2.9.1

Some minor features and bugfixes since 2.9.0.

What's New

• Narrator chat - when the IC emote is completely blank, only text is played back on the chatbox without altering any animations or overlays.
• AUTH packet. Servers can now control programmatically whether the mod controls are shown, instead of having to send the magic string "Logged in as a moderator." See #489.
• Logs now include OOC chat
• Demos now support timers properly
• /reload command for demos
• Dropdowns elide left, allowing long names to be more readable:
  
• Deprecated /min_wait for demos
• All UI elements are now named. While this is not fully documented yet, you can obtain the full list of object names from #534. More info on CSS here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/stylesheet-syntax.html
• Two new ways of controlling judge buttons: judge buttons can be forced on or off depending on certain conditions. One of them is through the network, but there is also a clientside option in the design.ini of any background that can define a list of positions where the judge button should be automatically enabled (e.g. judges=jud,jud2,jud3,judX).
• You can now specify in the options menu the default scaling method for assets that do not otherwise specify a scaling method - so you can have "fast" (pixely) or "smooth" chosen as default. You should select "smooth" if you are using HD-resolution assets.
• Added default showname preference in the options menu

Fixes

• Fix evidence icons not appearing after evidence has been presented once
• Fix demos containing messages with special characters not playing back correctly
• Fix demos being recorded with incorrect timing information. When loading a demo with such an issue, you can choose to automatically have it fixed.
• Fix demos being recorded with incorrect packet data (e.g. wrong encoding for things such as evidence by recording <and> instead of &)
• Fix demos not recording evidence or timers
• Fix demo playback not appearing on favorites list if serverlist.txt is missing
• Fix demo server not sending help text if "Spectator" is selected
• Fix final message in demo not being played
• Fix timings for OOC being really busted if the max_wait option is -1 during demo playback
• Fix blankposting forcing the message queue to sleep up until another message is received
• Fix chat messages being lost to the ether if instant objection is used, or area is switched while message queue is not empty
• Fix desynchronized logs options checkbox not loading from config properly
• Fix crash selecting random track when music list contains tracks without a category
• Fix per-emote stretch settings not working
• Fix chat arrow being displayed even when blankposting
• Fix animated themes freezing the client on Linux when joining a server with (too) many characters
• Fix character-specific color list not being properly regenerated on a theme reload
• Fix ~~, ~> and <> causing tick issues
• Fix objections forcing a missingno to appear when you object to someone mid-preanim, and their preanim ends before objection shout finishes
• Fix characters being incorrectly masked to the aspect ratio of the viewport even when the aspect ratio of the pixmap differed
• Fix Cyrillic/non-Latin characters breaking configuration files
• Fix regression where direct file paths (base/misc/blank) were not recognized
• Fix shownames disappearing forever if a message is sent while the shownames checkbox is unticked
• Fix using preanims with static images just breaking everything
• Fix text_stay_time timer firing even if immediate is enabled
• Fix regression where effects in misc folders were not being detected
• Euthanize Morton
• Fix evidence

Note: The Windows zip had an old executable, due to a mishap in the manual release process. Sorry about that.