News
01-12-2004 AABrowse-0.0.8 released
AABrowse-0.0.8 is a minor bug fix release. Compile errors with Qt 3.2 have been fixed, as well as some memory leak fixes. There is also a new filter for Americas Army version 2.2.1 and the 1.9.0 filter has been removed.
- Fixed memory leak when adding server settings
- Fixed Qt 3.2 compatibility
- Fixed some maps not filtering properly
- Added version 2.2.1 and removed 1.9.0
10-10-2004 AABrowse-0.0.7 released
This update includes a few minor features and bug fixes. You can now load and save sets of filters and the toolbars and menus have been given a facelift. Querying servers should be faster and the pings should be more accurrate. The way master server updates are done has also changed, so that clicking the update button no longer deletes all your old servers, instead only adding new servers to the list.
- Fixed player and server numbers not updating correctly.
- Added new IP ranges to East server filter.
- Added right click menu to select list to allow saving and loading of client side filters.
- Changed master server updates to not clear the list and to only add new servers if they dont already exist.
- Added right-click menus for clearing master server list and removing all timed-out servers from a list.
- Added option for displaying toolbar buttons without text.
- Added soon to be released maps SF Taiga and SF Oasis.
- Added filter for version 2.2.
- Fixed memory leak when querying servers.
- Server list now uses a QDict hash table to find servers in the list. Querying a large list should be quicker and use less CPU.
- Buddy list now uses a QDict hash table for buddy lookups.
- Added new menus and toolbars with key shortcuts. Toolbar positions are now saved and reloaded after a restart.
- Updated the AAMSL classes to pass the new website.
19-07-2004 AABrowse-0.0.6 released
This update adds a few minor features and fixes a few bugs. The show empty and show full filter options for gamespy are now fixed so you should now be able to get a full list of servers. Coloured server names have also been added for servers which have had this added to their name. The search dialog is now more usefull with options for adding players to the buddy list and for displaying the server the player was found on.
- Added support for coloured server names. Also added an option to turn this off.
- Added 66.117 IP range to West Coast servers.
- Fixed show empty and show full filters for gamespy.
- Fixed servers with 0 - 99 ping not filtering properly.
- Fixed buddylist to stop multiple players being highlighted when being dragged and dropped.
- Added right click menu to search dialog with options for adding player to buddylist and to show the server the selected player is on.
- Added buddylist option for a showing the server a player was last seen on.
25-06-2004 AABrowse-0.0.5 released
AABrowse-0.0.5 adds a number of new features. New options have been added for filtering the master list, including ping, map, version, country and server type. Support for the Geoip library has been added, which enables country filters and displays a flag for each server. This release also adds support for the gamespy master server.
To enable geoip support, you must first have geoip installed, then run ./configure --enable-geoip. GeoIP can be downloaded from here.
- Added option for setting the number of times to retry a timed out server.
- Added support for the gamespy master server protocol.
- Added an option for filtering by ping.
- Added support for the GeoIP library which resolves IP addresses to countries.
- Changed isBuddy function to reduce startup time and speed up server resfreshes.
- Changed server search functions to reduce CPU usage during refreshes.
- Fixed AdminEmail setting disappearing using new gamespy protocol.
- Fixed Leased Official server icons disappearing on startup.
- Added collapsed tunnel to the map list.
- Added country, map, version and location filters to the select list.
06-06-2004 AABrowse-0.0.4 released
AABrowse-0.0.4 contains only minor changes, adding support for the 2 new maps in Americas Army 2.1
- Added SF Arctic and SF Village to map filters
- Fixed location filters so they filter properly on startup
- Removed support for reading old favourites file
23-05-2004 AABrowse-0.0.3 released
AABrowse-0.0.3 adds a few new features. The new gamespy protocol is now supported, allowing all servers to be queried, even if you are behind a firewall. This fixes the bug in the old protocol which caused full servers to timeout.
Querying the andromeda master server is working again after SCI brought it back online, although some of the icons are not showing up and leased servers are not marked as official. Hopefully SCI will get this fixed soon.
- Added support for the new gamespy protocol. This fixes the problem where full servers would timeout for a lot of people.
- All server data is now saved into XML format on exit and reloaded on startup.
- The results of a server query are now stored inside the listviewitems.
- Fixed andromeda code to work with the updated master server.
- Fixed bug in gamespy query code which resulted in a segfault when querying some servers.
- Changed buddylist to not be case sensitive with buddy names.
- Added status messages to Andromeda queries.
08-05-2004 AABrowse-0.0.2 released
AABrowse-0.0.2 is a minor update to this QT based Americas Army server browser. The buddy list can now be organised into groups of players and they can be dragged and dropped to move them around. Servers can also be sorted by some of the icons such as punkbuster, private and miles servers.
- Fixed serverlist so it properly sorts entries with icons.
- Added support for grouping buddies.
- Fixed: server queries that return multiple packets are now re-ordered properly.