Holiday Patches

An aggregate news post about the few recent patches.

Rubat

Programmer

Parts Unknown

The Patch Notes

Rubat

Over the last 2-3 weeks we have released a bunch of minor patches to the main game. The primary focus of these patches were security fixes reported to us, as well as regression fixes after those security patches.

If you wish to report a security issue with the game, please visit the following link:

https://facepunch.com/security

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Fixed

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Fixed certain security issues

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Improvements

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Display addons in red in "Addons" menu when they contain invalid files (and therefore not mounted/working)
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Improvements to Garry's Mod's save system to prevent weird behavior, such as saves loading on wrong maps

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Fixed

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Fixed even more security issues
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Fixed playing a demo not starting a loading screen
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Fixed some crashes to do with engine light styles

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Removed following Lua API functions: ConsoleAutoComplete (menu), Panel.Command, Panel.SetActionFunction, Panel.SetPaintFunction, Panel.PostMessage, Panel.SetCommand, PANEL:ActionSignal, GM:LoadGModSaveFailed (clientside) - These were legacy functions and this is a good opportunity to finally remove them

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Added PANEL:OnTextClicked( id ) for RichText

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Temporarily restored PANEL:ActionSignal for RichText
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Temporary measures for addons that fail to load due to "failed to parse addon file"
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Minor security fixes

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Fixes towards certain files not loading from inside maps
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More security fixes
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Fixed key binds being lost if they contain semicolons (;)

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Made "Entity thinking for X ms!!!" physics warning to only appear when "developer" is set to "1" or above

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Fixed saves really not working on maps with spaces in their names
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Fixed a number of security issues reported over the holidays
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Fixed addon file paths being lowercased before being mounted, causing issues for Linux users
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Allowed color correction files (materials/*.raw) and vehicle scripts (scripts/vehicles/*.txt) in map files

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Made GM:OnLuaError available on client and server
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Added overflow/underflow safeguards to render.Push/PopRenderTarget functions

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Made Entity.PhysicsInitMultiConvex throw type errors when given invalid input
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Shutdown HTML after VGUI - hopefully fixes a rare crash on game exit
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Blocked access to .db files via the file library
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Added safeguards against malformed .gma files

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Fixed

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Made the BSP whitelist case insensitive
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Made LuaMesh.BuildFromTriangles correctly modify the mesh when used on an already generated mesh - This is now only permitted when the vertex count matches between existing mesh, and the new mesh.
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Fixed several security issues reported on HackerOne

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Removed unused DLLs from game's folder - bugreporter.dll, sixense.dll, headtrack_oculus.dll

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Fixed

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Fixed crash with npc_satchel
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Fixed crash when try to push a NULL ITexture
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Fixed a crash when failing to create a fish entity
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Fixed a crash when failing to create child ents for point_spotlight
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Fixed crashes when failing to create entities for fire entity
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Fixed Gravity Gun leaking material reference count
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Fixed crashes with deleting ai_network entity
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Bumped "insane reference count" threshold 10x