Qtracker Release Notes



	Current release: Version 4.9, Release Notes Upcoming release: Release Notes (06/29/2009) Latest download: Iron Grip: Warlord Mapshot Pack Version 1.0 (04/03/2009)

Release Notes

Release notes detail what's changed from release to release. Here you will find the release notes for the most recent releases.

Version 4.9 March 13, 2009 at 10:00PM ET:

	9/15/2008 Fixed crash on exit/connecting to server (with close program selected).
	9/15/2008 Fixed HTML/PHP server list generation so all servers are once again included in the listing.
	9/15/2008 Fixed querying lock-up that occurred when querying Half-Life 2 servers that do not require authentication and do not return all server information.
	9/15/2008 Added inactive server color customization in Settings->Appearance->Servers.
	9/15/2008 Added "Map change" Watch Server criteria.
	9/15/2008 Added "+set fs_game q4mp" or "+set fs_game $mod" to Quake 4 command-line on server join.
	10/10/2008 Fixed "Best fit" column sizing of player names.
	10/10/2008 Fixed server list repainting issue that caused updated server information to not display in all circumstances.
	10/10/2008 Added Turok 2 support to QtUplink.
	10/10/2008 Fixed blank lines (deleted servers) in folder Export function.
	10/10/2008 Fixed empty registry keys being created at startup under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Qtracker.
	10/10/2008 Added support for Crysis Wars.
	10/21/2008 Added support for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.
	10/29/2008 Fixed bug which disabled auto-refreshing and HTML generation when launched from the qtracker:// URL.
	10/29/2008 Fixed intermittent settings wipe if application crashed at shutdown.
	10/29/2008 Fixed crash at shutdown while playing a sound.
	10/29/2008 Fixed bug which causes player list focus to be lost when the selected server was refreshed automatically.
	10/29/2008 Fixed "All Servers" view to work as it did prior to 4.8: all active favorite/folder servers are listed, regardless of filter settings.
	10/29/2008 Added DirectSound support for sound playback.
	10/29/2008 Added sound volume control to View->Settings->General->Sounds.
	10/29/2008 Added support for Iron Grip: Warlord.
	11/20/2008 Updated Quake 4 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars fonts to use new in-game alpha-blended font which greatly improves the appearance of player names.
	11/20/2008 Added support for Call of Duty: World At War.
	11/27/2008 Added support for Left 4 Dead.
	12/2/2008 Trailing spaces are now removed when pasting an ip address into the Add Server dialog.
	12/2/2008 Added fake Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2 server rule called "vac_secure", values can be "0" or "1".
	12/2/2008 Added fake Half-Life 1 server rule called "os", values can be "windows" or "linux".
	12/2/2008 Setings.xml is now backed up on startup. If Settings.xml is missing, the backup will be restored at startup.
	12/2/2008 Friends window tray icon is now properly removed if disabling the Friends window while minimized to the system tray.
	12/2/2008 Updated Settings.xml to encode special characters in group tags.
	12/2/2008 Updated Quake 3 font to use new in-game alpha-blended font which greatly improves the appearance of player names.
	12/2/2008 Updated in-game fonts to now fully support all 32 colors used in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Warsow, and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
	12/11/2008 Updated Quake 2 icon.
	12/11/2008 Updated Quake 1 font to use new in-game alpha-blended font which greatly improves the appearance of player names.
	12/11/2008 Updated Quake 2 font to use new in-game alpha-blended font which greatly improves the appearance of player names.
	12/11/2008 Fixed intermittant crash when pinging the last server in a server listing.
	12/11/2008 Fixed Friends name matching issue which caused some Quake 1/QuakeWorld names to never match.
	12/11/2008 Fixed Alien Arena servers incorrectly identified as Quake 2 servers if "game" rule was missing.
	12/11/2008 Settings->General->Games->Connect text has been moved to lang-en.xml.
	12/11/2008 Settings->Appearance->Servers text has been moved to lang-en.xml.
	12/11/2008 Added "Match Text Color" option to the Friends search mask options to turn this on or off.
	12/11/2008 Fixed LAN servers so they actually display again. Bug introduced in 4.8.
	12/11/2008 Added ip address selection for computers with multiple ip addresses. View->Settings->Network->Tweak (Advanced).
	12/11/2008 Settings->Appearance->Servers "Display server names in color" option added, default is on.
	12/11/2008 Server names are now displayed in color, if color codes exist. White text will be displayed as standard text color for readability.
	12/18/2008 Player names rendered with in-game fonts can now be right-aligned or centered in a column.
	12/18/2008 Fixed resource/memory leak in History pane which could cause a crash or random issues.
	12/18/2008 Fixed crash at shutdown when pinging a group of servers.
	12/18/2008 Added support for Quake 4 color shifting and color rgb codes in player names.
	12/24/2008 Added fake server rule for Half-Life 1/2 servers called "dedicated".
	12/24/2008 Updated Half-Life 1 packet parser to accept 0x49 server data response.
	12/24/2008 You can now set the application background color in View->Settings->Appearance->General.
	12/24/2008 Moved Settings->Appearance->General text to lang-en.xml.
	12/24/2008 When exporting servers, if a hostname has been entered for a server the hostname will be exported instead of the ip address.
	12/24/2008 Added server-side region lookup when adding a favorite server using the Add Server dialog. This will attempt to populate the region for you, however if the Masters do not know the region for the server it will be set to Unidentified.
	12/24/2008 Added "Region Lookup" menu item to server list context menu to perform server-side region lookup. This will attempt to populate the region for you, however if the Masters do not know the region for the server it will be set to Unidentified.
	1/5/2009 Updated UTF-8 converter for Half-Life 1/Half-Life 2 player and server names to handle U+000800-U+00FFFF.
	1/5/2009 Half-Life 1/Half-Life 2 server names are now passed through the UTF-8 converter.
	1/5/2009 Updated Half-Life 1 packet parser to handle protocol 47/48 challenge changes. This will fix servers from being improperly marked as not responding with no server data.
	1/5/2009 Updated Half-Life 1 packet parser to display players on servers that return all player indexes as 0.
	3/19/2009 Color codes are now removed from server names used in window title bars.
	3/19/2009 Characters below 0x20 are now removed from RTCW server names.
	3/19/2009 Cancel button now works properly in Server Full dialog if dialog had been previously displayed and OK button was pressed.
	3/19/2009 Qtracker URL will now work if Qtracker is already running.
	3/19/2009 Fixed possible crash at shutdown if a filter was edited, or a new filter was created.
	3/19/2009 Added game icons to View->Settings->Games->Auto-login.
	3/19/2009 Added game icons to game headings in Filter pane.
	3/19/2009 Fixed possible crash if player name changed while painting player name.
	3/19/2009 "Search for servers" now ignores color codes in server names.
	3/19/2009 Player names are now properly clipped to player column width.
	3/19/2009 Player list sort column settings are now properly saved if server window wasn't closed before closing the application.
	3/19/2009 Color codes are now ignored when sorting by player name in a player list.
	3/19/2009 Selections and focus are now properly maintained after sorting player listing.
	3/19/2009 Selections and focus are now properly maintained after sorting rule listing.
	3/19/2009 Fixed Mapshot caching issue that would prevent Mapshots from displaying if a Mapshot pack existed that was missing image files.
	3/19/2009 Fixed 0-1ms or blank response times on servers that did not respond to initial query.
	3/19/2009 HTML generation code now uses temporary files, rather than hardcoded filenames.
	3/19/2009 HTML generation code now removes color codes from server names.
	3/19/2009 Fixed possible crash after clicking OK in the Settings dialog for users with no settings.xml file (first-time users).
	3/19/2009 Fixed Theme->Vista changes not saving upon restart.
	3/19/2009 Fixed potential crash in Rules pane if server selection changed to no server while repainting rules.
	3/19/2009 Fixed Friends player name search mask so you can no longer turn off all search filters.
	3/19/2009 Updated how matching text is displayed in Friends search text.
	3/19/2009 Fixed AutoInstaller to properly identify running Qtracker instance and shut it down, rather than searching for windows titled "Qtracker".
	3/19/2009 Server selections in server listing are properly maintained while updating and resorting servers.
	3/19/2009 Minor performance enhancement in server list painting code, and should reduce flickering marginally.
	3/19/2009 Fixed a crash when receiving data on listening DirectPlay port.
	3/19/2009 Fixed horizontal scrollbar appearing while resizing Friends windows.
	3/19/2009 Servers containing a hostname, instead of ip, will now be properly loaded when pasting or importing.

Version 4.8 August 28, 2008 at 11:29PM ET:

	2/22/2008 Added Unreal Tournament 3 join server support for the UT3 1.2 patch.
	2/22/2008 Added Auto-Login support for Unreal Tournament 3.
	2/22/2008 Added context menu to console output view in Server Administration tab, containing: Copy, Select All.
	2/22/2008 Fixed auto-scroll issue in command edit box in the Server Administration tab to permit scrolling when entering more text than could be displayed in the edit box.
	2/22/2008 Added Yahoo! Messenger away state changing when joining a server or returning from a server.
	2/22/2008 Fixed ICQ away values to load from XML file, not the registry.
	2/22/2008 Fixed Enemy Territory: Quake Wars LAN server detection.
	4/16/2008 Watch server icon is now removed when connecting to a server.
	4/16/2008 Fixed friends list notification to trigger when a friend is found for the second time (after they log off then back on again).
	4/16/2008 Added fake Half-Life 2 server rule called "version", the value contains the server version.
	4/16/2008 The version column is now populated for Half-Life 2.
	4/16/2008 Added fake Half-Life 2 server rule called "os", the value contains either "linux" or "windows".
	4/16/2008 Added fake Half-Life 2 server rule called "modification_directory", the value contains the directory the current modification is running from.
	4/16/2008 Fixed definition of British Virgin Islands region #126 as it was mapped improperly to #127.
	4/16/2008 Updated all region icons with newer icons, and added 24x24, 32x32, and 48x48 resolutions with alpha transparancy.
	4/24/2008 Added "Copy" menu to the Rules context menu. This adds the ability to copy the selected rule(s) name, value, or name and value to the clipboard.
	4/24/2008 Removed all application icons from the Qtracker.exe, greatly reducing the size of the executable. They are now located as separate files in the Qtracker installation directory.
	4/24/2008 Updated all application icons with all new icons.
	4/29/2008 Re-designed the Watch Server interface to make it easier to add new criteria.
	4/29/2008 Added "maximum players" criteria to Watch Servers. This checks the server to see when it has less than the number of players specified playing on it.
	4/29/2008 Watch Server dialog now loads all text from language XML file.
	4/29/2008 The tooltip for the Watch Server icon in the server listing display will now display basic details of the watch in effect.
	4/29/2008 Watch Server will now watch all of the selected servers.
	4/29/2008 Cancel Watch Server now cancels all watches for the selected servers.
	5/19/2008 Threaded loading of application icons at startup.
	5/19/2008 Updated list header appearance to better match the active theme, also increased the header height.
	5/19/2008 Updated checkbox, and tri-state, checkbox appearance.
	5/19/2008 Fixed Kingpin packet parser that was causing some servers to show as inactive with no server or player data.
	5/19/2008 Double-clicking a region pin now toggles the entire region on or off.
	5/19/2008 Mapshot image background color now properly set on Theme or system color change.
	5/19/2008 Improved Office 2007 Theme appearance (status bar and panes).
	5/19/2008 Removed static "updlist.txt" file in the Qtracker installation folder during refreshing/pinging, now use temporary file in users temp folder.
	5/20/2008 Fixed Warsow team names and colors.
	5/21/2008 Updated Quake III Arena game type numeric to textual mappings for various modifications.
	5/21/2008 Updated Settings pane heading, descriptions, and icon displays.
	5/21/2008 Moved all Settings pane headings, captions, and descriptions to lang-en.xml file.
	5/25/2008 Fixed Quake 3 CNQ3 servers being incorrectly identified as Quake 2 servers.
	5/27/2008 Added History log-to-file option in View->Settings->General->History. When active, this will append new history events to the log file you specify.
	5/27/2008 Added Quick Connect option. This will permit you to enter in the ip address, port, and game for a server to connect to it without adding it to a folder.
	6/2/2008 Improved property grid colors/appearance for various themes, and fixed group text not being visible while using some themes.
	6/2/2008 Filter state (on/off) has been moved to the settings.xml file and the filter files are no longer modified.
	6/16/2008 Moved gametype translations to data\gametypes.xml configuration file to make it easier to edit gametype/modification translations.
	6/16/2008 Fixed Settings->General->Music->"Disable music support" to not revert to enabled every time the Settings dialog was displayed.
	6/18/2008 Text and background colors used to render servers will now follow the currently selected Theme colors when the Theme is changed, except when a servers colors are overriden by a folder, filter, or server.
	6/18/2008 Minor filtering performance increase.
	6/18/2008 The text color for inactive servers will now blend with the user-specified text color from a folder, filter, or server.
	6/18/2008 Filters now support text and background colors from the Filter properties. Any server matching the filter will use the specified text and background color unless overridden by a folder or server.
	6/20/2008 Updated Music support to permit filename (url) requests, finally fixing music support.
	6/20/2008 Refreshed music server listing.
	6/20/2008 Created a Trillian plug-in to permit setting away state when connecting/disconnecting from/to a server.
	6/20/2008 Added Trillian mode drop-lists to View->Settings->Connect and Disconnect panes.
	8/4/2008 Moved ALL settings to settings.xml file, registry is no longer used.
	8/4/2008 Removed friends.xml, Friends are now stored in settings.xml file.
	8/4/2008 Fixed bug that permitted duplicate entries in settings.xml file.
	8/4/2008 Ping meters are now scaled according to the maximum ping +64 specified in Settings->Appearance->Pings.
	8/4/2008 Added "Copy server to clipboard" option to enable/disable copying of server ip:port to the clipboard on connect. This setting is in Settings->Games->Connect.
	8/4/2008 Fixed maximized windows when restored so the "normal" (non-maxmized) position is no longer the same width and height as the maximized window.
	8/4/2008 When closing a maximized window, the window is no longer "restored" to normal before closing.
	8/4/2008 Fixed various sound events in Settings->General->Sounds. Some of the "Find Internet Games" and "Refresh" events were not working properly.
	8/4/2008 Added Servers->"Automatically Refresh" menu item to toggle automatic refresh on and off without going into Settings->Games->Refreshing.
	8/4/2008 Filters->Stop Filtering setting is now remembered when exiting and re-running the program.
	8/4/2008 "History Filters" toolbar state in the History pane is now remembered when exiting and re-running the program. If you disable it it will not re-appear.
	8/4/2008 Fixed "Socket Pooling" so this feature actually works now. This means no more flooded NAT tables and lost Internet connections while refreshing large amounts of servers. This option is enabled by default.
	8/4/2008 "Socket Pooling" is now always enabled and cannot be turned off. 512 sockets are allocated for the pool. This option has been removed from View->Settings->Network->Advanced.
	8/28/2008 Modification icons are now displayed instead of the game icon for servers running a known modification.
	8/4/2008 Fixed bug which caused status pane to hold status and not timeout (ie "Refreshing servers").
	8/4/2008 Servers can now exist in multiple views (Folder, Internet Games, LAN Games).
	8/4/2008 Enabled/disabling of filters is now threaded so the application will no longer lock up for a few seconds while applyng a filter to a large number of servers.
	8/4/2008 "Search for servers" results window will now display all views a server was found in, not just one entry. So if a server exists in a folder and Internet Games, you'll see it in both places.

Version 4.71 February 8, 2008 at 10:15AM ET:

	2/1/2008 Added support for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars extended server query.
	2/1/2008 Added player Experience column for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
	2/1/2008 Added player Deaths column for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
	2/1/2008 Added player Kills column for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
	2/1/2008 Added player Team column for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
	2/1/2008 Fixed "include bots in player count" so that it saves/loads correctly.
	2/1/2008 Fixed "Disable Music" checkbox in Settings->General->Music.
	2/1/2008 Fixed reserved slot detection for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
	2/6/2008 Fixed bug which allowed the default Mapshot image from a modification-specific Mapshot Pack to display on servers not running that modification.
	2/6/2008 Fixed similar filters. All of your servers would be filtered if you activated more than one filter for the same rule (ie map or game type filters).
	2/6/2008 Added fake server rule "si_gamestate" for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Contains any of the following values, comma delimited if multiple values exist: "warmup", "game_in_progress", "game_over", "stopwatch_return_match".
	2/6/2008 Added fake server rule "si_servertype" for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Unsigned integer value as returned from server.
	2/6/2008 Removed +exec config file connect method for: QuakeWorld, Quake 2, SIN, Heretic 2, and HexenWorld. Switched to standard command-line connection method.
	2/6/2008 Fixed "Spectate" Connect context menu item so it's not always grayed out.
	2/6/2008 Added spectate on connect support for QuakeWorld.
	2/7/2008 Fixed name resolution when adding a server using its hostname instead of the ip address.
	2/7/2008 Fixed ip address field in the server properties tab to accept a hostname.
	2/7/2008 Updated Half-Life 2 rule packet parser for new format used in TF2 and other mods. Fixes value/rule swap issue.

Version 4.7 January 30, 2008 at 8:45PM ET:

	11/1/2007 Added fake Enemy Territory: Quake Wars server rule called "si_ranked" to allow filtering on ranked servers.
	11/8/2007 Fixed bug in View->Settings->General->Sounds settings pane that would not save your cleared sounds properly.
	11/8/2007 Fixed "could not connect to qtracker master" error some users were getting.
	11/8/2007 Added support for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
	11/8/2007 Added remote administration support for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
	11/16/2007 Fixed rcon password not being appended to command-line (if set in properties) when connecting to a Call of Duty-series game.
	11/16/2007 Added support for Theme color schemes. The Theme menu will now include sub-menus for any Theme that has additional color schemes.
	11/20/2007 Added support the Unreal Tournament 3 demo.
	11/20/2007 Added support for Crysis.
	11/27/2007 Fixed focus bug that caused the active Qtracker dialog (ie, Settings) to move behind the application window when a tooltip appeared while moving the mouse outside the active dialog window.
	11/27/2007 Added support for Unreal Tournament 3.
	11/27/2007 Fixed Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force packet parser issue that caused incorrect player data to display.
	11/27/2007 Removed color column for Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force.
	11/28/2007 Added new filter variable: [$server_free_public_slots]. This variable will return a numeric value from this equation: (server_players_max - server_players_reserved_slots) - server_players_active.
	11/28/2007 Changed filter variable: [$server_free_slots] to return a numeric value from this equation: server_players_max - server_players_active.
	11/29/2007 Fixed Mapshot timing issue that would cause some images from a multi-shot to not display for the correct amount of time.
	11/29/2007 Added Mapshot caching system to reduce CPU utilization while displaying multi-shots for a map.
	11/29/2007 Fixed multi-shot description not displaying on image change for multi-shots that contain different descriptions for each image.
	11/29/2007 Fixed Mapshot download URL icon to display tooltip.
	11/29/2007 Added new option in View->Settings->General->Mapshots to permit you to change the default image displayed when no Mapshot exists for a map.
	12/12/2007 Game command-line arguments can now contain variables such as [$application_startin]. Variables will be replaced with the corresponding value when connecting to the game server. Variable pop-up controls have been added to: New Folder->Program->Application, Settings->Games->Installed, Settings->Games->Connecting.
	12/12/2007 Added new Settings->Appearance pane called Tooltips to allow you to turn tooltips off in: Friends list, Server list, Player list, and Rule list views.
	12/12/2007 Fixed 1-byte buffer overrun at startup after dynamic content was downloaded from the Master server.
	12/12/2007 Server Full dialog now remembers your selection and will restore it the next time the dialog appears.
	12/17/2007 Added Settings->Games->Disconnect settings panel to perform operations when disconnecting from a game server.
	12/17/2007 Can now execute XChat commands when connecting to a server and/or when disconnecting from a server.
	12/17/2007 Fixed potential deadlock/crash when closing the application (will disappear but stay as a running process).
	1/2/2008 Re-wrote "Search for Servers" window. Added additional search criteria, and the search pane can now be navigated entirely with the keyboard.
	1/2/2008 Added checkbox to Settings->General->General to allow you to turn off the startup Splash screen.
	1/28/2008 Introduced new lanaguage XML configuration file to permit language packs to be added at a later date.
	1/28/2008 Rcon password is now set (if known) at join for: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Enemy Territory.
	1/28/2008 Added static Master server ips in the event of DNS resolution issues.
	1/28/2008 Fixed map name display for Mapshot Packs using the new XML file structure.
	1/28/2008 Added "modification" tag to new Mapshot Pack XML file structure to permit mod-specific Mapshot Packs.
	1/28/2008 Introduced new settings XML configuration file to move settings from the registry into a local file.
	1/28/2008 Added fake server rule called "si_timeleft" for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars servers to indicate the number of minutes left in the current level.
	1/28/2008 Slight CPU usage reduction while applying filters to servers.
	1/28/2008 Fixed cut, copy, paste, undo keyboard shortcuts to work in the Remote Administration password/command edit box.
	1/28/2008 Fixed possible deadlock while writing history XML file.
	1/28/2008 Added new option to Settings->Appearance->Servers: "Exclude reserved slots from maximum players" to toggle this option on or off.
	1/28/2008 Added shortcut creation to full version installer to permit a desktop or quick-launch shortcut to be created for you while installing.
	1/28/2008 Fixed filtering bug that would cause filters to not work properly when multiple filters were active using any function.
	1/29/2008 Updated Enemy Territory: Quake Wars packet parser to support ETQW 1.4 packet format.
	1/29/2008 Updated Enemy Territory: Quake Wars packet parser to support left or right justification of clan tags.
	1/29/2008 Updated Warsow game icon.
	1/29/2008 Fixed Warsow color code rendering.
	1/29/2008 Fixed Settings->Friends->Friend List color code rendering to match the rest of the program.

Version 4.6 October 30, 2007 at 10:00PM ET:

	5/29/2007 Fixed sorting in the Search Results window for the follow columns: Game, Network Address, Users.
	5/29/2007 Fixed missing submenu items from Customize keyboard shortcuts dialog.
	5/29/2007 Added "Ping" and "Response Time" columns to Search Results window, also added color coding for "Users" column.
	5/29/2007 Double-clicking a folder/view item in the Games & Folders pane will now refresh that folder/view.
	7/23/2007 Servers are now properly selected when drawing a "selection rectangle" in the server listing view.
	7/23/2007 Fixed Quake 4 remote administration issue for servers that returned a session id parameter. This resulted in the server timing out and the inability to remotely administer the server.
	7/23/2007 Updated the Half-Life 2 packet parser to correct the Insurgency modification rules so this modification can be properly detected.
	7/23/2007 Fixed bug in Initial Setup Wizard which prevented it from saving the game executable location if it was changed in the Setup->Games panel.
	7/23/2007 Added support for the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars beta.
	9/7/2007