v1.15.0

[luskaner]

What's Changed

Since last stable version

Full MacOS support

Warning

macOS support is still considered experimental. Please report any issues you encounter.

MacOS is now fully supported even including support for the new native Steam AoE II: DE port. Thus, full, battle-server-manager and launcher archives are provided just like the rest of operating systems.

Notes

• AoE II: DE port does not include the BattleServer so:
  • You are unable to create/join lobbies as 'Use Local LAN Server' you must use the 'Default' or configured Online-like Battle Server.
  • You will need to get the standalone windows executable from a Windows installation and configure the battle-server-manager to its path along having installed wine program to run it.
• Launcher/Battle Server Manager: need in some moments to run an emergent terminal windows which the default Terminal app does not support, thus you will need to have installed one of the following:
  • Alacritty (recommended).
  • Kitty
  • Ghostty
  • Wezterm
  • Rio
  • Linux based X11 terminals: xterm, uxterm, urxvt and st.

General

• 🐧Enhancement: added more modern terminal applications to use (see at the top, just like macOS).
• 🐛 Fix: Properly load environment variables after configuration files.
• 🐛 Fix: Properly handle when a PID lock file does not exist when searching for it.
• 🐛 Fix: Don't show error when closing another program and itself removes the PID lock file.
• 🐛 Fix: Not adding usage KeyUsageCertSign to the generated CA files.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: Do not use setSid if process is just being waited on.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: Properly quote arguments in when running subprograms.
• 🐧🐛 Fix: Remove terminal apps that did not support the '-e' to run commands.

Server

• 🔝Enhancement: Added CDN domain support for AoE IV which means, for example, mods will work when using the official launcher.
• Enhancement: added old leaderboards.json so old age2 game versions can work (as old as it was supported at the start of the project, ~2024Q2). The user must still manually place them as explained in the folder's README file.
• Enhancement: Support new native macOS Steam AoE II: DE game domain arthurlive-api.worldsedgelink.com.
• Enhancement: Add IgnoreIfExisting parameter to genCert binary.
• 🐛 Fix: fix adv/update not returning proper data for aoe1/aoe2/aoe3/aom
• 🐛 Fix: IPv4 auto in battleserver returning WAN IP as necessary.

Launcher

• 🔝🐛/Enhancement: Now, if required, config-admin-agent is started at the beginning of the program and ensures by flushing the DNS and Certs cache that all is up-to-date.
• Enhancement: Print more information when failing to connect to a server.
• Enhancement: Print more information when failing to add or remove a certificate.
• Enhancement: Config.Certificate.CanTrustInPc now defaults to 'auto', which is resolved to 'user' in macOS and 'local' otherwise (as it was before).
• 🍎🐧🔝Enhancement: Added support for Client.Executable as 'steam_crossover' (Steam installed on Crossover).
• 🍎🐧🔝Enhancement: Added support for Client.Executable as 'steam_wine' (Steam installed on Wine).
• 🍎🐧Enhancement: Added Client.Isolation.Path so the user can specify the path to the game user data, enabling custom path and isolation at the same time.
• 🐛 Fix: properly detect when starting a custom launcher if it fails.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: when adding hosts comment out mappings to the hostname that can cause the system being to unable to host a LAN lobby.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: Not getting the correctly data path for AoE IV: AE on wine-based systems.
• 🐧🐛 Fix: properly detect when xdg-open fails to open the Steam URI.
• 🚧 Update: Moved Client.IsolateMetadata and Client.IsolateProfiles parameters to own Client.Isolation section and renamed as Client.Isolation.Metadata and Client.Isolation.Profiles respectively.

Battle Server Manager

• Enhancement: Pass publicPort argument to BattleServer.exe (same as BsPort).
• Enhancement: Removed SSL config section. Now CertsPath is defined which it is either 'auto' or a path to the certificate folder containing the appropriate .pem files per game.
• 🍎🐧Enhancement: When starting the BattleServer.exe wait 20s extra seconds as they might need to boot wine.
• 🐛 Fix: not properly generating the ports depending on which were already set.
• 🍎🐧🐛 Fix: wine fixes when starting BattleServer.exe.

Other

• Enhancement: added dockerfile and compose for battle-server-manager.
• Enhancement: Added image (AI made) to main README.md and further specified system requirements and game version for AoE 2.
• Enhancement: Removed bug_report template and replaced with an issue form.
• Enhancement: Added a feature request form.
• 🐛 Fix: fixed Server dockerfile.
• 🚧 Update: Removed the ability for non-contributors to create an issue from a blank template.
• 🚧 Update: release_public.key
• 🚧 Update: Security disclosure to be by email instead of by issue to avoid going public on the report (will still be public once fixed).

Developer changes

• 🔝Enhancement: Added mocks for game launcher, the game itself and BattleServer.exe to easy develop and test (specially on non-Windows systems).
• 🔝Enhancement: You can now ask developer questions and view an enhanced AI-based wiki in deepwiki.
• Enhancement: All binaries now use the standard system for arguments and config.
• Enhancement: Added config-helper module as means to interop for getting profile/game info on non-Windows systems via wine.
• Enhancement: battle-server-broadcast module now has ValidData(data []byte, length int) bool method and exports Header, GuidLength, PortSize and MinimumSize.
• Enhancement: CodeQL now compiled for Linux and macOS in addition to macOS (and updated dependencies).
• 🐛 Fix: cache missing in some debug tasks.
• 🚧 Update: Go from 1.26.3 to 1.26.5.
• 🚧 Update: Dependencies (program and CI).
• 🚧 Update: Removed cobra dependency left-over from launcher.

See Github differences in v1.14.0...v1.15.0

Since last pre-release version

Server

• 🔝Enhancement: Added CDN domain support for AoE IV which means, for example, mods will work when using the official launcher.

Other

• 🔝Enhancement: You can now ask developer questions and view an enhanced AI-based wiki in deepwiki.
• Enhancement: Added image (AI made) to main README.md and further specified system requirements and game version for AoE 2.
• Enhancement: CodeQL now compiled for Linux and macOS in addition to macOS (and updated dependencies).
• Enhancement: Removed bug_report template and replaced with an issue form.
• Enhancement: Added a feature request form.
• 🐛 Fix: Docker full (with battle-server-manager) and added variants for all possible cases uses and a proper README.md
• 🚧 Update: Removed the ability for non-contributors to create an issue from a blank template.
• 🚧 Update: Security disclosure to be by email instead of by issue to avoid going public on the report (will still be public once fixed).

See Github differences in v1.15.0-rc.1...v1.15.0

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This discussion was created from the release v1.15.0.

[Kosoglaz]

Hi. Is this the Proper stable version - "Source code (zip)"? Or I need another file for Windows 10?

[luskaner]

Hello @Kosoglaz :

You are missing the file extension, it should be E:\Gay\AoEIIDE\AoE2DE_s.exe

[Kosoglaz]

Hello. Thanks. But now the process is over with this.

[luskaner]

edit the battle-server-manager/resources/config.age2.toml file and point Executable.Path to the game's "BattleServer.exe" executable (it's portable), for example, 'S:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\AoE2DE\BattleServer\BattleServer.exe'.

[luskaner]

The steps are explained in the release notes in "Simplest way to use it" section

[luskaner]

@Kosoglaz have you been able to resolve it?

[chenyr2022-blip]

The client has joined the game, but the client interface shows that the server is retrieving data.

[chenyr2022-blip]

Age4

[luskaner]

Hello @chenyr2022-blip can you create a new issue (with the logs as instructed in the form) I need more information to see what's going on ;)

[chenyr2022-blip]

Ok

[luskaner]

@chenyr2022-blip have you been able to test it?

[chenyr2022-blip]

Could you please advise how to resolve this issue?

[chenyr2022-blip]

This issue occurs when the client machine joins, while there is no problem for the host.

[chenyr2022-blip]

Yes, version 14 works perfectly

[luskaner]

@chenyr2022-blip please test the new build in #580 there is no need for logs this time, just tell me if it works or not ;)

[chenyr2022-blip]

Ok

[chenyr2022-blip]

The test version is still unavailable

[luskaner]

@chenyr2022-blip is available in #580 (comment)

[chenyr2022-blip]

In version 1.14.1, LAN clients can join and detect the server normally.