I’m proud to wish you a happy new year 2010 on behalf the team.

This year will see the coming of the official suport of the english language in the base release archive, lots of you asked for it to be back, it will be done in version 2009.3.

Another important fact is the coming of Zend Framework integration, as up to the future release 2009.3, the Zend_Db component will start to replace the old and dangerous SQL queries which were using the unhandy doquery() function. This will make SQL injections a lot harder to do and has for a later objecive to bring mysqli and pdo_mysql extensions support instead of the historic mysql extension which was deprecated a few years ago.

About improvements, there has been a very heavy redesign of the file vars.php to make the game engine parameters easier to read and to change. This may break for those who have already changed this file in their custom servers, but it is the best way to make things prettier and easier for everyone.

In parallel, I hope there will be some big space for the next major release using XNova:Next-Gen’s core components which will have a 4-step development life. During this time, an alpha release will be made when a step is finished, it will then be awaiting tests and validation. This branch have parts in common with XNova:Next-Gen and will be a preview of XNova:Next-Gen’s release.