http://forums.interwavestudios.com/index.php Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:45:46 +0000 5 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1637-notice-of-absence/
I've had a talk today with the HR people of kas bank, a bank in Amsterdam which has a spot open on a position I'd like to fill.
This talk has been a major success, resulting in getting a contract for myself for 8 months.

The down side would be that I will have to move over from the east of the country to the west.
This will take quite some time (about 5 or 6 weeks), seeing I have several computer courses to follow and search for a new place to call my home.
During this time I'm afraid my online time will be limited and I'm unsure if I will be able to follow this forum and/or help the users frequently.

I see there are a few users already helping out others with issues. I wish to congratulate you all already on a job well done and hope you will keep up the good work .
It's people that make this community large and helpful!

[terminator]I'll be back! [/terminator]

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As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page.

1.6.7 continues the bug fixing for the 1.6.X branch and is tentatively the last release prior to the next feature release, 1.7. 1.6.7 fixes a longstanding bug with a lastAddress and flag issue in the database. In addition some daemon crash edge cases have been resolved. We also fixed some PHP4 compatibility issues. The full changelog is available below.

If you are still using PHP4 we highly encourage you to update to PHP5 as future version will begin to depend on components that exist in PHP5 or later. We have no intentions to break PHP4 support but will be less aggressively working on compatibility for PHP4.

Note: We now offer .tar.gz in addition to our .zip files. The contents of the packages are identical, however the .tar.gz is suggested for Linux as it has the necessary permissions already set.

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View the full article]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:13:17 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1563-hlstatsxce-version-167-released/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1334-hlstatsxce-version-166-released/ It is very important to upgrade to 1.6.6 as soon as possible as there have been some security issues discovered that are fixed in this release.

Upgrade instructions:

To upgrade from 1.6.5, download one of the Upgrade packages from our Google Code site.
To upgrade from 1.6.1 or later, download one of the Full packages from our Google Code site.
To upgrade from 1.6.0 or earlier you must upgrade, in order, to 1.6.1. Then you can use the 1.6.6 FULL package to upgrade from 1.6.1 to 1.6.6. More information is available here on our web site.

To perform the upgrade follow these steps after downloading the appropriate package:

1. Stop HLstatsX Daemon.
2. Back up your database.
3. Backup any customizations you've done to web pages that exist in the upgrade pack.
4. Upload the contents of the "web" folder to your web server.
5. Go to http://path_to_your/stats/updater/ which will upgrade your database to 1.6.6.
6. DELETE THE UPDATER FOLDER FROM YOUR WEB SERVER.
7. Replace the contents of the remaining included directories in the update pkg.
8. Merge any customizations that got replaced.
9. Update any game server plugins (Sourcemod, AMXMod, etc).
10. Start your HLstatsX Daemon again.

As a friendly reminder, make sure to update your SuperLogs plugins. You can find our SuperLogs plugins on the AlliedModders site.


ChangeLog (changes since 1.6.5):
HLstatsX Community Edition 1.6.6
January 10, 2010

+ Added TF2 Ball weapon code (#992) (Packhead)
+ Added team color player names on ingame messages in HL2DM when doing team deathmatch and HL2CTF (psychonic)
+ Added optional (default on) adding of "HLstatsX:CE" to server tags on non-L4D/2 games that support sv_tags (psychonic)
? Changed the header to use the alt text to be more consistent with project (Packhead)
? Changed the default point value to 0 for crit kill action in TF2 (#993) (Packhead)
! Fixed a recently discovered exploit as well as other possible avenues for exploitation (psychonic)
! Fixed game page not loading on a very small number of installs (octo-dhd)
! Fixed opt_libdir being ignored in hlstats.pl and hlstats-awards.pl when loading GeoLite binary file (psychonic)
! Fixed "Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference" error on some installs, mostly L4D and/or having global chat enabled (psychonic)
! Fixed favorite weapon calculation in claninfo page (#985) (Packhead)
! Fixed weapon list for clan including data from other games (Packhead)
! Removed quotes from playerId in HLstats_EventHandlers.plib to fix potential slowdown in MySQL (psychonic, Packhead)
! Fixed a case where L4D/L4D2 bots that connect to the server list their IP address as "none". (Packhead)
! Fixed the kick method for goldsource games (#1022) (Packhead)
! Fixed a case where lastAddress could be set to "" for players (#1010) (Packhead, psychonic)
! Fixed utf8 characters getting mangled in hlstats-awards.pl. (psychonic)
! Fixed boomer and smoker role codes being incorrect on l4d2 (issue #1013) (psychonic)
! Fixed not checking for existance of geoip data before doing geo lookups in hlstats-awards.pl (#1002) (Packhead)]]> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:11:43 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1334-hlstatsxce-version-166-released/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1392-call-for-user-input-and-where-we-are-heading/ in our forum poll.

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View the full article]]> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:45:49 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1392-call-for-user-input-and-where-we-are-heading/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1162-stepping-down-part-2-and-the-team/
Original Post:
http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/697-stepping-down/

Also, as most of you have seen, I never did fully leave You got me!

I just couldn't stay away from the project that I brought to life. I am still helping out quite a bit and doing a bit of overseeing. Meanwhile, the rest of the team has really stepped up their game, which makes things easier for me than ever. With the work distributed, there is much less load on any single person.

For those that aren't already familiar with us, here's some brief info on this great group of people (at least for everyone but myself. if you don't know me, you must be new around here ):

Packhead:
Without Packhead around, the project would have gone stagnant. He has been taking care of management of things, the stuff that no one really wants to do. He keeps the bug tracker clean and up to date, packages releases and updates, as well as fixes various bugs as he finds them. It's really like having a clone.

BoNzO:
While he's been a bit more tied up lately with other commitments, BoNzO has been working on some of the more advanced features. He wrote the daemon proxy that some larger installs use, as well as converting msleeper's heatmap generating code to something that we were able to use.

agent86:
What he lacks in time, he makes up for in skill and experience. Almost all noticeable optimizations in the last few versions have come from him.

octo-dhd:
Another man with lack of time that makes up for it. Octo has always been my go-to person when I've been banging my head against the wall for too long. He has also contributed various code/fixes.

Rawh:
He continues to keep the forums alive, and occasionally, he even keeps his cool after repetitious questions get asked. He always has an answer, and continually updates our massive FAQ post.

R3M and MadMakz:
None of the developers can read/write the German language without the aid of the (mostly poor job of the) Google Translator. R3M and MadMakz (and UltraLoW "Robert") are consistently helping out in our German support forum.

http://www.hlxcommunity.com/team

and special mention...
Jessay:
He is relatively new around here, but already making a big splash. He has been offering free and cheap (depending on size) hosting for users wanting to run HLX:CE. His organization, AngryGaming, also offers many other hosted services.
For more info on AngryGaming's HLX:CE hosting, see http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/642-hosting-offer/]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:56:38 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1162-stepping-down-part-2-and-the-team/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1274-issue-tracker-has-moved/
Our tracker can now be found at http://tracker.hlxcommunity.com.

Please note: if you had an issue from the old tracker or a user account the data was moved. You can use the login from the InterWave Studios tracker to login. If you do not have an account you can create one. This account is in no way tied to the InterWave Forums or our Google Code site.



View the full article]]> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:06:43 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1274-issue-tracker-has-moved/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/697-stepping-down/
I'm stepping down as leader of this project. I lack the time and ambition to continue actively developing it.

I brought HLX:CE a long way, and now it's up to the community to continue it. I still may contribute little bits from time to time, but that will be the extent of it.

To devs:

I'll still be around if you have any questions. Just hit me up in irc. If someone wants to take over leading the project, I'll happily hand over administration of the Google Code project and whatever else is needed.


Take care, guys.]]> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:44:47 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/697-stepping-down/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1220-hlstatsxce-version-165-released/
As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page.

The last release, 1.6.4, unfortunately had to be pulled because of some last minute bugs and other things found from improper testing. We were just excited to finally get it out as we believe this resolved any outstanding bugs in the 1.6.x series. This means that we can work full force on 1.7.0, taking on all sort of new features that have been requested!

As a holiday bonus to all the bugfixes included, FernFerret has reemerged to create more of his excellent TF2 award and ribbon images. He has also filled in and created images for the TF2 weapons that were missing them.

Note: We now offer .tar.gz in addition to our .zip files. The contents of the packages are identical, however the .tar.gz is suggested for Linux as it has the necessary permissions already set.

Upgrade instructions:

To upgrade from 1.6.3 or 1.6.4, download one of the Upgrade packages from our Google Code site.
To upgrade from 1.6.1 or later, download one of the Full packages from our Google Code site.
To upgrade from 1.6.0 or earlier you must upgrade, in order, to 1.6.1. Then you can use the 1.6.5 FULL package to upgrade from 1.6.1 to 1.6.5. More information is available here on our web site

To perform the upgrade follow these steps after downloading the appropriate package:

1. Stop HLstatsX Daemon.
2. Back up your database.
3. Backup any customizations you've done to web pages that exist in the upgrade pack.
4. Upload the contents of the "web" folder to your web server.
5. Go to http://path_to_your/stats/updater/ which will upgrade your database to 1.6.5.
6. DELETE THE UPDATER FOLDER FROM YOUR WEB SERVER.
7. Replace the contents of the remaining included directories in the update pkg.
8. Merge any customizations that got replaced.
9. Update any game server plugins (Sourcemod, AMXMod, etc).
10. Start your HLstatsX Daemon again.

As a friendly reminder, make sure to update your SuperLogs plugins. You can find our SuperLogs plugins on the AlliedModders site.

For more information on this release or doing a full install, visit our forums.


ChangeLog (changes since 1.6.3):
HLstatsX Community Edition 1.6.5
December 23, 2009

+ Added a huge number of new TF2 images for awards, ribbons, and weapons (FernFerret)
+ Added new TF2 weapon and action codes for "War" update (Packhead, psychonic)
+ Added missing TF2 awards for Scout (#897) (trawa, Packhead)
+ Added various missing TF2 weapons, awards, and ribbons (#968) (Packhead)
+ Added ability to move servers between "Games" that share the same "realgame" (psychonic)
+ Added HLX:CE logo on hitbox flash file (BusteR)
+ Added HLX:CE donate link to admin area :3 (psychonic)
? Bonus round state now triggers at Round_End in addition to Round_Win and Mini_Round_Win (psychonic)
? Made BonusRoundIgnore be enabled by default for newly added "tf" servers (psychonic)
? Hide option for each game type now uses a checkbox instead of a drop-down box (psychonic)
? Game code on Games page in admin area is now read-only to prevent user-caused issues with changing it (psychonic)
? Daemon code tidied up slightly more along with more slight optimizations (including #823) (psychonic)
? Changed behavior for heatmap generation to only generate with valid data. (BoNzO)
? Added an ini_set for max_execution_time for heatmap generation to prevent timeouts. (BoNzO)
! Fixed a case where an administrator could accidentally lock themselves out of the admin area if not careful (ie. setting password to "(encrypted" or similar) (psychonic)
! Fixed an issue with hlxce_version and hlxce_webpage not being set at server start under certain conditions (psychonic)
! Fixed the admin center timing out when our update check server is down (#965) (psychonic, Packhead)
! Fixed "help" not being blocked by ingame plugin (#914) (Packhead)
! Fixed incorrect Favorite Weapon calculation (#908) (Steph D, Packhead)
! Fixed "to-all" messages just showing a "2" using hlx_sm_psay2 (psychonic)
! Fixed regression in 1.6.3 that caused minplayers to to be ignored for frags on all games except L4D/L4D2 (#934) (psychonic)
! Fixed multiple potential daemon crash scenarios (#880,#917) (psychonic, octo-dhd)
! Fixed an issue with plyrplyr actions not being recognized properly (psychonic)
! Fixed a typo in show_graph.php that caused the graphs not to generate when the style was changed. (#928) (Warbucks)
! Fixed update check telling admin to upgrade when showing installation as being up-to-date. (Packhead)
! Daemon now correctly uses player ip address from connect log line when able instead of doing "rcon status" to retrieve it (psychonic)]]> Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:25:05 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1220-hlstatsxce-version-165-released/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1210-hlstatsxce-version-164-released/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1210-hlstatsxce-version-164-released/page__view__findpost__p__6462




The HLX:CE Development Team has released version 1.6.4.

In addition, psychonic has announced his "return" to the development team and we all welcome him back (even though he never left :-) ). The post also outlines who's responsible for what in the project.

As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page (http://code.google.com/p/hlstatsxcommunity) and will be posted in the forum Downloads section shortly.

Before we begin, a huge thanks to FernFerret who, at the last minute, was able to put together all our missing TF2 award, weapon and ribbon images. That was a huge task and we're grateful he was able to work on it for us!

This release, which is almost entirely bug fixes from earlier versions, fixes a number of outstanding bugs, including daemon crashes and minimum players for stat tracking being ignored.

This release also adds support for the latest Team Fortress 2 Demoman/Soldier update.
Note: Superlogs-TF2 is required for certain actions to be recorded (Soldier Buff, Defended Medic). You can get the SuperLogs plugins on the SourceMod web site.

For more information visit our forums.

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Remember: When upgrading from 1.6.0, upgrade to 1.6.1 FIRST. If you skip 1.6.1 you will be missing critical database updates!

As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page (http://code.google.com/p/hlstatsxcommunity) and will be posted in the forum Downloads section shortly.

This release targeted mainly bug fixes as well as optimizations in SQL queries, both on the daemon and the web site. In addition, color codes have been enhanced for multiple games. A few additions include Team Fortress 2 "Most Valuable Player" tracking, additional Left 4 Dead 2 weapon tracking and A full changelog is posted below.

For more information visit our forums.

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View the full article]]> Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:43:14 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/1069-hlstatsxce-version-163-released/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/898-hlstatsxce-162-released/ Version 1.6.2 has been released.

As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page (http://code.google.com/p/hlstatsxcommunity) and will be posted in the forum Downloads section shortly.

This version targeted performance and usability and features new optimized SQL queries (prepared statements) for the HLstatsX Daemon, web query enhancements and slightly better support for those wanting to customize the look of their HLXCE install without having to edit much/any of the PHP files.

Additional highlights include Left4Dead 2 support, more daemon enhancements and now web-based Database upgrades.

For more information visit our News Forum.

To upgrade to 1.6.2 you must first upgrade to 1.6.1. Follow the steps posted earlier to upgrade to 1.6.1. Once you are running 1.6.1 you can upgrade to 1.6.2 by following these steps:

1.Stop HLstatsX Daemon
2.Back up your database
3.Backup any customizations you've done to web pages or stylesheets
4.Upload the contents of the "web" folder to your web server.
5.Go to http://path_to_your/stats/updater/ which will upgrade your database to 1.6.2.
6.DELETE THE UPDATER FOLDER FROM YOUR WEB SERVER
7.Replace the remaining directories (daemon, import bans, ftp, etc) with the ones from the downloaded package
8.Replace any customizations you may have done to the web
9.Update any game server plugins (Sourcemod, AMXMod, etc)
10.Start your HLstatsX Daemon again
As a friendly reminder, make sure to update your SuperLogs plugins. You can find our SuperLogs plugin on the AlliedModders site.

Changelog:
HLstatsX Community Edition 1.6.2
November 14, 2009

+ Added support for Left 4 Dead 2 (#732) (Packhead, psychonic, octo-dhd)
+ Added new update script for geoip binary file (Packhead)
+ Added misc dev tools such as fake server (agent86), log code parser (psychonic), optional web profiling code (agent86), and server query tool (BoNzO)
+ Added Team Fortress 2 tf_pumpkin_Bomb weapon logging (octo-dhd)
+ Added five additional Zombie Panic Source weapons (Packhead)
+ Added support for TF2 jarate and shield_blocked events (Packhead)
+ Created a new field to track creation date for a player and modified daemon to start filling field (psychonic, Packhead)
+ Added medic and engineer extinguish awards (#729) (Packhead)
+ Created php-based SQL updater to ease upgrading from version to version (psychonic)
+ Headshot actions and awards added for ZPS and NTS (psychonic)
+ Added new signatures to replace existing signature images (R3M)
+ Added a watermark inserted on generation for signature images (psychonic)
+ Added signature background images for The Hidden (R3M)
+ Added R3M's "Sourcebans" theme to HLX:CE as the new default theme for new installations (R3M, Packhead, psychonic, octo-dhd)
+ Added small HLXCE logo to display on accordian pages when loading Trend graphs (Packhead)
+ Added ability for end user to switch themes and for administrator to enable/disable this option, Defaults to off on new and old installs (psychonic, Packhead)
+ Added ingame pages "Go Back" link to allow for a quick return while browsing stats through the in-game browser (Packhead)
+ Added new logo in the header and footer (psychonic, Packhead)
+ Added new Favicon of new logo (psychonic)
+ Added NTS award and ribbon icons (R3M, TheTrickster, Packhead)
+ Added new game list at the top-right of the page that displays with more than one game enabled and the administrator enabling, Defaulted on for new and old installs (Packhead)
+ Added ability for 'themes' to load custom navigation icons per stylesheet. (Packhead)
+ Added new options to specify path to SourceBans and Forum pages. Icon must be present in hlstatsimg/icon// and administrator must specifiy path. (Packhead)
- Unused NeoTokyo weapon codes removed (psychonic)
- OnTakeDamage removed (psychonic)
- Removed unused "racket" weapon code for ZPS (psychonic)
- Fixed recording "other" crowbar as broom in ZPS (ViolentCrimes, psychonic)
- Removed options to set Trend Graph background image (Packhead)
? Server graph generation is now delayed until the accordion is open (#640) (agent86)
? Removed some deprecated function from the php files (psychonic)
? Site now utilizes google chrome frame if installed (psychonic)
? Moved configuration for heatmap script into a separate configuration file and added debug output (BoNzO)
? Moved configuration for hlstatsxban.php into a separate configuration file (Packhead)
? Event insertion queries in daemon now get prepared and reused to severely cut down on overall time spent in queries (#543) (agent86
? Cleaned up output and added pruning of hlstats_Trends to hlstats-awards.pl (#773) (psychonic)
? Hlstatsx.sp now hides options from menu that require motd screen if on a game that does not support it (psychonic)
? Changed "Console Events" wording in ingame menu in hlstatsx.sp to "Toggle Point Msgs"
? Updated to Google Maps v3 API (#560) (octo-dhd)
! Fixed incorrect function return in hlstatsx.sp interfering with some chat plugins (Antithasys)
! Fixed some issues with php ban importer script (Packhead)
! Fixed miscellanous invalid html (#627) (psychonic)
! Fixed misc crashing issues in daemon from invalid players/servers (including #628) (b|afk, agent86, psychonic)
! Fixed occurrences in daemon when rank could print as 0 (octo-dhd)
! Fixed issues with changing GeoIP setting and reloading daemon config rather than restarting daemon (#598) (psychonic)
! Fixed issues where headshots could be doubled or incorrect kills being counted as headshots since 1.6.0 (#602) (psychonic)
! Fixed map-specific actions being broken since 1.6.0 (psychonic)
! Fixed "HLstats_Server->set: "map" is not a valid property name" in daemon console (#362) (agent86)
! Fixed messageAll() sub on daemon server object not checking to make sure event broadcasting is enabled before attempting to send. (psychonic)
! Fixed magic quotes issue on player and clan info weapon pages (#695) (raydan)
! Fixed trend count telling incorrect number of new players/kills in last 24 hours (#657) (psychonic)
! Fixed potential array out of bounds error in hlstatsx.sp (psychonic)
! Fixed more cases in hlstatsx.sp where names could be miscolored (TTS Oetzel & Goerz GmbH)
! Fixed game detection successful message in hlstatsx.sp not necessarily showing correct game name (psychonic)
! Fixed location logging format in LogPlyrPlyrEvent in loghelper.inc (psychonic)
! Fixed old events not being deleted (psychonic)
! Fixed a grammatical problem with TF2 pumpkin bomb weapon (Packhead)
! Fixed hlstats-awards.pl not detecting correct version (psychonic)
! Fixed the hitbox flash on ZPS to use the zombie1 file instead of the cstrike model. (psychonic)
! Fixed country flags not displaying since implementation of accordians on game page (octo-dhd)
! Fixed second level cstrike ribbons using the same filename as first level (Unity, Packhead)]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:43:22 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/898-hlstatsxce-162-released/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/512-hlstatsxce-version-161-released/
As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page and will be posted in the forum Downloads section shortly

This release is mostly bugfixes. The 1.6.0 release unfortunately had a few moderate bugs that slipped through, but that isn't totally unexpected with the number of huge changes that were made. Version 1.6.1 fixes all of this, addresses some other longstanding bugs that were found, and also adds even more optimization, mostly thanks to our newest code contributor, agent86 from =(ego)=.

Highlights:
The infamous player count issue is now resolved. The counting has been fully rewritten.
Added, optimized, and touched-up many images.
Added a few more helper scripts to the extras directory, such as Peace-Maker's alternative ban import script and Woody's log FTP script.
Added more reset/delete options and made game/server deletes not leave stale data behind.
Added new TF2 actions "killed_charged_medic" and "death_sawblade", TF2 weapon "telefrag", and new FF weapon code "backstab".
Many other misc small fixes and additions. See full changelog below.

For upgrades, only upgrading directly from version 1.6.0 is supported.
1. stop daemon
2. backup db
3. backup any custom web files or images that you are using
4. run sql upgrade script
5. replace files with versions included in the upgrade package
6. copy any custom images back to web
7. port any custom web changes to the new file versions if they were overwritten
9. start daemon

Plugins:
The AMXX plugins had a minor update to correct the reported version number. The sourcemod ingame plugin (hlstatsx.sp) also had some important updates. In addition, many of the SuperLogs plugins have had updated since the last HLXCE release. You can find them all in the download package or on the AM forums (all linked here). There is also now finally a build of the version stub VSP plugin for ep1 linux for those running Mani or Beetlemod and not sourcemod and want to report their HLXCE install.

Thanks:
agent86 - tons of optimizations, insight, coding help, testing, etc.
BoNzO - general development
octo-dhd - general development, testing, finding last minute bugs , help with player count issue
Packhead - doing all the not-fun work that everyone hates such as keeping new sql/images/heatmaps/etc. up to date as well as testing
Rawh, Madmakz - tons of user assistance on the forums. Rawh may come off as harsh at times, but he's always here and always helping.
R3M - forum help and helping with some images
Viper and IW - forum/website/tracker hosting, our new logo, and providing access to the SteamFriends stats install making fixing quite easy to test.
psychonic - being so damn sexy.
Everyone else who has contributed images, code, other help, or whom show up on #hlxce to entertain us ^^

Changelog:
HLstatsX Community Edition 1.6.1
September 23, 2009

+ Added many new heatmap background images (stachi, Roman Sobol, HSFighter, Zuko, Extrim25, Patalete, Packhead)
+ Added missing Ventrilo images (compuwis)
+ Added Fistful of Frags award images (Mosalar)
+ Added alternate php ban import script to extras (Peace-Maker)
+ Added FTP script in extras to allow logs to be pulled on a schedule instead of streamed (Woody)
+ Added more DODS awards (BusteR, Packhead)
+ Added missing image for NTS DetPac (R3M)
+ Added much more granularity to options on Admin Reset page (psychonic)
+ Added HLstatsX:CE Settings option to Sourcemod's !settings menu (psychonic, Packhead)
+ Added parsing for TF2's new medic_death logging to create new killed_charged_medic action (psychonic)
+ Added parsing for TF2's sawblade death logging to create new death_sawblade action (psychonic)
+ Added Romania to Google Maps country list (Alexandru Bajdechi, KingJ)
+ Added total kill count to contents.php (psychonic)
+ Added InterWave Studios link to footer.php (psychonic)
+ Added compiled ep1 linux build of stub version plugin for installs without Sourcemod to report HLX:CE version (psychonic)
+ Added new FF weapon "backstab", including award (psychonic, Rawh)
+ Added more database indexes for optimization (agent86)
+ Added new tf2 "telefrag" weapon code and award (octo-dhd)
+ Added missing tf2 award for deflect_arrow (Packhead)
! Fixed player counts issues that started with release 1.6.0 (octo-dhd, agent86, psychonic)
! Fixed hlxce_ cvars becoming unset if game server restarted without a daemon restart (psychonic)
! Fixed "Unblessed reference 'increment'" that results from players with blank names (octo-dhd, psychonic)
! Fixed "data truncated for column 'pos_x'" error on plyrplyr actions (Mave Rick)
! Fixed GlobalBan query in importbans.pl (Peace-Maker)
! Fixed heatmap generation script hitting php memory limit (Kotonoha Katsura)
! Fixed "String found where operator expected at (eval 38) line 1, near "$ = ''"" error on startup since 1.6.0 (psychonic)
! Fixed web rendering error on game.php when showing multiple servers without javascript "glider" enabled (psychonic)
! Fixed error when running hlstats-resolve.pl since 1.6.0 (psychonic)
! Fixed issue with encodings on some pages (psychonic)
! Fixed floats not being cleared on playerinfo and claninfo causing display glitches on some sections in tabbed mode (psychonic)
! Fixed tables width on "Weapon Statistics" table on Weapons section on claninfo (psychonic)
! Fixed weapon statistics logged after player disconnect being ignored (psychonic)
! Fixed AutoTeamBalancer not working in CSS since 1.6.0 (stachi)
! Fixed L4D heatmaps not generating properly (Packhead)
! Fixed daemon crashing when receiving control packets since 1.6.0 (BoNzO)
! Fixed hidden clans being able to be shown on games list (BoNzO, Packhead)
! Fixed sql error in daemon that could arise if you have a game without servers but have past data from (Mave Rick)
! Fixed cases players earning a point for suicide or teamkill if point value was set to 0 (psychonic)
! Fixed potential sql errors on Player Event History page if events referenced players, servers, or any other data that no longer exists (psychonic)
! Fixed a potential unique key issue in hlstats_Servers_VoiceComm table (psychonic)
! Fixed number formatting in General Statistics on contents.php (psychonic)
! Added missing % sign after accuracy in kdeath command output (psychonic)
! Fixed variable names being printed on ingame load page (psychonic)
! Fixed typo in sql query on ingame weapons page causing sql query error (psychonic)
! Removed link to activity gantt scheme, since we don't use it in 1.6, it only generated an broken image (BoNzO)
! Fixed circular reference in TRcon.pm (agent86)
! Fixed scope issue with g_players_temp in hlstats.pl (agent86)
! Fixed missing label for hideranking 3 on tools_editdetails_player.php (psychonic)
! Fixed shots per kill count on playerinfo_general.php to more accurately use statsme table kills to match statsme table hits/shots, rather than comparing to total kills (psychonic)
! Fixed ventrilo server join link not working properly in some scenarios (Semikolon)
! Fixed default graph color to match default style (psychonic)
! Fixed weapon/role name not displaying on Weapons/Roles page if no image was found (if weapon) and code contained on or more spaces (psychonic)
! Fixed html characters in weapon names on Weapons page being escaped twice (psychonic)
! Servers and players for hidden games are no longer counted on contents.php (psychonic)
! Fixed a case where the incorrect top player for a game on contents.php could be shown if more than one player was tied for skill/kills (psychonic)
! Fixed country tooltip and image alt text being lowercase on flag beside player name on playerinfo_general.php (psychonic)
! Fixed issues with display of ingame chat where a name had a " or ' (psychonic)
- Removed redundant "Remove Game Settings" admin page since deleting a game on the Games page does the same thing, but correctly (psychonic)
? Touched up many images (R3M, Packhead, BoNzO, Unity, Violent Crimes)
? Optimized rank queries in web and daemon (agent86, psychonic, BoNzO)
? Player table updates in daemon are now buffered and flushed to greatly reduce number of queries being ran(agent86)
? Generation of heatmaps now works for duplicated games with manual changes (BoNzO)
? Ingame plugin now displays a notice to players that have HTML MOTDs disabled if they use a command that would require one (psychonic, Packhead)
? By popular request, adjusted game total player count to not exclude inactive players, pre1.6.0 behavior (psychonic)
? Updated run_importbans to allow for user to use either importbans.pl or Peace-Maker's php version (Packhead)
? Updated included DejaVu font to version 2.30 (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net)
? When deleting a game via the Games page in the admin area, all associated data for that game is now removed. A warning was also added on that page (psychonic)
? When deleting a server via the Edit Servers page, server trend data for that server is now also deleted (psychonic)
? Moved db cleanup from hlstats.pl to hlstats-awards.pl (agent86, psychonic)]]> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:01:08 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/512-hlstatsxce-version-161-released/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/553-hlstatsxce-161-released/
As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page (http://code.google.com/p/hlstatsxcommunity) and will be posted in the forum Downloads section shortly

This release is mostly bugfixes. The 1.6.0 release unfortunately had a few moderate bugs that slipped through, but that isn't totally unexpected with the number of huge changes that were made. Version 1.6.1 fixes all of this, addresses some other longstanding bugs that were found, and also adds even more optimization, mostly thanks to our newest code contributor, agent86 from =(ego)=.

Highlights:
The infamous player count issue is now resolved. The counting has been fully rewritten.
Added, optimized, and touched-up many images.
Added a few more helper scripts to the extras directory, such as Peace-Maker's alternative ban import script and Woody's log FTP script.
Added more reset/delete options and made game/server deletes not leave stale data behind.
Added new TF2 actions "killed_charged_medic" and "death_sawblade", TF2 weapon "telefrag", and new FF weapon code "backstab".
Many other misc small fixes and additions. See full changelog.

For more information, including upgrade instructions, read more or check out the release topic on the forum http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/512-hlstatsxce-version-161-rele...

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HLstatsX Community Edition uses a Perl daemon to parse the log streamed from the game server. The data is stored in a MySQL Database and has a PHP frontend. It is a fork of ELstatsNEO 2.42, which is a continuation of the discontinued HLstatsX v1.20rc2 (by Tobias Oetzel), which is a fork of HLstats.



View the full article]]> Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:57:40 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/554-what-is-hlstatsx-ce/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/555-hlstatsxce-version-160-released/ As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page.

This release is mostly "under-the-hood" changes to both the daemon and the web interface, though there are some quite noticable additions

Highlights:

• Full NeoTokyo support (thx to R3M, gH0sTy(heimer), and ViolentCrimes)
• Heatmaps (thx to msleeper, BoNzO, and `Zuko)
• Ventrilo Support (thx to Compuwis and psychonic)
• More images (thx to Semikolon, HS Fighter, MrXorMrY, Unity, and R3M)
• Better performance (thx to octodhd and psychonic)
• New optional daemon proxy to let large installs use a single logaddress with multiple, load-balanced daemons (thx to BoNzO)
• Conforms better to web standards
• More bugfixes

And much more. See full changelog below

Near all files have changes with this release, including all plugins and even images (many had their filesize shrank to take less bandwidth and load faster).

For upgrades, only upgrading directly from version 1.5.6 is supported.
1. stop daemon
2. backup db
3. backup config.php, hlstats.conf, and any custom web style or images that you are using
4. run sql upgrade script
5. delete web and perl directories and replace with ones from 1.6.0 package
6. copy settings from config.php and hlstats.conf to new config files

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With the issue tracker, we are planning on attempting an import of all existing issues. If that is to fail, we will recreate all open ones manually.

The SVN repository will stay at Google Code as will the downloads (though these will be mirrored at IW).

Feel free to voice any questions or concerns.]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:17:18 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/93-hlstatsxce-forums-and-tracker-have-moved/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/156-steamfriendscom-now-also-using-hlxce/ People interested in looking at the stats can check it out over here: http://stats.steamfriends.com]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:59:29 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/156-steamfriendscom-now-also-using-hlxce/ http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/97-hlstatsxce-version-160-released/
(scroll down for German version of this post)

As usual, download links are up at our Google Code page

This release is mostly "under-the-hood" changes to both the daemon and the web interface, though there are some quite noticable additions

Highlights:
Full NeoTokyo support (thx to R3M, gH0sTy(heimer), and ViolentCrimes)
Heatmaps (thx to msleeper, BoNzO, and `Zuko)
Ventrilo Support (thx to Compuwis and psychonic)
More images (thx to Semikolon, HS Fighter, MrXorMrY, Unity, and R3M)
Better performance (thx to octodhd and psychonic)
New optional daemon proxy to let large installs use a single logaddress with multiple, load-balanced daemons (thx to BoNzO)
Conforms better to web standards
More bugfixes
And much more. See full changelog below

Near all files have changes with this release, including all plugins and even images (many had their filesize shrank to take less bandwidth and load faster).

For upgrades, only upgrading directly from version 1.5.6 is supported.
1. stop daemon
2. backup db
3. backup config.php, hlstats.conf, and any custom web style or images that you are using
4. run sql upgrade script
5. delete web and perl directories and replace with ones from 1.6.0 package
6. copy settings from config.php and hlstats.conf to new config files
7. copy any custom images back to web
8. port any custom style to one of the new 1.6.0 stylesheets
9. edit path in new run_hlstats script (if used)
10. replace plugin(s) on game server if running amxx or sourcemod and reload
11. start daemon

Heatmap notes:
BoNzO has written a full wiki article on how to create background images for them, and how to setup and run the script. That page can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/hlstatsxcommunity/wiki/Using_Heatmaps

Also, many background images (most created by `Zuko) are included in the Heatmap Background Image Pack 1 download at the same google code link. The database code coordinates for these background is already included in 1.6.0.

Plugin notes:
All the included plugins have been updates and the weapon_logging sourcemod plugin is now deprecated and should be completely removed. The new sourcemod SuperLogs plugin set has replaced weapon logging. There is a specific plugin for each of many games or a generic one that can be used if a specific one does not exist. You can download the SuperLogs plugins @ the AlliedModders forum here (http://www.sourcemod.net/plugins.php?cat=0&mod=0&title=SuperLogs&author=&description=&search=1)

There is also a new "Stub" VSP plugin that users of Mani Admin or Beetlesmod can use (if they do not already use the sourcemod plugin). This will create the three cvars that HLX:CE uses for identification so that your sites can be automatically listed on the new master list we are building. Again, these are optional and only for people running Beetle or Mani, but not sourcemod. The stub plugin can be found in the download package in the "extras" directory. There are version for ep1 windows, orangebox windows, or orangebox linux (sadly no ep1 linux yet because of compiling issues).

Also:
As always, thank you to everyone who has been helping out with both fixes and helping support others on the forum. Also thank you to everyone that helps with coding, testing, and reporting bugs. Everyone's contribution of time is greatly appreciated. You guys are what make this project. And thank you to Rawh for helping me get the package uploaded (despite my crappy connection ) and for putting together and maintaining the FAQ while currently providing the most support of the forum users.

For other features promised in "the next release" that did not make it into 1.6.0 (like multi-language support and themes), we are still working on them. We just wanted to share what we had done along the way.


Changelog:
HLstatsX Community Edition 1.6.0
August 12, 2009

+ added support for NeoTokyo, including headshot support and images (R3M, gH0sTy, ViolentCrimes)
+ added first version of new proxy daemon to distribute load between multiple daemon instances (BoNzO)
+ added key for proxy and daemon. When used, allows daemon to accept control commands from ip addresses other than 127.0.0.1 (BoNzO)
+ added hlxce_version (not to be confused with hlxce_plugin_version) cvar to ingame plugins (psychonic)
+ added server query methods to get server map when rcon is unavailable and to identify new servers when allowing all servers to track (BoNzO)
+ added new logic to determine whether or not a player should could toward the minimum amount of players set (to leave out bots if IgnoreBots is set or leave out team "" and spectators) without affecting visible player count (psychonic)
+ added option to specify config file for daemon on command line (BoNzO)
+ added ability to change player hint command via server configuration page in admin area (psychonic)
+ added heartbeat daemon control command to check status (BoNzO)
+ admin event logging now also tracks amxx admin actions that are in game log (psychonic)
+ added run_ script for importbans utility (Packhead)
+ added GlobalBan support to importbans utility (R3M)
+ added heatmap generation support and many heatmap background images (msleeper, BoNzO, `Zuko)
+ added more hl2dm and l4d award images (MrXorMrY)
+ added new CSS connection time award & ribbon images (HSFighter)
+ killlocation world actions from SuperLogs plugins are now supported to catch kill/death coordinates for use with next logged kill (psychonic)
+ full headshot tracking for more mods (INS, NTS, GES) is now available in combination with new SuperLogs plugins (psychonic)
+ colored ingame messages are now supported in Age of Chivalry (psychonic)
+ hlxce_version and hlxce_webpage are now automatically set on the game server by the daemon if rcon is available (psychonic)
+ hlstats.pl and hlstats-awards.pl now support a --configfile directive (BoNzO)
+ TF2's logged player_extinguished event is now supported as four different player actions, one per class (psychonic)
+ ventrilo servers are now supported in the voice server list and viewer (compuwis, psychonic)
+ added many new ribbons for cs1.6 (Unity)
+ added beta autocomplete on search box on Players page (KingJ, BoNzO)
+ added new historical cache feature to add ability cache every page on first load to ease load on static stats archives (octodhd)
+ added l4d map thumbnails (Honk)
+ added many missing TF2 weapon, award, and ribbon images (Semikolon)
+ added two new web styles, "classic" and "nom nom nom" (psychonic)
+ added options version stub VSP plugins for people who wish to report their HLX:CE installs but aren't running the sourcemod or amxx (psychonic)
! fixed many perl warnings in daemon (psychonic)
! fixed and optimized more regular expressions in daemon (psychonic)
! fixed issue with banned players not being hidden from ranking even with global banning enabled (psychonic)
! fixed bug where rcon connection would be lost on map change on some configurations (raydan aka Ben6006)
! fixed some rank lookups in daemon returning incorrect rank when ranking by kills (psychonic)
! fixed connect announce messages saying player had 0 kills when ranking by kills (octodhd)
! fixed some cases where ingame messages would have incorrect or inconsistent coloring (psychonic)
! fixed nonexistant pages not returning 404 header (KingJ)
! added missing ribbon entries for Galil in CSS (BoNzO)
! fixed bans not being able to be sorted by date (R3M)
! fixed daemon crash when set to track any servers and a logged server has a single quote in its hostname (psychonic)
! fixed a ping of 0 sometimes getting recorded for players (psychonic)
! fixed compiler warning in HLX:CE Ingame Plugin on Sourcemod 1.3+ (psychonic)
! replaced remaining, deprecated ereg_ functions from pages that still had them (psychonic)
! servers are now properly added to db with default config for server's game when "Allow only servers set up in admin panel to be tracked" set to "no" (BoNzO)
- removed legacy support for specifying game servers in hlstats.conf (psychonic)
- removed the need for redundant AddressPort option in server configuration (psychonic)
- removed "Type help..." server advertisement as it is better left up to other server plugins for ease of enabling or disabling the message or changing the text/frequency of it (psychonic)
- removed mp_logdetail 3 requirement for tracking headshots in DOD:S (SuperLogs:DODS or equivalent plugin is now needed to track DODS headshots) (psychonic)
- removed all auxilary logging from HLstatsX:CE Ingame Plugin in favor of using new specialized SuperLogs plugin set (psychonic)
? png's are now supported for game icon images (psychonic)
? gif's and jpg's are now supported for award images (psychonic)
? normalized the names of like column headings on web interface (psychonic)
? web portion, aside from the admin area, is now XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant. stylesheets have also been reworked. table layout has been converted to divs (psychonic, octodhd)
? many optimizations added to the daemon, large and small (octo-dhd, psychonic)
? many small optimizations added to sourcemod ingame plugin (psychonic)
? some small db changes were made to speed up loading of some pages and some daemon interactions (psychonic)
? hlx_webpage cvar in ingame plugins renamed to hlxce_webpage (psychonic)
? weapon and action info (codes/point values/modifiers) is now cached in the daemon (psychonic)
? activity is now calculated with hlstats-awards.pl instead of on-the-fly with every rank query (loses up to 3.5% accuracy for active players based on minactivity of last 28 days, but much faster) (psychonic)
? more coordinates are now stored, including victim coords on death, player and victim coords on plyrplyr actions, and victim position on teamkills (psychonic)
? log filename format is now ymd instead of dmy (Packhead)
? optimized filesize of many more of the included images (many already done in 1.5.x) (psychonic)
? edit Player/Clan Details links are now only visible when logged in as an admin (U#0)
? custom banner now supports external URLs (MadMakz)
? severely sped up Maps page by adding caching of counts of kills and headshots per map (psychonic)
? renamed remaining places that said "cheaters" to "bans" or "banned users and cheaters", including ingame command to display them (psychonic)
? hlx_sm_psay no longer colors ingame messages on insurgency. change command to hlx_sm_psay2 for this (psychonic)
? rcon broadcasts to all (with sourcemod plugin) are now sent to all users at once instead of in groups of eight (psychonic)
? nojs check on page load no longer uses redirectly upon js not being available and now does an actual check instead of relying on useragent (KingJ, psychonic)
? claninfo -> General now used shared google_maps.php include (psychonic)
? ie8 compatibility mode button is now hidden (psychonic)
? rank # no longer shows on livestats for players not on a team (psychonic)]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:06:41 +0000 http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/97-hlstatsxce-version-160-released/