Changelog

New games: Unvanquished, Tremulous GPP, TremFusion, Xonotic, Smokin’Guns, Urban Terror, Alien Arena, Reaction, Q3 Rally, World of Padman, OpenArena, OpenTTD, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Enemy Territory: Legacy, ZEQ2 Lite, Jedi Outcast, Turtle Arena

Updated master server and protocol numbers

Added scalable SVG icons

Added filter for Unvanquished, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Savage extended color codes

Dropped GTK+1 support

Now follows XDG Base Directory Specification for user configuration directory and migrates the previously created directory

Workaround for non ASCII characters in servers strings (doesn’t stop to refresh lists)

Rewrite of many deprecated calls (strings, channels…) and fixed many compilation issues

Improved French translation

new games: Warsow, Tremulous

fix Quake 4 RCON

add "Show only configured games" button again

fix SOF2 query

add new America’s Army master server

support copying server info values to clipboard

fix build with newer GTK2 versions

don’t pass -steam option to hl2 anymore

fix cursor navigation in server list

allow to also delete servers that are not in the Favorites list

split Half-Life support into old and new version

new Polish translation

New games: Nexuiz, Quake 4

Added Epic’s second UT2004 master

Added new Finish translation

Added Q3A Excessive Plus game types

Now honors setting to ignore bots when copying server info to clipboard

Added support for plugin scripts

Added support for multiple sort modes per column

New games: Half-Life 2 (wine)

All icons are now themeable

Now uses GTK2 colors and Raleigh theme by default in GTK1 version

Added --nomapscan command line parameter

Fixed UT2004 and Doom3 master query not working after starting XQF

Fixed saving of Quake2 passwords

Fixed Doom3 protocol detection

Fixed Q1/QW/Q2 skin list update

Fixed crashes in GTK2 version

New games: Netpanzer

Support for Gslist (http://aluigi.altervista.org/papers.htm#gslist)

Automatic detection of the Doom3 network protocol version

Check osmask of Doom3 servers and warn if the server has no Linux support

Configurable qstat source ip and port range for people with broken NAT

Contry statistics for game servers

Additional Descent3 server listing

UT2004 Master support (requires qstat 2.7)

xqf-rcon uses $XQF_RCON_PASSWORD for the rcon password if set

Various bugfixes as usual

New games: Doom3, Jedi Academy (wine)

Redial understands free private slots and won’t connect to password protected servers if there is no password defined by the user

Support for the Half-Life steam master

Support for Americas Army 2.1

Export the variables XQF_SERVER_NAME, XQF_SERVER_MAP, XQF_SERVER_HOSTNAME and XQF_SERVER_GAME when launching a game

Custom arguments for RedOrchestra, Troopers, AlienSwarm UT2004 mods

Animated tray icon for the GTK2 version

Quake 3 gametypes for World of Padman

Copy/Copy+ also copies to the CLIPBOARD instead of only PRIMARY to allow paste via CTRL-v

Quick Filter

Requires qstat 2.6

New games: America’s Army, Savage, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty(wine)

New splash screen and desktop icons

GeoIP support allows filtering by country

Server side filtering for Half-Life

Updated Enemy Territory default protocol number

Quake III gametypes for TrueCombat 1.0 and Urban Terror 3

Additional gametypes for some RTCW and ET mods

Added custom arguments for Death Ball and FragOps UT2003 mods

Detection of cheating-death on HalfLife servers

Added twilight to q1 and qw command suggestion

Display team of player for RTCW, ET and Q3 mods that provide the necessary information such as OSP and TrueCombat

Command line option --launch to automatically add a server to favorites, ping it and then launch the game

The environment variable XQF_SERVER_ANTICHEAT is now set before launching a game when the server requires some anti-cheat software.

Option to stop current song in XMMS when launching a game

Experimental GTK2 compilation support

New French translation

Added Enemy Territory Support support

Added Serious Sam: The Second Encounter support

Map scan function for q1, qw, q2 and hl tverify that you have the map installed before connecting tthe server

Ability tsee level screenshot when clicking on the map column for jpg shots inside of PK3 files for Quake3 and Wolfenstein

XQF startup splash screen support using gdk-pixbuf

Allow filtering for map and server name

Fix high cpu load when dialogs are shown during launch phase

If more than 100 servers are to be updated, the screen is not immediately refreshed. This helps eliminate long delays with Half Life updates

Pass RCON password on command line when launching Half-Life

Minor memory leaks fixed

Added QuakeForge’s HexenWorld master

Added Quake3 Western Q3 game type

Default custom args for Rocket Arena removed as 1.6 does not need them anymore

Now displays player team for Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory (skin column)

With Half Life, private clients now set based on reserve_slots variable

Display number of private clients in player column

Option tnot count bots as players

Move server filter submenu ttop level and remove rarely used buttons from toolbar

Added docs/PreLaunch.example

Hostname resolving now off by default

Automatically creates qstat config if required

gdk-pixbuf now required

New Danish translation

New French translation

Serious Sam support (requires SMS gametype via ~/.qstatrc). Does not currently support any masters.

Fixed -game parameter for Half-Life

RTCW voteflags decoded in properties pane

Visual marker in Map column to show if you have the listed map installed on your comptuer. (Q3, RTCW, UT, Rune, UT2)

File dialog boxes for adding game command line and directory

Greatly speed up the startup of XQF when loading large lists

Greatly speed up response time when applying filters to large lists

Ability to automatically set cl_punkbuster when connecting to a server in Q3A

Added Punkbuster icon to Priv column

Ability to define custom command-line arguments for a game based on the 'game type

Q3A now searches for a matching mod directory. Should correctly launch even if mod directory is incorrect by case

Added sound disable support for Unreal based games

Can now hide games that are not configured

Changed default Quake3 protocol to 68

Sound support for XQF events using external sound player

Busy server redial with reserved slots support

Soldier of Fortune 2 support (requires qstat sof2s gametype via ~/.qstatrc or qstat >2.5b)

Use correct parameters (-game,+connect,+password) when launching Half-Life

New master type of "file" to read IP addresses from a file

Unreal Tournament 2003 support

Fixed Half-Life rcon support

Player search visible improvements

Fixed Tribes2 master support and added additional masters

Updated QuakeWorld master list

Unlimited number of server filters instead of ten

Changed default Wolf protocol to 60

Standalone rcon program that doesn’t need X (xqf-rcon)

Quake3 launching now uses 'game' instead of 'gamename' to help prevent launch problems due to case

Various segfault fixes

XQF now requires qstat 2.5c

Added Voyager Elite Force support

Changed default Quake3 protocol to 67

You can now select Quake3 and Wolfenstein’s protocol

Added 20sec timeout for wget (nice if Gameaholic is down)

Added Tribes2 server statistics

Fixed Tribes2 and Quake3 masters

Added support for LAN broadcast queries

Improved master support handling

Added preferences tab for Quake3 memory settings

New Catalan translation

Repackaged with libtool 1.4, so it builds on all Linux architectures

Fixed trasparency of Gamespy’s pixmap

Don’t distribute debian stuff

Support for games using the GameSpy protocol

Support for Descent3 with qstat 2.4e (please note Descent can’t be launched from within XQF at the moment)

Support for Rune

Reorganization of settings dialogs

New gametypes for Quake3 mods Threewave and TribalCTF

Support for Wolfenstein retail (protocol 57)

Server statistics for Wolfenstein, Kingpin and Half-Life

Works on PowerPC again

Internationalization (gettext) support, Spanish and German translations

Initial Return to Castle Wolfenstein support

Tribes2 support

Support for Q3A protocol v66

Added "Quake3" preferences page which allows the protocol version and other options to be changed

Added "General" preferences page, which hosts many of the options which were in "Appearance" previously

Added "game type" filter

New man page

New documentation in html format (docs/xqfdocs.html)

XQF now requires qstat 2.4c

Multiple server filters; Filter name configurable and appears in the status bar

Lock Icon to show if server is private or not; icon next to number of players turns yellow if all of the public client spaces are full

Pressing "Insert" brings up the add server dialog; pressing SHIFT+Insert adds the currently selected server to ones favorites

Added support for new Team Arena Game types

Protocol 48 (1.27) Q3A servers get queried with protocol 48 in qstat

Execute "PreLaunch" script when launching game (for use with ICQ scripts, etc.)

Improved support for Half-Life servers

Improved support for Unreal Tournament

Improved support for Quake2

Hack for supporting multiple Q3A protocols i.e. xqf can run different Q3A’s depending on if it is a 1.17 or 1.27 server: see the README file

Q3A hack for connecting to arena servers so that all of the vm_* settings are correct on the command line

Resolved one major source of core dumps. It should be much more stable now