v1.15.0-rc.1

[luskaner]

What's Changed

Full MacOS support

Warning

macOS support is still considered experimental. Please report any issues you encounter.

MacOS is now fully supported even including support for the new native Steam AoE II: DE port. Thus, full, battle-server-manager and launcher archives are provided just like the rest of operating systems.

Notes

• AoE II: DE port does not include the BattleServer so:
  • You are unable to create/join lobbies as 'Use Local LAN Server' you must use the 'Default' or configured Online-like Battle Server.
  • You will need to get the standalone windows executable from a Windows installation and configure the battle-server-manager to its path along having installed wine program to run it.
• Launcher/Battle Server Manager: need in some moments to run an emergent terminal windows which the default Terminal app does not support, thus you will need to have installed one of the following:
  • Alacritty (recommended).
  • Kitty
  • Ghostty
  • Wezterm
  • Rio
  • Linux based X11 terminals: xterm, uxterm, urxvt and st.

General

• 🐧Enhancement: added more modern terminal applications to use (see at the top, just like macOS).
• 🐛 Fix: Properly load environment variables after configuration files.
• 🐛 Fix: Properly handle when a PID lock file does not exist when searching for it.
• 🐛 Fix: Don't show error when closing another program and itself removes the PID lock file.
• 🐛 Fix: Not adding usage KeyUsageCertSign to the generated CA files.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: Do not use setSid if process is just being waited on.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: Properly quote arguments in when running subprograms.
• 🐧🐛 Fix: Remove terminal apps that did not support the '-e' to run commands.

Server

• Enhancement: added old leaderboards.json so old age2 game versions can work (as old as it was supported at the start of the project, ~2024Q2). The user must still manually place them as explained in the folder's README file.
• Enhancement: Support new native macOS Steam AoE II: DE game domain arthurlive-api.worldsedgelink.com.
• Enhancement: Add IgnoreIfExisting parameter to genCert binary.
• 🐛 Fix: fix adv/update not returning proper data for aoe1/aoe2/aoe3/aom
• 🐛 Fix: IPv4 auto in battleserver returning WAN IP as necessary.

Launcher

• 🔝🐛/Enhancement: Now, if required, config-admin-agent is started at the beginning of the program and ensures by flushing the DNS and Certs cache that all is up-to-date.
• 🍎🐧🔝Enhancement: Added support for Client.Executable as 'steam_crossover' (Steam installed on Crossover).
• 🍎🐧🔝Enhancement: Added support for Client.Executable as 'steam_wine' (Steam installed on Wine).
• 🍎🐧Enhancement: Added Client.Isolation.Path so the user can specify the path to the game user data, enabling custom path and isolation at the same time.
• Enhancement: Print more information when failing to connect to a server.
• Enhancement: Print more information when failing to add or remove a certificate.
• Enhancement: Config.Certificate.CanTrustInPc now defaults to 'auto', which is resolved to 'user' in macOS and 'local' otherwise (as it was before).
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: when adding hosts comment out mappings to the hostname that can cause the system being to unable to host a LAN lobby.
• 🐛 Fix: properly detect when starting a custom launcher if it fails.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: Not getting the correctly data path for AoE IV: AE on wine-based systems.
• 🐧🐛 Fix: properly detect when xdg-open fails to open the Steam URI.
• 🚧 Update: Moved Client.IsolateMetadata and Client.IsolateProfiles parameters to own Client.Isolation section and renamed as Client.Isolation.Metadata and Client.Isolation.Profiles respectively.

Battle Server Manager

• Enhancement: Pass publicPort argument to BattleServer.exe (same as BsPort).
• Enhancement: Removed SSL config section. Now CertsPath is defined which it is either 'auto' or a path to the certificate folder containing the appropriate .pem files per game.
• 🐛 Fix: not properly generating the ports depending on which were already set.
• 🍎🐧Enhancement: When starting the BattleServer.exe wait 20s extra seconds as they might need to boot wine.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: wine fixes when starting BattleServer.exe.

Other

• Enhancement: added dockerfile and compose for battle-server-manager.
• 🚧 Update: release_public.key
• 🐛 Fix: fixed Server dockerfile.

Developer changes

• 🔝Enhancement: Added mocks for game launcher, the game itself and BattleServer.exe to easy develop and test (specially on non-Windows systems).
• Enhancement: All binaries now use the standard system for arguments and config.
• Enhancement: Added config-helper module as means to interop for getting profile/game info on non-Windows systems via wine.
• Enhancement: battle-server-broadcast module now has ValidData(data []byte, length int) bool method and exports Header, GuidLength, PortSize and MinimumSize.
• 🐛 Fix: cache missing in some debug tasks.
• 🚧 Update: Go from 1.26.3 to 1.26.5.
• 🚧 Update: Dependencies (program and CI).
• 🚧 Update: Removed cobra dependency left-over from launcher.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.15.0-rc.1.