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HLMaster 0.9.3 (beta) released 23-Dec-2001

This new version comes with partial support for the Half-Life ingame browser. It currently sends the full list even for queries with filtering rules. This should not cause any problems since Half-Life automatically filters the list on client-side.

Release notes

  • Added basic support for the Half-Life ingame browser. Please note, that filtering does not work yet. HLMaster will allways send the total list.
  • You cannot load more than 3'000 with --server-list anymore. The overall limit however is still 60'000.
  • New commandline options (linux only):
      -u, --user=USER   run hlmaster as USER.
      -g, --group=GROUP   run hlmaster as GROUP.
  • Now compiles on FreeBSD via configure && make.
  • Minimized memory usage.

View the ChangeLog for a full list of changes.

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HLMaster 0.9.2 (beta) released 05-Jul-2001

This is the first public release of HLMaster - which is a fully automatic master server for Half-Life based gameservers.

A master server receives hearbeats (pings) from accordingly configured gameservers, end thus, has an allways up-to-date list of servers. Users can access this list with tools like gamespy, QStat, bQuery, KQuery, ...

HLMaster is not yet another query tool! It's a server/daemon without any fancy graphical user interface.

License

HLMaster is free software, distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Features

  • Automatic addition/removal of gameservers. (hearbeats)
  • Ability to load your own list of gameservers.
  • Loadable IP-Filters, to keep unwanted gameservers out of the list.
  • Custom gameserver limit (up to about 65'000).
  • Access info logfile.
  • Written in C/C++, full source-code available.

Runs on

  • Linux (recommended)
  • FreeBSD (read the special note)
  • Windows 95/98/ME
  • Windows NT/2000

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Please note, that hlmaster is still rated beta. It's stable, but not yet tested like hell. If you encounter any bugs, please report them to bullet@users.sourceforge.net.

I would also like to hear about how it performs on high loads. The theoretical limit is at 65536 gameservers - although I do not think, it'll be able to handle that many.