Here you can review the historic development of caracAL.
I do not bundle releases but with the timestamp you can usually find the relevant git commit.
Fixed missing typeScript bindings for caracAL added types
Improve performance when switching servers
This update introduces the ability to run TypeScript directly in caracAL.
TypeScript is much similar to JavaScript but allows code to be much safer in development and enables better autocompletion in IDEs.
TypeScript is opt-in. If you would like to continue working with JavaScript you can. If you already have a working pipeline with TypeScript it will continue to work.
caracAL also allows you to expose your TypeScript creations via webserver. You can use this capability to load fully bundled versions of your code into other places, such as the official client while developing.
This update updates the internal logging to use JSON format powered by pino.
This enables significantly better formatting of console output, including which character sent a log and colored logs.
The logfiles were moved into a separate logs folder but are still subject to logrotate.
For more details see the README about 🌲Logging.
Also, I updated localStorage.
It is no longer stored as a single json file but as newline-delimited json (ndjson/jsonl) with one key per line.
The filename is now localStorage/caraGarage.jsonl.
Existing localStorage should get migrated automatically.
Large files should no longer lock up the application, but it will take more storage space in the process.
Behind the scenes I have done a lot of refactoring to make the codebase more maintainable. I will continue to do so as I add new features.
Notably I will migrate many console calls in the codebase to the new logging.
Fix a bug where parent.X may be empty when starting new characters.
Add support for graceful shutdown. This enables the client function on_destroy to be called before a client is regenerated (shutdown as well as server switches). The calculations have a 500 ms window, after which they will be force terminated.
Fixes for storage.json sometimes being completely empty.
If caracAL worked for you and you werent getting Unexpected end of JSON input you dont need to update.
Minor bugfixes with a larger impact. smart_move should now be usable again. Also special characters are now respected in login process
This update finally introduces localStorage and sessionStorage. However, in order to provide these technologies we need to bring in additional dependencies. Follow the steps below to upgrade to the most recent version. This version renames the default scripts. The default code file example.js now resides in caracAL/examples/crabs.js. If you were running the default crab script please edit or regenerate your config file in order to match the changed filename.