Changelog

0.6.0 (5 May 2018)

Core

  • Breaking: Removed the deprecated app.ui.
  • Feature: Add in-game and command line upgrade commands (//upgrade and ./manage.py upgrade) (CAUTION: Can be unstable!).
  • Improvement: Slightly improved the performance when booting PyPlanet on large servers (indexing of local and karma)
  • Improvement: Increased the retry count for connecting to a dedicated server from 5 to 10 retries.
  • Improvement: Added bumpversion to project (technical and only for development).
  • Improvement: Unpack the flags of the PlayerInfoChange callback and expand the flow variables (technical).
  • Improvement: Updated external libraries.
  • Improvement: Extract the zone information for players (technical).
  • Improvement: Add nation to join and leave messages.
  • Improvement: Activated the shutdown handlers to safely exit PyPlanet. The stop callbacks are now called at shutdown of PyPlanet.
  • Improvement: Show pre-release as update when running on a pre-release version. (We now release pre-releases for public testing).
  • Bugfix: Fix issue when trying to //reboot on Windows.

Apps

  • NEW: Add Music Server App: Queue music on your server. Add pyplanet.apps.contrib.music_server to your apps.py.
    More information: http://www.pypla.net/en/latest/apps/contrib/music_server.html
  • NEW: Add Advertisement App: Show Discord and PayPal logos in-game. Add pyplanet.apps.contrib.ads to your apps.py.
    More information: http://www.pypla.net/en/latest/apps/contrib/ads.html
  • NEW: Add Queue App: Add a queue for your spectators to fairly join on busy servers. Add pyplanet.apps.contrib.queue to your apps.py.
    More information: http://www.pypla.net/en/latest/apps/contrib/queue.html
  • Feature: Add settings to change vote ratio for the chat voting app.
  • Feature: Add advanced voting (++, +, +-, -, –).
  • Feature: Add MX Karma integration. You can configure this in-game with //settings and retrieve a key from: https://karma.mania-exchange.com/
  • Feature: Add Admin Toolbar to manage your server a bit faster. (you can disable this in //settings)
  • Feature: Add new vote to extend the time limit on TA modes (better than /replay or /restart, try it!).
  • Feature: Add admin command to extend the time limit on TA modes temporary (//extend [time to extend with] or empty for double the current limit).
  • Feature: Add dedimania checkpoint comparison (/dedicps and /dedicps [record number]) to compare your checkpoint times with the record given (or first when none given).
  • Feature: Add local record checkpoint comparison (/localcps and /localcps [record number]) to compare your checkpoint times with the record given (or first when none given).
  • Feature: Add F7 to hide most of the widgets (concentration mode).
  • Feature: Add /topsums statistics to see the top local record players.
  • Feature: Add buttons to delete local records by an admin.
  • Feature: Add checkpoint difference in the middle of the screen when passing checkpoints (in the sector_times app).
  • Feature: Cleanup the dedimania ghost files after reading and sending to dedimania API.
  • Feature: Add advanced /list for searching and sorting with your personal local record, the time difference and karma. (can take long on big servers).
  • Improvement: Add caching to the /list view per player and per view.
  • Bugfix: Fix issue with incorrect link in the dedimania settings entry.
  • Bugfix: Fix the type inconsistency of the dedimania API and driven records
  • Bugfix: Fix when trying to vote after restarting the map in the podium sequence.
  • Bugfix: Fix the retry logic of Dedimania when losing connection.

0.5.4

Core

  • Improvement: Add unit testing on Windows platform (Technically, using AppVeyor).
  • Bugfix: Make sure script names with folders are cleaned and stripped from folder names in most cases.

Apps

  • Feature: Add button and window to change a folder’s name.
  • Improvement: Juke maps that are just added the correct order.
  • Improvement: Allow the best CP widget for all modes.
  • Improvement: Add blacklist write and read commands, now writes when adding player to blacklist and reads when PyPlanet starts.
  • Bugfix: Fix the scoreprogression command and window.
  • Bugfix: Fix issue when map list was saved to disk and all auto-folders where empty afterwards.
  • Bugfix: Fix issue where the dedimania records where not reloaded when game mode changed and map has been restarted.
  • Bugfix: Fix message when 2 players rapidly vote and the vote has passed.

0.5.3

Apps

  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with spamming chat vote reminder.
  • Bugfix: Fixing admin pass message when forcing pass a vote.

0.5.2

Core

  • Improvement: Disable writing log files by default from 0.5.2.
  • Improvement: Move logo and clock down so it doesn’t interfere with the spectator icon.
  • Bugfix: Logging on windows should be fixed now.
  • Bugfix: Issue with multiple users editting modesettings or PyPlanet settings at the same time.

Apps

  • Feature: Add zero karma folder (auto-folder)
  • Feature: Added settings to enable or disable specific chat votes.
  • Feature: Add //cancelcall (//cancelcallvote) for cancelling a call vote as an admin.
  • Feature: Add //pass to pass a chat vote with your admin powers.
  • Feature: Add button to add current map to folder on the folder list.
  • Improvement: Change chat color of the chat vote lines.
  • Improvement: Disable callvotes when chatvotes is turned on (made setting for this as well).
  • Bugfix: Only show the folders of the user when adding maps to a folder.
  • Bugfix: Fix error when player has not been online and users trying to get the last on date of the player.
  • Bugfix: Remove unique index on the folder name so folders can have the same name over all. (auto-migration made).
  • Bugfix: Fix bug that prevented added maps to be auto-juked.

0.5.1

Core

  • Bugfix: Fix for Windows users and import error.

0.5.0

Core

  • Breaking: App context aware signal manager.

    This is a deprecation for the property signal_manager of the instance. This means that self.instance.signal_manager needs to be replaced by self.context.signals to work with the life cycle changes in 0.8.0. More info: https://github.com/PyPlanet/PyPlanet/issues/392

    The old way will break your app from version 0.8.0

  • Feature: Add multiple configuration backends. You can now use JSON or YAML as configuration as well. This is in a beta stage and can still change in upcoming versions. See the documentation for usage.

  • Feature: Add logging to file option for starting PyPlanet. You can set this up inside of your settings base.py. More information can be found in the documentation for configuring PyPlanet.

  • Feature: Add detach switch to the PyPlanet starter so it can fork itself to the background and write a PID file. More information can be found in the documentation for starting PyPlanet.

  • Feature: Add player attributes that can be set by apps for caching or maintaining user settings or data during the session. (Technical)

  • Feature: Add migration script for eXpansion database. Look at the manual on http://www.pypla.net/en/stable/convert/index.html for more information.

  • Improvement: Retry 5 times when connecting to the dedicated server, making it possible to start both at the same time.

  • Improvement: Update library versions.

  • Improvement: Add minimum required version of the dedicated server to prevent starting PyPlanet for non-supported dedicated versions.

  • Improvement: Only check for stable new versions. Now check for releases instead of tags on Github.

  • Improvement: Let the list view skip 10 pages buttons skip to end or begin when less than 10 pages difference. (Thanks @froznsm)

  • Improvement: Add online players login list in the player_manager. (Technical)

  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with the release checker.

  • Bugfix: Fixing the link to the upgrade documentation page (Thanks to @thefifthisa).

  • Bugfix: Only handle player info change event when this player is still on the server to prevent errors.

  • Bugfix: Handle exception when the server initiated a callvote (Thanks to @teemann).

  • Bugfix: Correctly handle None column values when searching and/or sorting generic lists.

  • Bugfix: Correctly handle non-string column values when searching and/or sorting generic lists.

  • Bugfix: Refresh and fixed the player and spectator counters.

Apps

  • NEW: Best CPS Widget for Trackmania, shows the best times per checkpoint above the screen. Add the new app to your apps.py: ‘pyplanet.apps.contrib.best_cps’. More info on the documentation pages of the app. (Big thanks to @froznsm)
  • NEW: Clock Widget, shows the local time of the players computer on the PyPlanet logo. Add the new app to your apps.py: ‘pyplanet.apps.contrib.clock’. More info on the documentation pages of the app. (Big thanks to @froznsm)
  • NEW: Chat-based Vote App, want to have votes in the chat instead of the callvotes? Enable this app now! Add the new app to your apps.py: ‘pyplanet.apps.contrib.voting’. More info on the documentation pages of the app.
  • Feature: Add folders to the /list interface. There are two types of folders, automatic folders based on facts and manual per player/admin folders.
  • Feature: Add folders for karma related information when karma app is enabled.
  • Feature: Add folder for newest maps (added within 14 days).
  • Feature: Add spectator status in the /players list.
  • Feature: Add /scoreprogression command to see your current score progressions statistics on the current track.
  • Feature: Add team switch commands (//forceteam and //switchteam) to the admin app.
  • Feature: Add warning command (//warn) and alert to the admin app to warn players.
  • Feature: Add the MX link of the current map to the logo left from the map name.
  • Feature: Add setting to directly juke after adding map from MX or local (defaults to on).
  • Feature: Add //blacklist and //unblacklist to the admin app.
  • Improvement: Applied context aware signal manager everywhere.
  • Improvement: Moving logic to view in dedimania app.
  • Improvement: Adding setting to juke map after //add (mx and local) the map. Enabled by default!
  • Improvement: Adding help text to jukebox app command.
  • Improvement: Remove workaround for the fixed dedicated issue caused problems with the dedimania app.
  • Improvement: Only show login in /list for now as it was causing inconsistency.
  • Improvement: Check if the player is online before taking admin actions like kicking the player.
  • Improvement: Refactor logic of viewing dedimania records to the desired view class. (Technical)
  • Improvement: Further investigate dedimania problems for some specific players. Internal cause is known, exact reason not yet, we will further investigate this issue.
  • Bugfix: Make sure to skip jukeboxed map when it’s deleted from the server.
  • Bugfix: Fix the double live rankings entry when changing nickname.
  • Bugfix: Check if we have data to compare before calculating CP difference in the live rankings widget.
  • Bugfix: Local record widget display fix when player joined during a very specific time that causes it to not display to the user.

0.4.5

Core

  • Feature: Add ManiaControl convert script. See documentation on converting from old controller for instructions.
  • Improved: Add documentation on how to convert to the right database collation.

Apps

  • Bugfix: Fixing issue in the Dymanic Pointlimit app that results in 3 settings having the same key name.

0.4.4

  • Feature: Add UAseco convert script. See documentation on converting from old controller for instructions.
  • Improved: Updated libraries and dependencies.
  • Bugfix: Catch error when server initiated callvote, thanks to @teemann.
  • Bugfix: Fix the release/update checker.

0.4.3

Apps

  • Bugfix: Fix issue with switching to custom script (lower case not found), specially teams mode.

0.4.2

Core

  • Improvement: Bump XML-RPC Script API to version 2.2.0.
  • Improvement: Show the Round Score build-in ui (nadeo widget) and move it a bit.
  • Improvement: Move the build-in warmup ui (nadeo widget) a bit.

Apps

  • Feature: Add //shuffle and //readmaplist. Both are unsure to work.
  • Improvement: Further investigate and report issues related to Dedimania.
  • Bugfix: Fixing negative count issue on the info widgets.
  • Bugfix: Remove faulty and debug line from dedimania api catch block.
  • Bugfix: Properly handle the dedimania response when player is not correct.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issues with boolean values and the //modesettings GUI.

0.4.1

Core

  • Improvement: Add command ignore and /version improvements.
  • Improvement: Disable the live infos in the left upper corner (player join/leave, 1st finish).
  • Bugfix: Issue with database collate and utf8mb4, nickname parsing issue has been solved.
  • Bugfix: Don’t auto reload and use different environments for the template engine. Should improve performance very much.
  • Bugfix: Ignore unknown login at the chat and UI managers.
  • Bugfix: Ignore key interrupt exception trace when stopping PyPlanet while it has got a reboot in the mean time.
  • Bugfix: Hide the ALT menu in shootmania, just as it should do since before 0.4.0.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with checking for updates could result in a exception trace in the console for some installations with older setuptools.
  • Bugfix: Fixing an issue that results in fetching data for widget several times while it’s not needed (thinking it’s per player data when it isn’t). (Thanks to Chris92)

Apps

  • Improvement: Make it able to drive dedimania records on short maps made by Nadeo.
  • Improvement: Make the improvement time blue like Nadeo also does in the sector times widget.
  • Improvement: Always show nickname of the map author and make it switchable by clicking on it.
  • Bugfix: Don’t set the time of the spectator as your best time in the sector times widget.
  • Bugfix: Problems that could lead to dedimania not being init currently on the map if the map was replayed.
  • Bugfix: Hide dedimania if map is not supported.
  • Bugfix: Fix the offset issue for the live rankings widget (in TA mode).
  • Bugfix: Fix the incorrect number of spec/player count on the top left info widget.

0.4.0

Core

  • Breaking: Refactored the TemplateView to make it able to use player data way more efficient.

    This is a deprecation for the method get_player_data. From now on, use the get_all_player_data or the better get_per_player_data. More info: pyplanet.views.

    The old method will not be called from 0.7.0

  • Feature: UI Overhaul is done! We replaced the whole GUI for a nicer, simple and modern one! With large inspiration of LongLife’s posted image (https://github.com/PyPlanet/PyPlanet/issues/223).

  • Feature: UI Update queue, Don’t make the dedicated hot by sending UI updates in realtime, but queue up and sent every 0,25 seconds. (Performance)

  • Improvement: Removing the fix for symbols in nicknames/chat (fix for the maniaplanet dedicated/client issue earlier).

  • Improvement: Add analytics.

  • Improvement: Don’t report several exceptions to Sentry.

  • Improvement: Remove SQlite references in code and project skeleton.

  • Improvement: Give error message when loaded script is using old style scripted callbacks.

  • Improvement: Dynamic future timeouts for script/gbx queries.

  • Improvement: Add ManiaScript libs includes in core. Will be expanded, open pull requests if needed!

  • Improvement: Adding two new signals for players when entering spec/player slot.

  • Bugfix: Adding several investigation points to send more data about problems that occur for some users.

Apps

  • Breaking: Refactor the MapInfo app to Info app. Adding new features: Server and general info on top left corner.

    This requires a config change: Change pyplanet.apps.contrib.mapinfo into pyplanet.apps.contrib.info and you are done!

    The old app will be removed in 0.7.0

  • Feature: New App: Shootmania Royal Dynamic Point Limit is here! Add it with pyplanet.apps.contrib.dynamic_points.

  • Feature: New App: Trackmania Checkpoint/Sector time widget is here! Add it with pyplanet.apps.contrib.sector_times.

  • Feature: Change modesettings directly from the GUI (//modesettings).

  • Improvement: Apply the new UI Overhaul to all apps.

  • Improvement: Add message when dedimania records are sent.

  • Improvement: Improve the dedimania error handling even better.

  • Improvement: Notice when map is not suited for dedimania records.

  • Improvement: Several performance improvements on the dedimania and localrecords apps.

  • Improvement: Add dynamic actions to map list, such as deletion of maps.

  • Improvement: Modesettings list is ordered by name by default now.

  • Bugfix: Adding several investigation points to send more data about problems that occur for some users.

  • Bugfix: Trying to sent dedi records when dedimania isn’t initialized bug is solved.

  • Bugfix: Prevent double message of dedimania record when switching game modes.

  • Bugfix: Fixing double local records (or investigate more if it still occurs).

0.3.3

Core

  • Bugfix: Ignore errors with unknown login for ui updates. (means the player left).

Apps

  • Bugfix: Fixing issues with dedimania and unsupported maps.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issues with dedimania and replays.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issues with local records widget showing the wrong offset.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issues with local records and double records.
  • Improvement: Some not visible improvements to the local record widget logic.

0.3.2

Core

  • Bugfix: Not properly sending and handling mode changes.
  • Bugfix: Several errors in handling the callbacks in shootmania

Apps

  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with removing or erasing maps.
  • Improvement: Dedimania now also works in cup mode.
  • Feature: Add //replay command for admins, make it able to juke the current map for non-players (ops and admins)

0.3.1

Core

  • Improvement: Multiple namespaces per command + improve help.
  • Improvement: Hide the alt menu in shootmania when having a window in the middle.
  • Improvement: Add method to retrieve map by index.
  • Bugfix: Save boolean in the //settings
  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with writing the map list.
  • Bugfix: Handling of fetching player in a callback for shootmania.
  • Bugfix: Several fixes for shootmania modes.

Apps

  • Improvement: Make dedimania record message shorter.
  • Bugfix: Double prefix in leave messages.
  • Bugfix: Dedimania nickname fetching gave error. Sometimes the widget didn’t work properly.
  • Bugfix: Improve error handling in Dedimania.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with write map list (admin part of it).
  • Bugfix: Don’t display the time of the author when in shootmania

0.3.0

Core

  • Feature: Refactor the app config class so you can define apps in __init__.py and use shorter configuration, (backward compatible for current contrib apps).
  • Feature: Signals runs with gather mode (parallel) now. Makes this way more faster!
  • Feature: Add save hook to setting object.
  • Feature: Chat contrib component, for shorter syntax at sending and preparing chat messages.
  • Feature: Refactor the GBX component, for shorter syntax at sending and preparing Gbx Methods.
  • Feature: Make it able to change the UI Properties from the games
  • Feature: Add ‘suggestion or bug’ report button.
  • Improvement: Unknown command message.
  • Improvement: Makes it faster to display local records.
  • Improvement: Refactor the local record code.

Apps

  • Feature: Add Live Rankings app (beta). Add it to your apps.py!
  • Feature: Add chat announce limit in local and dedi records.
  • Improvement: Autosave matchsettings on insertion of map.
  • Improvement: Hide dedimania widget on downtime.
  • Improvement: Better error handling in dedimania app.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with displaying WhoKarma list.
  • Bugfix: Fixing path issues in MX app.

0.2.0

Core

  • Feature: Improved performance with the all new Performance Mode. This will improve performance for a player threshold that is freely configurable.
  • Feature: Technical: Add option to strip styles/colors from searchable column in listviews.
  • Feature: Technical: Add shortcut to get an app setting from global setting manager.
  • Improvement: Improve log color for readability.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with integer or other numeric values and the value 0 in the //settings values.
  • Bugfix: Replace invalid UTF-8 from the dedicated response to hotfix (dirty fix) the bug in client with dedicated communication.

Apps

  • Feature: New app: Transactions: Features donations and payments to players as the actual planets stats. Activate the app now in your apps.py!!
  • Feature: Map info shows nickname of author if the author nickname is known.
  • Feature: /list [search] directly searching in map list.
  • Feature: Implement //modesettings to show and change settings of the current mode script.
  • Feature: Restrict karma voting to count after the player finishes the map for X times (optional).
  • Feature: Apply the performance mode improvements to the local and dedimania records widgets.
  • Feature: Add command to restart PyPlanet pool process. //reboot
  • Improvement: Changed dedimania record text chat color.
  • Improvement: Changed welcome player nickname default color (white).
  • Improvement: Reduced length of record chat messages.
  • Improvement: Add player level name to the join/leave messages.
  • Bugfix: Jukebox current map gives errors and exceptions.
  • Bugfix: Ignore color and style codes inside /list searching.
  • Bugfix: Some small improvements on widgets (black window behind local/dedi removed and more transparent)

0.1.5

Core

  • Bugfix: Fixing several issues related to the connection and parsing of the payload.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with the BeginMatch callback.
  • Bugfix: Change issues related to the utf8mb4 unicode collate (max index lengths).

Apps

  • Bugfix: Fixing several issues with the dedimania app.
  • Bugfix: Fixing issue with local and dedimania records being saved double (2 records for 1 player). (#157).
  • Bugfix: Fixing several exception handling in dedimania app.

0.1.4

Core

  • Bugfix: Undo locking, causing freeze.

0.1.3

Apps

  • Bugfix: Fixing issue in dedimania causing crash.

0.1.2

Core

  • Bugfix: Filter out XML parse error of Dedicated Server (#121).
  • Bugfix: Give copy of connected players instead of a reference to prevent change of list when looping (#117).
  • Bugfix: Fixing issue when player rapidly connects and disconnects, giving error (#126 & #116).

Apps

  • Bugfix Karma: Fixing whokarma list not displaying due to error (#122 & #118).
  • Bugfix Dedimania: Reconnection issues (#130).
  • Improvement Local Records: Improve performance on sending information (chat message) on large servers. (#139).
  • Improvement Dedimania Records: Improve performance on sending information (chat message) on large servers. (#139).
  • Improvement Dedimania Records: Improve the error reporting and implement shorter timeout + retry procedure (#139).

0.1.1

Core

  • Fixing issue with creating migrations folder when no permission.

0.1.0

Core

  • Add new fields to the game state class.
  • Refresh the game infos every minute.

Contrib Apps

  • NEW: Dedimania App: Adding dedimania integration and widget.

0.0.3

Contrib Apps

  • Bugfix Local Records: Widget showing wrong offset of records. (Not showing own record if just in the first part of >5 recs) (#107).

0.0.2

Contrib Apps

  • Bugfix Local Records: Widget not updating when map changed. Login not found exception. (#106).

0.0.1

Core

  • First implementation of the core.
  • First implementation of the CLI tool.

Contrib Apps

Admin pyplanet.apps.contrib.admin

  • Feature: Basic map functions: skip / restart / add local / remove / erase / writemaplist
  • Feature: Basic player functions: ignore / kick / ban / blacklist
  • Feature: Basic server functions: set passwords (play / spectator)

Map list + jukebox pyplanet.apps.contrib.jukebox

  • Feature: Display maplist with maps currently on the server
  • Feature: Basic jukebox functions: list / drop / add / clear (admin-only)

Map karma pyplanet.apps.contrib.karma

  • Feature: Basic map karma (++ / –)
  • Feature: Display who voted what (whokarma)

Local records pyplanet.apps.contrib.local_records

  • Feature: Saving local records
  • Feature: Display current first/personal record on map begin (in chat)
  • Feature: Display list of records

Playerlist pyplanet.apps.contrib.players

  • Feature: Add join/leave messages.

MX pyplanet.apps.contrib.mx

  • Feature: Add MX maps (//add mx [id(s]).
  • Feature: Implement MX API Client.