf now required
• New Danish translation
• New French translation

XQF 0.9.11 -- December 19, 2002

Changes since 0.9.10:

• Serious Sam support (requires SMS gametype via ~/.qstatrc). Does not currently support any masters.
• Fixed -game parameter for Half-Life
• RTCW voteflags decoded in properties pane
• Visual marker in the map column to show if you have the listed map installed on your computer. (Q3, RTCW, UT, Rune, UT2)

XQF 0.9.10 -- November 16, 2002

Changes since 0.9.9:

• File dialog boxes for adding game command line and directory
• Greatly speed up the startup of XQF when loading large lists
• Greatly speed up response time when applying filters to large lists
• Ability to automatically set cl_punkbuster when connecting to a server in Q3A
• Added Punkbuster icon to Priv column
• Ability to define custom command-line arguments for a game based on the 'game' type
• Q3A now searches for a matching mod directory. Should correctly launch even if mod directory is incorrect by case
• Added sound disable support for Unreal based games
• Can now hide games that are not configured
• Changed default Quake3 protocol to 68
• Sound support for XQF events using external sound player
• Busy server redial with reserved slots support
• Soldier of Fortune 2 support (requires qstat sof2s gametype via ~/.qstatrc or qstat >2.5b)
• Use correct parameters (-game,+connect,+password) when launching Half-Life
• New master type of "file" to read IP addresses from a file
• Unreal Tournament 2003 support
• Fixed Half-Life rcon support
• Player search visible improvements
• Fixed Tribes2 master support and added additional masters
• Updated QuakeWorld master list
• Unlimited number of server filters instead of ten
• Changed default Wolf protocol to 60
• Standalone rcon program that doesn't need X (xqf-rcon)
• Quake3 launching now uses 'game' instead of 'gamename' to help prevent launch problems due to case
• Various segfault fixes
• XQF now requires qstat 2.5c

XQF 0.9.9 -- July 3, 2002

Changes since 0.9.8:

• Added Voyager Elite Force support
• Changed default Quake3 protocol to 67
• You can now select Quake3 and Wolfenstein's protocol
• Added 20sec timeout for wget (nice if Gameaholic is down)
• Added Tribes2 server statistics
• Fixed Tribes2 and Quake3 masters
• Added support for LAN broadcast queries
• Improved master support handling
• Added preferences tab for Quake3 memory settings
• New Catalan translation

XQF 0.9.8 -- December 17, 2001

Changes since 0.9.7:

• Repackaged with libtool 1.4, so it builds on all Linux architectures
• Fixed trasparency of Gamespy's pixmap
• Don't distribute debian stuff

XQF 0.9.7 -- December 16, 2001

Changes since 0.9.6g:

• Support for games using the GameSpy protocol
• Support for Descent3 with qstat 2.4e (please note Descent can't be launched from within XQF at the moment)
• Support for Rune
• Reorganization of settings dialogs
• New gametypes for Quake3 mods Threewave and TribalCTF
• Support for Wolfenstein retail (protocol 57)
• Server statistics for Wolfenstein, Kingpin and Half-Life
• Works on PowerPC again

XQF 0.9.6g -- September 25, 2001

Changes since 0.9.6f:

• Internationalization (gettext) support, Spanish and German translations
• Initial Return to Castle Wolfenstein support
• Tribes2 support
• Support for Q3A protocol v66
• Added "Quake3" preferences page which allows the protocol version and other options to be changed
• Added "General" preferences page, which hosts many of the options which were in "Appearance" previously
• Added "game type" filter
• New man page
• New documentation in html format (docs/xqfdocs.html)
• XQF now requires qstat 2.4c

XQF 0.9.6f -- March 23, 2001

Changes since 0.9.5:

• Multiple server filters; Filter name configurable and appears in the status bar
• Lock Icon to show if server is private or not; icon next to number of players turns yellow if all of the public client spaces are full
• Pressing "Insert" brings up the add server dialog; pressing SHIFT+Insert adds the currently selected server to ones favorites
• Added support for new Team Arena Game types
• Protocol 48 (1.27) Q3A servers get queried with protocol 48 in qstat
• Execute "PreLaunch" script when launching game (for use with ICQ scripts, etc.)
• Improved support for Half-Life servers
• Improved support for Unreal Tournament
• Improved support for Quake2
• Hack for supporting multiple Q3A protocols i.e. xqf can run different Q3A's depending on if it is a 1.17 or 1.27 server: see the README file
• Q3A hack for connecting to arena servers so that all of the vm_* settings are correct on the command line
• Resolved one major source of core dumps. It should be much more stable now