Mana client 1.0.0-beta released
Almost half a year after we split off from The Mana World to develop the client and server independently from a single online world, we now present a preview of our first release in the form of this beta. The main purpose of the beta is to get final feedback towards the 1.0.0 release and to see whether projects based on Mana can successfully use this new version as their base.
Compared to the last release of this software, then called The Mana World 0.0.29.1, a lot has changed. The biggest change is no doubt that both eAthena and the Mana server are now supported from the same binary. We hope to replace our aging eAthena version with the Mana server later. The other major change is that the client can pretend to be different games based on a “branding” file. Stuff like wallpaper, GUI skin and where to download the server list from can all be customized using this file. We hope other projects will use this as an opportunity to set themselves apart, while avoiding a split in the development of the client software.
Too many other changes were made to mention them here. A summary can be found in the NEWS file. Go to the downloads page to get the release!
Thorbjørn Lindeijer - 16 Mar 2010