[PennMUSH-Announce] PennMUSH 1.8.2p0 Release

[Ervin Hearn]

The PennMUSH development team announces the release of 1.8.2-patch0

This even-numbered release is a "stable" release, and will be maintained
for bugfixes only. The initial release of PennMUSH 1.8.3 (the development
branch) will come in the not too distant future, and will initially be the
same, but will be actively developed for new features as well as bugfixes.

The former releases, PennMUSH 1.8.0 and 1.8.1, are now deprecated, and
only limited support will be available for them from the developers. Users
of both versions are strongly encouraged to upgrade to PennMUSH
1.8.2, or 1.8.3 upon its release.

You can retrieve this version, or patch files to this version from
1.8.1p10 from http://download.pennmush.org/Source. 1.8.0 users are strongly
must upgrade with the tarball, rather than using the patch.

Regards,

  Noltar, for the penndevs

Major Changes (since 1.8.0):
  * Players may have multiple aliases.
  * 'home' is now a standard command.
  * Errors in matching switches to commands are ignored when the command
    is hook/ignored or hook/overriden.
  * @attrib/access no longer treats one-word flag lists that don't match
    a single flag as a set of flag characters.
  * pcre updated to 6.4.
  * NT_TCP code has been removed from the server.
  * The FIXED flag's restriction on 'home' has been moved to restrict.cnf.
  * New commands: @edit/check, @function/preserve, @hook/list, @prompt,
    @nsprompt, @list/locks, UNIMPLEMENTED_COMMAND, PROMPT_NEWLINES,
    @poll/clear.
  * New functions: alias, fullalias, attrib_set, sortkey, namegrab/all,
    ns/prompt, textentries, cdesc, cusers, cmsgs, cbuffer, cstatus,
    clflags, numversion, nl/nsearch, nchildren, decompose, mapsql,
    wildgrep/i, ordinal, ulambda, speak, unique, nextdbref, namelist,
    crecall, l/m/x/xmwhoid, stringsecs
  * New attributes: invformat, mailforwardlist, mailfilter
  * New substitutions: %+, %  (percent-space), %i0-%i9, %u
  * New locks: mailforward, take
  * New behaviors: @flag/alias, @attribute/access, flip(), reverse(),
    lsearch(), extract(), center(), setq(), setr(), page, align(),
    regedit(), delete(), @search, @pemit/list, @poll, width(), height(),
    locate(), @chan/recall, insert(), default(), @conformat, link().
  * New flags: loud, track_money.
  * New powers: pueblo_send, many_attribs.
  * New attribute flags: aahear, amhear.
  * New config directives: channel_flags.
  * New function restriction "localize" causes q-registers to be
    saved and restored around the function as if localize() or
    ulocal() were used; handy for @functions.
  * New DBREFLIST^<attrib> lock key checks to see if the enactor
    appears in a list of dbrefs/objids stored on an attribute of
    the object.
  * The LIGHT flag now overrides the DARK flag consistently.