[PennMUSH] PennMUSH 1.8.2p2 and 1.8.3p0 Released

[Ervin Hearn]

The PennMUSH devteam is pleased to announce the release of PennMUSH 1.8.2p2,
which fixes several bugs and typos, including two uncommon crash situations in
PennMUSH 1.8.2. This patch is highly recommended for all users of the "stable"
series that are not intending to upgrade to 1.8.3 immediately.

We're also pleased to announce the first release of the PennMUSH 1.8.3 series.
This is the new "development" series, and future releases will contain both
bugfixes and new features. 1.8.3 includes all of the fixes in 1.8.2p2 as well
as an extensive rewrite of the internal ansi color handling routines.

There is a patch from 1.8.2p1 to 1.8.3p0, but it's advisable to start with the
clean 1.8.3 tarball instead, and port over any changes (see the file UPGRADING
in the distribution).

Regards,

  Noltar, for the penndevs


Changes for 1.8.2p2:

Fixes:
  * Vector functions with an empty vector didn't return anything.
    Reported by Talvo. [SW]
  * Several typos in server messages. Fixed by Sketch, Stoko.
  * Help fixes by Malix, [GM], Talvo, Sketch, and others.
  * Crash bug in lmath() fixed. [GM]
  * Crash bug in list functions fixed. [GM]
  * list2arr in C now removes markup. list2arr_ansi() was added. [GM]
  * Compilation problems on IRIX and similar OSes. [SW]
  * Matcher bug with multiple wildcards fixed. Reported by Ian. [SW]
  * Garbled output of locks from examine. Reported by Intrevis. [SW].
  * regraballi() couldn't use its output seperator argument. Reported
    by Jules. [SW]
  * Looking at an object used the looker, not the lookee, as the origin
    of the name for @ahear/@aahear/@amhear. [SW]
  * Fixed the distribution of random numbers with a huge range. Reported
    by Luke.


Changes for 1.8.3p0:

Major changes:
  *  Rewrite of color handling. [GM]

Minor changes:
  * Cleaned up the internals of @wipe. [SW]
  * strmatch() now takes a third argument, to store wildcard captures. [GM]
  * Termination of OS/2 support. [SW]

Fixes:
  * Fixes included from versions up to 1.8.2p2.