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Whois Plugin - Version 3.8 - History

Filename: plugin_blatt_whois

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Version 3.8

  • BUGFIX: All dates in August were being recorded as in June!

Version 3.7

  • Integration with Cheating-Death. Whois will report K:D ratios with/without Cheating-Death running, and can act as a Cheating-Death mediator if Cheating-Death is in optional mode.
  • bbwhois report shortened, and bbwhois_full command added to display the complete report.
  • Kicked and Banned messages in players console made more prominent and a delay added before the actual kick/ban to ensure they are delivered before the client is disconnected.
  • Fixed a case sensitivity error in index.htm for linux servers.

Version 3.6

  • Fixed some major problems on Linux. Due to case sensitive file names, some information was not re-read from the database during reports, and unwatched players could be automatically re-watched.
  • Reduced repetitions of some announcements.
  • Updated to compile on Adminmod V2.50.56.
  • Copes with SteamIDs and ValveIDs as well as WONIDs.
  • Remembers upto 5 old names used in this game for each player so if someone changes their name and you don't notice and think they have disconnected, you can still whois them on their old name.
  • Supports ban durations 1h,1d,1w,1m,1y etc.
  • Bug fix - used to report to other admins that a fellow admin had watched someone when they had actually kicked or banned them.
  • Added PruneDB.vbs script to clear up windows databases.

Version 3.5

  • Plugin no longer automatically watches players that play from the same IP address as someone who has been temp-banned, only those already watched or those permanently banned.
  • Option to enable/disable team kill reporting. It didn't work too well on games that weren't team based.
  • Within the same round, the plugin now reports to ACCESS_WHOIS level administrators if a player rejoins after being kicked, temp banned and/or rejoins with a different name to the one they left with.
  • Tells other admins in chat when an admin or hlguard uses note/watch/unwatch/kick/ban on a player that is (or was in the case of kick/ban connected to the server). It does not report when a command is used on a WONID of a player that isn't connected.

Version 3.4

  • Now detects are reports on team kills.
  • Now alerts admins when two players connect from the same IP address.
  • bbwhois_lan command added to recap who is connecting from the same IP address.
  • Added CDATA tags around names to prevent problems with XML display.
  • Corrected bug in GetTopName that returned the last name in the file as the top name all the time. This should may the admins top name appear in the whois reports and the correct Aka appears in the report title.
  • Added first connection date to the report header.
  • Ratios are now displayed as approximated ratios rather than percentages.
  • IP address and access level line not included in report if the player isn't connected.
  • BUGFIX: bbwhois_watch and bbwhois_unwatch wouldn't work when require reason was turned on and you did supply a reason.
  • bbwhois_watch and bbwhois_unwatch now work on players that have left the server and on WONIDs of anyone connected or otherwise.
  • bbwhois_note, bbwhois_watch and bbwhois_unwatch now return the player name matched in the confirmation message to the admin using them so you can verify it has picked the right player.
  • bbwhois now reports a usage message if called with no arguments.
  • When any ban/note/watch/unwatch is performed on a player not connected, their most common name is written to the global notes file instead of "Unknown player not connected".

Version 3.3

  • XSL files updated to allow you to browse the whois information on a web-server or the file system.
  • HLGuard integration added - whois reports will now show actions / suspicions of hlguard.
  • Access level of ACCESS_WHOIS changed to the unused 1024 level. This allows you to give access to the bbwhois, bbwhois_note and bbwhois_watch commands to server regulars who are not admins to allow them to alert you to cheaters, without giving them kick access.
  • bbwhois_admin command added to report who is admin.
  • Names the player to watch if there is only one when an admin connects instead of just saying "1 players on the server should be watched"

Version 3.2

  • Initial Release Version. See source file for differences from alpha releases.