Photon 4.0 - Final

This page enumarates changes in the first publicly released versions of Photon 4.
Enterprise customers who had early access to the pre-release versions may find it useful.

v4.0.29 Change Log

• Photon Server SDK: 4.0.29.11263
• Photon Plugins SDK: 1.0.15
• Released: 2016-02-09

Photon Native Core

FIXED:

• PSCS-2563: CTCPWebSocketServer Exception in CProtocolHandler::HandleData(): No space left in read buffer.

v4.0.28 Change Log

• Photon Server SDK: 4.0.28.x
• Photon Plugins SDK: 1.0.15
• Released: 2016-01-26

Photon.SocketServer.dll

NEW:

• PSCS-2498: Added CoreVersion and SdkVersion to ApplicationBase.
• PSCS-2533: Added ApplicationBase.CreatePeerFiber.
• PSCS-2532: we now support a usingIPv6 flag in the initrequest.
  PeerBase now has properties SourceUsingIPv6(=initrequest.UsingIPv6), LocalIPAddressIsIPv6 and IsIPv6ToIPv4Bridged.
  Loadbalancing, now return hostnames if peer.IsIPv6ToIPv4Bridged.

FIXED:

• PSCS-2030: Websocket issue introduced when support to return InitResponseObject was added.
• PSCS-2376: ClientAuthenticationQueue - fixed log in case of exception. And renamed parameter url to clientQueryStringParamters.
• PSCS-2520: HttpQueue - responses getting lost due to a windows counters exception.

CHANGED:

• PSCS-2559: HttpRequestQueue - HttpRequestQueue - we now log Uri in error messages.

Loadbalancing

NEW:

• PSCS-2532: we now support a usingIPv6 flag in the initrequest.
  PeerBase now has properties SourceUsingIPv6(=initrequest.UsingIPv6), LocalIPAddressIsIPv6 and IsIPv6ToIPv4Bridged.
  Loadbalancing, now return hostnames if peer.IsIPv6ToIPv4Bridged.

FIXED:

• PSCS-2261: error debugging with VS13 + Win7: “Requested registry access is not permitted.”. Added check to prevent null reference during initialization.
• PSCS-2512: Fixed "Collection was modified" exception. GameApplication: We now enqueue fiber.Dispose to the fiber.
• PSCS-2514: Unhandled Exception - PerformanceCounter with the InstanceLifetime set to PerformanceCounterInstanceLifetime.Global.
  Initialization of instances for HiveHostGame and WebRpcHandler is now done from Application.Setup method.
• PSCS-2539: HttpQueuePerformanceCounters: Starting Photon without AdminRights first time - triggers counter exception.
• PSCS-2558: MasterServerConnectionBase/ServerStateManager - fixed wrong period value for one time timer.

CHANGED:

• PSCS-2525: UnknownTypeMapper.cs moved to Photon.Common/Misk folder.
• PSCS-2526: Added and improved Logs.
  HiveGame - added JoinFailureHandler method in order to handle failure in one place HiveHostGame -
  updated way how we react on different join/create failures Game - overrides JoinFailureHandler to notify master about join failure.added new ErrorMessages.
  HivePeer - does not allow game operations till its JoinStage is Complete and does not allow Join operations if its JoinStage is not Connected.
  Tests fixed to satisfy new requirements from HivePeer.
• PSCS-2529: Renamed RpcHandler to WebRpcHandler.
• PSCS-2530: removed unused ServiceStack libs.

Plugins

NEW:

• PSCS-2535: Plugins Add support for EnvironmentVersion (HostVersion / BuiltWithVersion).

v4.0.27 Change Log

• Photon Server SDK: 4.0.27.x
• Photon Plugins SDK: 1.0.14
• Released: 2015-12-04
• .NET Client SDK: 4.0.5.0

This release brings (compared to v4.0.26 as known as RC5):

NEW:

• PSCS-2506: use configurable hostname for WebSockets and rHTTP.

FIXED:

• PSCS-2487: Fixed GameServer Executes operations without authentication.
• PSCS-2488: Fixed Plugin factory is now created only once.
• PSCS-2489: Null ref in SetPropertiesCAS.
• PSCS-2490: Fixed case when user call IPluginHost.HttpRequest with wrong url.
• PSCS-2496: Make sure we log exceptions caused Photon/Hive are always logged.
• PSCS-2500: Fixed inconsistency between counters in ActorManager.
• PSCS-2503: Fixed ClientAuthenticationQueue issues.
• PSCS-2492: Fixed issue with Op Authenticate returning UserId=null.
• PSCS-2493: Server returns different response to second auth request with same token.
• PSCS-2494: Exception when roomOption.Plugins is empty array.
• PSCS-2499: Fixed endless loop when serializing recursive structures - introduced recursion level for serialization of nested containers.

CHANGED:

• Renamed Webhooks to Webhooks1.2 - and is the equivalent to Webhooks1.2 on the cloud.
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• PSCS-2485: Introduced ExternalHttpCallFaild Error.