282 Release Notes

Fixed: On reboot, verbs attached to the client object were failing to show up. (Monteiro)
Fixed: Switching mobs during the middle of a smooth movement was causing a drawing glitch. (Julio)
Fixed: Auto-capitalization of articles (The, A, An) at the beginning of sentences was getting confused by leading HTML tags at the beginning of the sentence. It now skips over these.
Declaring a loop variable or verb argument to be of type /atom now makes the default input type what you would expect: area|turf|obj|mob. Also /atom/movable acts as obj|mob.
The "loc" variable is now defined to be of type /atom, so you can access basic properties directly with the "." operator rather than having to use ":".
Fixed: the ":" operator was not following parent_type links. By that I mean a variable of type /atom did not allow access to mob variables when you used the ":" operator, because /mob was not a direct child of /atom. It works now.
Fixed: doing usr << O, where O was a datum, was generating a run-time error, even though usr << "[O]" is not an error.
Fixed: Creating an instance of /atom/movable works now. The object behaves like the default /obj in every way.
Fixed: DS was crashing when the person running the world was deleted. (Air Mapster)
Fixed: there was bug in roll(Reps,Sides) which was effectively reducing the number of sides on the dice by 1. (Air Mapster)
Fixed: istype() was not always working for parent types /datum and /atom of built-in types such as /mob and /obj.
Fixed: world.status and world.name were not getting stripped of control characters (such as \proper). (Air Mapster)
Fixed: The copyright html entity © should work now. (Deadron)
Tabs following text on a line should now behave as tabs rather than a fixed number of spaces, allowing for primitive column generation (Zilal!)
Fixed: params2list("") no longer returns null when the list of parameters is empty. It just returns an empty list.
Fixed: Deleting an image and then creating a new one in quick succession was occasionally producing a momentary glitch where the wrong icon was shown.
You can now pass an associative list to statpanel(). The items in the list serve as the first column (the stat names) and the associated values go in the second column (the stat values).
Added \roman and \Roman text macros. These turn the following embedded expression into a roman numeral. Example:
Added "follow-the-leader" mode when you execute a URL of the form: byond://key. It connects you to whatever world that person is in and will prompt you to follow them whenever they move to a new game. They must be accessible in your pager list, so either you or they have to have the other one set as a friend and neither can have the other set as a foe.
The pager now echoes your sent pages to you. (Zilal)
There is now a "hub" button on DS that simply routes to the game listing page.
Some of the DS redraw routines have been optimized a bit. You should have less blinking cursors.
Added profiling capabilities so you can figure out which of your procs are eating up the most cpu time. If you are hosting the world on your own machine, use the "Profile World" menu option (under Options) to start it up. From then, you'll be able to refresh the profiler manually to get snapshots of the world proc usage. Although the table claims to be showing "CPU time", this is actually the amount of "realtime" spent during the execution of the procedure. If the cpu is switching between multiple applications, the reported time will be higher than if it is just focusing on the one process. The name "CPU time" emphasizes that this is time spent directly executing the procedure. The "Awake Time" field adds to that the amount of time spent waiting for called procedures to return. That doesn't include time spent sleeping, which is reported in its own "Sleep Time" field.
You can invoke the profiler on a remote server (such as a game hosted at dantom) if you have administrative privileges on the site where the world is running (typically, if you are the owner of the account hosting the world). To do this, call it on the command line with: ".debug profile".
Key renewal is now even more transparent and should no longer pose a problem when using BYOND on an isolated network. The intention is to prevent identities that are not in use from being indefinitely reserved, but we do not want that to interfere with use of BYOND on a private network. When connecting directly to games in DS, keys no longer need to be renewed. The same is true if you compile the game with client/authenticate=0 or set "hub-address" to "none" in cfg/byond.txt. When a key is renewed (at about half of its lifespan), it is extended for another year rather than just two months, just to make it even less likely to be a problem for people who take a little vacation from the internet. Incidentally, the whole point of this renewal system is not to make keys a commodity, but rather to prevent "one-time-use" keys from being permanently taken out of circulation (ie- "key hogs"). (Guy T.)
Fixed: Object appearance data shared between the client and server was not getting garbage collected. It was getting re-used each time the client needed to look at an object with exactly the same appearance, but if the number of unique appearances used during the course of a game grew without bound (even though the number of objects did not), the server would eventually run out of space. This is now fixed. (Air Mapster)
Upgraded the garbage collector to use reference counts rather than periodic memory sweeps. (Actually, the sweeps are still in for the time being to help detect possible memory leaks in the new code.) This will improve performance quite a bit in lengthy procs that allocate a lot of temporary data, since the sweeper was always waiting until after the proc was finished to clean up.
This was a fairly major change to the DM virtual machine, so if something suddenly doesn't work right, please send as small of an example as possible that illustrates the problem.
Dream Maker now displays your "Lib" directory as a folder in the file tree. This allows you to quickly include libraries that may have been downloaded and installed from the hub (eg: dantom/hublib).
Dream Maker's "Find/Replace" dialog is now modeless, meaning you can use it while editing code. You can also use the more convenient "Find" dialog for quick searches.