Release Highlights

Highlights of this release include:

• New Client Libs* – new Linux C++ Client, Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010.
• New Unity Example – we’ve built a UNET version of brainCloud Bombers
• Performance optimizations – ongoing optimizations to tune performance and scalability

* All other clients updated with the latest APIs, of course.

Portal Changes

Changes to the portal:

• Linux is now a selectable platform – see Design | Core App Info | Platforms
• Disable Event-checking – If you aren’t using events, you can disable checking for them in each message by unchecking the option in Design | Core App Info | Compatibility Settings
• Flexible User Deletion – ability to Delete all Test Users, and All but Test Users.  In portal under Design | Core App Info | Admin Tools
• File transfer usage – now being reported in API Usage section of Reporting

API Changes / Additions

Changes and additions to the APIs:

• We’re reworking our Events system a bit:
  • GetEvents() method added to support directly polling for new events
  • Authenticate() and GetPlayerState() continue to return incoming and sent events.

Misc. Changes / Fixes

Additional improvements in this release:

• Apple push notification certificates without passwords now work (before a password was *required*).
• Improved error logs – script failures being more consistently logged now, and with more information
• Improved matchmaking – we’ve improved the randomness of our matchmaking routines