new_miscellaneous.md

• Miscellaneous changes:
  • .last_move (a map of an object's last location and the time() it moved)
  • Sub-second fork and suspend
  • Call 'do_blank_command' on listening objects when a blank command is issued
  • Allow "string" in "some other string" as a shortcut for index()
  • Allow exec to set environment variables with a new argument
  • Change the server log message when calling switch_player()
  • Deprecation of tonum() in favor of toint()
  • Move #0.dump_interval to $server_options.dump_interval
  • New argument to notify() to suppress the newline
  • Support object lists in isa() as well as an optional third argument to return the matching parent rather than simply true or false
  • New argument to move() to effectively listinsert() the object into the destination's .contents
  • New argument to is_member() for controlling case sensitivity of equality comparisons. No third argument or a true value results in standard functionality; a false value as the third argument results in case not mattering at all
  • Update random() to accept a second optional argument for setting the maximum value returned. Including the second argument will treat the first argument as the minimum.
  • Update shutdown() to accept a second optional argument for triggering an unclean shutdown (panic). This effectively replaces the panic() builtin, previously available in versions 2.7.3 and earlier.
  • SIGUSR1 will close and reopen the logfile, allowing it to be rotated without restarting the server.
  • '-m' command line option to clear all last_move properties in your database (and not set them again for the lifetime of the process).
  • Build system is now CMake
  • Boolean (BOOL) type
  • Allow handling of SIGUSR signals in the database with #0:handle_signal()