A couple of the bugs reported against yesterday’s 5.0b1 build are significant enough that I think another build is needed to ensure that GC5 runs a smoothly as it can. I also fixed a couple of easy minor bugs and usability issues.
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I’m finally ready to call it “beta”! All the major features for the first release are now implemented. This build adds new event notifications and fixes a few problems with the guild partnership feature. The most significant thing missing is automatic confirmations and personal events. Personal events (birthdays, doctor, etc.) just need some work to fix them up and I’m considering dropping the automatic confirmations feature from the first release and adding it for a “5.1″ release instead. The big sticking point with it is that I have to scan the calendar in the background, which means monitoring other addons accesses to the calendar API so I can suspend scanning while it’s in use. I’m also concerned about performance with that background scanning and want more time to think about that aspect as well.
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This is probably the last pre-beta build, unless it turns out I messed something up in a big way with these changes. The multi-guild partnership stuff is finally done as well as a couple other features and bugfixes.
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I found some instructions online on configuring phpBB3 to use gmail and have changed the forum configuration to route mail through that. If you have trouble, use the Contact link at the top of this page to let me know and I’ll resolve it as quickly as I can.

So it turns out that you can not effectively host a mail server on a dynamic IP address. Technically it works fine, but it turns out that a large number of the mail servers in the world block all emails coming from dynamic IP ranges, which is resulting in nobody getting any email from me — personal emails, registration emails, etc.

I’ve ordered an upgrade to “business internet” from Comcast, but that’s going to take a few days to get installed. In the meantime I am manually confirming all forum registrations, so if you register just allow an hour or two for me to notice and activate your account. Sorry about that! I hope to have everything back to normal once I get my fancy faster line with a static IP (22Mbps down/5Mbps up!).

Not much new in this release other than updating the Argent Tournament script to recognize the slightly-renamed mounts in patch 3.1.2. Of course, if you use that script then this is a must have for the new patch :)
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Wow, build d12 was kind of a stinker. A couple of the bugs I fixed in d12 generated whole new bugs, including breaking the ability to event create announcements and guild events! Here’s d13 with the fixes for that. No new features (I’m working on the guild partnership code, previously known as guild alliances), just those bug fixes.

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It’s been quite a while since the last build of GC5, but I finally have it ready. This one adds more missing features and fixes several bugs and is practically release-quality except for the missing support for multi-guild alliances.

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I’m releasing a new build since the previous build had problems with event creation and editing which prevent it from being useful for day-to-day use. This build fixes that problem as well as a few other minor bugs.
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Lots of work on international support in this build. I’ve ported as much of the localization from GC4 as I could and it covered quite a lot of the UI, so now French, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Russian and Korean are supported in GC5. Also, weeks can start on a Monday! GC4 had an explicit command-line option for this but now that WoW has a calendar there is built-in support, so GC5 just uses the setting from WoW.

Also new in this one is the first piece of multi-guild alliance support. This piece shares guild rosters between your alts and makes them available in the event Invite tab. This is sort of a poor-man’s alliance since you can use it to manage an alliance by putting an alt into each of the allied guilds and logging into it once in a while to update the roster. Eventually I’ll have the Alliance tab working which will allow you to create partnerships between your character and one in another guild to exchange rosters.

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