Changes in 1.5.6

MTA:SA Releases	Changelog Pages
1.0	1.0.0 • 1.0.1 • 1.0.2 • 1.0.3 • 1.0.4
1.1	1.1.0 • 1.1.1
1.2	1.2.0
1.3	1.3.0 • 1.3.1 • 1.3.2 • 1.3.3 • 1.3.4 • 1.3.5
1.4	1.4.0 • 1.4.1
1.5	1.5.0 • 1.5.1 • 1.5.2 • 1.5.3 • 1.5.4 • 1.5.5 • 1.5.6 • 1.5.7 • 1.5.8 • 1.5.9
1.6	1.6.0 • 1.6.1

• Changelog on Mantis: https://bugs.mtasa.com/changelog_page.php
• Full changelog: https://github.com/multitheftauto/mtasa-blue/commits/master?page=1
• GitHub milestone: https://github.com/multitheftauto/mtasa-blue/milestone/3
• GitHub contributors: https://github.com/multitheftauto/mtasa-blue/graphs/contributors?from=2017-10-07&type=c
• GitHub comparison (large): https://github.com/multitheftauto/mtasa-blue/compare/1.5.5...master

CONCEPT CHANGELOG (release delayed)

Main Additions / Changes

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• Custom IFP animation support (engineReplaceAnimation, engineLoadIFP)
• New drawing functions dxDrawCircle

Scripting

Client

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New Functions

• Add isVehicleWheelOnGround (Mantis 0006132)
• Add setVehicleHandling for local vehicles (Mantis 0009733)
• Add isPedReloadingWeapon (Mantis 0009664)
• Add extinguishFire
• Add custom IFP animations using new engineLoadIFP, engineReplaceAnimation and engineRestoreAnimation functions (Mantis 0004571)
• Add guiMemoIsReadOnly and guiEditIsReadOnly (Mantis 0006962)
• Add guiMemoGetVerticalScrollPosition and guiMemoSetVerticalScrollPosition (Mantis 0008957)
• Add getPedsLODDistance, setPedsLODDistance and resetPedsLODDistance
• Add guiEditGetMaxLength and guiEditIsMasked
• Add guiWindowIsMovable and guiWindowIsSizable
• Add dxDrawCircle

New Arguments & Parameters

• Add immediate argument to setWorldSoundEnabled to stop sound immediately (Mantis 0009490)
• Add postGUI argument to dxDrawMaterialLine3D
• Add noiseEnabled argument to setCameraGoggleEffect

Bugfixes & Changes

• Add dxGetStatus().SettingFullScreenStyle
• Add health attribute to Element/Ped (Mantis 0009817)
• Return vectors for vehicle component functions (Mantis 0009507)
• Fix some issues with setCameraMatrix (recent change in behaviour)
• Fix unbindKey malfunctioning as soon you bind the same command (function) to another key again (Mantis 0009178)
• Fix OOP ped:getBonePosition returning multiple numbers instead of Vector3 (Mantis 0009487)
• Fix OOP vehicle:getMaxPassengers method
• Fix incorrect name "Night_Strick" to "Night_Stick" when calling engineGetModelIDFromName or returning from engineGetModelNameFromID (backward compatible)
• Fix bindKey and unbindKey behaving incorrectly with commands under certain circumstances (Mantis 0009178)
• Add underworldwarp special world property (Mantis 0009807)
• Add OOP Team.getPlayers() and Team.players (getPlayersInTeam) to client-side (Mantis 0009760)
• Add getModelFromName, getNameFromModel, getOriginalHandling, getUpgradeSlotName client-side Vehicle class methods (Mantis 0009849)
• Add missing compatible vehicle upgrades to getVehicleCompatibleUpgrades (and some other compatibility related checks) (Mantis 0009433)
• Add getVehicleModelExhaustFumesPosition and setVehicleModelExhaustFumesPosition OOP variants (Mantis 0009898)
• Fix an integer overflow bug where cursor position got returned as high as 65535 for cursor events. Will now return a minus position instead.
• Fix CVar parameter not working on getChatboxLayout (Mantis 0009611)

Server

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New Functions

• Add setPedWearingJetpack
• Add account functions: getAccountIP, getAccountsByIP, getAccountsByData, setAccountName, getAccountID and getAccountByID (Mantis 0009562)
• Add tocolor server-side as well (GitHub #291 by myonlake)
• Add getVehicleRespawnPosition and getVehicleRespawnRotation (GitHub #334 by l0nger)
• Add setVehicleRespawnRotation (GitHub #338 by l0nger)

New Events

• Add onPickupLeave & onPlayerPickupLeave events (Mantis 0009770)

Deprecations

• Deprecate givePedJetPack and removePedJetPack by introducing setPedWearingJetpack

New Arguments & Parameters

• Add targetResource argument to refreshResources function to target a specific resource
• Add deleted parameter to onResourceStop

Bugfixes & Changes

• Fix vehicle.handling and add setter to it
• Remove incorrect matchingDimension argument from onPickupHit and onPlayerPickupHit events
• Increase reliability of weather blending functions and consistency of setWeatherBlended and getWeather (Mantis 0005204)
• callRemote will now send a Content-Type: application/json header
• Fix "bShallow" argument not working on createWater server-side (Mantis 0009608)
• Fix setPlayerName and redirectPlayer to only accept a player element
• Fix getPlayerName, getPlayerIP and getPlayerAccount to only accept a player or console element
• Extend ACL to allow ModifyOtherObjects only on a single resource (learn more here) (6614d by botder)
• Tweak some vehicle respawn position/rotation function OOP variants (GitHub #338 by l0nger)

Shared (Client & Server side)

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New Functions

• Add clearChatBox
• Add encodeString and decodeString
• Add getColShapeType
• Add getElementAngularVelocity and setElementAngularVelocity (GitHub #73 by lex128)
• Add getElementsWithinRange
• Add isInsideColShape
• Add isPedWearingJetpack
• Add setPedAnimationSpeed
• Add support for Lua os.* functions (GitHub #316 by Dezash)
  • Following os functions have been enabled:
    • os.clock
    • os.date
    • os.difftime
    • os.setlocale
    • os.time
  • Following os functions have been disabled for security reasons:
    • os.execute
    • os.exit
    • os.getenv
    • os.remove
    • os.rename
    • os.tmpname

Deprecations

• Deprecate doesPedHaveJetPack by introducing isPedWearingJetpack
• Deprecate getVehicleTurnVelocity and setVehicleTurnVelocity by introducing getElementAngularVelocity and setElementAngularVelocity respectively

New Arguments & Parameters

• Add pre/postEventFunction arguments to addDebugHook (useful for code performance debugging)
• Add elementsWithin OOP variable to getElementsWithinColShape

Bugfixes & Changes

• Fix isInsideRadarArea not working with negative dimensions
• Fix argument naming in RadarArea *Position methods
• Fix client-side setElementData not updating the server when enabling synchronization on an existing key with the same value
• Fix createColPolygon not handling Vector2 arguments properly
• Fix blip ordering and visibleDistance arguments having integer overflow issues (Mantis 0006455)
• Clamp blip size properly between 0 and 25
• xmlLoadFile will now output errors found in the XML file if any (Mantis 0009616)
• Add support for $2a$ prefix to passwordVerify

Client

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Client: Additions

• Updated & added translations for various languages
• Enable switching camera view mode for trains (GitHub #125 by ZReC)
• Added full axis option to joystick bindings
• Added master volume setting to audio settings (Mantis 0009896)
• Added Bulgarian, Indonesian and Chinese (Traditional) localization
• Added reloadnews command for developers

Client: Bugfixes & Changes

• Fixed problems when using a controller with more than 7 axis
• Restore default exhaust fumes position when disconnecting
• Fix vehicle radio sometimes won't play
• Fixed incorrect path in guiCreateStaticImage error message
• Fixed dxGetTextWidth returns wrong width of text (Mantis 0009745)
• Fixed some minor memory leaks
• Improved client fetchRemote reliability
• Fixed dxGetStatus().SettingWindowed sometimes being incorrect
• Averted one type of igdumd32.dll crash
• Added help dialog for crash at offset 003C51A8 (Corrupt anim hierarchy)
• Fixed client crash caused by invalid blip icon
• Fix animation getting stuck after carjack
• Updated BASS and sound-related dependencies
• Restore console input focus after guiMoveToBack
• Fixed client crash caused by destroying markers during hit/leave events
• Fixed shaders sometimes losing default values
• Fixed console displays an error message when pressing the key of a disabled MTA control (Mantis 0009166)
• Fixed error when loading certain jpeg files with unicode Windows username
• Fixed engineLoadDFF/TXD raw buffer not being deallocated after import
• Fixed 100% CPU usage while using the debugscript command and having the chat text black/white outline setting enabled
• Fixed crash caused by calling client-side setPlayerNametagShowing with a ped
• Fixed crash caused by passing empty string to requestBrowserDomains crashes client (Mantis 0009844)
• Fixed several additional crashes
• Fixed issues with wearing a jetpack, choking or using animations at the same time (Mantis 0009522)
• Freezing a ped wearing jetpack will no longer remove the jetpack automatically
• Port is now an optional parameter for the 'connect' command, defaults to 22003 (Mantis 0007047)
• Typing the 'connect' command will no longer disconnect until all parameters have been checked (Mantis 0007047)
• Update CEF to 3.3440.1805.gbe070f9 (Chromium 68.0.3440.84)
• Removed the built-in whowas command (Mantis 0006722)
• Update libpng to 1.6.35
• Added native language names

Server

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Server: Additions

• Added Server SDK project
• Added reloadacl command (Mantis 0009626)
• Added server console arrow up/down command history (Mantis 0009814) (GitHub #274 by myonlake)

Server: Bugfixes & Changes

• Fix for some cases of internal.db access errors
• Fix server crashing when using the 'upgrade' command (Mantis 0009530)
• Fix crash in account manager
• Fix callRemote call without queueName failing
• Excluded non-joined players from calls to getAlivePlayers and getDeadPlayers
• Fix self-compiled server crash on callRemote (Mantis 0009787)
• Fix server crash on server-window resize
• Server query fix for networks which block 1 byte UDP packets
• Remove fully deprecated functions from acl.xml and add new missing ones (Mantis 0005701)
• Update SQLite to 3.24.0 (Mantis 0009916)
• spawnPlayer wouldn't always set the rotation if an object was near the spawn point (Mantis 0008540)

Shared

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Shared: Bugfixes & Changes

• Fixed curl not requesting compressed datum
• Fix cloned elements not getting removed on resource stop
• Update curl to 7.61.0 (GitHub #270 by myonlake)
• Update json-c to 0.31.1 (GitHub #268 by myonlake)

Resources

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• [admin] Added ban search feature to Bans tab
• [admin] Fixed gridlist sorting bug (contents getting corrupted/mangled up)
• [admin] Improved logging of responsible admin (any type of change to ACL through panel, details on actions like unbanning)
• [admin] Miscellaneous fixes: resizing ban details window (and extended its size for longer serials), broken Anonymous admin kicks, updated flags
• [admin] Added copy serial to ban details tab in Bans and enabled doubleclicking on a row to open that view
• [freeroam] Added player nick search (filtering) to F1 warp window
• [freeroam] Fixed vehicle label/controls disappearing randomly while in a vehicle
• [freeroam] Fixed some recurring client debug warnings
• [scoreboard] Added countryflags to TAB
• [traffic] Removed the traffic resource from official resources package due to it's inefficiency, size and bloatedness

Editor

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• Added sirens option and fixed plate
• Added a Favourites category under All categories in element browser
• Added sirens state option for mapped vehicles and fixed plate text

Extra information

More detailed information available on Bug tracker Changelog and GitHub repositories:

• MTA: SA Blue
• MTA: SA Official Resources