downlords-faf-client

Fixes

• Fixed connection issues
• Achievements in "user information" window load asynchronously again
• #87 Transparent Web views (fixes graphical bug in chats and news)
• #196 Live-reloading theme changes for easy theming (improvement pending)

Known bugs:

• Ranked 1v1 doesn't work (again)

#196 Load theme files from external location & detect changes

Adapting server changes (message game_info can contain a list of games)

• Live replay works again
• Improved color selection for chat users
• Don't colorize tooltips when hovering over a colored chat user
• Listing game types in "Create game" dialog again, allowing games to be hosted (adapting server changes)
• Make ranked1v1 work again (adapting server changes)
• Speed up UI loading a bit
• Make chat "mention" case insensitive
• Fixing map not selected when hosting game

Compatibility with new server, some hot fixes

#185 Don't start connectivity check before login

⚠️ Connects to FAF beta server ⚠️
You may have to use an old password

Features

• #8 Highlight private tabs on new message
• #15 Colorize chat messages
  • Custom chat colors
  • Random chat colors
• #57 Easily see what people are playing
• #76 Game status indicator in chat user list
• #77 Show notification on new chat message
• #92 Click on name in chat should open private message tab
• #119 Achievements
• #120 Search IRC chat buffer
• #124 Create game.prefs automatically
• #126 Implement new proxy protocol
• #129 Integrate login form into main window
• #164 Support Windows taskbar progress
• #170 Support game rehosting
• Allow logout

Improvements

• #109 Don't disable "Create game"
• Port check now uses FAF server
• Improved mod vault
• Improved user information window
• Reduced installer size

Fixes

• #46 Fix DPI issues
• #53 Broken map previews
• #94 Clan channel not joined
• #99 Write fa_path.lua
• #172 Chat text does not properly wrap
• Using GPU to render UI (again)

• #113 Mod vault: Search and install
• #112 Show hand cursor when hovering over map preview in game detail
• #106 Setting port to check correctly
• #105 getLocalMaps() fails when map directory does not exist.
• #104 Hosting games with mods
• #73 Support ranked 1v1 matches

• #23 Automatic game patching and mod installation

Fixed issues:

• #96 Chat messages aren't rendered when running on Java 8u60
• Auto update doesn't detect new version

• #90 Player statistics not displaying
• #89 Replacing ehcache with guava cache
• #88 Replace current installation when installing newer version
• #85 Auto-update within client
• #80 Add icons to game tile
• #69 JDK 8u60
• #2 Automatic IRC registration

Update: Don't use this build, it does not show chat messages.

• Games can now either be displayed as tiles or in a table (selection not yet saved)
• Using CPU to render the UI to avoid lagging if GPU is under heavy load
• New font rendering to avoid sub pixel rendering issues
• Improved navigation; Dropdown tabs allow more views without having too many tabs
• Improved game detail, allowing to "click on map" to see an even larger preview (still ugly)
• 35% Test coverage, making the client more reliable and maintainable

Catching up with latest changes (http://www.faforever.com/2015/07/patch-3644-3645-beta-client-0-10-124-updates/#.VblrCsGqpBc):

• Games will launch slightly faster

• Hotfix: Game information wasn't updating

• Clan channels are now joined automatically
• Friends/Foes can now be added/removed
• 90 and 365 days statistics can now be displayed
• Fixes in proxy code
• The client can now read and play online and local replays (Replays using mods or another FA version do not yet work, same reason as why mod games don't work yet)
• "Ladder" is now called "Leaderboard" (back to the roots)
• URLs in Chat can be previewed (not yet where I want it to be, but it's a start)
• Images can be pasted into the chat; it is then uploaded to imgur and you'll get its link
• Fixed some window-maximize behavior
• Warning when player ranking out of game bounds (guessed based on game title, until server support)

• Replays are now recorded locally as well as to the online server
• Local replays are parsed and listed
• "Show private games" now does what it promises
• Hovering over user names in the chat view shows their country flag, name and ranking
• Chat window no longer scrolls to bottom if scrolled up
• Chat message input field is now focused automatically

Changelog v0.4.1

• Auto completion in chat is no longer case-sensitive
• Clan tags are displayed in chat user list
• Notification sounds
• Transparent chat background
• Tiled background (thanks to imsoretarted)
• Fixed window positioning/resizing issues
• Removed embedded FAF-Website in the "News" tab, replaced it with a stub of something better

First alpha release; expect a lot of things not to work. What you can do however is:

• Chat
• Host a non-mod game
• Join a non-mod game
• Search ladder

Please do not submit bug reports yet. The chance is high that I'm aware of every bug you encounter.