Along with a new version of ZDoom, ZDBSP has been updated to version 1.14. This fixes a couple of bugs:

1. Certain uncommon geometry constructs could cause ZDBSP to enter an infinite loop.
2. Support for mixing regular Doom format maps and Hexen format maps in a single wad was broken.

ZDoom 2.4.1 is available for download now. This version fixes a few issues that were present in the previous version.

More details about changes since 2.3.1 are coming, I promise...

ZDoom version 2.4.0 has been released. Visit the downloads page to get it. If you were observant and already downloaded it when you noticed the downloads page was updated yesterday, you might want to do so again, since it has been updated with newer zdoom.pk3 that fixes one minor problem with Heretic's weredragon.

More details later.

ZDBSP has seen a new update that fixes a couple of polyobject problems:

1. If you used a polyobject spawn point of type 9303, it did not perform split avoidance for the areas surrounding it.
2. Polyobject split avoidance did not work on UDMF maps.

It also adds a new command-line option --comments (short form -c) to add comments to TEXTMAPs to indicate the entry number for each thing, linedef, sidedef, sector, and vertex, should you wish to examine the map by hand in a text editor.

CodeImp found a bug in ZDBSP 1.11 that would cause it to crash after he changed the way Doom Builder saves UDMF maps. This new version of ZDSBP fixes that. (Note that the currently available release version of Doom Builder 2 does not exercise this bug.)

This post marks the release of ZDBSP 1.11. It now supports maps created in the Universal Doom Map Format. Aside from that, the nodes it builds are identical to ZDBSP 1.10's.

This version was also compiled with a newer version of GCC, which seems to have produced slightly faster code.

ZDoom has been updated to version 2.3.1. This version:

• Fixes the bug that prevented you from switching weapons after respawning in multiplayer.
• Fixes a performance regression introduced in 2.3.0.
• Adds support for zip/pk3 files with LZMA and BZip2 compression. (7-Zip is one program that can create such files.)
• Addresses a few other niggles.

After more than a year of waiting, ZDoom has been updated to version 2.3.0. Since a lot has gone on since 2.2.0, I'm not too sure what to highlight in this news post. So here is just a quick list off the top of my head:

• Improved performance on intensive maps.
• New and improved sound system supporting reverb effects on all sound cards, not just Creative Labs'.
• SPC is now a first-class music format that no longer requires an external DLL to play.
• Supports the UDMF map format.
• Text-based texture definition format.
• Supports Vavoom's vertex height things.
• Supports Eterity's 3DMIDTEX lines.
• Supports linked sectors, to ensure that multiple sectors can move consistently in sync.
• More compatibility options, and automatic selection of those options for selected maps that require them to be playable.
• New DECORATE features, including better error reporting.
• Freedoom, Chex Quest, and Chex Quest 3 are recognized as IWADs and can be selected in the IWAD picker dialog box.
• New ACS features.
• New SBARINFO features.
• Various and sundry bug fixes.

See comments for more.

Now that I'm starting to get my system back in order, here's a build of ACC 1.47 that works with WadAuthor (and ZETH, but does anybody still use that?).

It's not exactly ZDoom, but a new release of ZDBSP is now available, one week after the new ACC. There are two bug fixes here. One was corrected in the internal nodebuilder over two years ago, but I forgot to make a new release of ZDBSP for it back then. The other is a recent fix for maps with poorly constructed polyobjects that could cause the nodebuilder to hang.

There is no new functionality here, and performance should be pretty much the same as ZDBSP 1.9, but if you use ZDBSP, you are encouraged to upgrade anyway so that you can benefit from the fixes.

P.S. Happy New Year.