v1.14.0-rc.1

[luskaner]

What's Changed since last stable release

Hosts handling

• 🔝 Enhancement: Try to detect the encoding of the hosts file to properly read and write it. Before it was assumed it was UTF-8.
• 🔝 Enhancement: modifying the hosts file comments lines that are not valid or are in conflict with the changes needed to be made ensuring the new mappings take effect but the rest is kept as much as possible, for example, keeping partially valid lines.
• 🔝 Enhancement: before doing any modification a backup file (hosts.bak) is created.
• 🔝 Enhancement: restoring of the original hosts entries now has two methods:
  • In-place: the old method but improved to ensure as close to the original file as possible (ensured to work the same). Only applied if the hosts was modified after the backup was made or if the backup does not exist at all.
  • Restore: default method if the backup exists and is up-to-date. Ensures the exact original hosts file is restored.
• 🔝 🪟 Enhancement: Add UTF-16 support. Some tools or Powershell itself could modify the file changing the standard UTF-8 encoding. This fixes the case where when modifying the hosts file it could become corrupted with mixed encoding.
• 🆕 🪟 Enhancement: Add many locales specific ANSI support.
• 🐧 Enhancement: Only allow UTF-8 encoding.
• 🐧 Enhancement: Only allow up to 256 characters per line for wide compatibility.
• 🐛 Fix: Ensure hosts are properly read/written using IDNA denormalization/normalization.
• Enhancement: use the standard file locking mechanism the rest of the project uses.

General

• 🔝 Enhancement: Migrated poorly maintaned command line arguments (cobra) and configuration (viper) libraries to pflag and koanf respectively to have less indirect dependencies thus better security and less size. This a necessary step in order to support the upcoming GUI configuration programs to save files.
• Enhancement: Add more checks to ensure an error is returned when trying to run a subprocess with invalid combination of options.
• 🐛 Fix: api-dr.ageofempires.com (used for Mods) domain support for AoE 4.
• 🐛🐧 Fix: Running a process with shell and arguments.
• 🐛🐧 Fix: Waiting for process end when it's not a child process.

Server

• Enhancement: updated data for AoM that came with Blood and Bones Pack.

Launcher

• Enhancement: wait up to 1 minute for any running game to exit instead of erroring inmediately.
• 🐛 Fix: Map old aoeliverelease1-api.worldsedgelink.com and aoeliverelease2-api.worldsedgelink.com domains for AoE 4.
• 🐛 Fix: config trying to reconnect to config-admin-agent after requesting exit.
• 🐛 🪟 Fix: failed to run config-admin when logging is enabled and elevation is needed. Logging is disabled instead.
• 🐛 🐧 Fix: incorrectly detecting that it cannot stop server it started.
• 🐛 🐧 Fix: delay to continue after failed run of launcher-config-admin-agent (for example if the elevation dialog was denied) introducing unnecessary delay.

Battle Server Manager

• 🔝 🐧 Enhancement: Run BattleServer.exe using wine before assuming the user has binfmt working for Windows executables.

Other

• Enhancement: Updated Go from 1.26.0 to 1.26.1.

Developer changes

• 🐛 Fix: prepare-battle-server-manager task.
• 🐛 🐧 Fix: debugging tasks.

What's coming in the future?

See this.

Sponsors/Donations

• Thanks to @codabrink for the continued monthly sponshorship!

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See Github differences v1.13.1...v1.14.0

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This discussion was created from the release v1.14.0-rc.1.