[conquest] Conquest 8.4.1 (stable) is available

[Jon Trulson <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

        Source tarball:
        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/conq/conquest-8.4.1.src.tar.gz

        Optional musicpak (unpack in ~/.conquest/):
        http://downloads.sourceforge.net/conq/conquest-musicpak-8.3.tar.gz

        SVN tagged release:
        http://conq.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/conq/tags/conquest-8.4.1

        SVN current (possibly unstable) development:
        http://conq.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/conq/trunk


   Conquest 8.4.1 stable is now available.  This version corrects some
   issues with conquering players unable to leave their 'Last Words',
   in the gl client and adds some aggressiveness in dealing with
   ship-slot starvation.

   Here's the HISTORY chunk:

8.4.1 (stable) 09/13/2008

  - 8.4.1 stable release.

  - fix bug introduced in 8.4 that prevented a conquering player from
    leaving any 'Last Words'.

  - make ship slot allocation a little more aggressive when ship slots
    are in short supply.  This eliminates occasions whereby all of the
    slots could be taken by vacant ships and no one would be able to
    login.

    Note, this means vacant ships can be stolen by clbFindShip() when
    slots are in short supply on servers that allow vacant ships.

  - in the old days, when you entered a new ship, you would enter with
    your shields up.  This behavior got lost in the distant past,
    probably when the flags element was added to Ship_t.  Now when you
    enter a fresh ship, your shields will be up again.

  - Change the server so that if a client connects with a different
    revision of the common block, just note this in the log and
    continue, rather than fail (disconnect) the client.

    Since the protocol version is what really matters now, there's no
    need to bother with a cmnblk revision check anymore.

  - some more cleanups, while we were in there:

    - remove support for 24 line curses displays.  25 is the minimum.
      Remove alot of crap as a result.

    - add the meta cgi stuff to the repository so it isn't lost.

    - remove unneeded 'headerflag' global.

    - update html versions of the manpages

    - correct some problems in conquestgl in reporting certain errors
      that could occur when the server could not allocate a ship slot.

  Happy communing!

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