Changelog
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
CraftOS-PC