Author Topic: New Development Snapshot 0.49.10 for MegaMek, MegaMekLab, and MekHQ (Read 3753 times)

Hammer · « **on:** 12 September 2022, 11:04:19 »

Welcome all to 0.49.10!

This is release is quick release to address a couple of major bugs in 49.9. Please see those release notes for full details..

Going to reiterate this comment. As mentioned in the 49.9 Dev release notes this release is improved for stability but still isn't where we want it.

We know from experience that when we say this players generally stay away. But you can run both a stable release (0.48.0 or good dev release 0.49.7) you just need to keep them in separate folders. Remember that MekHQ campaign files aren't backwards compatible so if move your campaign from an earlier version to this you can't go back. But you can keep backups and play in both versions to see the difference.

MegaMek
As mentioned 49.9 had a couple of critical bugs (Ammo crash and Mini-Map issues) in it and this release addresses those.

MegaMekLab
No fixes in this release.

MekHQ
No fixes in this release.

MekHQ StratCon Alpha
No fixes in this release.

Stable 0.50.0 Status Update
We are still working on the development portion of the current dev cycle. We've recently been able to implement a new version of Gradle (our build language) which is a major step on the road to Java 17 support, we still need to look into player save game issues, and work on the connection stability issues.

Until we resolve these issues we can't move ahead with a new Stable, and we have no ETA for this. With a milestone of 0.50.0 we need to make sure we get it right.

Java 11
We've updated to Java 11, which means you'll need to update to use the 0.49.x development branches. As Java is now open source, we recommend Adoptium Temurin 11. We have a help page for Windows and Mac. Further, for Linux, you should be able to use your package manager to install Adoptium Temurin from their repository. Finally, all our automated tests (with the exception of MegaMekLab) are done with Temurin 11.

This is VERY important - We don't support any version of Java higher than Java 11. Making sure when downloading and installing you are grabbing Java 11, Java 17 in particular breaks the programs hard!!

Social Media
We are also happy to announce we have an official MegaMek Discord. This is now our primary community location for the suite, providing superior voice support, individual channels, and assistance for the official public servers. There are also the following community Discords with regular MegaMek channels, namely Everything BattleTech and Classic BattleTech. We are also on Facebook, at MegaMek BattleTech and MegaMek for our group and page respectively.

UlyssesSockdrawer has been running a popular Solaris VII campaign on our Discord that is always looking for new players. You can join between cycles. Join the Discord for more information.

Slack end of life
When we started the Slack, we wanted to move the MegaMek community from forums to a more interactive platform. While in the beginning the Slack had a small active community it’s just never taken off like we hoped.

We've made the decision to open a MegaMek Discord after seeing the success of the MegaMek channels in other Discords. Since opening the Discord it’s grown to 1900 members and is much busier and interactive than the Slack has ever been. The Discord platform has allowed us to better support players with things like voice channels linked to dedicated servers.

After careful review and discussion among the Devs we decided to close the Slack June 1st, 2022. We feel it will be more effective to focus and continue to build the community on Discord.

We thank everyone who’s been part of this community and for those that haven’t please join us on the Discord

Mac Users
Please check out this workaround for Mac Operating Systems.

Contributing
Please check out this document for contributing to the suite.

Updating Your Campaign:
1. Make backups of your campaigns and customs.
2. Always treat each release as a stand alone release and only copy your data forward from older versions, never backwards.
3. Do not copy MegaMek saves nor any preference file from a different version.

Change Logs (Release Specific) and Download Links
MegaMek
Download

Code: [Select]

+ Data: Shorten RAT names for FM3145
+ PR #3887 - Excised Rumble Seat and move to Legacy quirk.
+ PR #3886 - Simplify handling of submunition names
+ Issue #3880 - Respect the setting for showing incline graphics
+ PR #3882 - Base Components: DefaultScrollablePanel
+ Issue #3895 - fix minimap NPE

MegaMekLab
Download

Code: [Select]

No Changes in this release

MekHQ
Download

Code: [Select]

No Changes in this release

Enjoy everyone!

Hammer · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 September 2022, 11:53:15 »

Alpha Strike Card Support - Coming Soon
https://bg.battletech.com/forums/alpha-strike-101/alpha-strike-card-support-in-megamek-coming-soon/msg1865963/#new

Kentares · « **Reply #2 on:** 19 September 2022, 17:19:58 »

Still having the same problem I mentioned here

Any idea???

Hammer · « **Reply #3 on:** 19 September 2022, 17:51:10 »

Quote from: Kentares on 19 September 2022, 17:19:58

Still having the same problem I mentioned here

Any idea???

At this point we'd need to see logs. Are you using MekHQ, or MegaMek Standalone?

Kentares · « **Reply #4 on:** 24 September 2022, 16:48:41 »

Quote from: Hammer on 19 September 2022, 17:51:10

At this point we'd need to see logs. Are you using MekHQ, or MegaMek Standalone?

MM standalone only.

Will add the logs ASAP.

pfarland · « **Reply #5 on:** 02 October 2022, 10:52:54 »

I've had this issue for a while now through various versions.

I'll be playing, my Campaign settings adjusted (base AtB

settings for the most part) and it will occasionally reset the

costs to another type (base BTech maybe?). Now it just did it to my SPAs. Set almost all of them to different costs, deleted some changes while keeping others.

Actually getting logs is difficult as I don't check

costs until it's time to raise them and the problem is infrequent enough that I end up forgetting to constantly check.

Hammer · « **Reply #6 on:** 02 October 2022, 16:32:05 »

Quote from: pfarland on 02 October 2022, 10:52:54

I've had this issue for a while now through various versions.

I'll be playing, my Campaign settings adjusted (base AtB settings for the most part) and it will occasionally reset the costs to another type (base BTech maybe?). Now it just did it to my SPAs. Set almost all of them to different costs, deleted some changes while keeping others.

Actually getting logs is difficult as I don't check costs until it's time to raise them and the problem is infrequent enough that I end up forgetting to constantly check.

You're likely experiencing this - https://github.com/MegaMek/mekhq/issues/2335

pfarland · « **Reply #7 on:** 02 October 2022, 21:07:09 »

Quote from: Hammer on 02 October 2022, 16:32:05

You're likely experiencing this - https://github.com/MegaMek/mekhq/issues/2335

Thanks!

Kentares · « **Reply #8 on:** 03 October 2022, 18:34:58 »

Bah... keep forgetting the logs... here they are.

pokefan548 · « **Reply #9 on:** 04 October 2022, 11:56:03 »

Uh, if I'm not mistaken, aerospace has been broken pretty hard. Bombs can't be dropped (hexes can't even be targeted for bombing), and when flying on the ground map my fighters keep randomly imploding.

BATTLEMASTER · « **Reply #10 on:** 04 October 2022, 13:05:26 »

Quote from: pokefan548 on 04 October 2022, 11:56:03

Uh, if I'm not mistaken, aerospace has been broken pretty hard. Bombs can't be dropped (hexes can't even be targeted for bombing), and when flying on the ground map my fighters keep randomly imploding.

I'll have to check this out. I haven't played any ground maps with fighters lately - been mostly space battles.

johnboyjjb · « **Reply #11 on:** 04 October 2022, 14:06:28 »

Hmm. I frequently get ground missions with air support and they tend to work as I expect them to.

Lanceman · « **Reply #12 on:** 04 October 2022, 14:09:52 »

Quote from: pokefan548 on 04 October 2022, 11:56:03

Uh, if I'm not mistaken, aerospace has been broken pretty hard. Bombs can't be dropped (hexes can't even be targeted for bombing), and when flying on the ground map my fighters keep randomly imploding.

No issues for me. Well except the second bombs not showing damage to the hex...

BATTLEMASTER · « **Reply #13 on:** 04 October 2022, 16:09:04 »

Quote from: Lanceman on 04 October 2022, 14:09:52

No issues for me. Well except the second bombs not showing damage to the hex...

Two questions:

1) Is there any terrain in those hexes that can take damage?

2) If there is terrain in those hexes that can take damage, is the damage actually being recorded on the game board despite the report?

dgorsman · « **Reply #14 on:** 04 October 2022, 16:31:57 »

Quote from: pokefan548 on 04 October 2022, 11:56:03

Uh, if I'm not mistaken, aerospace has been broken pretty hard. Bombs can't be dropped (hexes can't even be targeted for bombing), and when flying on the ground map my fighters keep randomly imploding.

Playing with sensor contact rules, and weather/daylight conditions are fog and/or less than full lighting? There's some weird range considerations that go on between the sensor contact ranges and visibility ranges with fighters e.g. you can't bomb due to 'not in visual range' (which seems to be based off the end-of-movement hex) but you can still strike (which seems to be based on the hex the target is in).

Hammer · « **Reply #15 on:** 04 October 2022, 17:06:05 »

Quote from: Kentares on 03 October 2022, 18:34:58

Bah... keep forgetting the logs... here they are.

When you installed did you use the Windows built in unzipper?

Lanceman · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 October 2022, 17:39:20 »

Quote from: BATTLEMASTER on 04 October 2022, 16:09:04

Two questions:

1) Is there any terrain in those hexes that can take damage?

2) If there is terrain in those hexes that can take damage, is the damage actually being recorded on the game board despite the report?

I'm not sure now after the fact, but I bombed again the next turn and it reported correctly so maybe just a weird flib. I'll see if I can reproduce. Also bombed some buildings and it everything was correct.

pokefan548 · « **Reply #17 on:** 05 October 2022, 07:33:24 »

Quote from: dgorsman on 04 October 2022, 16:31:57

Playing with sensor contact rules, and weather/daylight conditions are fog and/or less than full lighting? There's some weird range considerations that go on between the sensor contact ranges and visibility ranges with fighters e.g. you can't bomb due to 'not in visual range' (which seems to be based off the end-of-movement hex) but you can still strike (which seems to be based on the hex the target is in).

Negative. I'm aware of that issue, and so try to avoid that stuff when I field fighters. The Dive and Altitude Bomb options don't even appear in my weapon list (assuming they haven't been moved somewhere else and we're finally getting proper TW bombing?)

Still no idea why my fighters keep randomly imploding. Logs included. Will do some independent investigation as I find the time.

Kentares · « **Reply #18 on:** 06 October 2022, 20:14:52 »

Quote from: Hammer on 04 October 2022, 17:06:05

When you installed did you use the Windows built in unzipper?

Tried both ways. First with the built in unzipper and later with 7zip.

freebirthsurat1337 · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 November 2022, 15:34:00 »

Game loader stalls at "loading campaign" it appears from the logs it's trying to load from a previous version even though I haven't installed any previous version on this computer.

Running Ubuntu 22.04

here's the mekhq.log

13:50:47,767 INFO [mekhq.MekHQ] {main}
mekhq.MekHQ.initializeLogging(MekHQ.java:259) - Starting MekHQ v0.49.10
   Build Date: 2022-09-12T09:06:00.350851300
   Today: 2022-11-23
   Origin Project: MekHQ
   Java Vendor: Eclipse Adoptium
   Java Version: 11.0.17
   Platform: Linux 6.0.6-76060006-generic (amd64)
   System Locale: en_US
   Total memory available to MekHQ: 2 GB

13:50:50,091 INFO [mekhq.campaign.finances.CurrencyManager] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.finances.CurrencyManager.registerCurrencies(CurrencyManager.java:192) - Starting load currency information from XML...

13:50:50,100 INFO [mekhq.campaign.finances.CurrencyManager] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.finances.CurrencyManager.registerCurrencies(CurrencyManager.java:286) - Load of currency information complete!

13:50:50,143 INFO [mekhq.campaign.personnel.ranks.Ranks] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.personnel.ranks.Ranks.initializeRankSystems(Ranks.java:112) - Starting Rank Systems XML load...

13:50:50,227 INFO [mekhq.campaign.personnel.ranks.Ranks] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.personnel.ranks.Ranks.initializeRankSystems(Ranks.java:133) - Completed Rank System XML Load

13:50:50,286 INFO [mekhq.campaign.universe.Factions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Factions.loadDefault(Factions.java:146) - Starting load of faction data from XML...

13:50:50,305 INFO [mekhq.campaign.universe.Factions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Factions.loadDefault(Factions.java:150) - Loaded a total of 172 factions

13:50:50,331 INFO [mekhq.campaign.personnel.Bloodname] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.personnel.Bloodname.loadBloodnameData(Bloodname.java:450) - Loaded 805 Bloodname records.

13:50:50,404 INFO [mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems.loadDefault(Systems.java:251) - Starting load of system data from XML...

13:50:51,762 INFO [mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems.loadDefault(Systems.java:256) - Loaded a total of 3445 systems in 1.357s.

13:50:51,777 WARN [mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems.logVeryCloseSystems(Systems.java:362) - Extremely close systems detected. Data error? Cambridge Perimeter Defense Station <-> Cambridge: 0.828 ly

13:50:51,779 WARN [mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems.logVeryCloseSystems(Systems.java:362) - Extremely close systems detected. Data error? Cambridge <-> Cambridge Perimeter Defense Station: 0.828 ly

13:50:51,886 INFO [mekhq.gui.dialog.DataLoadingDialog.Task] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.gui.dialog.DataLoadingDialog$Task.doInBackground(DataLoadingDialog.java:256) - Starting a new campaign

13:50:53,145 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,173 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,189 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,201 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,211 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,220 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

Windchild · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 November 2022, 03:09:07 »

Quote from: freebirthsurat1337 on 23 November 2022, 15:34:00

Game loader stalls at "loading campaign" it appears from the logs it's trying to load from a previous version even though I haven't installed any previous version on this computer.

Running Ubuntu 22.04

here's the mekhq.log

13:50:47,767 INFO [mekhq.MekHQ] {main}
mekhq.MekHQ.initializeLogging(MekHQ.java:259) - Starting MekHQ v0.49.10
   Build Date: 2022-09-12T09:06:00.350851300
   Today: 2022-11-23
   Origin Project: MekHQ
   Java Vendor: Eclipse Adoptium
   Java Version: 11.0.17
   Platform: Linux 6.0.6-76060006-generic (amd64)
   System Locale: en_US
   Total memory available to MekHQ: 2 GB

13:50:50,091 INFO [mekhq.campaign.finances.CurrencyManager] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.finances.CurrencyManager.registerCurrencies(CurrencyManager.java:192) - Starting load currency information from XML...

13:50:50,100 INFO [mekhq.campaign.finances.CurrencyManager] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.finances.CurrencyManager.registerCurrencies(CurrencyManager.java:286) - Load of currency information complete!

13:50:50,143 INFO [mekhq.campaign.personnel.ranks.Ranks] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.personnel.ranks.Ranks.initializeRankSystems(Ranks.java:112) - Starting Rank Systems XML load...

13:50:50,227 INFO [mekhq.campaign.personnel.ranks.Ranks] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.personnel.ranks.Ranks.initializeRankSystems(Ranks.java:133) - Completed Rank System XML Load

13:50:50,286 INFO [mekhq.campaign.universe.Factions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Factions.loadDefault(Factions.java:146) - Starting load of faction data from XML...

13:50:50,305 INFO [mekhq.campaign.universe.Factions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Factions.loadDefault(Factions.java:150) - Loaded a total of 172 factions

13:50:50,331 INFO [mekhq.campaign.personnel.Bloodname] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.personnel.Bloodname.loadBloodnameData(Bloodname.java:450) - Loaded 805 Bloodname records.

13:50:50,404 INFO [mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems.loadDefault(Systems.java:251) - Starting load of system data from XML...

13:50:51,762 INFO [mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems.loadDefault(Systems.java:256) - Loaded a total of 3445 systems in 1.357s.

13:50:51,777 WARN [mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems.logVeryCloseSystems(Systems.java:362) - Extremely close systems detected. Data error? Cambridge Perimeter Defense Station <-> Cambridge: 0.828 ly

13:50:51,779 WARN [mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.universe.Systems.logVeryCloseSystems(Systems.java:362) - Extremely close systems detected. Data error? Cambridge <-> Cambridge Perimeter Defense Station: 0.828 ly

13:50:51,886 INFO [mekhq.gui.dialog.DataLoadingDialog.Task] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.gui.dialog.DataLoadingDialog$Task.doInBackground(DataLoadingDialog.java:256) - Starting a new campaign

13:50:53,145 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,173 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,189 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,201 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,211 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

13:50:53,220 INFO [mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions] {SwingWorker-pool-2-thread-1}
mekhq.campaign.CampaignOptions.generateCampaignOptionsFromXml(CampaignOptions.java:3939) - Loading Campaign Options from Version 0.49.8-SNAPSHOT XML...

That is part of the normal load, as we do not update the presets for each release.

Please open an issue containing all of your logs from a failed load on the MHQ tracker listed in my signature, so we can take a look as to why you are having load issues.

freebirthsurat1337 · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 November 2022, 09:11:22 »

unfortunately github autoflagged the account i tried to make as suspected spam so I can't submit there.

Hammer · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 November 2022, 12:30:16 »

If you zip and post your logs here. I can open an issue for it.

If you have custom units that will prevent us from troubling the issue. It's likely you won't be able to post larger zip files.

freebirthsurat1337 · « **Reply #23 on:** 24 November 2022, 14:15:52 »

it's a fresh install so nothing custom. launch of mekhq stalls at "loading campaign"

freebirthsurat1337 · « **Reply #24 on:** 05 December 2022, 14:32:33 »

figured out a workaround. create campaign in an older version and then load it in the new one. but for some reason create campaign stall when trying to bring up the calendar to pick a date.

dgorsman · « **Reply #25 on:** 05 December 2022, 18:07:32 »

Is the date dialog offscreen? Have you tried the ALT-spacebar method?