MegaGlest 3.4.0 Released!

[ultifd]

Note: Don't use PlayDeb! It's NOT compatible with others versions (It's 3 revisions off!)the main thing you can notice is that it still has longbowmen...
Well I think if you just sign up for download.com, you don't get any spam...for upload.com they send you those product e-mails which you can just unsubscribe...not sure if you ask the first time though. I'm not sure, I signed up a long time ago... maybe this

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is outdated.

Overally, I think both our forks should appear there. It could really boost downloads and the community (be sure to get some good screen shots!).

They would both probably get 5 stars too...

[tomreyn]

Note: Don't use PlayDeb! It's NOT compatible with others versions (It's 3 revisions off!)the main thing you can notice is that it still has longbowmen...

This issue can be tracked on Launchpad.
What happened is that the playdeb package maintainer unfortunately assumed our latest releases would always be distributed via sourceforge.net (which usually is the case, but wasn't for 3.4.0 release, at least not during the first few days, due to the security incident at sourceforge). So while our release announcements pointed to the megaglest.org download mirror, he downloaded the source package of sourceforge which was misleadingly tagged as "current release" there (but it was not possible to update things on sourceforge at the time). Just bad luck. I hope/wish the playdeb team will be able to provide us with new packages which will be compatible to the 3.4.0 release. The bug tracker should tell how this advances.

Edit:
Actually this was our mistake. Thanks a lot to c_korn of playdeb for debugging this issue with us.

[tomreyn]

Hi,

we had a mishap while packaging the "Full data package" for 3.4.0,
resulting in outdated data being contained in this package. Only very
few of you will have downloaded this package, so if you do not know what
this is about you can safely ignore this e-mail in its entirety.

SCOPE

Who is affected:

* Whoever downloaded the "full data package", a file named
  "megaglest-data-3.4.0.7z", and used this to install

* Users of the Debian packages provided by playdeb.net and getdeb.net
and any of their mirrors:
  Package: megaglest-data
  Version: 3.4.0-1~getdeb1

Who is _not_ affected:

* Anyone who used a 3.4.0 full installer, namely:
  * Windows Installer (MegaGlest-Installer-3.4.0_i386_win32.exe)
  * Linux 32-bit Installer (MegaGlest-Installer-3.4.0_i386_linux.run)
  * Linux 64-bit Installer (MegaGlest-Installer-3.4.0_i386_64_linux.run)

* Anyone who upgraded from 3.3.7.2 using any supported means, namely:
  * Upgrade Data package (megaglest-data-updates-3.4.0.7z)
  * Windows Auto Updater (MegaGlest-Updater-3.4.0_i386_win32.exe)
  * Windows Self Extracting Update (megaglest3.4.0_i386_win32_bin.exe)
  * Windows 7-zip upgrade archive (megaglest3.4.0_i386_win32_bin.7z)

* Users of any newer versions of the "megaglest-data" Debian package
provided by playdeb.net and getdeb.net

IMPACT

If you installed 3.4.0 using any of the affected packages, your game is
incompatible to that of players who installed by other means. Whenever
you play a network game which in which any player plays the romans_beta
faction (which may also be randomly selected) you will receive an error
message about your game being incompatible and you will get disconnected
off the server. If you are running the server, all clients who installed
by other means will be disconnected.
This also means that your setup is not supported in the future.

MITIGATION

A mitigation strategy for users of playdeb.net packages is not available.

If you setup the game using the "full data package"
(megaglest-data-3.4.0.7z), as provided by the MegaGlest project, you can
do the following to be able to play online:

* open a file browser

* browse to the MegaGlest main directory. This directory should bear the
following subdirectories:
bin/
data/
docs/
lib/
maps/
mydata/
scenarios/
screens/
techs/
tilesets/
tutorials/
It should also contain several *.ini files.

* Browse to the following subdirectory:
techs/megapack/factions/romans_beta/units/

* Delete the "longbowman" subdirectory including all files and
subdirectories contained in it.

FIX

For users of the "Full data package", we have released a fixed variant
(megaglest-fixed_data-3.4.0.7z) which is available at

https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=6506.msg66501#msg66501
(use a web browser which supports Javascript and expand the "spoiler")

The direct download location is
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/current_release/megaglest-fixed_data-3.4.0.7z/download

The file size is about 189.3 MB.

Checksums:
SHA1 32439e2225365f27f15b6ce4726d50d844680cc8
MD5  830c418abc96a2ec8b5bc6210b17440e

You may use the fixed data package and a previously downloaded binary
package to setup MegaGlest 3.4.0 from scratch, as you would have done
previously.

Users of playdeb.net packages should upgrade to a newer megaglest-data
package which should become available on your preferred playdeb.net
mirror server and at

http://www.playdeb.net/updates/ubuntu/10.10/?q=megaglest

shortly. Please note that we do not maintain these packages ourselves,
so we cannot provide nor influence their ETA.

THANKS

We would like to thank c_korn of playdeb.net for the hours he spent with
us on determining the cause of this issue, and for providing the recent
and upcoming MegaGlest Debian packages.

[LuckAs]

I allready compiled the packages (RPM/SRPMS) for Mandriva:

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Need for install on Mandriva 2010 i586 (32bit):

Curl update:
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/curl-7.21.3-1mdv2010.0.i586.rpm
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/libcurl4-7.21.3-1mdv2010.0.i586.rpm
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/libcurl-devel-7.21.3-1mdv2010.0.i586.rpm

Game Date:
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/megaglest-data-3.4.0-1mdv2010.0.noarch.rpm

Game Binaries:
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/megaglest-3.4.0-1mdv2010.0.i586.rpm

Need for install on Mandriva 2010 x86_64 (64bit):

Curl update:
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/curl-7.21.3-1mdv2010.0.x86_64.rpm
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/lib64curl-devel-7.21.3-1mdv2010.0.x86_64.rpm
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/lib64curl4-7.21.3-1mdv2010.0.x86_64.rpm

Game Date:
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/megaglest-data-3.4.0-1mdv2010.0.noarch.rpm

Game Binaries:
http://igroup.biz.ua/mandrakelinux/contrib/megaglest-3.4.0-1mdv2010.0.x86_64.rpm
Data files from "megaglest-fixed_data-3.4.0.7z"
The all user-files stored in ~/.megaglest/*, add russian and ukrainian base translations with support cyrillic in ini-file, create a run-files megaglest*
Welcome!