Version 2.0.0-alpha.19

Major Features

• Added support for 2.0 builtin mods during mod pack creation. #684
• Added basic 2.0 support to clusterio lua api and 1st party plugins. #685

Features

• Added Datastore and Datastore Provider classes to the library to support savable Maps. #629
• Added clean script to speed up publishing and debugging of build steps. #640
• Added sub-tile option on plugin page headers. #642
• Greatly improved plugin and module template generation. #641
• Duplicate host connections from the same address will kill the older host process. #647
• Controller will refuse duplicate host connections from different addresses. #647
• Monorepos are now supported for external plugins. #654
• Changed default role selection to be a dropdown menu rather than id. #664
• Added credential option to config entries to allow writing sensitive data that can't be read back remotely.
• Allow hidden and readonly graphical representations of config values. #665
• Added locale exporting for all builtin mods, not just for the base mod. #684
• Added option for silent testing which only shows the results, can be ran using pnpm silent-test #680
• Added prompt for http port on installation of Clusterio. #564
• Added drag and drop overlay to upload button on mods page and save table on instance page. #591
• Automatically add plugins from ./plugins, ./external_plugins and installed npm modules. #692
• compat.table_to_json and compat.json_to_table supported in all stages in pre 2.0 #687
• Add "connect to server" button to web interface, launches with steam api. #608
• Add space platform name mapping to space platform statistics. #706
• Track space platform speed metric clusterio_statistics_exporter_platform_speed. #706
• Track space platform weight metric clusterio_statistics_exporter_platform_weight. #706
• Added bidirectional sync to admin and ban list. #709

Fixes

• Fixed IPC errors reporting undefined when no stack trace was present. #624
• Fixed loopback routing for instances reporting the wrong error message. #625
• Fixed docs linking to non-existing js files after ts migration. #633
• Fixed CI workflows using deprecated version of nodejs. #637
• Fixed linux only tests to run on windows. #661
• Fixed log events being sent from a host over an invalid websocket. #639
• Fixed spaces passed in arguments to the installer causing it to break. #620
• Fixed numeric admin name breaking login. #536
• Fixed issues with subscriptions which prevented them from working on instances or generic events. #655.
• Fixed unreliable datastore tests. #662.
• Fixed 2.0 version extraction from linux headless. downloaded during installation of clusterio. #671
• Fixed invalid transient state during server start. #676
• Fixed host user sync to instances after reconnecting to the. controller. #678
• Fixed WebUI adding and displaying the wrong base mod version. #684
• Fixed WebUI inconsistent pattern matching for factorio version. #684
• Fixed safeOutputFile not being atomic because of a missing path separator. #659
• Fixed built-in mods showing as missing in the WebUI. #581
• Fixed dirty flag not being set when only the config of an instance is updated. #675
• Fixed incorrect command being used to remove players from the whitelist. #679
• Fixed CI following undocumented breaking change from downstream dependency. #683
• Fixed instance crash when missing saves folder. #698
• Fixed statistics exporter not working on newer versions of windows 11 due to wmic deprecation. #707

Changes

• Added prompt for the HTTP port to host the controller to the installer. #619
• Added tests for sendEvent and sendRequest throwing the correct error messages. #638
• Updated all web ui pages to use correct page header component. #643
• Bumped Typescript version to 5.5 and implemented ${configDir} in base configs for "outDir". #648.
• Added factorio.executable_path option which allows overriding the default path to the Factorio executable run.
• Added instance version display. #573
• Added factorio.shutdown_timeout config to set the time the host will wait for a Factorio server to shut down befor killing it.
• Changed shutdown logic to prefer sending a /quit command via RCON instead of using diverging logic on Windows and Linux.
• Added controller.factorio_username and controller.factorio_token config to set Factorio credentials used for the whole cluster.
• Added controller.share_factorio_credential_with_hosts config to optionally require hosts to provide their own credentials.
• Added host.factorio_username and host.factorio_token config to set Factorio credentials used on a given host.
• Changed instance.rcon_password config to be a credential field that can not be read by the control interface.
• Changed host.id instance.id and instance.assign_host config to be hidden fields that can not be seen on the web ui.
• Updated display name and description of controller.external_address to avoid confusion. #674
• Renamed config value controller.external_address to controller.public_url, migrations are applied automatically.
• String config values with whitelisted values (enum) now display as a selection dropdown. #701
• Existing selection dropdowns now support search filtering. #701
• Added surface label to clusterio_statistics_exporter_instance_force_flow_statistics. #691
• Compat lib now supports versions from 0.17 to 2.0 #711
• Add bidirectional sync to admin and ban list. #709

Breaking Changes

• Previously silent errors for controller.sendEvent now throw exceptions #625.
• @clusterio/controller export InstanceInfo has added factorioVersion parameter.
• Argument order for Config.canAccess changed to require an access mode passed as the second argument.
• Instances can now have factorio.enable_script_commands disabled which will throw an error when any script command is used over rcon. #681.
• User IDs are now case insensitive, duplicate users will be automatically merged with a backup created. #682
• Plugins now require the keyword "clusterio-plugin" in package.json to be automatically loaded #692

Many thanks to the following for contributing to this release:
@CCpersonguy
@Cooldude2606
@Danielv123
@Hornwitser
@Laar
@psihius