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About PvPGN:

The PvPGN (Player versus Player Gaming Network) is a bnetd based gaming network server emulation project. It curently supports all Battle.Net clients and Westwood Online (WOL) games Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. With PvPGN you can run your own Battle.net for LAN or internet players to play Blizzard games like StarCraft, WarCraft 3, WarCraft 2 BNE, Diablo 1 and 2.

Details about this version:

ChangeLog for 1.8.0 (since 1.8.0rc2)
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[VCHECK]
-- added sc/bw 1.13f/1.14 version check entries
-- added WAR3/W3XP IX86 1.20d/1.20e vcheck entries

[D2]
-- cleaned up some mess about dealing with D2 1.08 auth reply packets which
we don't need to support according to our minimum D2 version required
-- fixed joining of D2 channels by non-D2 clients

[WOL]
-- fixed a bug where players couldn't join newly created channels

[MISC]
-- fixed logging of invalid strings for client tags
-- fixed /ladderinfo command, fix usage of uninitilized variables
-- fixed corruption of account data when using files storage and when there
where already broken UID accounts
-- fixed the clan max members to be 100 not 255
-- fixed loading of all accounts in sql2 (ex. when doing a ladder rebuild)
-- reverted dynamic SQL lib support that was creating problems
-- properly fixed "sql" ("sql2" is not affected) friend list bugs (reverted
the old fix which was creating new problems); might still be problems if
using old versions of sqlite3 (that dont support ` quoting) or using ODBC
-- fixed connection loss problems with mysql>=5.0.12 (mysql versions starting
with 5.0.3 but lower than 5.0.12 will still have the issue, upgrade mysql!)

Changelog for 1.8.0rc2 (since 1.8.0rc1)
=========================================
[SQL]
-- fixed friendslist-related (my)SQL problems

[VERSIONCHECK]
-- added W3 1.20c entries

[MISC]
-- updated bnmaps.conf with the latest Battle.net maps

ChangeLog for 1.8.0rc1 (since 1.7.9)
=======================================
[SQL]
-- inserted additional indices for BNET table in sql2 layout
-- added runtime loading of shared library files (DLLs)

[SC/BW/W2BNE]
-- fixed problem with parsing gameresults with unexpected order of players

[WAR3]
-- fixed "clan membership lost after invitation" bug.

[IRC]
-- fixed PING problem occouring after about 25 days uptime

[VERSIONCHECK]
-- added SC/BW 1.13e entries (XMAC & PMAC)
-- added D2/D2XP 1.11b entries
-- added W3 1.20b entries

[MISC]
-- enforce limit for topic message max length

ChangeLog for 1.7.9 (since 1.7.8)
=======================================

[D2CS/D2DBS]
-- added pid files to the confs
-- fixed a bug where server could not be (un)installed as a win32 service
-- added check and modified the default motd to not have a too big motd that
was crashing the clients just after character selection

[VERSIONCHECK]
-- added SC/BW 1.13c entries
-- added SC/BW 1.13d entries
-- added SC/BW 1.13e entries
-- added W3 1.20a entries

[SQL]
-- reorganized optimized and made more safe the existent codes
-- added a new sql layout called "sql2" in config

[MISC]
-- fixed security issue where an op of a channel was able to set the topic
of any other channel
-- added more information to "/finger" display (if issued by an admin)
-- added a new command, "/tos" to display the Terms Of Service on request

ChangeLog for 1.7.8 (since 1.7.7)
=======================================

[D2CS/D2DBS]
-- usage of the new conf API

[SQL]
-- fixed a bug where case sensitive string lookup SQL backends whould not
see old accounts when searched with different case; this is a major problem
and if you are running any non-MySQL SQL backend you MUST upgrade; make sure
you read UPDATE too as it contains very important information for this bugfix

[WOL]
-- initial support (HURRAY!!); almost complete Tiberian Sun (TA) support,
basic Red Alert 2 (RA2) and Yuri's Revenge (YR) support

[DRTL]
-- fixed problem with joining games of level 50 characters

[BNPCAP]
-- 64 bit arch compatibility changes

[BNCHAT]
-- added --arch parameter to specify architecture
-- added --lang parameter to specify "gamelang" field of COUNTRYINFO packet

[MISC]
-- changed that if "servaddrs" option in bnetd.conf is commented server
should not listen on bnet addresses (now that we have WOL b.net is not a
priority anymore)
-- optimized some "compat" codes
-- updated more places where people get directed to IRC with the other
support channels (should reduce the "n00b" infestation that PvPGN
IRC suffers of)
-- added versioncheck for D2 LOD 1.11 and D2 classic 1.11
-- updated versioncheck with latest client versions (War3 1.18a, SC/BW 1.13
and 1.13b)
-- updated bnmaps.conf with latest maps used on b.net

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