Hi folks, it’s time to announce the coming of the new version 2010.1 of XNova:Legacies, which brings major changes in the sources : It includes parts of the Zend Framework 1.9.6.

This version will include an object-oriented data access API coming from XNova:Next-Gen, making the doquery() function deprecated – it will therefore be deleted little by little from the sources in future versions. As a matter of fact, multiple connections to the database can now be set up, using various database engines, this will be useful for a future migration from the deprecated ext/mysql database connector to either ext/pdo_mysql or ext/mysqli connectors.

Some other interesting changes for game administrators are the refactoring of the file “include/vars.php“, which will now be much more human-readable and the ability to easily display debug and deprecation messages.

For a long time, this version has been announced as the version 2009.3, some have made some remarks and as long as there are a lot of core changes, changing the main version number may be a good idea, then.

As like the 2009.1, there will be multiple releases before a “stable” version comes, a debug server will be launched very soon to launch some “Bug Hunt Days” and find more bugs, more bottlenecks to fix in early releases.