Release 3.44.0 (21 July 2015)

This includes all the work from 3.41 that got canned when we found a bad bug, as well as a bunch of extra stuff we snuck in. Options

• Added set password function so Steam and Kongregate players can then log in via web

• Tweaked options screen visuals

Treasure

• On failed item transfer from treasure, put items back into cache.

• Introduce a queue to flush the treasure cache instead of doing it all at once.

• Don't move items on client/server when resetting a chest store chest as it should be empty anyway.

• Don't empty treasure store cache when advancing adventure.

Login/Accounts

• Steam login dialog provides a better guess at what error 2032 might mean during failed login.

• Set the initial tab correctly on steam login dialog.

• Check active flag on login

• Escape some special characters in JSON responses in user authentication.

• Reworked the maintenance mode check.

Co-op

• Added co-op chat room, opened by Co-op button, for people to find groups without disturbing World chat.

• Award coop flag for completing an exhausted adventure.

Chat

• Increased world chat user limit

• Renamed "Battle" chat audio level "Some", set it as default for new accounts.

Registration

• Fixed the error message display when attempting to register a rejected account name.

• Fixed NameCheck.php not to mangle the regexp.

• Modified restricted and bad words for account registration to work with preg_match case insensitive syntax.

• Copied over the bad words file from SFS to accounts.

Achievements

• Battle results get final rating doesn't error when ratings are missing. Should fix league stats and achievements in Steam.

• Award co-op flag for completing an unprimed adventure in co-op mode.

Optimisation

• Partition campaign_flags, player_item and store_item tables.

• Minor optimisation in new adventure start

• Break up leaderboard JOIN query into two separate queries.

• Make multiple calls using a simpler prepared statement instead of building up a large statement with lots of arguments when finding friends.

• Optimised friend search

• Early out optimisation on a mismatch when changing passwords.

• Leave room for the worker pool to grow

• Fix up a non-tunable limitation on chat queue to be more sane

• Increase socket reader pool size

Admin

• Additional moderation tools and cleanup

• Set maintenance mode at the start of the shutdown process

Logging/Profiling

• Better logging of item transfer errors.

• Add some extra logging on room removal to help determine the cause of duplicated log messages

• Refactoring profiling functions to use a common base, since the several types share functionality

• Add missing argument to command help output

• Fix incorrect column name in profile data.

• Clear buffer of previous response before adding CSV profile data.

Console

• Remove a few console commands that don't work right anymore and aren't needed.

User Admin

• Added citadel chests to user editor.