Mangos 0.16, Milestone Completed

[VladimirMangos]

MaNGOS is an object-oriented Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Server (MMORPGS). It's an educational project, to help developers get familar with large scale C++ development projects.

The 0.16 release based on GIT commit [10134] is the sixteenth release on the MaNGOS roadmap. As a source-only release, it is intended only for developers and advanced users who understand they will probably experience bugs and/or rough edges.

The following list only gives you a higher level overview, for further details see the ChangeLog file included in the source releases.

==== Game Features ====

* Added: Implemented support dual talents spec work.

* Added: Implemented support weekly quests cooldowns.

* Added: player/group tap of attacked creature, and other loot related changes and fixes.

* Added: Implemented proper way enchanting in trade slot.

* Improved: Pool system work, especially with pool creatures/gameobjects as event parts.

* Improved: Pets speed and movement flags at attack/follow mode switches.

* Improved: Better work gameobjects at use.

* Improved: Fixed problem with non-attackable pets/totems at arenas.

* Improved: Fixed long time existed problem with "partly-resurrection" character with periodic HoT auras in some cases.

* Improved: More achievement types support added.

* Improved: More proper use movement/spline flags and movement packets let more correct show creature movement in some cases.

* Improved: shareable quest work and related quest objective complete events.

* Improved: Recalculate bounding radius and combat reach distance at model scale.

* plus lots of fixes for auras, effects, spells, talents, glyphs and more.

==== Server Features ====

* Added: Implemented SOAP in MaNGOS

* Added: Camera framework for proper mind vision like spells use and grid code cleanups including remove unused cell-level thread locking.

* Added: New table character_stats for external tools.

* Added: More user friendly output at DB version check fail.

* Improved: Update used utf8 cpp library version up to 2.2.4

* Improved: Character `data` field values finally replaced by normal table fields.

* Improved: Increase reserved stack size for mangosd up to 4Mb at Windows

* Improved: Rewritten realmd and mangosd RA code use ACE network classes and drop Sockets lib.

* Improved: OpenSSL lib upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.0.

* Improved: Use ACE config library instead dropped dotconfpp.

* Improved: G3DLite lib upgrade to G3DLite 8.0b4

* plus lots of improvements in chat/console commands, server startup DB integrity checks.

==== Statistics ====

* Fixed Bugs: 130 tickets and many bugs reported at forum resolved

* Total number of changes: 1000 revisions (1010 commits)

MaNGOS team not plan create special branch for 0.16 release. Tag will created release commit from other side.

We plan continue provide limited support for existed mangos-0.12 branch with appropriate patches backporting from master.

[elykoisu]

thank you so much for the information VladimirMangos.

i look forward to future improvements and implementations you guys make.