Version 347.897 is the fourth and hopefully final beta of BYOND 3.5. This version fixes several bugs and adds many important new features. Everyone who is using BYOND 3.5 now should upgrade. Those who haven't tried it yet are encouraged to do so now, as we hope to make this version the new stable release of BYOND if no major bugs are found.
Version 347.897 supersedes all previous versions of Beta 4; please upgrade if you have installed one of those versions.
A partial list of major changes includes:
- Major sound upgrade: BYOND now uses FModEx and has the following features:
- Songs are now treated the same as regular sounds in most respects.
- sound.environment, somewhat supported but broken in several previous versions, now works properly. It also now supports a 23-element list to set custom reverb environments.
- sound.echo added. It is an optional 18-element list allowing individual sounds to have their own slightly modified reverb settings for greater realism.
- sound.status flags SOUND_RESERVED and SOUND_SURROUND have been phased out from the previous beta versions. In their place are SOUND_STREAM and SOUND_UPDATE.
- Some packet security added to foil malicious packet senders.
- Worlds now report their information to the hub themselves. After a hub upgrade, worlds hosted in version 347 with no players logged in should appear on the hub.
See the notes for a full list of changes. Please post thorough bug reports in the Bug Reports forum, and general discussion on the Member News blog.