Throw a non halting Lua error when giving invalid types to Entity:SetNetworkedVar (and the other SetNetworkedX functions)

Throw a non halting Lua error when trying to read net message past its end (Limited to lua_strict being set to 1)

Added engine_no_focus_sleep to blocked convar list

On dedicated servers, BRANCH returns "unknown" instead of "prerelease" - Since the builds are identical 99% of the time, "unknown" is the more expected value. This way, it's incorrect only in 0.01% instances of servers using the prerelease beta, instead of most of the time when not using any beta.

Apply changes to type() function for speed improvements (Server/menu) (Community Contribution)

CUserCmd:GetMouseY/X values on the server are now independent of client FPS of the associated player

constraint.Motor accepts a bool for "toggle" parameter (was only accepting 0 or 1)

Do not try to run HTTP requests with invalid URLs at all

Run GM:PlayerBindPress for unbound keys too

numpad library discards bindings to KEY_NONE (Community Contribution)

Remove tostring call on the argument of player.GetBySteamID64, since it is supposed to be a string at all times anyway (Community Contribution)

Optimized all player.Get* functions a bit

Optimized all ents.Get* and ents.Find* functions

Improved reliability of entity iterator functions

string.ToColor micro-optimization (Community Contribution)

Disallow calling Entity:Spawn on the world entity

Make util.RemoveDecalsAt distance a float, and use squared distances internally

Added IMesh.__tostring method with format IMesh [X verts, Y indices]

Throw a non halting error when ENTITY:GetRenderMesh returns a mesh. but not a material

Prevent a crashing issue with multicore rendering and IMesh:BuildFromTriangles