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I am pleased to release version 4.00 of MUSHclient. See the release notes for more details.

Because this version changes from being ShareWare to FreeWare, it has been given a major version number update. That is, this is version 4.00 - the first of the FreeWare versions.

Improvements

• Changed distribution model to FreeWare.
• Added "charset" negotiation, so MUDs can tell if UTF-8 is supported.

Warning about Lua 5.1 upgrade

MUSHclient version 3.80 upgraded the Lua script engine from Lua 5.0.2 to 5.1.1. If you are upgrading to this version from an earlier version than 3.80, you should read Version 3.80 released - with Lua 5.1 script engine - this post has recommendations about what is required if you use Lua scripting or Lua plugins.

Warning about upgrading from versions prior to 3.21

MUSHclient version 3.85 (onwards) no longer reads the old "binary" world files produced by versions prior to 3.21. For more information about this please read the forum post Versions 3.85 onwards no longer support world files created prior to version 3.21 - this post has recommendations about how to upgrade your world files if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 3.21.

Note that version 3.21 was released about 5 years ago, so people who have recently installed MUSHclient should not have any problems.

Download

You can view the release notes for version 4.00

You can download MUSHclient 4.00 now from ...

• http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/mushclient400.exe (1.81 Mb)
• http://www.gammon.com.au/files/mushclient/dicts.zip (151 Kb) - dictionaries for use with the new spell checker, if you are planning to try it.

  This dictionary file is exactly the same as for version 3.81, you do not need to download it again if you already have it.

If there are any problems, please post messages to the Bug Reports, Suggestions, or General parts of this forum.

If you do an md5sum on the installer above you should get this result:

66393695c3a152bc6b0381b85fec63a4

The forum post a small script to sumcheck the MUSHclient download shows how you can write a small script in MUSHclient to do the sumcheck.