[MC1.7.10] [Forge] v1.8.0-snapshot-20220917

New Features/Support

• Added: Experimental Lua 5.4 support (Lua 5.4.4).
  • For now, this is hidden behind a configuration option.
• Added: Forestry circuit boards' internal layout is now available to Lua scripts.
• Added: Major upgrade of Lua libraries.
  • Updated LuaJ to 3.0.2 with many third-party patches applied.
  • JNLua is now compiled with proper optimizations - ~2x better performance!
  • Lua 5.2 has been updated with gamax92's backported bugfixes.
  • Lua 5.3 has been updated from 5.3.2 to 5.3.6.
  • 64-bit integers in calls should now be handled properly.
• Added: Official support for AArch64 on Linux and macOS.
• Added: Subtle indentations to Redstone I/O texture.
  • The amount of darkened dots on each side marks the ordinal number of the side it responds to.
• Added: Support for non-BMP Unicode codepoints!
  • To clarify, Unicode characters >= 0x10000 should now be fully supported - as long as they're provided in the font.
• Changed: New limitFlightHeight configuration definition.
  • This allows values above 256 to be used, which may be useful for Cubic Chunks users.
• Changed: The game now crashes instead of reloading defaults if a config file is present but invalid.
• Removed: Native Lua library support for FreeBSD and x86 macOS.
• (1.7.10) Fixed: [#3239] Inconsistencies in Robot block clicking.

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Fixed: [#3558] Invalid file modification timestamps in /bin/ls.

List of contributors

asie, payonel, Smok1e

[MC1.12.2] [Forge] v1.7.7

New Features/Support

• Fixed: Adjusted version check to support the newer GitHub tag format.
• Fixed: [#2883] Allowing any domain through if a whitelisted domain failed to resolve.
• Fixed: Block/item color regression (introduced in OpenComputers 1.7.6).
• Fixed: [#3547] Character glyph regressions (introduced in OpenComputers 1.7.6).
• Fixed: [#3004] Incorrect damage/metadata values on Cable items.
• Fixed: [#3546] Incorrect version number reported by mod.
• Fixed: Reflection call regression (introduced in OpenComputers 1.7.6).
• Fixed: [#2902] Thread race condition crash when rendering some blocks.

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Fixed: /bin/edit not working on Lua 5.2 (introduced in OpenOS 1.7.6).
• Fixed: Reverted "[#3196] Env pass in 'sh' command." due to a regression.

List of contributors

payonel, asie

[MC1.7.10] [Forge] v1.7.7

New Features/Support

• Fixed: Adjusted version check to support the newer GitHub tag format.
• Fixed: [#2883] Allowing any domain through if a whitelisted domain failed to resolve.
• Fixed: [#3547] Character glyph regressions (introduced in OpenComputers 1.7.6).
• Fixed: [#3004] Incorrect damage/metadata values on Cable items.

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Fixed: /bin/edit not working on Lua 5.2 (introduced in OpenOS 1.7.6).
• Fixed: Reverted "[#3196] Env pass in 'sh' command." due to a regression.

List of contributors

payonel, asie

[MC1.12.2] [Forge] v1.7.6

New Features/Support

• Added: Access to waypoint address UUIDs in the Navigation Upgrade. (hohserg1)
• Added: [#779] Graphics Card video RAM system.
  • Graphics Cards now have multiple internal video RAM buffers, which can be allocated and freed.
  • Reads and writes to Video RAM have zero costs.
  • Writing to the text buffer outside of the viewport now has zero costs.
• Added: More complete Unicode support!
  • Unscii has been upgraded to version 2.1 (with funscii patches).
  • Unifont 14.0.04 can now be used to fill in missing glyphs, thanks to the license change.
  • The above mean that OpenComputers now supports the near-complete Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.
• Added: More Upgrades now have a descriptive tooltip.
• Added: New mod integrations:
  • GregTech: Seismic Prospector data reading. (repo-alt)
  • Thaumic Energistics: Distillation pattern aspect information. (repo-alt)
• Changed: Block 0.0.0.0/8 from internet card by default. (divergentdave)
• Changed: Game logs now contain the dimension when reporting a machine's position. (D-Cysteine, repo-alt)
• Changed: Make Lua BIOS take use tail call optimisation. (skyem123)
• Changed: [#3440] 'media()' is now implemented on Server disk drives.
• Changed: Motion Sensor now considers both feet and eyes when checking for the visibility of an entity.
• Changed: The default CPU architecture is now Lua 5.3.
• Changed: When creating a new Rack, the "Relay Mode" is now disabled by default.
• Misc: Updated the following translations:
  • Chinese (Low-power)
  • German (JakobDev)
  • Portuguese (guilherme-puida)
  • Russian (Fingercomp, Smollet777)
• Fixed: AE2 item stack sizes larger than 2^31-1.
• Fixed: Barcode Reader upgrade crash when scanning anything that is not a valid target. (AmandaCameron)
• Fixed: [#3509] ByteBufInputStream memory leak.
• Fixed: [#3187] Crash with CodeChickenLib and IC2 installed.
• Fixed: [#3247] Disassembler accepted whole stack via direct inventory access.
• Fixed: [#3254] Edge case issues with Hologram copy().
• Fixed: [#2999, #3225] Edge case issues with deleting computer/robot persistence data.
• Fixed: Ender IO/Project: Red wrench compatibility.
• Fixed: [#3159] Error when calling 'debug.sendToDebugCard()'.
• Fixed: [#3494] Errors when using block GUIs on larger/negative Y values (f.e. with Cubic Chunks).
• Fixed: [#3391] Generator upgrade destroys fuel containers.
• Fixed: Inconsistent 3D print item stacking (Quant1um).
• Fixed: [#2911] Inconsistent values used by getGameType() and setGameType() in Debug Card.
• Fixed: [#3472] Incorrect 3D print lighting.
• Fixed: [#3226] Incorrect Hard Drive reported maximum stack size when formatted.
• Fixed: [#3084] Incorrect parsing of the 'maxSignalQueueSize' configuration option.
• Fixed: [#3184] Incorrect redstone card sides inside racks and computers.
• Fixed: [#3182] Incorrect reporting of entity inventory names in Transposer, plus other Transposer interaction issues.
• Fixed: Missing null check for Blood Magic integration.
• Fixed: [#3336] Missing null check for GregTech data stick NBTs.
• Fixed: [#3249] NullPointerException when remote terminal is missing.
• Fixed: Potential edge case crash with the Tank Controller Upgrade.
• Fixed: [#3401] 'rawSetForeground', 'rawSetBackground' not working correctly.
• Fixed: [#3265] Relay 'setStrength' unlimited upper bound. (JamesOrdner)
• Fixed: [#1999] 'string.gsub' patterns now allow numbers.
• Fixed: [#3195] Tier 1 Wireless Cards not receiving messages.
• Fixed: Update issues in the Floppy Drive GUI.

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Changed: Added binary support to 'text.internal.reader'.
• Changed: Errors are now passed back to 'shell.execute'.
• Changed: 'install' no longer clobbers '/etc/rc.cfg' nor '/home/.shrc'.
• Changed: If /home is read-only, a helpful message is displayed to tell the user to run 'install'.
• Changed: Removed '-i' from 'cp' alias.
• Changed: [#3320] VT ABCD should move 1 character by default.
• Changed: [#3305] 'wget' now passes a default user agent.
• Fixed: [#3423] Can't yield from an orphan coroutine.
• Fixed: Crash when calling 'tty.setViewport' without arguments.
• Fixed: [#3499] 'edit' crashing once clicking somewhere.
• Fixed: [#3196] Env pass in 'sh' command.
• Fixed: [#3201] 'io.input' implementation inconsistency.
• Fixed: [#1207] I/O buffer reading splitting UTF-8 sequences.
• Fixed: Minor issues in the OpenOS manpage for 'ls'. (avevad)
• Fixed: [#3308] Out of memory error isn't reported in the shell in certain conditions.
• Fixed: Shift+Backspace handling in '/bin/edit'.
• Numerous small improvements to the codebase.

List of contributors

payonel, asie,
AmandaCameron, avevad,
D-Cysteine,
divergentdave, hohserg1,
JamesOrdner, repo-alt,
Fingercomp, guilherme-puida,
JakobDev, Low-power,
Quant1um, skyem123,
Smollet777

[MC1.7.10] [Forge] v1.7.6

New Features/Support

• Added: Access to waypoint address UUIDs in the Navigation Upgrade. (hohserg1)
• Added: [#779] Graphics Card video RAM system.
  • Graphics Cards now have multiple internal video RAM buffers, which can be allocated and freed.
  • Reads and writes to Video RAM have zero costs.
  • Writing to the text buffer outside of the viewport now has zero costs.
• Added: More complete Unicode support!
  • Unscii has been upgraded to version 2.1 (with funscii patches).
  • Unifont 14.0.04 can now be used to fill in missing glyphs, thanks to the license change.
  • The above mean that OpenComputers now supports the near-complete Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.
• Added: More Upgrades now have a descriptive tooltip.
• Added: New mod integrations:
  • GregTech: Seismic Prospector data reading. (repo-alt)
  • Thaumic Energistics: Distillation pattern aspect information. (repo-alt)
• Changed: Block 0.0.0.0/8 from internet card by default. (divergentdave)
• Changed: Game logs now contain the dimension when reporting a machine's position. (D-Cysteine, repo-alt)
• Changed: Make Lua BIOS take use tail call optimisation. (skyem123)
• Changed: [#3440] 'media()' is now implemented on Server disk drives.
• Changed: Motion Sensor now considers both feet and eyes when checking for the visibility of an entity.
• Changed: The default CPU architecture is now Lua 5.3.
• Changed: When creating a new Rack, the "Relay Mode" is now disabled by default.
• Misc: Updated the following translations:
  • Chinese (Low-power)
  • German (JakobDev)
  • Portuguese (guilherme-puida)
  • Russian (Fingercomp, Smollet777)
• Fixed: AE2 filtering by keys which are not always present.
• Fixed: AE2 item stack sizes larger than 2^31-1.
• Fixed: Barcode Reader upgrade crash when scanning anything that is not a valid target. (AmandaCameron)
• Fixed: [#3509] ByteBufInputStream memory leak.
• Fixed: [#3187] Crash with CodeChickenLib and IC2 installed.
• Fixed: [#3247] Disassembler accepted whole stack via direct inventory access.
• Fixed: [#3254] Edge case issues with Hologram copy().
• Fixed: [#2999, #3225] Edge case issues with deleting computer/robot persistence data.
• Fixed: [#3159] Error when calling 'debug.sendToDebugCard()'.
• Fixed: [#3494] Errors when using block GUIs on larger/negative Y values (f.e. with Cubic Chunks).
• Fixed: [#3391] Generator upgrade destroys fuel containers.
• Fixed: Inconsistent 3D print item stacking (Quant1um).
• Fixed: [#2911] Inconsistent values used by getGameType() and setGameType() in Debug Card.
• Fixed: [#3226] Incorrect Hard Drive reported maximum stack size when formatted.
• Fixed: [#3084] Incorrect parsing of the 'maxSignalQueueSize' configuration option.
• Fixed: [#3184] Incorrect redstone card sides inside racks and computers.
• Fixed: [#3182] Incorrect reporting of entity inventory names in Transposer, plus other Transposer interaction issues.
• Fixed: Missing null check for Blood Magic integration.
• Fixed: [#3336] Missing null check for GregTech data stick NBTs.
• Fixed: [#3249] NullPointerException when remote terminal is missing.
• Fixed: Potential edge case crash with the Tank Controller Upgrade.
• Fixed: [#3401] 'rawSetForeground', 'rawSetBackground' not working correctly.
• Fixed: [#3265] Relay 'setStrength' unlimited upper bound. (JamesOrdner)
• Fixed: [#3540] Server-side crash with Motion Sensor
• Fixed: [#1999] 'string.gsub' patterns now allow numbers.
• Fixed: [#3195] Tier 1 Wireless Cards not receiving messages.
• Fixed: [#3239] Unnecessary/unwanted canEntityDestroy check in OpenComputers fake player.
• Fixed: Update issues in the Floppy Drive GUI.

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Changed: Added binary support to 'text.internal.reader'.
• Changed: Errors are now passed back to 'shell.execute'.
• Changed: 'install' no longer clobbers '/etc/rc.cfg' nor '/home/.shrc'.
• Changed: If /home is read-only, a helpful message is displayed to tell the user to run 'install'.
• Changed: Removed '-i' from 'cp' alias.
• Changed: [#3320] VT ABCD should move 1 character by default.
• Changed: [#3305] 'wget' now passes a default user agent.
• Fixed: [#3423] Can't yield from an orphan coroutine.
• Fixed: Crash when calling 'tty.setViewport' without arguments.
• Fixed: [#3499] 'edit' crashing once clicking somewhere.
• Fixed: [#3196] Env pass in 'sh' command.
• Fixed: [#3201] 'io.input' implementation inconsistency.
• Fixed: [#1207] I/O buffer reading splitting UTF-8 sequences.
• Fixed: Minor issues in the OpenOS manpage for 'ls'. (avevad)
• Fixed: [#3308] Out of memory error isn't reported in the shell in certain conditions.
• Fixed: Shift+Backspace handling in '/bin/edit'.
• Numerous small improvements to the codebase.

List of contributors

payonel, asie,
AmandaCameron, avevad,
D-Cysteine,
divergentdave, hohserg1,
JamesOrdner, repo-alt,
Fingercomp, guilherme-puida,
JakobDev, Low-power,
Quant1um, skyem123,
Smollet777

Patch 1.7.5

New Features/Support

This will be the last version for Minecraft 1.11.2. Minecraft 1.7.10, 1.10.2, and 1.12.2 will keep receiving updates.

• Added: Barcode reader upgrade! (AmandaCameron)
  • An Analyzer can now be installed in a Tablet as an upgrade.
  • Provides the barcode_reader component.
  • When clicking on a block with a tablet containing this upgrade, the tablet_use event will contain information the Analyzer would normally reveal.
  • This allows getting components' addresses into OC directly by clicking on blocks.
• Added: Config option to set max signal queue size (default 256, the same as before).
  • Signals pushed to the computer when the queue is full are dropped.
• Added: Allow different HTTP request methods in internet.request (the method to use is now the fourth optional argument).
• Added: You can now install Angel Upgrades in drones (Minecraft 1.12 only).
• Added: Chargers can now charge items in nearby players' inventories.
• Added: Experience Upgrade now shows its level in its tooltip (Minecraft 1.12 only).
• Added: Extended item information to Thaumcraft Essentia Jars on Minecraft 1.12 (seebs)
• Added: Support for SimpleLogic bundled cables on Minecraft 1.12. (asiekierka)
• Added: Re-added Wireless Redstone (ChickenBones Edition) support on Minecraft 1.12.
• Misc: Hide bounding box wireframe on screens while not sneaking
• Misc: More robot names.
• Misc: Updated the chinese translation of the manual. (3TUSK, ZeroAurora, JackyWangMislantiaJnirvana)
• Changed: Cleaned up some wording in the config file.
• Changed: gpu.bind is now faster.
• Changed: computer.pushSignal now accepts tables of simple key-value pairs, but not nested tables.
• Changed: APU tiers now correspond to their CPU tiers.
• Changed: Putting unmanaged hard drives into a Raid now forces them into managed mode along with wiping them.
• Fixed: Robots being unable to use buckets.
• Fixed: Fluid dupe bug that I will not explain to you.
• Fixed: Tier 2 wireless network card not receiving wired messages.
• Fixed: Return value of robot.swing when the block breaks too fast.
• Fixed: Server racks not sending messages to mountables quickly enough.
• Fixed: Relays not displaying traffic accurately.
• Fixed: Relay message relaying issues.
• Fixed: itemDamageRate config option set to 0 not working. (svitoos)
• Fixed: Crash with hologram.copy.
• Fixed: Geolyzer's isSunVisible.
• Fixed: Crash with remote terminals.
• Fixed: A Robot without inventory deleting the items it drops.
• Fixed: too long without yielding sometimes not triggering when it should.
• Fixed: Crash when blowing up a computer while code is running.
• Fixed: Another fluid dupe bug that I will definitely not explain to you either. Stop asking.
• Fixed: Available architectures not always being what they should be.
• Fixed: Crashes in AE2 integration.
• Fixed: The AE2 ME Interface part not having network control.
• Fixed: AE2 ME cells not having all intended information on inspection. (wkalinin)
• Fixed: Crash with AE2 when power usage is disabled.
• Fixed: AE2 interface not being recognized as components when channels are disabled.
• Fixed: Some AE2 integration not working on 1.7.10. (wkalinin)
• Fixed: Another crash with AE2 when power usage is disabled.
• Fixed: Specific AE2 integration being very slow.
• Fixed: Crash with IC2 Classic.

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Fixed: Error related to installing OPPM.
• Fixed: OpenOS timers being starved during blocking pulls.
• Fixed: reset alias to reset the screen resolution to its maximum.
• Fixed: Certain TCP connections in Network loot disk
• Fixed: Various vt100 fixes
• Fixed: Now errors properly on using print with bad __string metamethods

List of contributors

payonel,
AmandaCameron, wkalinin,
LizzyTrickster, svitoos,
kchanakira, seebs,
asiekierka,
3TUSK, ZeroAurora,
JackyWangMislantiaJnirvana

Patch 1.7.4

New Features/Support

• Misc: when powering on, drones may fly a bit higher
  • will fly a above their starting block to get above nonfull blocks (such as chests)
• Misc: more robot names
• Misc: robot/drone swing respects harvestability of block vs tool
• Fixed: zero sized files (bufferChanges failing to do its job)
• Fixed: client crash when using remote terminal out of range
• Fixed: inventory controllers now honor specified target slot
• Fixed: T1 wireless cards now properly ignore wired messages
• Fixed: waila integration by checking for nulls with relay block
• Fixed: practical logisitics integration by not passing null for EnumFacing
• Fixed: locking items in hotbar when gui is open
• Fixed: some container names localized

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Fixed: fixed event timing issues when pulling smaller timeouts than a current timer
• Added: tty handles '\v' code to move cursor down one line
• Misc: some openos cleanup
• Misc: more memory savings
• Misc: slightly faster boot up times

List of contributors

payonel, Wilma456
Anar Abdullayev, TheCodex6824

Patch 1.7.3

New Features/Support

• Misc: Greatly improved Lua execution speed (asiekierka)
  • That means OC now executes Lua code roughly 70% faster than before.
• Misc: Improved Filesystem and block data saving performance
  • Saving computers to disk is now anything between 5 and 500 times faster than before, depending on your system. Maybe even more.
• Added: The Net Splitter is now a net_splitter component
  • This allows using computers to connect and disconnect various parts of your network.
  • Make sure not to accidentally disconnect your controller!
• Added: New feature for filesystems: Locked mode!
  • A locked filesystem is read-only and cannot be unlocked unless recrafted or its mode is switched between managed and unmanaged, either action wiping the drive.
  • The name of the player who locked it is shown in the tooltip, allowing authenticated sharing of data.
• Added: Bundled redstone support for ComputerCraft (SquidDev)
• Added: debug.getlocal and debug.getupvalue
  • They only return the name of the variable, and nothing else.
• Added: isSunVisible, canSeeSky, and detect to geolyzers
• Added: Allow using morse code patterns like .-. in computer.beep
• Added: redstone component's setOutput can now accept values larger than 15
• Added: Allow the keyboard to connect to screens in more ways than before, e.g. facing a side of the screen other than its front
• Added: Readded Project Red support on Minecraft 1.12 (BrisingrAerowing)
• Added: Driver for the Reactor Chamber from IC2
• Added: Inventory GUI for the rack-mounted disk drives
  • Can be accessed either by clicking on the rack or by right clicking the drive in your inventory.
• Added: getMerchantId to trade offers from the Trading Upgrade to help with sorting them
• Added: Readded AE2 power support on Minecraft 1.12, meaning you can now power your computers directly off the ME network again.
• Added: scanContentsAt to debug card
• Added: More accessible information from Draconic Evolution items
• Added: Waypoints can now be placed facing up or down
• Added: You can now craft two linked cards together to link them to one another
  • This will unlink them from any previously connected Linked Card.
  • The link channel is also exposed as a property on the item that transposers etc. can read, meaning that you can easily manage multiple linked cards.
• Added: Allow setFrequency on owned Ender Storage chests (payonel and amesgen)
• Added: You can now trigger wake-on-LAN over Linked Cards
• Added: chunkloaderDimensionBlacklist and chunkloaderDimensionWhitelist to config for (dis)allowing certain dimensions for the chunkloader upgrade
• Added: disk_drive.media function that returns the address of the inserted floppy disk
• Added: Forge Energy support to items
  • Battery upgrades, tablets, and hover boots can be charged in Forge Energy compatible devices
  • Battery upgrades also support power extraction, allowing them to recharge Forge Energy devices acting as normal batteries
• Added: The Analyzer now reports the internal components of an Adapter block when right-clicked
• Changed: redstone_changed event for bundled signals
  • Now includes the colour that changed, and only reports the old and new values for that colour
• Changed: The order in which cases are filled with components is now based on the slot tiers
• Changed: OpenComputers is now a lot more quiet in the server log. (kmecpp)
• Changed: robot.suck, robot.suckFromSlot, and transposer.transferItem return values
  • Instead of true, they now return the number of transferred items on success.
• Changed: Use less annoying particles for nanomachines
• Changed: Increased default number of platters in an (unmanaged) Tier 3 Hard Drive from 6 to 8
  • You will have to update an existing config yourself by changing hddPlatterCounts.
• Misc: Improved cable rendering (SquidDev)
• Misc: Robot inventories should now be compatible with even more modded inventory manipulation things
• Misc: Robot Crafting (the Crafting Upgrade) should now be compatible with even more modded recipes
• Misc: Screens should now stop working a lot less on server restarts etc. and be generally a lot more robust
• Misc: Robot swing and use should now be a lot more robust and work with a lot more modded items like Hammers and Bows from Tinkers' Construct
• Misc: Robot tank interactions should now work well with a wide range of modded tanks.
• Misc: Improved chunkloader upgrade (svitoos)
  • Chunkloaders are now allowed in Microcontrollers.
• Misc: Added more unicode glyphs to font (asiekierka)
• Misc: The default Lua EEPROM now uses less RAM
• Fixed: Inventory loss during minecraft server crashes
• Fixed: Crash when placing microcontroller
• Fixed: Allow the robot to swing at anything that would block its movement
• Fixed: oc_nanomachines or oc_nm command not always working on servers
• Fixed: Item duplication bug involving robots and voodoo magic
• Fixed: Robot move commands not always actually returning whether the robot really moved or not
• Fixed: Forcing the use of the LuaJ architecture not forcing the use of the LuaJ architecture
• Fixed: transferItem checking the wrong side (cyb0124)
• Fixed: "Unknown error" when transfering fluid to certain machines
• Fixed: Item duplication bug involving drones and Wither voodoo magic
• Fixed: Potential error with IC2 on launch
• Fixed: Robots eating items they shouldn't eat when crafting
• Fixed: Angel Upgrade not doing the one job it had
• Fixed: Robots being really bad at trading with villagers. They were sent to business school so now they are a lot better at it.
• Fixed: Robots forgetting how to move
• Fixed: Item duplication bug involving robots and drones doing shady business with one another
• Fixed: Network floppy disk not installing
• Fixed: Fluid duplication bug involving robots being bad at draining fluids
• Fixed: Drones getting funky after a wake-on-LAN
• Fixed: Weird item update glitches involving robots and certain blocks like AE2 Interfaces
• Fixed: Item duplication bugs involving EEPROMs' desire to behave like quantum particles
• Fixed: Various fixes to AE2 integration
  • slot parameter in exportIntoSlot of the Export Bus is now an optional parameter
• Fixed: Crash with Applied Llamagistics
• Fixed: Crashes when you try to spawn computers by... unconventional means
• Fixed: Setting enableNanomachinePfx to false in the config not actually doing anything
• Fixed: When a robot gains experience, it now properly triggers modded effects that happen on XP Orb pickup
• Fixed: Confusing Analyzer reports on computers that are shut down
• Fixed: Microcontrollers now properly shutting down internal components
• Fixed: Leash upgrade erroring for addon developers (josephcsible)
• Fixed: World Sensor Card crafting recipe on Minecraft 1.10 and above
• Fixed: Client crash involving cables and chunk loading (thiakil)
• Fixed: Tablet screen freezing on certain events
• Fixed: Terminal servers not properly connecting their Remote Terminals
• Fixed: Lightning issues with ShaderMod (paulhobbel)

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Added: reset command that clears the screen and resets the resolution to maximum
• Added: rc errors are now being logged to /tmp/event.log
• Added: -f option to cp
• Added: aliases as part of tab complete in shell
• Added: devfs psuedo files can now be zero-size
• Added: Allow processes to handle hard interrupts
  • The process metadata now contains a signal field that is triggered on hard interrupts
• Added: Support for \b and \r characters to tty
• Added: Cut and Uncut to edit (AntiBlueQuirk)
  • Ctrl+K to cut, Ctrl+U to insert a line
• Misc: tty and cursor logic separated, reducing memory cost for custom cursor behavior with term options
• Misc: Improved command substitution, now more like Linux sh
• Misc: less is now the program used for man
• Fixed: Various vt100 fixes
• Fixed: Processes now close file handles on exit
• Fixed: Autorun on read-only filesystems
• Fixed: Crash in edit

List of contributors

payonel, Vexatos,
asiekierka, SquidDev,
kmecpp, BrisingrAerowing,
cyb0124, svitoos,
AntiBlueQuirk, josephcsible,
amesgen, thiakil, paulhobbel

Patch 1.7.2

New Features/Support

• Added: Sheep Power (and ocelot power)
  • Carpeted Capacitors exist now. They work and connect just like normal capacitors and form blocks with them.
  • Carpeted Capacitors generate power when sheep or ocelots walk on them.
  • Power is generated when at least 2 of a type of animal are present. A single sheep and a single ocelot generate no power.
  • Ocelots are notorious for their tendency to summon electrostatic fields from the feline dimension. They generate more power than sheep do.
  • Yes, this means you can now use OC without any energy-producing mod again without having to change the config.
  • Insert interesting reference mentioning electric sheep here
• Changed: Lua 5.3 is now the default architecture for newly crafted CPUs
  • CPUs that were crafted prior to this update will continue running whichever architecture they were set to, or Lua 5.2
• Added: Tier 1 Wireless Network Card (TheCodex6824)
  • Can only have one open port at a time
  • Has a signal strength of 16 blocks
  • The already existing wireless network card is now the Tier 2 card, has not been changed in any other way.
• Added: Creative Component Bus (Xyxen)
  • Allows servers to support up to 1024 components
• Added: You can now change the name of a robot using another computer.
  • Added setName and getName to robots.
  • Computers connected to the robot can access the robot as a component to call these functions.
  • The Robot must be shut down for this to work
• Fixed: Certain characters and glyph width in screen rendering
• Fixed: Blocks with inventories failing to save under certain circumstances
• Fixed: Drones with chunkloader upgrades not always properly loading chunks (TheCodex6824)
• Fixed: AppliedEnergistics 2 integration
  • Certain filters for getItemsInNetwork() not working
  • getCpus() not returning the correct number
  • exportIntoSlot() not working
  • Added isCraftable to gathered item data
• Fixed: computer.addUser not erroring properly
• Fixed: Made cable collision box closer to cable shape (SquidDev)
• Fixed: Crafting Upgrade not always crafting what it should be crafting
• Fixed: Crafting Upgrade making items uncraftable
• Fixed: Motion Sensor still not working properly
• Fixed: Robots interacting with items that directly modify their inventory (like IC2 fluid cells)
• Fixed: Potential memory leak in networking code
• Fixed: getMetadata on the Debug Card on Minecraft 1.10 and above (BrisingrAerowing)
• Added: getBlockState for the Debug Card on Minecraft 1.10 and above (BrisingrAerowing)
• Fixed: Crafting a robot or drone with an EEPROM not working on Minecraft 1.12
• Fixed: getAllStacks() on the Inventory Controller Upgrade and Transposer has been backported to Minecraft 1.7.10.
• Misc: Updated French translation (Naheulf)

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Fixed: install.lua now should work more like one would expect
• Changed: uuid.lua is now generating valid RFC4122 version 4 UUIDs (jobe1986)
• Fixed: Various fixes to vt100 support
• Fixed: Memory leak in process loading
• Fixed: Made modifier keypresses more specific in /bin/edit

List of contributors

payonel, Vexatos,
Xyxen, TheCodex6824, SquidDev,
BrisingrAerowing, jobe1986,
Naheulf, SDPhantom,
Zerotiger, anar4732

Patch 1.7.1

New Features/Support/Fixes

• Changed: Diamond Chip recipe
  • You now require cutting wire to cut the diamond.
• Added: ExtraCells and Mekanism integration (DrummerMC) [1.10.2]
• Added: ComputerCraft support is back [1.12.2]
• Fixed: Accessing disk drives and other containers in Tablets [1.11.2]
• Fixed: Putting items into Database Upgrades [1.11.2]
• Fixed: IC2-Classic mod incompatibility
• Added: Allow getting yaw of player through tablet component (ChristoCoder)
• Fixed: Microcontroller interactions with EnderIO item conduits
• Added: Maximum packet parts to device info of modems (Linked and Network Cards)
• Fixed: Drones now properly work with chunkloader upgrades (TheCodex6824)
• Fixed: Tablets not turning off their screen properly (AmandaCameron)
• Fixed: Motion Sensor line of sight
• Misc: Updated various translations
  • Russian (S0ZDATEL, Fingercomp, makkarpov)
  • Traditional Chinese (mymagadsl)
  • German (Nex4rius)

OpenOS fixes/improvements

• Fixed: Issues with booting OpenOS on very slow servers
• Added: Allow custom error objects to print to stderr
• Added: Allow mount points to use existing directories
• Added: Bind mounts to mount a directory as another directory
• Fixed: Allow .shrc to use tty stdin
• Added: Lua REPL input is now parsed with an implicit return (SquidDev)
  • Adding a = in front of the code to explicitly add it still works.
• Changed: Shell history no longer adds items if they are duplicates (SquidDev)
• Fixed: CTCP messages in IRC client (Michiyo, skyem123)
• Fixed: Reverse lookup of keys in Keyboard API
• Fixed: event.cancel and event.ignore
• Fixed: Protect lua shell from serialization OOM failure
• Fixed: Too long without yielding error in /bin/tree (LeshaInc)
• Misc: Improvements to the vt100 library
• Misc: Various minor improvements to reduce memory usage

List of contributors

payonel, Vexatos,
S0ZDATEL, Fingercomp, makkarpov,
mymagadsl, Nex4rius, ChristoCoder,
DrummerMC, LeshaInc, SquidDev, Michiyo,
josephcsible, skyem123, TheCodex6824,
AmandaCameron, Pwootage