v2.4.1

Notable changes

Added

• Strict validation of socket timeout configuration parameters.
• New Go runtime constants representing storage permissions.
• New runtime function to programmatically delete user accounts.
• Allow multiple config files to be read at startup and merged into a final server configuration.
• Storage listing operations can now disambiguate between listing system-owned objects and listing all objects.

Changed

• Default maximum database connection lifetime is now 1 hour.
• Improved parsing of client IP and port for incoming requests and socket connections.
• WebSocket sessions no longer log the client IP and port number in error messages.
• Go and Lua server runtime startup log messages are now consistent.
• All schema and query statements that use the '1970-01-01 00:00:00' constant now specify UTC timezone.
• Storage write error message are more descriptive for when values must be encoded JSON objects.
• Storage listing operations now treat empty owner IDs as listing across all objects rather than system-owned objects.

Fixed

• CRON expressions for leaderboard and tournament resets now allow concurrent usage safely.
• Set console API gateway timeout to match connection idle timeout value.

v2.4.0

Notable changes

Added

• New logging format option for Stackdriver Logging.
• New runtime function to immediately disconnect active sockets.
• New runtime function to kick arbitrary presences from streams.

Fixed

• Fix return arguments for group user list results in Lua runtime function.
• Leaderboard records returned with a previous page cursor no longer errors.

v2.3.2

Notable changes

Fixed

• Set gateway timeout to match idle timeout value.
• Reliably release database resources before moving from one query to the next.
• Unlock GPGS certs cache in social client.

v2.3.1

Notable changes

Added

• Make authoritative match join attempt marker deadline configurable.

Changed

• Improve db transaction semantics with batch wallet updates.

Fixed

• Initialize registration of deferred messages sent from authoritative matches.
• Early cancel Lua authoritative match context when match initialization fails.
• Update decoding of Steam authentication responses to correctly unwrap payload. Thanks @nielslanting
• Parse Steam Web API response errors when authenticating Steam tokens.

v2.3.0

Notable changes 🎉

Added

• WebSocket connections can now send Protobuf binary messages.
• Lua runtime tournament listings now return duration, end active, and end time fields.
• Lua runtime tournament end hooks now contain duration, end active, and end time fields.
• Lua runtime tournament reset hooks now contain duration, end active, and end time fields.
• New configuration flag for maximum number of concurrent join requests to authoritative matches.
• New runtime function to kick users from a group.
• Clients that send data to an invalid match ID will now receive an uncollated error.
• The logger now supports optional log file rotation.
• Go runtime authoritative matches now also print Match IDs in log lines generated within the match.
• Email authentication client requests can authenticate with username/password instead of email/password.
• Email authentication server runtime calls can authenticate with username/password instead of email/password.
• New authoritative match dispatcher function to defer message broadcasts until the end of the tick.
• New runtime function to retrieve multiple user accounts by user ID.
• Send notifications to admins of non-open groups when a user requests to join.
• Send notifications to users when their request to join a group is accepted.
• New configuration flag for presence event buffer size.

Changed

• Replace standard logger supplied to the Go runtime with a more powerful interface.
• Rename stream 'descriptor' field to 'subcontext' to avoid protocol naming conflict.
• Rename Facebook authentication and link 'import' field to avoid language keyword conflict.
• Rejoining a match the user is already part of will now return the match label.
• Allow tournament joins before the start of the tournament active period.
• Authoritative matches now complete their stop phase faster to avoid unnecessary processing.
• Authoritative match join attempts now have their own bounded queue and no longer count towards the match call queue limit.
• Lua runtime group create function now sets the correct default max size if one is not specified.
• Improve socket session close semantics.
• Session logging now prints correct remote address if available when the connection is through a proxy.
• Authoritative match join attempts now wait until the handler acknowledges the join before returning to clients.

Fixed

• Report correct execution mode in Lua runtime after hooks.
• Use correct parameter type for creator ID in group update queries.
• Use correct parameter name for lang tag in group update queries.
• Do not allow users to send friend requests to the root user.
• Tournament listings now report correct active periods if the start time is in the future.
• Leaderboard and tournament reset runtime callbacks now receive the correct reset time.
• Tournament end runtime callbacks now receive the correct end time.
• Leaderboard and tournament runtime callbacks no longer trigger twice when time delays are observed.
• Check group max allowed user when promoting a user.
• Correct Lua runtime decoding of stream identifying parameters.
• Correctly use optional parameters when they are passed to group creation operations.
• Lua runtime operations now observe context cancellation while waiting for an available Lua instance.
• Correctly list tournament records when the tournament has no end time defined.

v2.2.1

Notable changes

Added

• New duration field in the tournament API.

Fixed

• Set friend state correctly when initially adding friends.
• Allow tournaments to be created to start in the future but with no end time.
• Join events on tournaments with an end time set but no reset now allow users to submit scores.

v2.2.0

Notable changes

Added

• New runtime function to send raw realtime envelope data through streams.

Changed

• Improve error message on database errors raised during authentication operations.
• Set new default of 100 maximum number of open database connections.
• Friendship state is no longer offset by one when sent to clients.
• Group membership state is no longer offset by one when sent to clients.
• Set new default metrics report frequency to 60 seconds.

Fixed

• Account update optional inputs are not updated unless set in runtime functions.
• Fix boolean logic with context cancellation in single-statement database operations.

v2.1.3

Notable changes

Added

• Add option to skip virtual wallet ledger writes if not needed.

Changed

• Improved error handling in Lua runtime custom SQL function calls.
• Authoritative match join attempts are now cancelled faster when the client session closes.

Fixed

• Correctly support arbitrary database schema names that may contain special characters.

v2.1.2

Notable changes

Added

• Ensure runtime environment values are exposed through the Go runtime InitModule context.

Changed

• Log more error information when InitModule hooks from Go runtime plugins return errors.
• Preserve order expected in match listings generated with boosted query terms.

Fixed

• Improve leaderboard rank re-calculation when removing a leaderboard record.

v2.1.1

Notable changes

Added

• More flexible query-based filter when listing realtime multiplayer matches.
• Runtime function to batch get groups by group ID.
• Allow authoritative match join attempts to carry metadata from the client.

Changed

• Improved cancellation of ongoing work when clients disconnect.
• Improved validation of dispatcher broadcast message filters.
• Set maximum size of authoritative match labels to 2048 bytes.

Fixed

• Use leaderboard expires rather than end active IDs with leaderboard resets.
• Better validation of tournament duration when a reset schedule is set.
• Set default matchmaker input query if none supplied with the request.
• Removed a possible race condition when session ping backoff triggers concurrently with a timed ping.
• Errors returned by InitModule hooks from Go runtime plugins will now correctly halt startup.