BZFlag 2.4.28

Change Summary

This release includes various improvements to the game client and a container for game servers:

• Improved game controller support, including a range limit, deadzones, ramp types, and corner stretching for controllers that don't map to a square
• Better capture support in software such as OBS
• Ability to paste text from the clipboard in the game client
• CGNAT support when used with both an updated client and server
• Dockerfile to build a container for running game servers, with support for custom plugins

The macOS release is a universal build for Intel 64-bit and Apple Silicon, and is signed and notarized.

Change Log

• Improved joystick support - Joshua Bodine
• Cleaned up and updated the Xcode project file - Joshua Bodine
• Fixed yet another SDL2 window management regression on macOS - Joshua Bodine
• Remove non-SDL2 platform code and add SDL2 controller rumble support - Scott Wichser
• Fix authentication when behind CGNAT (requires updated client and server) - Tim Riker, Scott Wichser
• Fix libcurl deprecation warnings - Alfredo Tupone
• Fix c-ares deprecation warnings - Alfredo Tupone
• Add Dockerfile for bzfs container - Vladimir Jimenez, Scott Wichser
• Fix various memory leaks, crashes, buffer overflows, divide by zero errors - Alfredo Tupone
• Fix skewed textures that occurred when the window size changed - Scott Wichser
• Add support for pasting text into text inputs - Scott Wichser
• Kick all replay viewers when an incompatible replay is loaded - Scott Wichser