Changelog
v2.6.4 - December 25, 2021
- Updated CC:T version to 1.100.0
- Speakers can now play arbitrary PCM audio.
- Add support for encoding and decoding DFPWM streams, with the cc.audio.dfpwm module.
- Fix the "repeat" program not repeating broadcast rednet messages.
- Added
useDFPWM config setting to toggle use of DFPWM playback emulation
- Added
speaker.setPosition(x, y, z) to emulate positioning of speaker audio
- Standards mode now controls the behavior of the new
speaker.playAudio
- When disabled, all audio is added to a queue with no latency, and
speaker.playAudio never fails
- When enabled:
speaker_audio_empty is queued when the audio is 0.5 seconds before it's expected to finish, emulating latencyspeaker.playAudio returns false if there is more than 0.5 seconds of audio in the bufferuseDFPWM is forced to true
- Renamed
speaker.stopSounds to speaker.stop
stopSounds still exists for backwards compatibility, but is deprecated
speaker.playLocalMusic is now deprecated in favor of speaker.playAudio
- It is recommended you load the audio files yourself instead of relying on the system to decode it
- CraftOS-PC Online is now working better (#222)
- CraftOS-PC Online now supports Safari on iOS 15.2+/macOS 12.2+
- There is currently a huge memory leak bug in some browsers that can cause the page to crash on low-memory systems
- Hopefully CraftOS-PC Online will be fully working in the near future
- Fixed some string comparisons not working as expected
- Fixed incorrect documentation on mobile gestures (#230)
- Fixed keyboard on iOS being dismissed when closing the app (#231)
- Fixed screen glitches when opening a new terminal after changing
useHDFont (SkyTheCodeMaster)
- Fixed some issues with textutils.serializeJSON
v2.6.3 - December 11, 2021
- Updated CC:T version to 1.99.1
- Peripherals can now have multiple types.
peripheral.getType now returns multiple values, and peripheral.hasType checks if a peripheral has a specific type.
- Add feature introduction/changed version information to the documentation. (MCJack123)
- Rednet can now handle computer IDs larger than 65535. (Ale32bit)
- Optimise peripheral calls in
rednet.run. (xAnavrins)
- Add
cc.pretty.pretty_print helper function (Lupus590).
- Fix
textutils.serialize not serialising infinity and nan values. (Wojbie)
- Add
package.searchpath to the cc.require API. (MCJack123)
- Bumped structure version to 7
- New fields in
Computer:
- New fields in
peripheral:
- Added ability to set printer ink color
- Added support for hexadecimal floating-point numbers
- Unwritable data directories now throw an error
- Default peripherals now throw an error when calling a method that doesn't exist
- Terminal frozen status is now reset after rebooting
- X11 and Wayland libraries are no longer required when building for Linux
\0 characters in a string are now treated as a space by load- Fixed websocket.receive not functioning properly
- Fixed
fs.copy stopping at EOF bytes on Windows (#226)
- Fixed hardware renderer not showing anything on screen (#227)
- Fixed crash when using
detach on a debugger
- Fixed crash when an error occurs in
drive.insertDisk on Windows
- Fixed coroutine metatable getting overwritten by coroutine.create
- Fixed
keepOpenOnShutdown using 100% CPU
- Fixed Ctrl+R not working with
keepOpenOnShutdown after two successive reboots
- Fixed
getCursorBlink being missing from monitors
- Fixed monitor events not working properly in raw mode
- Fixed a possible race condition when shutting down on exit
- Fixed race condition in timer erasure
- Fixed various other small race conditions
v2.6.2 - October 31, 2021
- Bumped structure version to 6
- New fields in
Computer:
- New fields in
configuration:
- New fields in
PluginFunctions:
- Added ability to drop files to paste their paths instead of copying the file
- Enabled using
dropFilePath config setting
- Added single-window mode
- Displays all computers on the same window
- Activated with
--single flag on CLI
- Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right (Cmd+Option+L/R on Mac) to switch windows in GUI
- Added ability to copy screenshots on Linux (X11, Wayland)
- Added
registerPeripheralFn capability to allow passing a function object
registerPeripheral is now deprecated
- Added brand-new UI on mobile devices (beta only)
- Redesigned UI with navigation bar & hotkey toolbar above keyboard
- Added support for computer, debugger, and monitor peripherals
- Change windows using the arrows in the navigation bar
- Automatic shell resizing makes sure you can see what you type
- Arrow key gestures now work on Android as well as iOS
- Added new launch screen (iOS)
- The new UI is only available in beta builds at the moment due to bugginess
- Improved WebSocket server functionality
- Servers can now be properly opened by calling
http.websocket with a port argument
- Multiple clients to the same server now get unique identifiers as userdata values
- Added
websocket_server_closed event to notify when an opened WebSocket server is no longer accepting connections
- Replaced Windows nightly builds with CI build artifacts
- CLI mode now uses Unicode characters for non-ASCII characters
- Drawing characters are approximated using Braille characters; this may not show up well on a real terminal
- Improved quality of CCEmuX plugin
- WebSocket text messages are now sent in UTF-8
- Improved Rednet deduplication efficiency (part of CC:T 1.99.0)
- cash no longer saves duplicate history entries
- Deprecated
peripheral::update as it was never used
- Fixed crashing whenever opening a debugger (from crash reports)
- Fixed a crash when comparing two identical substrings (#218)
- Fixed a crash caused by force-closing a computer after it's already gone (from crash reports)
- Fixed a crash in
term.drawPixels when passing a negative value (#224)
- Fixed occasional crashes from
get_comp cache duplication (from crash reports)
- Fixed crashes and incorrect behavior when using
string.format with substrings (from crash reports: @Creepi)
- Fixed strings in modem messages not being sent properly on Linux (@BytecodeEli)
- Fixed binary support in WebSocket messages
- Fixed an issue causing input to stop working in raw mode on Linux
- Fixed stack overflow when an error handler attempts to yield (from crash reports)
- Fixed a bug causing old
os functions to be exposed (!)
- Fixed an incorrect error message when concatenating a concatenated string or substring with a value of an invalid type (@9551)
- Fixed an issue with completion for boolean config settings
v2.6.1 - August 31, 2021
- Bumped CC:T version to 1.98.2
- Add motd for file uploading.
- Fix
settings.define not accepting a nil second argument (SkyTheCodeMaster).
- Add a missing type check for
http.checkURL.
- Prevent
parallel.* from hanging when no arguments are given.
- Prevent issue in rednet when the message ID is NaN.
- Fix
help program crashing when terminal changes width.
- Prevent
wget crashing when given an invalid URL and no filename.
- Correctly wrap string within
textutils.slowWrite.
- Bumped structure version to 5
- New fields in
configuration:
- New fields in
Computer:
httpRequestQueuehttpRequestQueueMutex
- Added support for screenshots and recordings in WebP format
- WebP is an image format that is much smaller than PNG/GIF and supports animation
- All modern web browsers and OSes support WebP images
- Unfortunately, Discord does not support WebP recordings at the moment.
- Recordings can be up to 20x smaller than their GIF counterparts
- Disabled by default; enable the
useWebP config option to use WebP instead of PNG/GIF
- Added support for delta installers on Windows
- These are stripped-down versions of the installer that only contain core CraftOS-PC files
- This reduces the size of data to download when updating
- Some versions may not have delta installers if libraries need to be updated
- Added update download progress window on Windows; made progress bar determinate on macOS
- Implemented limits for HTTP options that were present but unfunctional
- Parameters to events are now copied when standards mode is enabled
- Opening a file when the maximum file count is reached now creates the file as expected
- Rewrote
websocket.receive function in C to perform better
- Fixed WebSockets not sending PONG packets, causing sockets to randomly close after a while
- Fixed crashes when trying to use a WebSocket handle after closing it
- Fixed a race condition in HTTP requests that caused a crash
- Fixed a race condition causing crashes when running a task on the main thread
- Fixed a race condition causing functions (like
term.write) to be run on the wrong computer
- Fixed an issue causing the first frame of GIFs to be darker than the rest of the recording
- Fixed the close button not working in some cases
- Fixed
fs API allowing illegal characters on Windows
- Fixed modems not checking if channel numbers are in range
- Fixed
utf8.charpattern not existing
- Fixed crash error message not appearing in standards mode
- Fixed
os.clock() not resetting on reboot (#215)
- Fixed crash reporter failing to upload files + some websites failing to connect
- TLS 1.3 was disabled (pocoproject/poco#3395), so HTTPS connections may be slightly less secure
- Fixed duplication of default black/whitelist entries
- Fixed
pairs returning incorrect values after a call hook
v2.6 - July 11, 2021
- CraftOS-PC is now available on Android and iOS
- Apps are available on the iOS App Store (Play Store in the future; please download the APK manually)
- Supports same feature set as desktop CraftOS-PC
- Monitors and multi-computer support is missing, but will be added in a future version
- Pinch in to open keyboard, out to close keyboard
- Extra mobile-centric features:
mobile API with openKeyboard(open: boolean) and isKeyboardOpen() functions_CCPC_mobile_keyboard_open <height> event when keyboard is opened, with an argument for visible height_CCPC_mobile_keyboard_close event when keyboard is closed
- Bumped CC:T version to 1.97.0
- 1.96.0:
- Use lightGrey for folders within the "list" program.
- Add cc.expect.range (Lupus590).
- Allow calling cc.expect directly (MCJack123).
- Fix paintutils.drawLine incorrectly sorting coordinates (lilyzeiset).
- Correctly handle sparse arrays in cc.pretty.
- 1.97.0:
- Add scale subcommand to
monitor program (MCJack123).
- This is a modification of the already-existing
resolution subcommand.
- Add option to make
textutils.serialize not write an indent (magiczocker10).
- Allow comparing vectors using
== (fatboychummy).
- Allow
craft program to craft unlimited items (fatboychummy).
- Add program subcompletion to several programs (Wojbie).
- Update the
help program to accept and (partially) highlight markdown files.
- Remove config option for the debug API.
- It still exists internally, but is always set to
true.
- Allow uploading files by dropping them onto a computer.
- Update the
wget to be more resiliant in the face of user-errors.
- Fix
exiting paint typing "e" in the shell.
- Bumped structure version to 4
- New fields in
PluginFunctions:
addEventHooksetDistanceProvider
- New fields in
Computer:
eventHooks- Deprecated fields:
nextMouseMovelastMousemouseMoveDebounceTimer
- New fields in
Terminal:
nextMouseMovelastMousemouseMoveDebounceTimer
- New types:
- Upgraded raw mode protocol to version 1.1
- New filesystem access ability
- Computer windows now send the ID of the computer
- Changed meaning of raw cursor blink field to indicate blinking, not showing
- Small improvements to the protocol
- Official protocol specification at https://www.craftos-pc.cc/docs/rawmode
- Improved performance of string concatenation by using ropes
- Final concatenation of strings is not completed until the string's value needs to be read
- This was implemented in CC:T 1.91.0
- Expect repeated concatenation operations to be around 100x faster
- Improved performance of
string.sub by using efficient substring views
- Getting a substring no longer has to reallocate the string
- Instead, it reuses the original string with the offset and length required
- Added HTTP whitelist & blacklist
- Emulates configuration of CC:T up until 1.87.0 (before rule-based system)
- Added command-line option to connect to a remote WebSocket server in raw mode
- Changed cursor blink speed to 0.4s to match CC's behavior
- Rewrote main thread task queuer to be more efficient
- Setting
abortTimeout to 0 now disables abort timeouts
- The close button no longer needs to be clicked twice to exit when
keepOpenOnShutdown is enabled
- Fixed "400 Bad Request" error on HTTP requests when the path is empty
- Fixed crash when a bad URL is passed to HTTP functions
- Fixed an issue causing encoded slashes in URLs being decoded prematurely (#199)
- Fixed some memory leaks in HTTP handles
- Fixed HTTP not working properly in CraftOS-PC Online
- Fixed random crashes while sending messages over a modem (#205)
- Fixed sending recursive tables over modems
- Fixed old abort timer firing after reboot, causing spurious "Too long without yielding" errors
- Fixed crash when canceling a timer that doesn't exist
- Fixed
os.epoch "local" not accounting for Daylight Savings Time
- Fixed files being truncated in text mode on Windows when a
\x0A character is found (#204)
- Software rendering now reuses the same surface to reduce memory pressure
- Fixed an issue causing inconsistent speeds when recording to GIF
- Fixed blit only allowing gray colors on grayscale terminals
- Fixed monitors in raw mode sending close events to the wrong window ID
- Fixed some issues with setting monitor scale
- Fixed mouse event debouncing on monitors
- Fixed monitors not reporting a second
monitor_touch event when clicked twice at the same point
- Fixed
mouse_move leave event on monitors not sending the side
- Fixed a bug causing
mouse_move events to stop being sent after a while
- Fixed behavior of
term.blit when passing an invalid character to color strings
- Fixed raw client mouse events not being sent properly
- Fixed an issue causing crashes when creating certain peripherals
- Fixed a possible crash when the BIOS cannot be found (#208)
__lt metamethods can now yield from inside table.sort- Fixed a possible memory leak in
table.sort
- Fixed an issue causing
__lt metamethods that yield to return the wrong result from <=
- Fixed various errors in yielding from debug hooks
- Fixed stack not being resized when > 0x08000000 entries are required
v2.5.5 - April 17, 2021
- Disabled locks when modems aren't attached
- This can improve speeds by up to 50%
- If any modem is attached, speeds will drop back to pre-v2.5.5 levels
- Rewrote HTTP handle read functions to improve reliability
- Removed Origin header from WebSocket requests
- Fixed behavior of table length to work more like CC:T
- Fixed paste contents not being cut at the first newline
- Fixed memory leak in file.readAll in binary mode
- Fixed incorrect modulo result when {(a < 0 | b < 0) & |a| % |b| = 0}
- Fixed hard crash on startup when a custom font file doesn't exist
- Fixed crash when passing non-string in header table
- Fixed crash when halting computer after it already closed
- Fixed crash when an exception occurs while closing WebSocket in the middle of catching another exception
- Possibly fixed a crash happening when connecting to a WebSocket
- Readded Lua features that were advertised in v2.5.4 but not actually present on Windows
- Added
debug.upvalue{id,join} from Lua 5.3
- Fixed a race conditions with modems causing a crash
- Fixed some random crashes on an odd memory error
- Fixed crash when passing bad argument #1 to
table.foreach
v2.5.4 - March 27, 2021
- Bumped CC:T version to 1.95.3
- Correctly serialise sparse arrays into JSON (livegamer999)
- Programs run via edit are now a little better behaved (Wojbie)
- Add User-Agent [and Accept-Charset] to a websocket's headers.
- Bumped structure version to 3
- New fields in
configuration:
- New fields in
computer_configuration:
computerWidthcomputerHeight
- New fields in
PluginFunctions:
attachPeripheraldetachPeripheral
- Added
keepOpenOnShutdown setting to keep computers open after shutdown
- Use the X button to close the window (or your OS's respective key combo)
- Use Ctrl+R to start the computer again
- Added per-computer default size options
- Added two arguments when attaching monitors to specify their size
Added debug.upvalue{id,join} from Lua 5.3- Added the ability to set host ports for WebSocket servers
- Added support for KMSDRM backends on Linux
- Disabled WebSocket servers in vanilla mode
- Adding duplicate virtual mounts now returns
false without adding it again
- Moved
romReadOnly to hidden options
- Fixed macOS installation instructions for Homebrew
Fixed a race conditions with modems causing a crash- Fixed abort timeout occasionally firing when running in a quickly yielding loop
- Fixed WebSockets not being closed soon after close is called
- Fixed race condition on timer add/remove
Fixed some random crashes on an odd memory error- Fixed WebSocket binary messages not being implemented correctly
- Fixed cursor not being reset on shutdown
- Fixed URL checks being missing from
http.get
- Fixed read past EOF in
file.read(n) on text handles
Fixed crash when passing bad argument #1 to table.foreach- Fixed
arg table being missing when running programs with cash
- Fixed missing
http.listen function
- Fixed
window.getSize not working with the new arguments
- Fixed cash being enabled by default
- Fixed shell failing to run in vanilla mode
v2.5.3 - February 21, 2021
- Added automatic crash log uploading behind
snooperEnabled
- Added
snooperEnabled config setting
- This is currently only used for crash uploading, but more (very basic) analytics may be added in the future
- The
debug API is now enabled by default
- This is possible due to the
debug API no longer requiring hooks
- The availability of
debug resolves a long-standing compatibility issue when run with the default config
- Bumped structure version to 2
- New fields in
configuration:
- New fields in
PluginFunctions:
- New fields in
Terminal:
- Added new
registerConfigSetting capability to allow access to plugin settings from config API
- Added ability to yield from line and count hooks
- Debug hooks now work as expected when no debugger is attached
- This breaks
logErrors and non-debugger breakpoints, but neither feature is used much
- They may be brought back in the future, but they are not working for now
- Functions passed to
load can now yield in standards mode only
- This is behind standards mode due to the possible performance hit being higher than its usefulness
- Decreased mixer chunk size to 512
- This should help with latency in things like the sound plugin
- Fixed HTTP handles not being closed when going out of scope/being deleted
- Fixed deadlock/high memory usage when resizing window to 0x0
- Fixed DPI issues in hardware renderer on Mac when switching between Retina and non-Retina displays
- Fixed deadlock when maximizing window with
snapToSize enabled
- Fixed mouse buttons > 3 being returned as 1
- Mouse buttons > 3 no longer report in standards mode
- Fixed the order of mouse buttons reported with mouse_drag when multiple are down at the same time
- Fixed crash when loading plugin config
- Fixed plugin config not saving properly
- Fixed
\ not being treated as a directory separator
- Fixed
/\.{3,}/ not being treated the same as .
- Fixed
fs.getCapacity in standards mode
- Rewrote abort timeout handling to no longer use debug hooks
- Changed
size_t size in binary Lua chunks to 4 bytes for compatibility
- Added
lua_externalerror to throw errors from another thread
- Improved performance of internal string split function
v2.5.2 - January 23, 2021
- Bumped CC:T version to 1.95.2
- Add
isReadOnly to fs.attributes (Lupus590)
- Many more programs now support numpad enter (Wojbie)
- Hopefully improve edit's behaviour with AltGr on some European keyboards.
- Fix the id program crashing on non-disk items (Wojbie).
- Bumped plugin API structure version to 1
- New fields in
Computer:
forceCheckTimeoutredstoneInputsredstoneOutputsbundledRedstoneInputsbundledRedstoneOutputs
- New fields in
configuration:
http_proxy_serverhttp_proxy_portextendMarginssnapToSize
- New fields in
Terminal:
- Added a proper implementation of the
redstone API
- Added ability to mount computers with disk drives using
computer:<id>
- Added automatic CCEmuX migration on first run, deprecating the old Java applet
- This can be triggered manually with
--migrate
- Added
extendMargins config option to enable margins without standards mode
- Added
snapToSize config option to automatically snap the window size to the nearest character size, removing extra margins (on by default)
- Added proper update verification via
sha256-sums.txt
- Added HTTP proxy configuration
- Plugins now load in alphabetical order as expected
- Premature BIOS exits now error in standards mode
mouse_scroll no longer reverses scroll direction if scroll direction is reversed in the OS (#185)- Errors now appear if mounting/unmounting fails
- Increased maximum call stack height to 2000, allowing more nested coroutines/function calls
__len metamethods can now yield as expectedgetNextEvent now checks the parameter stack's size before creating a new stack- Made some minor improvements to
fixpath
- Fixed memory corruption in raw mode
- This is the REAL issue that v2.5.1.1 was supposed to fix - the fix didn't work on macOS
- Fixed
key_up not firing for some keys in raw mode
- Fixed modulo operator returning unexpected results
- Fixed
os.startTimer firing immediately when time < 0.05 in standards mode
- Fixed
os.epoch("local") returning UTC time
- Fixed infinite recursion in some calls of
fs.getFreeSpace/fs.getCapacity
- Fixed race condition when firing
term_resize
- Fixed duplicate
term_resize events being queued
- Fixed deadlock when passing invalid arguments to
term.setPixel
- Fixed mounting the same path twice
- Fixed
mounter.unmount returning failure on success
- Fixed
showFPS type being set to integer
- Online: Hardware rendering is now enabled by default on macOS only to mitigate a scaling bug
v2.5.1 - January 3, 2021
- Added
term.setFrozen and term.getFrozen to stop rendering the terminal during critical sections (#165, #177)
- Added ability for
term.getPixels to return a list of strings (#176)
- Added optional mode argument to
term.getSize to return size of graphics mode screen
- Added Ctrl+F8 (Cmd+F8 on Mac) hotkey to keep current window on top of other applications (#175)
- Added "attach list" command to list available peripheral types
- Added extra error message explaining why a peripheral couldn't be attached
- Added some new MOTDs
- Margins in standards mode now stretch to the edge of windows if resized
- Improved performance of pixels in the hardware renderer by using a single streaming texture
fs.find no longer uses table.sort for sorting, instead using C++ std::list::sort- Replaced instances of
lua_newtable with lua_createtable where possible for performance
- Show last C function for
std::exceptions (#170)
- Fixed
websocket.receive() returning a bunch of junk data at the beginning
- Fixed
file.close/http_handle.close not blocking access to other handle methods (#168)
- Fixed WebSockets not being closed on reboot (#169)
- Fixed
term.drawPixels crashing with invalid arguments (#171)
- Fixed
fs.find sometimes returning duplicate entries
- Fixed bug allowing mounts to be moved and deleted
- Fixed cursor color not being reset on reboot
- Fixed crash when unable to convert text input to CC charset (#181)
- Fixed wrong cursor coordinates being reported in the margins
- Fixed WASM building
- Removed legacy 3ms delay on timers
- Windows: Fixed CraftOS-PC Standard and Accelerated not being able to be installed together
v2.5 - December 25, 2020
- Reorganized code structure for easier maintenance of the codebase
- Code has been divided between APIs, peripherals, renderers, and general functions
- Resolved a large number (>1000) of warnings
- Reduced usage of
extern to headers only
- Made all non-global variables
static
- Rebased ROM on the CC: Tweaked ROM
- The ROM is now equivalent to the CC: Tweaked ROM with additional CraftOS-PC features from the old ROM
- With this, the CC:T Edition has been discontinued
- It wasn't really necessary anyway
- This should help improve compatibility in the ROM
- Updated CC:T version to 1.95.0
- 1.94.0
- Add getter for window visibility (devomaa)
- Use term.blit to draw boxes in paintutils (Lemmmy).
- Fix several programs using their original name instead of aliases in usage hints (Lupus590).
- 1.95.0
- Clear gets an option to reset the palette (Luca0208)
- Use term.blit on initial paint render.
- Add option to disable setting globals (Lupus590).
- Fixed length check on function name in
expect (MCJack123)
- Allow strings or numbers in textutils.*tabulate.
- Make fs.combine accept multiple arguments.
- Added improved help viewer (MCJack123)
- Added numpad enter support (TheWireLord).
- Add functions to wrap text (Lupus590)
- Added new plugin API
- API version has now been bumped to 10
- New plugin init/deinit functions:
PluginInfo * plugin_init(const PluginFunctions * functions, const path_t& path); & void plugin_deinit(PluginInfo * info);
- Capabilities in the old API are now present as function pointers in the
PluginFunctions structure passed to plugin_init
- Additional functions are now available as well:
- Access to the configuration, including custom settings for plugins
- SDL event hooks
- Virtual mounts
- Running tasks on the main thread
- See https://www.craftos-pc.cc/docs/plugins for more info on how to write plugins
- Added release note viewer
- Added support for CLI mode on Windows through PDCurses
- Added optional width and height options to
term.drawPixels
- Added
term.getPixels to read a region of pixels (LoganDark)
- Added optional solid color fill argument to
term.drawPixels (LoganDark)
- Added some missing HTTP configuration options (besides black/whitelist)
- Added a panic handler that is more like ComputerCraft's in standards mode
- Added force-shutdown functionality when a computer refuses to close
- Added error handlers when an uncaught exception occurs
- This should not happen, but if it does CraftOS-PC will no longer fully crash
- Added tracing of the last C Lua function called, hopefully helping memory corruptions be able to be fixed
- Optimized scroll and clear routines to directly copy memory
- Fixed
os.setAlarm implementation to no longer use 100% CPU
- Fixed unknown config options being deleted
- Fixed close button and hotkeys not functioning when there are too many events in the queue (#154)
- Fixed
monitor.setTextScale not functioning properly with non-6x9 fonts (#150)
- Fixed
term.getPixel returning the wrong values in mode 1 (#159)
- Fixed a race condition while resizing when using the hardware renderer
- Fixed a race condition in
os.startTimer
- Fixed a possible race condition when firing a timer
- Reduced the number of event timeout timers started when pulling events (#158)
- This fixes an issue causing the timer thread to lock up trying to process start/cancel events
- Fixed some locking issues in terminals
- Fixed missing range checks in
term.drawPixels
- Fixed
term.getPixel crashing when accessing pixel at edge of screen (LoganDark)
- Fixed some issues with resizing the debugger
- Fixed computers hanging when closing the debugger on Linux (#157)
- Fixed debugger
locals table sometimes not functioning properly
- Fixed some CraftOS-PC term functions being redirected (LoganDark)
- The craftos2-lua library can now be used in programs other than CraftOS-PC
v2.4.5 - November 28, 2020
- Bumped CC:T version to 1.93.1
- 1.94.0 support will be coming in v2.5
- CC:T Edition builds will now update to the standard ROM due to deprecation in v2.5
- v2.5 is merging the CC:T ROM into the main ROM, so CC:T Edition downloads will be removed
- Further auto-updates will download the standard version regardless of whether CC:T Edition was installed
- v2.5 will be the last version with a CC:T Edition download available - after that, updating from CC:T Edition will fail
- Added some previously missing checks from
term API functions
- Fixed
term.setGraphicsMode(false) not working properly
- Fixed a possible crash in
file.readLine on empty lines
- Fixed a memory leak in
os.startTimer
- Fixed
ccemux.openDataDir not working on Windows
- Fixed monitor_touch events not being sent when monitorsUseMouseEvents is disabled
- Fixed update message appearing when switching between standard and Accelerated versions
v2.4.4 - October 18, 2020
- Bumped CC:T version to 1.93.0
- Added computer size counting to
fs.getFreeSpace
- This is only enabled with
standardsMode on
- Without
standardsMode, old behavior is kept
- May reduce performance of
fs.getFreeSpace
- Fixed path resolution on Windows systems using non-ASCII characters in paths
- This involved rewriting all of the path-related code to accept wide strings on Windows
- Why did Windows have to keep using UTF-16??? >:(
- Fixed keyboard layouts not being respected (#138)
- Fixed string pattern matching with NUL bytes in patterns
- This was previously done in the default ROM, but now Lua itself has been modified to fix the issue
- Alternate ROMs (such as the CC:T ROM) no longer have this issue
- Fixed automatic directory creation reversing the new directory names (#137)
- Fixed some crashes related to the printer
- Fixed HTTP >= 400 response codes not being returned as failures
- Fixed
terminate event not being sent unconditionally when a filter is set
term.screenshot can now be called with a boolean value specifying whether to copy the image to the clipboard- Added error message to
periphemu.create
- Fixed name of scripts run through
wget
- Added some extra argument checks to
shell functions in cash
- Fixed
__tostring metamethod missing from cc.pretty objects
- Fixed standalone CI builds
v2.4.3 - September 12, 2020
- Updated CC:T version to 1.92.0
- Add support for the
__pairs metamethod.
string.format now uses the __tostring metamethod.- Correctly handle tabs within
textutils.unserializeJSON.
- Fixed a crash when using plugins
- Fixed crashing when a Lua panic occurs
- Fixed a bug causing lesser performance in C CraftOS functions
- JIT: No longer using LuaJIT BitOp library as it is incompatible with
bit32
- Now using PUC Lua
bit32 implementation instead
v2.4.2 - September 8, 2020
- Updated CC:T version to 1.91.0
- Add string.{pack,unpack,packsize} (MCJack123)
- Escape non-ASCII characters in JSON strings (neumond)
- Make field names in fs.attributes more consistent (abby)
- Fix textutils.formatTime correctly handle 12 AM (R93950X)
- Speakers are now emulated closer to how they work in ComputerCraft
- Each speaker has its own channel pool
- Channels are allocated as needed
- The
maxNotesPerTick option now properly caps notes every 1/20 s
- Only one sound can be played at once
- Channel numbers are now returned as a second argument
- These can be passed to
stopSounds to stop one channel
- Replaced custom bit32 library with standard Lua 5.2 implementation
- This fixes a bug where functions can't take more than two arguments
- This should also fix any other possible bugs in the bit32 library
- Fixed yielding from callbacks of certain functions:
string.gsubtable.sort- debug hooks
- The only function that can't yield from a callback is
load
- Added
--mc-save argument to load computers from a Minecraft save
- This reads from the default Minecraft save directory
- If the save isn't stored there, you can't use this argument (use
--computers-dir instead)
- Added date-specific MOTDs
- One of these appears today (September 8)!
- Added support for hardware renderer in raw client mode
- Functions can now return an unlimited* number of values
- Updated cash to use
cc.require module
- Fixed a bug causing the same MOTD to appear on each boot
- Fixed a bug causing a failure to connect to
localhost over HTTP
- Fixed a bug with the \x escape code
- Modified internals of plugin loader, fixing a memory leak in the process
- JIT: Updated LuaJIT to 2.1.0-beta3
- JIT: Moved plugin path back to
plugins-luajit as expected
- JIT: Added FFI library (available with
jit_ffi_enable set to true)
- JIT: Removed
os.setHaltOnLongRunMode, count hooks are no longer used
- JIT: Fixed a bug causing
io.read to not work
- Windows: Added error dialog when using console-only options with non-console builds
- Mac: Application is now built as a Universal binary (excluding CraftOS-PC Accelerated, as LuaJIT does not fully support ARM64 yet)
v2.4.1 - August 22, 2020
- Grayscale terminals now render using 16 grays instead of forcing colors to 4 grays (#132)
- For example, you can now set the color to
colors.red and the color will render as the grayscale version of red
- Fixed a crash when using the profiler (#129)
- Fixed incorrect cursor color in hardware terminal (#130)
- Last version check now saves right after boot
- Fixed up a whole bunch of stuff for WASM ports
- Re-introduced CraftOS-PC Accelerated for v2.4.1
v2.4 - August 15, 2020
- Added new GUI terminal that uses hardware rendering (experimental)
- It uses the GPU to accelerate drawing graphics
- Uses the same base code that was used prior to v2.1, with updates that have been added since
- Support can be enabled with the
useHardwareRenderer config option or the --hardware or -r hardware-sdl CLI flag
- A test script is available to see which is better for your system
- You can run it with
gist run 802f64508a1f51b3244f5bcc0414ca22
- Vsync can be enabled with the
useVsync option
- The driver to use can be selected with the
preferredHardwareDriver config option or the -r CLI flag
- These are all of the possible drivers:
direct3ddirect3d11directfbmetalopenglopenglesopengles2software
- Some drivers may not be available on your system
- Use
craftos -r to list all available drivers
- Updated CC:T version to 1.90.2
- Add cc.image.nft module, for working with nft files. (JakobDev)
- Add configuration to control the sizes of monitors and terminals. (
defaultWidth/defaultHeight)
- Fix string serialization error in textutils.serializeJSON.
- Brand-new app icon
- Designed especially for CraftOS-PC
- Inspired by the aesthetic of macOS Big Sur
- High-resolution, textured, modern
- Added proper double-buffering to the terminal
- This allows you to use the
term API while CraftOS-PC is rendering
- This speeds up programs that end up running lower than the render FPS
- Added introduction & update MOTD messages
- When run for the first time (or in a new directory), an introduction message is displayed
- When run after an update, a notification message is displayed, and suggests running
help whatsnew
- Added support for
monitor_touch event as expected (#119)
- This removes the
mouse_* events for monitors
- The previous behavior can be restored by setting the
monitorsUseMouseEvents config setting
- This will also add the monitor's side as a fourth parameter
- Added
standardsMode config option for strict compatibility with CC:T/CCEmuX
- Forces time readings & timer resolution to be rounded to 50 ms (1 tick)
- Adds back colored margins as shown in CC
- More compatibility tweaks may be added under this option
- Added
startFullscreen per-computer config option
- Disabled access to
romReadOnly from CraftOS
- Fixed ABI compatibility with standard Lua libraries
- This means you can now properly use Lua libraries (e.g. from LuaRocks) as plugins
- Prefix the library name with
lua_ to tell CraftOS-PC to skip loading plugin metadata
- Updated plugin API version to 4
- Added ID to per-computer config error messages
- Modems now act as wired modems and can be used to access non-local peripherals (#122)
- Non-local peripherals can now be listed with
peripheral.getNames() when a modem is attached
- Fixed a crash when opening a debugger twice (#120)
- Fixed a rare race condition while getting an event (#123)
- Fixed an issue with saving screenshots to disk
- Fixed a bug where function key hotkeys don't work when Caps or Num lock is enabled
- Fixed a bug causing the
locals table in the debugger to be missing
- Fixed
bit32.lrotate returning incorrect results
- Fixed crash when closing CraftOS-PC while a WebSocket is shutting down
- Fixed crash when using too many nested coroutines (#124)
- This was due to a bug that didn't update the C call count properly
- Calling too many nested coroutines will result in a "C stack overflow" error
- Fixed a race condition in
periphemu.detach
- Fixed incorrect prettification of non-contiguous tables (#125)
- Fixed raw terminals getting the same ID
- Added some more locks on timers to prevent crashes
- Fixed abort timeout not working before first yield
- Fixed missing UK spelling of term.nativePaletteColour
- Fixed modem hang due to locks not waiting
- Fixed missing modem distance field in
modem_message event
- Fixed utf8.char returning
%U for each character
- Fixed a random crash when calling a NULL C function (this shouldn't happen)
- Fixed styling of message dialogs on Windows
- Fixed events going to the wrong window in raw mode
- Fixed Ctrl-R/S/T shortcuts not working in non-GUI modes
- Disabled fullscreen support in WASM to avoid crashes (#100)
- Mac: macOS 10.13 or later is now required for official builds
- Users on older versions are still able to build and run CraftOS-PC themselves
- Windows: The solution now uses vcpkg for dependencies, so NuGet and separate builds are no longer required
- Windows: PDF printing is now supported in all builds
- Windows: Changed Visual C++ Runtime and other libraries to dynamic linking
- This reduces executable size, but the VCRT redistributable is now strictly required
- More DLLs will be required as well
v2.3.4 - June 29, 2020
- Updated CC:T version to 1.89.1
- This includes full testing on the CC:T test set
- CraftOS-PC now fully passes all CC:T tests
- Added an error dialog when an error occurs reading the configuration files
- The dialog includes a message describing where the JSON parsing error occurred
- If an error occurs, the defaults will be used, and no changes will be saved
- Added proper
ingame locale for os.day/time/epoch
- This is based on a 20-minute clock that starts when the computer boots
- This change is to improve compatibility with CCEmuX/CC:T
- Added CCEmuX command-line flags
--assets-dir, --computers-dir, --start-dir, --data-dir (alias of --directory), --plugin, --renderer- The
--start-dir flag only affects the initial computer (specified by --id)
- Added
--exec command line option to run inline code without a file
- Headless mode now reports a color terminal (for advanced testing)
os.time now properly parses tables returned by os.date("*t")- CraftOS-PC now reports its real version and CC version in HTTP User-Agent strings
fs.delete no longer errors when deleting a non-existent file- Fixed
io.open creating a directory instead of opening a file in write mode (#116)
- Fixed
fs.getDrive returning the wrong results
- Fixed a whole bunch of warnings
fs.getSize now returns 0 when used on a directory instead of erroring- Fixed a bug causing audio glitches when playing low notes through the speaker
- Fixed an error when writing
nil or a number to a file (#118)
- Fixed a crash when an invalid format string is passed to
os.date
- Fixed missing cc.completion and cc.shell.completion modules
- Fixed programs getting the path to the program in arg[0] instead of the command as it was run
- Raised maximum Lua call depth to 32768 (from 256)
loadstring now automatically adds an = sign to the chunk name- Fixed
debug.getlocal not returning function parameter names
- This fixes the
cc.pretty module's parameter detection function
- Fixed vulnerability in
io library
- Fixed
io.lines() with no arguments
- Fixed missing
*L option for io.read/file:read
- Fixed
io.write/file:write not returning file handle
- Fixed
string.format erroring when using nil as a string parameter
fs.copy can now copy folders as expected- Fixed
fs.find("/") returning an empty table
- Fixed
fs.attributes having the wrong name
- Fixed
fs.makeDir not erroring when it tries to create a directory where a file is already present
- Fixed a boatload of string differences to comply with CC: Tweaked
- Fixed a bunch more small inconsistencies
- Fixed
io.open not creating all parent directories if they're missing
- Added support for custom options to
io.lines
- Fixed support for '+' modes in
io.open
- Fixed errors in Lua prompt showing
[string "lua"]: instead of lua:
v2.3.3 - June 6, 2020
- Added a
record domain to drives
- Inserting a disk in the format
record:<name> will insert a music disc from minecraft:music_disc.* in the speaker sound data
disk.insertDisk("left", "record:cat") will insert the "cat" music disc from the sound files as a playable music disc
- Updated
gist (again)
- Fixed an error preventing the debugger from starting up
- Fixed
fs.readLine returning weird strings on empty lines (#113)
- Fixed an error when writing numbers to the screen
- Fixed a bug that overrode User-Agent and Content-Type HTTP headers
- Fixed audio clipping when playing pitched sound through the speaker
- Fixed a crash when playing some notes on Windows
- Fixed stack corruption in the debugger
- Fixed origin point of paintutils calls in graphics mode
- Fixed a bug that may lead to events being sent with the wrong parameters
- Computers now shut down automatically if the BIOS exits
v2.3.2 - May 23, 2020
- Feature parity with CC: Tweaked 1.88.1
- Add peripheral.getName - returns the name of a wrapped peripheral.
- The Lua REPL warns when declaring locals (lupus590, exerro)
- Add fs.isDriveRoot - checks if a path is the root of a drive.
- cc.pretty can now display a function's arguments and where it was defined. The Lua REPL will show arguments by default.
- Move the shell's require/package implementation to a separate cc.require module.
- CraftOS-PC builds with the CC: Tweaked ROM are now available
- These builds use the stock ROM, with CraftOS-PC-specific programs included
- Some ROM features (notably, autocomplete for CCPC programs) may not be available
- CC:T Edition will replace the standard CraftOS-PC ROM, so they can't be used alongside each other
- This does not apply to Mac builds, which are distributed as single apps
- Ubuntu: Install the
craftos-pc-cct-data package to use the CC:T ROM
bit32 is now the default bit API
- The BIOS will set up a wrapper to allow programs to continue using
bit
- Added
file.readLine to file handles opened in binary mode
- Added
getLabel method to computer peripherals
- Rewrote Gist program again
- This will be changing once again in the next version
- Added new plugin capabilities
register_queueTask: Returns a function of the form void* queueTask(std::function<void*(void*)> func, void* userdata, bool async)register_getComputerById: Returns a function of the form Computer * getComputerById(int id)get_selectedRenderer: Returns a number representing the currently selected renderer
- Capability callbacks now receive the name of the function it's called for
plugin_info can now safely throw errors
- If a plugin throws an error here, its API will not be loaded and the error will be reported to the user on boot
- Added SDLTerminal::resizeWholeWindow, which resizes a terminal and its window
- Fixed
file.readLine only returning up to 255 characters
- Fixed a possible race condition
v2.3.1 - May 9, 2020
- CraftOS-PC is now available as a notarized build on Mac
- This means it is no longer necessary to right-click the app to open it for the first time
- Added new crash handler that outputs a stack trace for debugging
- Mac & Linux builds will output the stack trace to the console
- Windows builds will only show a dialog showing a crash occurred; the actual stack trace will be saved in a minidump
- Mac app builds will show a crash report dialog as usual
- Added mouse_move event (disabled by default)
- The
mouse_move_throttle config option sets the amount of time between events sent
- It is disabled by default because SquidDev-CC/CC-Tweaked#434 is still in progress
- Set
mouse_move_throttle to a whole number (50 is recommended) to enable
- Added file.readAll for binary file handles
- Added maxOpenPorts config option to cap maximum number of open ports
- Added a couple of upcoming CraftOS features from CC: Tweaked upstream
- Added
term.showMouse to toggle whether the real mouse cursor should appear
- Added startComputer capability to plugins
- Added return value from
config.set specifying when the change will take effect
- Improved error message reporting across the board
- Using non-vanilla programs in vanilla mode now shows a descriptive error
- Fixed crash when creating directories
- Fixed term.drawPixels not working properly for table arguments when in mode 1
- Fixed writing text files with binary by writing in UTF-8
- Fixed crash when an HTTP request times out
- Fixed a security vulnerability involving the drive peripheral
- Fixed multiple mouse_drag events being sent for the same position (#107)
- Fixed computer not unpausing when closing debugger
- Fixed mount dialog showing incorrect text relating to read-write mount
- Fixed some bugs with the modem
- Fixed a bunch of small memory leaks & issues
- Fixed a race condition when taking a screenshot
- Fixed a bug where the size operator of a table may not represent its actual size
- Fixed a crash when using a modem or debugger after rebooting
- This was done by adding a
reinitialize method to peripherals
- This method is called after restarting a computer while having the peripheral attached
- Use this if your peripheral holds any references to the computer's Lua state or a sub-thread
- Fixed a bug where coroutines created before attaching a debugger won't be able to be paused from the debugger when resumed
- Fixed
http.get and http.request not allowing using a table as a parameter
- Fixed a bug where the computer wouldn't boot when
disable_lua51_features is enabled (#110)
v2.3 - April 26, 2020
- Massively improved performance of emulation
- Speed issues are caused by the debugger's hooks (specifically line hooks)
- This version only enables the required hooks depending on what features are required
- In general, more debugging features -> lower performance
- Depending on the machine, expect between 4-20x faster emulation
- Added official support for WASM, including an online client (CraftOS-PC Online)
- CraftOS-PC Online is available at https://www.craftos-pc.cc/online/
- Supports Chrome/Chrome-based browsers, and new versions of Firefox with the following options enabled in
about:config:
javascript.options.shared_memorydom.postMessage.sharedArrayBuffer.withCOOP_COEPbrowser.tabs.remote.useCrossOriginEmbedderPolicybrowser.tabs.remote.useCrossOriginOpenerPolicy
- Added speaker peripheral
- Includes open-source sounds for notes
- Users can manually add in custom sounds (including offical Minecraft ones)
- Updated CC:T compatibility to 1.87.1
- Added
fs.getAttributes and fs.getCapacity functions
- Added optional timeout argument to
websocket.receive
- Ported pretty printer to
lua.lua
- Added
__len metamethod for tables
- Strings now accept
\xNN, \u{NNN}, and \z escape codes
- Added
utf8 library
- Added base argument to
math.log
- Moved
table.pack and table.unpack out of the ROM and into C
- Added
textutils.unserializeJSON
- Rewrote
settings API
- Enabled MOTD by default
http.post now accepts a table as an argument as expected
- Added raw terminal renderer
- Added TRoR (Terminal Redirect over Rednet) terminal renderer
- Added the ability to place modems on multiple separate networks
- This can be done by adding a third argument when attaching the peripheral, specifying the network ID
- Modems with different network IDs won't be able to communicate with each other
- Added prompt when mounting a real directory, for security
- This is to mitigate the possibility that a malicious script deletes arbitrary files
- A prompt also appears when changing the
mount_mode option
- To disable this (not recommended), set
showMountPrompt to false in global.json
- This option cannot be changed inside CraftOS-PC
- Added filesystem merge mount support
- Added standalone executable option for Windows & Linux
- Added scrollback to debugger console
- Added pop-up when a computer is hung and ignores terminate events
- Revamped
gist program with new commands
- Added
edit, delete, and info commands
- Gist logins now use Personal Access Tokens instead of a private server with OAuth2
- Improved command-line usage
- Cursor color can now be changed as expected
- Fixed 256-color graphics mode on monitors
- Fixed crash when receiving tables over a modem connection
- Fixed a crash relating to timers
- Fixed memory leak when taking a screenshot on Mac
- Fixed missing Content-Type and Content-Length headers in HTTP requests
- Fixed mouse event location in graphics mode when using an HD font
- Fixed a crash when an error occurs while creating a peripheral
- Fixed missing error messages when an HTTP connection fails
- Accessing the string metatable is no longer blocked
- Removed path argument to
term.screenshot()
- Added a rate limit to
term.screenshot()
v2.2.6 - March 15, 2020
- Added gist.lua to the default ROM
- Reboot now resets graphics mode
- Added
--rom flag to allow changing ROM directory (#84)
- Fixed extended ASCII character input conversion (#85)
- Fixed key events not being sent when Ctrl+[TSR] are pressed (#86)
- Fixed bug in fs.getFreeSpace
- Fixed term.drawPixels cutting off bottom
- Fixed crash when rebooting with events in queue
- Fixed disk mount paths
- Fixed deadlock when a peripheral method causes an error
- Fixed getPixel boundaries being too small
- Fixed paste events sending \r characters on Windows (#95)
v2.2.5 - February 24, 2020
- Added
--directory argument to specify custom data directory
- Added
--id argument to specify launch computer, overriding initialComputer config option
- Rewrote
--script argument to no longer shadow real startup.lua (#83)
- Added header option to
http.websocket to match CC: Tweaked behavior (#82)
- Fixed crash when writing below screen
- Fixed crash when closing WebSocket
- Fixed terminal background not being affected by palette changes
v2.2.4 - February 14, 2020
- Computer label now displays in title bar (including the terminal emulator's title in CLI mode)
- Added
cliControlKeyMode config option (#78, #79)
- Added
--args argument to command line to pass arguments to --script (#78)
- Added UTF-8 support over HTTP
- Unicode characters are now replaced with '?' (rather than being dropped)
file.read() now accepts a length in text mode- Insecure WebSockets ('ws://') no longer attempt to use secure WebSockets
- Fixed WebSocket connection failure when no path is provided
- Fixed crash when closing computer with open WebSockets
- Fixed crash in
fs.list() when a non-string argument is passed (#77)
- Fixed crash when closing computer with running timers
- Fixed crash when reading a string with an invalid UTF-8 codepoint
- Fixed crash when too many events are queued
- This also fixes a crash when pasting long text in CLI mode
- Fixed glitch/crash when resizing CLI window (#78, #80)
- Fixed issue with clicking the mouse in CLI mode (#78)
- Fixed 100% CPU usage when using CLI mode
- Fixed
term.setCursorPos() clamping the cursor to [0, width)
- Fixed
term.clear() filling with black/white instead of selected BG/FG combo
- Fixed
file.readAll() on Windows when the file has no end newline
- Fixed issue when reading single character at a time from text files
- Fixed POST data stopping at NUL characters
- Made some HTTP error messages more descriptive
- Fixed HTTP implementation in WASM port
- Added
--enable-wasm flag to './configure' to allow building for WASM
- Added window switcher for WASM builds
- Fixed debugger locals once again
table.concat() now works with non-contiguous tables- Fixed crash when a computer's config file was corrupt or empty
v2.2.3 - January 13, 2020
- Added
useHDFont virtual config option
- Added support for reading UTF-8 files
- Pressing enter in the debugger's Call Stack tab now keeps file open
- Stepping multiple lines in the debugger now works as expected
- Fixed accessing locals in the debugger
- Updated cash to latest version
- NUL bytes in string patterns no longer mark the end of the pattern
io.input()/io.output() no longer fail when called with io.stdin/io.stdout, io.stderr (#75)- Fixed bug that caused
file.read(x) on binary files to always return one byte
- Fixed segmentation fault when Lua crashes
- Fixed some bugs relating to vanilla mode (#76)
- Added preliminary Emscripten/WASM support (#73)
v2.2.2 - January 2, 2020
- Feature parity with CC: Tweaked 1.86.0
- Added MOTD (disabled by default)
- Added Ctrl+S and Ctrl+R hotkeys (#70)
- Added configurable recording length and framerate
- Fixed crash when resizing window to a smaller size (#71)
- fs.makeDir no longer errors when creating a directory that already exists
- io.write no longer adds a newline to the end of the string (#68)
- os.setComputerLabel no longer errors when no label is provided (#69)
- Fixed string length bug in debugger.print
v2.2.1 - December 21, 2019
- Added cash 0.3 as an optional shell (set bios.use_cash in the settings)
- Added help files for CraftOS-PC features
- Improved speed of terminal writing
- Reduced processing time used by terminal hook
- Verified compatibility with CC: Tweaked using official tests
- Fixed a security flaw that allowed modification of read-only mounts
- Resolved an issue that prevented monitors from drawing
- Fixed a bug where secure WebSockets failed to connect with "WebSocket Exception"
- Fixed a possible deadlock when stepping the debugger
- Removed turtle, pocket, command programs; removed bmpview
- Added --small flag to screenfetch
v2.2 - December 15, 2019
- Added F12 hotkey to copy screenshot to clipboard (Windows & Mac only)
- Calling
term.screenshot("clipboard") will have the same effect
- Fixed default IO handles (stdin/out/err)
- Changed
_HOST variable to more accurately represent ComputerCraft
- Fixed
delete.lua
wget.lua no longer requires a file name (CC:T behavior)- Added
register_termQueueProvider capability, which recieves the address of the void termQueueProvider(Computer *comp, const char *(*callback)(lua_State*, void*), void* data) function
v2.2p1 - December 1, 2019
- Added new debugger peripheral
- Opens in separate window
- Four tabs available
- Debugger: GDB-style debugging terminal
- Call Stack: Visual backtrace viewer, shows files
- Profiler: Measures function call count & time
- Console: Allows printing debug messages outside of the main terminal
- Computer can be paused with
debugger.break(), debug.debug(), or Ctrl-T in debugger
- See the documentation for more information
- Added breakpoints
- Can be set with
debugger.setBreakpoint(file, line) or debug.setbreakpoint(file, line)
- Does not require debugger to be attached
- When no debugger is available,
lua.lua is executed
- Fixed #1 ("attempt to yield across metamethod/C-call boundary" when using pcall)
- Tracebacks/errors now function normally
- This was accomplished with a patch that allows yielding across pcall's in Lua 5.1.0
- Thanks to EveryOS for sharing the patch and for sending me a fixed version for 5.1.5
- Moved per-user save directory to more platform-appropriate locations
- Windows:
%appdata\CraftOS-PC
- Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/CraftOS-PC
- Linux:
$XDG_DATA_HOME/craftos-pc (usually ~/.local/share/craftos-pc)
- Data will be migrated when running CraftOS-PC v2.2 for the first time
- Added brand-new plugin API
- Plugins should now provide a
plugin_info function
- This function pushes a table with the API version and requested capabilities onto the Lua stack
- Capabilities are requested by adding a callback function for a function in CraftOS-PC
- These callbacks will recieve the requested function as Lua userdata as the first value on the stack
- Available capabilities in v2.2:
register_getLibrary: Recieves the address of the library_t * getLibrary(std::string name) functionregister_registerPeripheral: Recieves the address of the void registerPeripheral(std::string name, peripheral_init initializer) functionregister_addMount: Recieves the address of the bool addMount(Computer * comp, const char * real_path, const char * comp_path, bool read_only) function
- Added new config options
vanilla: Set to true to disable all CraftOS-PC featuresinitialComputer: The first computer that starts when opening CraftOS-PC
- Added
periphemu.names() which returns a list of all available peripherals (unsorted)
- Added
term.drawPixels(x, y, lines) which draws a table of lines at a position
- Each line can either be a string or a table of individual pixels
- Fixed
debug.sethook, debug.gethook
debug.debug() now functions the same as hitting a breakpoint- Added hooks for errors, coroutine resumptions and yields
- Running
catch error in the debugger will pause execution when an error occurs
- Errors are logged to stdout if the
logErrors config option is enabled
- Fixed a bug when creating directories
- Fixed timers with <= 0 length
- Fixed printing extended characters in the console
- Rewrote implementation of the modem peripheral
- Tables and strings are now properly copied
- Fixed
rednet API
- Replaced Lua plugin loader with custom loader
- Made SDL_mixer an optional dependency
- Fixed many more bugs
v2.1.3 - November 3, 2019
- Added two new configuration variables
mount_mode allows restricting mounting to read-only or disabled
none (0) disables mounting altogetherro strict or ro_strict (1) forces mounts to be read-onlyro (2) sets mounts to read-only by default (default option)rw (3) sets mounts to read-write by default (v2.1.2 behavior)
configReadOnly disables config.set()
- Bugfixes
- #57: config.get("readFail") returns not real nil
- #58: Crash on macOS on rebooting
- #60:
edit causes segfault when a line goes off the screen if there are more than ~100 lines in a file
- Fixed crash when non-ASCII characters are present in computer label
- Computer labels are now stored in Base64 by default; if you want to change the label in the JSON file, simply set
computerLabel to the ASCII label and remove the base64 key.
v2.1.2 - October 23, 2019
- Fixed some crashes on reboot/quit
- Fixed list subcommand of config
- Changed return value of
config.getType() to type-string
- Added PNG screenshot support for Windows builds
- Fixed "not supported" icon on macOS versions below Catalina
- Added launcher icon on Linux
v2.1.1 - October 16, 2019
- Fixed http handle methods when using binary mode
wget now works as expected
- Fixed
os.clock() implementation
- Fixed a bug regarding embedded
\0 characters
term.write() can now print strings with NUL characters- String patterns do not work with NUL characters in the query string
- Removed auto-updater on platforms other than Windows & Mac
- These systems can either update through a package manager or rebuild from the release source
- Ubuntu PPA: Fixed CLI support
- Mac: Moved license to
LICENSE.txt in disk image
- Requiring the license to be agreed to breaks the auto-updater
v2.1 - October 13, 2019
- Added 256 color mode
- This can be activated with
term.setGraphicsMode(2)
- Use numbers 0-255 to choose color instead of
colo(u)rs API
- Colors 0-15 are set to default colors, use
term.setPaletteColor([0-255], r, g, b) to set color palette
- Added auto-updater, allowing one-click installation of new updates (Windows/Mac only)
- Added custom fonts
- Set
customFontPath to the (real) path to the font (BMP format only)
- Set
customFontScale to the font scale
- 1 = HD font (12x18), 2 = normal font (6x9), 3 = 2/3 size font (4x6)
- Fixed graphics issues on Linux with NVIDIA graphics
- Renderer has been rewritten to fix this
- Should improve performance when using a reasonable number of windows
- May degrade performance when using >1000 windows at once on a slow system
- Added CLI mode
- This can be activated with the
--cli option
- Not available on Windows (use WSL if necessary)
- Added more HTTP methods
- Added fullscreen hotkey (F11)
- Added
romReadOnly config option
- Added Ubuntu 19.10 & Arch packages
- Added autoconf script to compile
- Many bugfixes
- Fixed compositor disabling on KDE
- Fixed
monitor.setTextScale
- Fixed
term.screenshot
- Fixed
fs.getDrive
- Fixed window resizing on Linux
- Fixed many compilation warnings
- Cleaned up code to be more C++-like
v2.0.1 - September 13, 2019
- Added automatic update checking
- Pops up a window alerting the user about the new version
- Can be disabled with the
checkUpdates config option
- Will be expanded into an auto-updater in v2.1
- Added
term.setPaletteColor(color, hex) syntax
- Fixed plug-in loading on Mac
- Fixed computer label always getting reset to
true
- Fixed
ignoreHotkeys not being saved
v2.0 - September 8, 2019
- Fixed high CPU usage, now uses ~5% CPU at idle
- Moved plugin directory on Mac to
CraftOS-PC.app/Contents/PlugIns
- Fixed HTTP requests
v2.0p1 - August 25, 2019
- Added WebSocket support
http.websocket(url) will open a client WebSocket connecting to urlhttp.websocket() will open a server WebSocket that can be connected to
- Added plugin/module system
- Add plugins in the
<installation directory>/plugins folder
- See
DOCUMENTATION.md for more details
- Added
file.seek method
- Added
io library with proper filename redirects
- Added
drive peripheral
- Use disk.insertDisk(string path) to mount a folder or audio file
- Use disk.insertDisk(number id) to mount a floppy disk from
~/.craftos/computer/disk/<id>
- Added a whole bunch of features from CC: Tweaked, making CraftOS-PC mostly compatible with CC:T
- Added new ROM features
- Moved font into executable (no longer requires
craftos.bmp)
- Redid HTTP client/server code, removing some dependencies (expect bugs)
v2.0b3 - August 20, 2019
- Rewrote codebase to pure C++
- Added multi-computer support
- Computers can be added with
periphemu.create(<id>, "computer")
- Can be added from the shell with
attach <id> computer
- Both forms attach the computer peripheral to the current computer
- Added modem peripheral
- Still WIP, expect some bugs
- Added GIF recording support
- Press F3 to toggle recording
- Shows red circle in corner while recording
- Limited to 15 seconds for performance reasons
- Saves to
~/.craftos/screenshots/<time>.gif
- Added coroutine override to partially solve some problems in #1
- Moved Windows install directory to 64-bit Program Files
.craftos directory is now created on boot- Reimplemented fs.find, fixing #4 (fs.find returns {} on Windows)
- Added some CC: Tweaked features
- #16 (Add monitor.getTextScale())
- #24 (Add automatic HTTPS requests)
- #25 (Add term.nativePaletteColor())
- #29 (Make os.time() and os.date() case-insensitive)
- Moved all dynamic libraries into Mac app (fixes dyld errors)
- Added switch to auto-run script (--script )
- Added switch to run headless from the console (--headless) (does not work on Windows build, recompile for the console subsystem to use)
v2.0b2 - August 13, 2019
mounter API- HTTP server listeners
- Terminal & monitor resizing
- Window icons
- Holding Ctrl-T sends
terminate event
- Added built-in screenshots
- Take a screenshot with F2 or call
term.screenshot(path)
path is a global path outside of CraftOS and is optional
- Saved to
~/.craftos/screenshots by default
- Added some configuration variables
debug_enable (false): Set to true and reboot to enable debug API (or disable removal)ignoreHotkeys (false): Set to true to disable hotkeys (F2)isColor (true): Toggles whether the computer is an Advanced Computer or Standard Computer
- Distributed builds now use the CraftOS-PC ROM instead of the ComputerCraft ROM
- Moved
~/.craftos/config.json to ~/.craftos/config/global.json
- Big changes under the hood
- Switched to software rendering from hardware rendering (see #5)
- Rearranged a bunch of the code in preparation for multiple computers
- Changed event queuing system to put parameter threads under a separate state rather than the main state
- This should a) reduce memory leakage or b) improve event stability
v2.0b1 - August 7, 2019
- Near full compatibility with ComputerCraft 1.8
config API - adjust ComputerCraft configurationperiphemu API - attach peripherals to the computer
- Terminal graphics mode
- debug API access
