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BRMH 2.6.0 branch created; IPv6 plans

Written for Netrek Client BRMH by karthik on 2009-07-30

The first snapshot of BRMH 2.6.0 has been released for public consumption. While there are no groundbreaking features in this release, the next pre-release of BRMH will contain IPv6 support. I believe this is important because you WILL need to know IPv6 within the next 5 years if you're in the computing industry. In other words: you will be able to use netrek as an IPv6 playground, so it's a good chance to polish your IPv6 skills. There are several providers that will give you a free IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel to the public IPv6 Internet; I recommend www.tunnelbroker.net and www.sixxs.net.

I've already started adding IPv6 support to the server and metaserver; hacking it into newstartd for TCP-only support was trivial, but getting UDP and DNS and everything else working smoothly is a bit more work. But anyways, the next BRMH release will be paired with server patches for full IPv6 support, and I hope to see other clients add similar support as well.

Fixed branding transparency

Written for Netrek by Bill Balcerski on 2009-06-11

Icon and logo both lacked a transparent background, fixed it.

Netrek Project a Featured Project on Launchpad Homepage

Written for Netrek by collinp on 2009-06-07

I have noticed that the Netrek Project has been a featured project on the Launchpad homepage for quite some time, but I thought it would be nice to bring it to the attention of the community. Its amazing that we have drawn enough attention to get this honour.

netrek-server-vanilla 2.15.0 release cut begins

Written for Netrek by James Cameron on 2008-09-30

I've begun making the 2.15.0 release. If you have any patches, you may miss out, we'll bring them into 2.15.1 if necessary. All known darcs repositories were checked. If your repository is not in REPOSITORIES in the repository, then send in a patch to fix it.

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