CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to this project are documented below.

The format is based on keep a changelog and this project uses semantic versioning.

[Unreleased]

Fixed

• Fix incorrect In-app purchase setup availability checks.

[1.4.0] - 2017-12-16

Changed

• Nakama will now log an error and refuse to start if the schema is outdated.
• Drop unused leaderboard 'next' and 'previous' fields.
• A user's 'last online at' field now contains a current UTC milliseconds timestamp if they are currently online.
• Fields that expect JSON content now allow up to 32kb of data.

Fixed

• Storage remove operations now ignore records that don't exist.

[1.3.0] - 2017-11-21

Added

• Improve graceful shutdown behaviour by ensuring the server stops accepting connections before halting other components.
• Add User-Agent to the default list of accepted CORS request headers.
• Improve how the dashboard component is stopped when server shuts down.
• Improve dashboard CORS support by extending the list of allowed request headers.
• Server startup output now contains database version string.
• Migrate command output now contains database version string.
• Doctor command output now contains database version string.

Changed

• Internal operations exposed to the script runtime through function bindings now silently ignore unknown parameters.

Fixed

• Blocking users now works correctly when there was no prior friend relationship in place.
• Correctly assign cursor data in paginated leaderboard records list queries.
• Improve performance of user device login operations.

[1.2.0] - 2017-11-06

Added

• New experimental rUDP socket protocol option for client connections.
• Accept JSON payloads over WebSocket connections.

Changed

• Use string identifiers instead of byte arrays for compatibility across Lua, JSON, and client representations.
• Improve runtime hook lookup behaviour.

[1.1.0] - 2017-10-17

Added

• Advanced Matchmaking with custom filters and user properties.

Changed

• Script runtime RPC and HTTP hook errors now return more detail when verbose logging is enabled.
• Script runtime invocations now use separate underlying states to improve concurrency.

Fixed

• Build system no longer passes flags to Go vet command.
• Haystack leaderboard record listings now return correct results around both sides of the pivot record.
• Haystack leaderboard record listings now return a complete page even when the pivot record is at the end of the leaderboard.
• CRON expression runtime function now correctly uses UTC as the timezone for input timestamps.
• Ensure all runtime 'os' module time functions default to UTC timezone.

[1.0.2] - 2017-09-29

Added

• New code runtime function to list leaderboard records for a given set of users.
• New code runtime function to list leaderboard records around a given user.
• New code runtime function to execute raw SQL queries.
• New code runtime function to run CRON expressions.

Changed

• Handle update now returns a bad input error code if handle is too long.
• Improved handling of accept request headers in HTTP runtime script invocations.
• Improved handling of content type request headers in HTTP runtime script invocations.
• Increase default maximum length of user handle from 20 to 128 characters.
• Increase default maximum length of device and custom IDs from 64 to 128 characters.
• Increase default maximum length of various name, location, timezone, and other free text fields to 255 characters.
• Increase default maximum length of storage bucket, collection, and record from 70 to 128 characters.
• Increase default maximum length of topic room names from 64 to 128 characters.
• Better error responses when runtime function RPC or HTTP hooks fail or return errors.
• Log a more informative error message when social providers are unreachable or return errors.

Fixed

• Realtime notification routing now correctly resolves connected users.
• The server will now correctly log a reason when clients disconnect unexpectedly.
• Use correct wire format when sending live notifications to clients.

[1.0.1] - 2017-08-05

Added

• New code runtime functions to convert UUIDs between byte and string representations.

Changed

• Improve index selection in storage list operations.
• Payloads in register_before hooks now use PascalCase field names and expose correctly formatted IDs.
• Metadata regions in users, groups, and leaderboard records are now exposed to the code runtime as Lua tables.

Fixed

• The code runtime batch user update operations now process correctly.

[1.0.0] - 2017-08-01

Added

• New storage partial update feature.
• Log warn messages at startup when using insecure default parameter values.
• Add code runtime function to update groups.
• Add code runtime function to list groups a user is part of.
• Add code runtime function to list users who're members of a group.
• Add code runtime function to submit a score to a leaderboard.
• Send in-app notification on friend request.
• Send in-app notification on friend request accept.
• Send in-app notification when a Facebook friend signs into the game for the first time.
• Send in-app notification to group admins when a user requests to join a private group.
• Send in-app notification to the user when they are added to a group or their request to join a private group is accepted.
• Send in-app notification to the user when someone wants to DM chat.

Changed

• Use a Lua table with content field when creating new notifications.
• Use a Lua table with metadata field when creating new groups.
• Use a Lua table with metadata field when updating a user.
• Updated configuration variable names. The most important one is DB which is now database.address.
• Moved all nakamax functions into nakama runtime module.
• An invalid config file or invalid cmdflag now prevents the server from startup.
• A matchmake token now expires after 30 instead of 15 seconds.
• The code runtime os.date() function now returns correct day of year.
• The code runtime context passed to function hooks now use PascalCase case in fields names. For example context.user_id is now context.UserId.
• Remove admin sub-command.
• A group leave operation now returns a specific error code when the last admin attempts to leave.
• A group self list operations now return the user's membership state with each group.

[1.0.0-rc.1] - 2017-07-18

Added

• New storage list feature.
• Ban users and create groups from within the code runtime.
• Update users from within the code runtime.
• New In-App Purchase validation feature.
• New In-App Notification feature.

Changed

• Run Facebook friends import after registration completes.
• Adjust command line flags to be follow pattern in the config file.
• Extend the server protocol to be batch-orientated for more message types.
• Update code runtime modules to use plural function names for batch operations.
• The code runtime JSON encoder/decoder now support root level JSON array literals.
• The code runtime storage functions now expect and return Lua tables for values.
• Login attempts with an ID that does not exist will return a new dedicated error code.
• Register attempts with an ID that already exists will return a new dedicated error code.

Fixed

• The runtime code for the after hook message was set to "before" incorrectly.
• The user ID was not passed into the function context in "after" authentication messages.
• Authentication messages required hook names which began with "." and "_".
• A device ID used in a link message which was already in use now returns "link in use" error code.

[0.13.1] - 2017-06-08

Added

• Runtime Base64 and Base16 conversion util functions.

Fixed

• Update storage write permissions validation.
• Runtime module path must derive from --data-dir flag value.
• Fix parameter mapping in leaderboard haystack query.

[0.13.0] - 2017-05-29

Added

• Lua script runtime for custom code.
• Node status now also reports a startup timestamp.
• New matchmaking feature.
• Optionally send match data to a subset of match participants.
• Fetch users by handle.
• Add friend by handle.
• Filter by IDs in leaderboard list message.
• User storage messages can now set records with public read permission.

Changed

• The build system now suffixes Windows binaries with exe extension.

Fixed

• Set correct initial group member count when group is created.
• Do not update group count when join requests are rejected.
• Use cast with leaderboard BEST score submissions due to new strictness in database type conversion.
• Storage records can now correctly be marked with no owner (global).

[0.12.2] - 2017-04-22

Added

• Add --logtostdout flag to redirect log output to console.
• Add build rule to create Docker release images.

Changed

• Update Zap logging library to latest stable version.
• The --verbose flag no longer alters the logging output to print to both terminal and file.
• The log output is now in JSON format.
• Update the healthcheck endpoint to be "/" (root path) of the main server port.

Fixed

• Fix a race when the heartbeat ticker might not be stopped after a connection is closed.

[0.12.1] - 2017-03-28

Added

• Optionally allow JSON encoding in user login/register operations and responses.

Changed

• Improve user email storage and comparison.
• Allow group batch fetch by both ID and name.
• Increase heartbeat server time precision.
• Rework the embedded dashboard.
• Support 64 characters with SystemInfo.deviceUniqueIdentifier on Windows with device ID link messages.

Fixed

• Fix Facebook unlink operation.

[0.12.0] - 2017-03-19

Added

• Dynamic leaderboards feature.
• Presence updates now report the user's handle.
• Add error codes to the server protocol.

Changed

• The build system now strips up to current dir in recorded source file paths at compile.
• Group names must now be unique.

Fixed

• Fix regression loading config file.

[0.11.3] - 2017-02-25

Added

• Add CORS headers for browser games.

Changed

• Update response types to realtime match create/join operations.

Fixed

• Make sure dependent build rules are run with relupload rule.
• Fix match presence list generated when joining matches.

[0.11.2] - 2017-02-17

Added

• Include Dockerfile and Docker instructions.
• Use a default limit in topic message listings if one is not provided.
• Improve log messages in topic presence diff checks.
• Report self presence in realtime match create and join.

Changed

• Improve warn message when database is created in migrate subcommand.
• Print database connections to logs on server start.
• Use byte slices with most database operations.
• Standardize match presence field names across chat and realtime protocol.
• Improve concurrency for closed sockets.

Fixed

• Enforce concurrency control on outgoing socket messages.
• Fix session lookup in realtime message router.
• Fix input validation when chat messages are sent.
• Fix how IDs are handled in various login options.
• Fix presence service shutdown sequence.
• More graceful handling of session operations while connection is closed.
• Fix batch user fetch query construction.
• Fix duplicate leaves reported in topic presence diff messages.

[0.11.1] - 2017-02-12

Changed

• Server configuration in dashboard is now displayed as YAML.
• Update server protocol to simplify presence messages across chat and multiplayer.

Fixed

• Work around a limitation in cockroachdb with type information in group sub-queries.

[0.11.0] - 2017-02-09

Added

• Add --verbose flag to enable debug logs in server.
• Database name can now be set in migrations and at server startup. i.e. nakama --db root@127.0.0.1:26257/mydbname.
• Improve SQL compatibility.

Changed

• Update db schema to support 64 characters with device IDs. This enables SystemInfo.deviceUniqueIdentifier to be used as a source for device IDs on Windows 10.
• Logout messages now close the server-side connection and won't reply.
• Rename logout protocol message type from TLogout to Logout.
• Update server protocol for friend messages to use IDs as bytes.

Fixed

• Fix issue where random handle generator wasn't seeded properly.
• Improve various SQL storage, friend, and group queries.
• Send close frame message in the websocket to gracefully close a client connection.
• Build system will now detect modifications to migrations/... files and run dependent rules.

[0.10.0] - 2017-01-14

Added

• Initial public release.