Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

Significant List Server Upgrades, New List Server Program

Posted:

7 Jul 2004 at 00:48

Nimrod reports that the Digital Existence Network, which hosts one of the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 listservers, has added improvements including a customized list server application.
Over the last few weeks, Nimrod of the DEN has been upgrading the server that hosts the list servers, and will continue to do so throughout the next week or so. This may cause minor outages in list server connection. The most minor improvements will be better connections and more stability.
The most significant change, launched in a cooperation between Nimrod and Nebula, is the use of new listserver software, written by community member Nebula. The latter completely rewrote the listserver program, the program which takes care that servers can be hosted, and joined using Jazz Jackrabbit. The new listserver, which includes cross-platform ability and stabler mirroring (thus, the list servers will not sporadically fail to talk to each other, making sure that the bug that makes someone’s server not listed occurs less often.)
Although no major improvements will be noticed at first, the new features will eventually allow nearly infinite possibilities, including the adding of more functionality.
Even though the date of the functionality updates has not been decided yet, it is expected within the next two quarters. Any suggestions for possible upgrades should be addressed to Nimrod.
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