2.8.5
This is the awaited patch release for 2.8, fixing various exploits and introducing some quality-of-life fixes. Linux support was also fixed in this release.
Expect a major slowdown after 2.8.6.
What's New
- Improvements to blankposting (#256)
- Doubleposting is no longer prevented by the client; this is done serverside instead.
- Added more options for the IC chat log (#259)
- Added ability to change audio device without restarting game (#257)
Changes
- Translation updates (Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
Fixes
- Fixed IC freezing from too many } modifiers (#243)
- Fixed Music Display button disappearing under specific conditions (#191)
- Fixed custom chatbox colors not working (#194)
- Fixed crash on DRO servers
- Fixed client using the current character colors on other people's messages
- Fixed slowdown related to area updates (#241)
- Fixed custom realization sounds not working (#234)
- Fixed bold text not working in themes (#227)
- Fixed IC freezing due to preanims used with zoom effect (#169)
- Fixed names in IC chat log being inconsistently shown in specific cases involving iniswaps and shownames (#247)
- Fixed Linux release being incompatible with some LTS distros (#242)
- Fixed screenshake not working with blankposting
- Fixed text disappearing from IC log under certain circumstances (#221)
- Fixed audio on Linux (#263)
(thanks to @scatterflower for changelog)