341 Release Notes

• Fixed: Setting a player mob's loc to null would sometimes cause flickering of the display. (Leftley, DarkView)
• Fixed: Large text and browse() messages could crash Dream Seeker. Now older clients never receive the message; newer ones receive the full message properly.
• Fixed: icon.Insert() sometimes failed to properly add an icon correctly when specifying a direction.
• Fixed: icon.Insert() and icon.Blend() sometimes goofed up when adding more directions to animated icons.
• Fixed: Using icon.Insert() to insert an icon with more animation frames or directions, without specifying a specific frame or dir, would crash.
• Fixed: icon.Blend(), when blending with more animation frames and fewer directions, could cause frames/dirs to be lost.
• Fixed: For games using dynamically created icons, two instances of the game could not run on the same computer.
• Fixed: A bug caused the default save directory to change when browsing files in an Open File dialog.

• BYOND now compresses large messages between servers and clients to save bandwidth. Older clients still receive uncompressed messages.
• Links to external Web pages that appear in the pager window or text output now open in a separate browser window, not the built-in browser, in preparation for BYOND 4.0. byond:// links still work the same.
• Libraries in Dream Maker are now sorted by author, then by name.
• $ and @ are no longer treated as commands by themselves. They still work as prefixes, such as $ping in place of .hub ping.
• icon.Blend() repeats frames in the shorter icon when blending two animated icons.
• icon.Blend() is slightly faster.
• Blending a static icon with an animated icon now sets the static (src) icon's delay and rewind flag to match the animated form.
• world.hub_password added. Consult reference for usage.
• cilent.virtual_eye and client.edge_limit implemented. Consult reference for usage.
• world.timeofday added. Consult reference for usage.
• url_encode() and url_decode() added. Consult reference for usage.
• md5() added. Consult reference for usage.
• text2path() added. Consult reference for usage.
• BYOND is now available for the OpenBSD platform.