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‎SDK Changes

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Metamod:Source 1.8.0 is currently in beta. These release notes are preliminary.

=New Engine Support=

Support has been added for using Metamod:Source on "Left 4 Dead 2". This game uses a variation of the Source engine present in Left 4 Dead 1.

==Linking Changes==
As of L4D2, Valve has ceased using the "*_i486.so" naming scheme for Linux binaries in favor of the slightly less meaningless "*_linux.so". If you have plugins which link against tier0 or vstdlib, keep in mind that they are now tier0_linux.so and vstdlib_linux.so. Similarly, Metamod:Source now ships with both "server_i486.so" and "server_linux.so" and these binaries are identical.

Metamod:Source will continue to automatically append an "_i486.so" when loading plugins, in order to maintain consistency across game engines for plugin distributors.

==SDK Changes==
AlliedModders has reverse engineered an L4D2 SDK capable of building plugins. This attempt is preliminary and more fixes may come as we explore the engine. You can grab a copy from [http://hg.alliedmods.net/ our Mercurial forest] (see the bottom of the page). If you discover any changes yourself, we greatly appreciate [https://bugs.alliedmods.net/ bug reports] or any attempts at notifying us.

Of note, <tt>IVEngineServer::Time()</tt> is now <tt>IVEngineServer::OBSOLETE_TIME()</tt> and has been deprecated for tier0's <tt>Plat_FloatTime()</tt> call. The <tt>convar.h</tt> and SendProp headers changed as well.

=Legacy API Changes=
A large number of SourceHook features have been backported from the "New API" version of SourceHook. These are:
*[[SourceHook Development#Global_Hooks|Global hooks]], also called "VP" and "DVP" hooks.
*[[SourceHook Development#Extended_Removal_Syntax|Extended removal and addition syntax]].
*[[SourceHook Development#Deprecated_Syntax|New SH_CALL]] - CallClasses are now deprecated, although unlike the "New API" SourceHook, the old syntax is still available.
*SH_GET_ORIG_VFNPTR macro.

We have backported three extra API calls from the New API:
*<tt>IMetamodListener::OnUnlinkConCommandBase()</tt> - Notification of plugin cvar removal.
*<tt>ISmmAPI::GetVSPInfo()</tt> - Extended VSP information.
*<tt>ISmmAPI::GetSourceEngineBuild()</tt> - Source Engine version information.

Because of these changes, <tt>PLAPI_VERSION</tt> has been incremented to 11. Plugins compiled against Metamod:Source 1.8's legacy API will not load on earlier versions.

=New API Changes=
Metamod:Source now treats TF and DoD:S as a separate "Orange Box Valve" engine, since compatibility diverged with a recent update. <tt>GetSourceEngineBuild</tt> now returns a new <tt>SOURCE_ENGINE_ORANGEBOXVALVE</tt> value for this game. Similarly, users of the "extended loading" API will see this value in <tt>MetamodVersionInfo</tt>. To preserve compatibility, Metamod:Source will default back to <tt>SOURCE_ENGINE_ORANGEBOX</tt> when loading plugins which do not support <tt>SOURCE_ENGINE_ORANGEBOXVALVE</tt> (however, <tt>GetSourceEngineBuild</tt> will return the correct result).

Also for users of the extended loading API, the <tt>MetamodVersionInfo</tt> struct now has a <tt>game_dir</tt> field which contains the game folder. Since it is only valid to read this field on newer versions, there is a helper function to retrieve the value or return <tt>NULL</tt>.

<tt>METAMOD_PLAPI_VERSION</tt> has been incremented to 15. Plugins compiled against Metamod:Source 1.8 will not load against earlier versions. However, extended loaders can take advantage of the new API while loading older plugins.

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 AlliedModders has reverse engineered an L4D2 SDK capable of building plugins. This attempt is preliminary and more fixes may come as we explore the engine. You can grab a copy from [http://hg.alliedmods.net/ our Mercurial forest] (see the bottom of the page). If you discover any changes yourself, we greatly appreciate [https://bugs.alliedmods.net/ bug reports] or any attempts at notifying us.
-Of note, <tt>IVEngineServer::Time()</tt> is now <tt>IVEngineServer::OBSOLETE_TIME()</tt> and has been deprecated for tier0's <tt>Plat_FloatTime()</tt> call. The <tt>convar.h</tt> and SendProp headers changed as well.
+Of note, <tt>IVEngineServer::Time()</tt> is now <tt>IVEngineServer::OBSOLETE_Time()</tt> and has been deprecated for tier0's <tt>Plat_FloatTime()</tt> call. The <tt>convar.h</tt> and SendProp headers changed as well.
 =Legacy API Changes=

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