v2.2.1

Notable changes

Added

• New duration field in the tournament API.

Fixed

• Set friend state correctly when initially adding friends.
• Allow tournaments to be created to start in the future but with no end time.
• Join events on tournaments with an end time set but no reset now allow users to submit scores.

v2.2.0

Notable changes

Added

• New runtime function to send raw realtime envelope data through streams.

Changed

• Improve error message on database errors raised during authentication operations.
• Set new default of 100 maximum number of open database connections.
• Friendship state is no longer offset by one when sent to clients.
• Group membership state is no longer offset by one when sent to clients.
• Set new default metrics report frequency to 60 seconds.

Fixed

• Account update optional inputs are not updated unless set in runtime functions.
• Fix boolean logic with context cancellation in single-statement database operations.

v2.1.3

Notable changes

Added

• Add option to skip virtual wallet ledger writes if not needed.

Changed

• Improved error handling in Lua runtime custom SQL function calls.
• Authoritative match join attempts are now cancelled faster when the client session closes.

Fixed

• Correctly support arbitrary database schema names that may contain special characters.

v2.1.2

Notable changes

Added

• Ensure runtime environment values are exposed through the Go runtime InitModule context.

Changed

• Log more error information when InitModule hooks from Go runtime plugins return errors.
• Preserve order expected in match listings generated with boosted query terms.

Fixed

• Improve leaderboard rank re-calculation when removing a leaderboard record.

v2.1.1

Notable changes

Added

• More flexible query-based filter when listing realtime multiplayer matches.
• Runtime function to batch get groups by group ID.
• Allow authoritative match join attempts to carry metadata from the client.

Changed

• Improved cancellation of ongoing work when clients disconnect.
• Improved validation of dispatcher broadcast message filters.
• Set maximum size of authoritative match labels to 2048 bytes.

Fixed

• Use leaderboard expires rather than end active IDs with leaderboard resets.
• Better validation of tournament duration when a reset schedule is set.
• Set default matchmaker input query if none supplied with the request.
• Removed a possible race condition when session ping backoff triggers concurrently with a timed ping.
• Errors returned by InitModule hooks from Go runtime plugins will now correctly halt startup.

v2.1.0

Notable changes

Added

• New Go code runtime for custom functions and authoritative match handlers.
• New Tournaments feature.
• Runtime custom function triggers for leaderboard and tournament resets.
• Add Lua runtime AES-256 util functions.
• Lua runtime token generator function now returns a second value representing the token's expiry.
• Add local cache for in-memory storage to the Lua runtime.
• Graceful server shutdown and match termination.
• Expose incoming request data in runtime after hooks.

Changed

• Improved Postgres compatibility on TIMESTAMPTZ types.

Fixed

• Correctly merge new friend records when importing from Facebook.
• Log registered hook names correctly at startup.

v2.0.3

Notable changes

Added

• New "bit32" backported module available in the code runtime.
• New code runtime function to create MD5 hashes.
• New code runtime function to create SHA256 hashes.
• Runtime stream user list function now allows filtering hidden presences.
• Allow optional request body compression on all API requests.

Changed

• Reduce the frequency of socket checks on known active connections.
• Deleting a record from a leaderboard that does not exist now succeeds.
• Notification listings use a more accurate timestamp in cacheable cursors.
• Use "root" as the default database user if not specified.

Fixed

• Runtime module loading now correctly handles paths on non-UNIX environments.
• Correctly handle blocked user list when importing friends from Facebook.

v2.0.2

Notable changes

Added

• New configuration option to adjust authoritative match data input queue size.
• New configuration option to adjust authoritative match call queue size.
• New configuration options to allow listening on IPv4/6 and a particular network interface.
• Authoritative match modules now support a match_join callback that triggers when users have completed their join process.
• New stream API function to upsert a user presence.
• Extended validation of Google signin tokens to handle different token payloads.
• Authoritative match labels can now be updated using the dispatcher's match_label_update function.

Changed

• Presence list in match join responses no longer contains the user's own presence.
• Presence list in channel join responses no longer contains the user's own presence.
• Socket read/write buffer sizes are now set based on the socket.max_message_size_bytes value.
• Console GRPC port now set relative to console.port config value.

v2.0.1

Notable changes

Added

• New timeout option to HTTP request function in the code runtime.
• Set QoS settings on client outgoing message queue.
• New runtime pool min/max size options.
• New user ban and unban functions.
• RPC functions triggered by HTTP GET requests now include any custom query parameters.
• Authoritative match messages now carry a receive timestamp field.
• Track new metrics for function calls, before/after hooks, and internal components.

Changed

• The avatar URL fields in various domain objects now support up to 512 characters for FBIG.
• Runtime modules are now loaded in a deterministic order.

Fixed

• Add "ON DELETE CASCADE" to foreign key user constraint on wallet ledger.

v2.0.0

Notable changes

This release brings a large number of changes and new features to the server. For more news about this release see the announcement.

Added

• Authenticate functions can now be called from the code runtime.
• Use opencensus for server metrics. Add drivers for Prometheus and Google Cloud Stackdriver.
• New API for users to subscribe to status update events from other users online.
• New API for user wallets to store and manage virtual currencies.
• Realtime multiplayer supports authoritative matches with a handler and game loop on the server.
• Matches can be listed on the server for "room-based" matchmaker logic.
• "run_once" function to execute logic at startup with the code runtime.
• Variables can be passed into the server for environment configuration.
• Low level streams API for advanced distributed use cases.
• New API for export and delete of users for GDPR compliance.

Changed

• Split the server protocol into request/response with GRPC or HTTP1.1+JSON (REST) and WebSockets or rUDP.
• The command line flags of the server have changed to be clearer and more explicit.
• Authenticate functions can now take username as an input at account create time.
• Use TIMESTAMPTZ for datetimes in the database.
• Use JSONB for objects stored in the database.
• Before/after hooks changed to distinguish between req/resp and socket messages.
• Startup messages are more concise.
• Log messages have been updated to be more useful in development.
• Stdlib for the code runtime uses "snake_case" consistently across variables and function names.
• The base image for our Docker images now uses Alpine Linux.

Fixed

• Build dependencies are now vendored and build system is simplified.
• Database requests for transaction retries are handled automatically.

Removed

• The storage engine no longer needs a "bucket" field as a namespace. It was redundant.
• Leaderboard haystack queries did not perform well and need a redesign.
• IAP validation removed until it can be integrated with the virtual wallet system.

This release is not a simple upgrade from v1.0 so reach out to us for help to upgrade.