SourceMod 1.4.0 Release Notes

This page is a work-in-progress as SourceMod 1.4.0 is not yet released.

SourceMod 1.4. is a major update with many new features and bug fixes.

Overview for Admins

• New Game Support - SourceMod now runs on Bloody Good Time and E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy and and added support for Nuclear Dawn.
• Added support for the third-party mods International Online Soccer: Source and Half-Life 2 Capture the Flag.
• Support for Mac OS X. (both listen servers and srcds_osx).
• Updated gamedata for many games and mods.
• Reserved slot hiding recently broken from updates in Source 2009 games with SourceTV and/or replay active has been fixed.
• Lots of stability fixes.

Overview for Developers

• REMOVEYou can now interact with non-networked entities.

Compatibility Issues

forceEdict parameter in CreateEntityByName is now ignored on ep2 and later:

For more information, see SourceMod_1.4.0_API_Changes#Functions Known plugins affected:

• <none>

Translations

SourceMod 1.4 comes with the following languages translated, thanks to community translators:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Chinese Simplified
• Chinese Traditional
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Russian
• Slovak
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Changelog

User Changes

• Added support for Max OS X (bug 4392).
• Added support for Bloody Good Time (bug 4780).
• Added support for E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy (bug 5035).
• Added gamedata for Nuclear Dawn.
• Added gamedata for International Online Soccer: Source (bug 5019).
• Added gamedata for Half-Life 2 Capture the Flag (bug 5114).
• Updated mapchooser and other base plugins with Nuclear Dawn specific fixes (bug 5117).
• Fixed ServerLang value not being read properly on startup (bug 4675).
• Added support for aliases in languages.cfg (bug 4858).
• Added output display to sm_rcon command (bug 5018).
• Flood protection bypass access can now be overridden with command name sm_flood_access (bug 4584).
• Added a reset argument to sm cvars command to revset cvar values to default (bug 5043).
• Fixed incorrect language identifiers for Chinese (both Trad. and Simplified) and Brazilian Portuguese not matching cl_language values (bug 5067).
• Added translation support for Bulgarian (bg).
• Fixed incorrect number of slots being hidden for reserve with sm_hideslots on Source 2009 with SourceTV or replay (bug 5094).
• sm_hideslots changes now take effect immediately instead of waiting until a client joins or leaves (bug 5094).
• Fixed sv_visiblemaxplayers getting stuck at previous max clients in some cases with reserves and SourceTV or replay (bug 5094).
• Removed error logging if an optional extension is not found (bug 5112).
• Fixed bots with semicolon in name being unkickable (bug 5120).
• Changed strings in ice-related funcommands to be translatable (bug 4540).
• Changed Bintools extension to use a single build for every engine (bug 4548).

Developer Changes

• Provided native interface for basecomm (bug 2594).
• Client language detection is too late. (bug 3714) (Tony A. "GoD-Tony").
• Added ServerCommandEx native to execute server command and retrieve output (bug 3873).
• Added ability to update clientprefs cookies values on clients not currently connected (bug 3882) (databomb).
• Added library "matchmaking_ds" support to gamedata lookups (bug 4158).
• Rooted menu handles to callbacks (bug 4353).
• Fixed corner cases with ExplodeString (bug 4629). (Michael "LumiStance").
• Fixed return omission with else-after-return (bug 4852).
• Added OnConditionAdded and OnConditionRemoved forwards to TF2 extension (bug 4851).
• Added new natives and forward to the cstrike extension (bug 4732, bug 4985) (Dr!fter).
• Added WaitingForPlayers forwards to the TF2 extension (bug 4704) (CrimsonGT).
• Updated and added more TF2 condition, weapon, and damagecustom defines (multiple bug#s).
• Fixed TF2_RemoveCondition not always removing conditions (bug 4981).
• Fixed MaxClients not being updated correctly in some places with SourceTV or replay active (bug 4986).
• Fixed some vars not being marked for init on first compile pass (bug 4643).
• Increased symbol name limit to 63 characters (bug 4564) (javalia).
• Fixed crash when dynamic arrays run out of memory (bug 4632).
• Fixed a crash that could happen from looking up out-of-bounds edict or entity indexes (bug 5080).
• Fixed client serials not getting cleared on disconnect (bug 5121).
• Added error on declaring arrays that the compiler is too buggy to handle (bug 4977).
• Removed reliance on gamedata for multiple SDKTools functions in ep2 and later (bug 4899).
• Added InvalidateClient and ReconnectClient natives to SDKTools (bug 4931) (Brian "Afronanny" Simon).
• Added ability to lookup and set values on the gamerules class (bug 4983.
• BaseComm now uses AddCommandListener for chat hooks (bug 4991).
• Fixed shutdown bug in SDKTools (bug 5063).
• Fixed MM-enabled extensions continuing to load after failing MM attach (bug 5042).
• Added GetDistGainFromSoundLevel native to SDKTools (bug 5066) (javalia).
• Added CheckAccess native to check an AdminId's command access (bug 5083).
• Fixed GetEntProp not sign-extending unsigned values less than 32 bits (bug 5105).
• Fixed crashing when calling CreateEntityByName or CreateFakeClient when no map is running (now errors) (bug 5119).
• Fixed erring in kick function (e. bad translation) causing client to become unkickable until disconnect (bug 5120).
• Fixed KickClientEx not immediately kicking client if client was in kick queue (bug 5120).
• Added IsClientSourceTV and IsClientReplay natives (bug 5124).
• Added support for getting and setting individual array elements with Get/Set EntProp functions (bug 4160).
• Added support for threaded query handles to SQL_GetInsertId and SQL_GetAffectedRows (bug 4699) (Nephyrin).
• Added a GetGameRules function to ISDKTools for extensions to easily get the GameRules class pointer (bug 4707).
• Added GetMessageName to IUserMessages (bug 4573) (Zach "theY4Kman" Kanzler)
• Added HintTextMsg to IGameHelpers (bug 4950).
• Added ProcessTargetString simple filter API (bug 4404).
• Moved much functionality from core bins to logic bin (bug 4406, bug 4402).
• Fixed bogus asserts in sp compiler (bug 4486, bug 4487).
• Greatly improved sp compiler performance (~5x overall speedup) (bug 3820, bug 4493, bug 4495).
• Changed entity output detours to use CDetour (bug 4416).
• Enhanced nominations API (bug 4677) (CrimsonGT).
• Added Linux support for profiling natives (bug 4927).
• Added a new ValveCallType that allows for arbitrary |this| parameters, as well as associated features in gamedata and for reading/writing memory (bug 3520) (Downtown1).