v1.3.44

bzo@1.3.44 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.44

[1.3.44] - 2026-10-12

Added

• Per-flag shot limits, as bzfs's -sl: shotLimits in server.json or
  -sl <flag> <count> in a map. The last shot uses the flag up. Where any
  limit is set, the HUD shows "N left" or "unlimited" above the reload bars.
• Scores survive a restart for new code (nodemon, a Docker upgrade), but not
  a map or server option change.
• docs/bzfs-options.md: every bzfs option and what bzo has for it.

Changed

• Server bots take the highest free player slots and are named for them
  (Ace41), so a bot that leaves and comes back keeps its score.

Fixed

• A bot reaching a base no longer has its capture logged as "standing on no
  base".

v1.3.43

bzo@1.3.43 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.43

[1.3.43] - 2026-10-11

Added

• Tank skins, as in BZFlag 2.5: Standard, Hex, Digital, Facet and Solid,
  chosen in the entry dialog or XR Player Options and changed without a
  respawn.

Changed

• Tanks wear upstream's texture for their team; only its team-coloured
  patches follow each player's shade. Free-for-all colours keep the
  repainted camo.

Fixed

• The turret's camo is no longer stretched, and the hull faces bzo fills in
  carry the pattern at upstream's size.

v1.3.42

bzo@1.3.42 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.42

[1.3.42] - 2026-10-11

Added

• A player changes team without a rejoin, as BZFlag 2.5 does: between
  playing teams the tank keeps its life and score and takes the new team at
  its next spawn; going to observer self-destructs a live tank; to and from
  observer has no rejoin wait.

Changed

• Paused and not-responding tanks are dimmed on the radar, as upstream
  draws them.
• hix's and bzo.bzw's walkway grid is see-through in BZFlag clients too.

Fixed

• Changing only the tank in XR Player Options no longer respawns it.

v1.3.41

bzo@1.3.41 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.41

[1.3.41] - 2026-10-11

Changed

• The BZFlag port's TCP and UDP listen, and WebTransport (with https and
  its packages) and WebRTC (with werift) are on, without a server.json
  block asking: "bzflag": false, "webtransport": false and
  "webrtc": false turn each off and stop offering it.
• hix lets tanks jump.
• Ace, the autopilot and server bots, plays to the score: a foe coming down
  from a jump on his level within a shot's reach is shot first; a foe 10
  clear of everyone is hunted ahead of captures; 3 under his foes' average,
  he fights rather than captures or fetches flags.
• A map's flag and team spawn zones reach browsers and bots beside its
  safety zones. Ace takes an unnamed flag in a one-type zone for that type,
  and with no foe left alive waits within a shot of a foe's spawn zone.
• Ace's routes no longer drive or fly through a wall thinner than the route
  grid (hix's diagonal walls), drive off the point of a turned base, or land
  where a small miss falls off a corner; he goes round on the ground rather
  than jump to a landing a foe has a clear level shot at, unless that is
  much further; and he no longer fires a level shot at a foe whose body is
  not at his muzzle's height, Super Bullet included.
• npm run bench:stuck drives Ace between random spots on a map and lists
  where he backed off, missed a jump or never arrived.
• Ace takes his own flag to the middle of his base and puts it down there
  on the move, rather than at the edge he came in by -- where he could also
  stall, turning between home and not.
• Ace counts a jump flown once he is down on its level a few units short of
  the planned landing, instead of taking it a second time from there -- the
  second jump that carried him past his base onto the pyramid under it.
• A jump from a flat mesh top with the tank's centre over its edge keeps its
  speed; it went straight up, as off a slope.
• Ace gives up a flag he is held short of twice, and steers round a bad
  flag he knows of rather than drive over it -- including one the player he
  flies for has seen carried, identified or named.
• Ace keeps Identify, remembers what it names, and trades it only for a
  flag worth it (L, GM, SB, SW, G, ST); he goes out of his way for one only
  while ahead on his own and his team's score. Server bots holding it learn
  what it names, as a person's client does.

Fixed

• Flags no longer spawn inside buildings on a map whose flags are 0 tall
  (hix), and one dropped inside a building climbs onto it or, with no top
  to stand on, leaves, as upstream.

v1.3.40

bzo@1.3.40 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.40

[1.3.40] - 2026-10-10

Added

• Everything on one port, 5154 by default, TCP and UDP. Browsers carry moves
  and shots over WebTransport ("webtransport": true), else WebRTC
  ("webrtc": {}), with the voice TURN relays as the last resort and the
  WebSocket until one opens -- iOS Safari, Firefox, Chrome and the Quest
  included. BZFlag clients share the same UDP.
• HTTPS on the port speaks HTTP/2, so a page's requests share one connection.
• /playerlist, the scoreboard's T column and /api/players say which
  path a player is on: h3+, rtc+, turn+ (h, r, t), and a BZFlag
  client's udp+ (b+).
• /test.html links the ?udp=h3|rtc|turn|ws test modes and
  /wt-test.html; the log notes a main thread that stops answering.

Changed

• The default port is 5154, BZFlag's IANA port.
• WebRTC no longer needs a port of its own: webrtc.listen and 5153 are
  gone, and node-datachannel with them; an old listen is ignored with a log
  line.

Fixed

• A BZFlag client on the server's own network gets its UDP link through the
  router's loop-back.
• The scoreboard's names and 1-on-1 column show in Firefox.

v1.3.39

bzo@1.3.39 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.39

[1.3.39] - 2026-10-10

Fixed

• Playing on a watched BZFlag server: Player Options now offers the teams
  that server runs, and /list's Play uses the team chosen there instead
  of always Automatic. A team the server does not run places the player
  rather than leaving them watching.

v1.3.38

bzo@1.3.38 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.38

[1.3.38] - 2026-10-10

Fixed

• Ace no longer holds its own flag on a corner of its base without putting it
  down, sits stuck with Left or Right Turn Only or Reverse Only, or camps at a
  foe on another level that a level shot cannot reach. A camp that never
  fires is now given up.

v1.3.37

bzo@1.3.37 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.37

[1.3.37] - 2026-10-10

Fixed

• Ace no longer gets stuck inside a lift's teleporter going straight back
  down, falls off a walkway after a lift, circles a flag instead of picking it
  up, trades one good flag for the next, rides a lift up and down chasing a
  flag, or camps at a foe its barrel cannot see.
• Ace drops Oscillation Overthruster before a lift up, and no longer tries to
  drop its flag over a raised base it cannot get onto.

Changed

• Ace comes into a lift at the angle that leaves it facing the way on, and
  with a laser keeps just outside a foe's lunge-shot reach.

v1.3.36

bzo@1.3.36 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.36

[1.3.36] - 2026-10-10

Added

• Ace camps: with nobody near it fetches flags until it has GM, L or SB,
  then shoots from the best vantage point it can reach, leaving a spot after
  shots it had to dodge or a Shock Wave in reach. Debug Geometry shows the
  spots it weighed.
• Routes go through teleporters, so a pilot uses lifts such as hix's corners.
  Server bots now teleport at all, and lock a Guided Missile before firing.
• A map's safety zones reach the browser, as they always reached BZFlag
  clients. hix has one on each base.

Changed

• Ace keeps a team flag until home, fighting on the way rather than dropping
  it, and drops its own flag over an enemy base when it would land near home.
• Ace fetches flags on other levels by route, and plans routes with the
  jumping its own flag allows.
• hix has jumping off for now, while the lifts are tested.

v1.3.35

bzo@1.3.35 changelog:extract
node scripts/extract-changelog.mjs v1.3.35

[1.3.35] - 2026-10-10

Added

• publicUrl may be a list of a server's names. The bzo list checks each one
  against the server's key and shows those that answer under Also at,
  and under Carried by on a carried server's row.

Changed

• Ace goes after whoever has its team's flag at any range, fetches its own
  flag home before an enemy flag that is not much nearer, shoots back at a
  foe that just shot at it, counts a runaway score leader as nearer, keeps
  to captures when its team is behind, and hunts rather than wanders while
  there is anyone to find.
• The autopilot's HUD line and server bots' debug labels say why Ace picked
  its target: chase (retaliate), hunt (ours-carrier), chase (leader).
• Release and CI images come from mirror.gcr.io rather than Docker Hub.