New features and other changes in the v0.97 release of XASECO:

• on TMF, the brief /cps pop-up is now a permanent, small transparant panel, mid-center of the screen just above the race time; it is temporarily disabled when a player switches to spectator mode though
• on TMF, the checkpoints panel now also shows the difference against the best run at the finish ('CPF')
• in TMF Cup mode, the end of the warm-up phase no longer generates an onEndRace event, preventing several chat messages that only belong at the end of the track; also, during warm-up the checkpoints panel is temporarily disabled
• on TMF, the /tmxinfo window now displays the track screenshot from TMX
• on TMF, /tmxinfo {ID} and /tmxrecs {ID} accept an optional TMX section parameter (TMN, TMU, TMNF, and even TMO, TMS &ndash all case-insensitive) after the TMX track ID to enable displaying track info from another section than the default (as outlined in the v0.96 release notes)
• new /admin scorepanel command (TMF-only) to show the current Automatic Scorepanel setting – displaying the scoreboard after each run/round, or only at the end of the track – and to toggle it with an ON" or "OFF" (case-insensitive) parameter
• new /admin roundsfinish command (TMF-only) to show the current Rounds Finishpanel setting – displaying the rounds panel for all players when the first player finishes, or not until each player finishes him/herself – and to toggle it with an ON" or "OFF" (case-insensitive) parameter
• displaying colored or stripped player nicknames in /top10, /top100, /toprecs, /topsums, /topwins, /recs, /dedirecs and /active is now configurable via new config.xml setting <lists_colornicks> – because of column formatting caveats, it's recommended to keep nicknames stripped on TMN, as they were before
• displaying colored or stripped tracknames in all /list commands, /best, /worst, /jukebox display and /admin listdupes is now configurable via new config.xml setting <lists_colortracks> – again, it's recommended to keep tracknames stripped on TMN as they were before
• the teamnames in the /topclans output are not color-stripped anymore
• Dedimania system timeouts are handled better to prevent record message flooding; also, improved logging and debugging of the low-level Dedimania layers
• on TMF, any admin with the new server_coppers ability can see the server's coppers amount in the /server output
• new /admin coppers command (TMF-only) to similarly check the server's coppers amount
• on TMUF, the output of all /list commands (including /best, /worst) and of /jukebox display and /admin listdupes now includes an Env(ironment) column
• on TMUF, the chat and log messages for the next jukebox track now specify that track's environment
• added new internal onBillUpdated, onChallengeListModified and onPlayerInfoChanged events for the corresponding new TMF callbacks; also, the onEndRound event is now triggered by the real TMF EndRound callback
• the new onPlayerInfoChanged event is now used to keep track of players' spectator status to avoid an extra GetPlayerInfo call whenever that status is needed (thanks Dagobert)
• updated the stripColors function to strip out the '$h', '$l' and '$p' links for TMF as well
• clarified all error messages related to XML config files not being read or parsed correctly
• fine-tuned column widths of many ManiaLink windows
• when restarting XASECO, all ManiaLinks on all connected clients are cleared

Bug fixes in the v0.97 release of XASECO:

• when Dedimania is slow to respond to a track switch, the updated records message for the finished track may not appear until the next track is loaded, and use that new track's name – fixed
• on TMF, very long country names cause layout glitches in the /players output – fixed, country names longer than 14 characters are mapped to their nation abbreviations
• on TMF in Rounds/Team/Cup mode, the last 'Rx>' rounds report isn't shown due to a different callback sequence – fixed by using the real EndRound callback above
• if a player connects without a team name, the TMNDataFetcher is used to try and obtain it from the TMN master server, even on TMF – fixed
• the file_exists_nocase function (used by /add and /admin add) doesn't work correctly on Windows – fixed (hopefully)
• adjusted two function declarations and related calls to avoid pass-by-reference warnings on some PHP setups
• the /summary chat message was largely lacking the shadow attribute – fixed

New features and other changes in the v0.96b release of XASECO:

• on TMF, the global mute list now uses the built-in Ignore features instead of the muting plugin, so the actual muting works much better; the plugin is still needed for the individual player muting features though
• accordingly, there are new aliases for the related admins commands: /admin ignore (for /admin mute), /admin unignore (for /admin unmute), /admin ignorelist and /admin listignores (for /admin mutelist and /admin listmutes)
• on TMF, the ManiaZones country names are mapped back to three-letter nation abbreviations for storage in the local database and for Dedimania; to repair the Nation field in the local 'players' table, you can use this script
• new $autosave_matchsettings option in rasp.settings.php to enable autosaving the matchsettings file (with a configurable name) upon every track switch
• on TMF, /add and /admin add accept an optional TMX section parameter (TMN, TMU, TMNF, and even TMO, TMS &ndash all case-insensitive) after the TMX track ID to enable downloading a track from another section than the default (as outlined in the v0.96 release notes)
• when a track is jukeboxed that doesn't match the server packmask, it is skipped with warning, and the next track from the tracklist is loaded (the next jukeboxed track will follow after that)
• on TMF, added another method in votes.config.php to really disable all CallVotes if chat-based votes are enabled
• the pop-up windows in plugin.matchsave.php are now converted to TMF ManiaLink windows too, along with minor touch-ups of the TMN pop-ups

Bug fixes in the v0.96b release of XASECO:

• on TMF, the /nextmap command always shows the first track after the current one is removed from the server's track list (via /admin removethis or /admin erasethis) – fixed
• a missing or invalid connection to the TM server (due to configuration errors) can cause a flood of PHP warnings in the log – fixed
• a track ending with no records set can cause a PHP warning in the Dedimania plugin – fixed

New features and other changes in the v0.96 release of XASECO:

• the system has been renamed to XASECO to avoid confusion with other ASECO/RASP systems, and to signify it's a complete and integrated solution for server control
• added ManiaLinks windows (via new include manialinks.inc.php) to allow the system to display TMN-style pop-ups on TMF
• added a Prev button to all multi-page ManiaLinks windows when viewing the second and subsequent pages
• added recognition of server type TMF and game mode Cup, including with the /admin setgamemode command
• updated the /server command to handle Cup mode and show the RoundsPerChallenge value (in addition to the points limit) if the server is in Cup mode
• new /admin disablerespawn command (TMF-only) to show the current DisableRespawn setting – allowing players to respawn at checkpoints – and to toggle it with an ON" or "OFF" (case-insensitive) parameter
• new /admin forceshowall command (TMF-only) to show the current ForceShowAllOpponents setting – forcing players to see all opponents – and to toggle it with an ON" or "OFF" (case-insensitive) parameter
• updated the TMXInfoFetcher class to handle the new TMNF section
• on a TMNF server (packmask Stadium) the /tmxinfo and /tmxrecs commands as well as the TMX World Record message at the start of a new track will consult the TMNF section of TMX, on a TMUF server the TMU section, and (as before) on a TMN server the TMN section
• the /add and /admin add commands will consult the TMNF, TMUF and TMN sections of TMX according to the same rules
• new $jukebox_permadd option in rasp.settings.php to allow tracks voted into the jukebox via /add to remain permanently in the server's track list (normally they're removed after they're finished)
• added extra check for non-empty TM server build during start-up
• several minor tweaks to web_access.inc.php to make it more robust and prevent stream_select() warnings (thanks Slig)

Bug fixes in the v0.96 release of XASECO:

• when a player equals his/her local or Dedimania record, it would be logged again with the next higher position (but not stored anywhere) – fixed
• new Dedimania record messages would be displayed for LAN logins making records, even though the records aren't actually submitted to the central Dedimania server – fixed
• plugin.matchsave.php used the CRLF constant in a TMN pop-up – fixed into LF

Known issues in the v0.96+ release of XASECO:

• there is little support for handling non-Stadium environments (except in /nextmap), coppers, and other TMF-specific features
• the /statsall command doesn't work in TMF because there's no way to obtain a player's world stats (yet?)

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