Master Server Kit Version history

Version 1.2.0: Provide out-of-the-box, working versions of the kit for Unity 2018.4 LTS and Unity 2019.3.8 (and higher). Version 1.18: All the servers in the kit now support command line arguments to specify their related IP addresses and port numbers. You can find more information about how this works here. Version 1.17: Fixed properties not being taken into consideration when joining a game via 'play now'. Added additional check when a player joins a game room to make the process more robust. Version 1.16: Minor changes to aid in customizations as per customer request. Version 1.15: Upgraded project to Unity 2017.4.0 LTS (you can find more information about Unity LTS releases here). Moved User class to its own file. Breaking change: ClientAPI is not a static class anymore. Version 1.14: Implemented custom logger component as a better alternative to Debug.Log for debugging. Added the ability to specify the name, number of players and properties of games created via the "play now" functionality. Added the ability to specify default values when retrieving player properties from the client side. Version 1.13: Implemented new methods in the client API that allow players to retrieve the values of properties from the database. Improved the SQL database implementations by not caching the connections and properly disposing all related resources. Added a 'game server registration id' field to the master server that can be used to prevent illegal game servers from being registered into the system. Implemented a centralized way of providing a custom ConnectionConfig for all the servers and clients in the kit. Removed the DisallowMultipleComponent attribute from the server addons so that user subclasses can be created. Fixed wrong UNIQUE constraints for player properties in the SQL database implementations. Version 1.12: Added 'spawnGameServersInBatchMode' option to zone servers that allows spawning the game servers with the -batchmode -nographics command line arguments. Disabled virtual reality support for the server binaries in the demo's builder script (as there can only be one VR-enabled executable running at a time). Version 1.11: Added experimental WebGL support. Version 1.10: Added MySQL database provider implementation. Version 1.09: Added a new version of the ClientAPI's CreateGameRoom method that accepts a list of properties. Added hideWhenFull field to the game server component that allows game servers to be removed from the matchmaking results once they are full. Version 1.08: Upgraded project to Unity 5.5.2. Implemented a "no database" provider as an in-memory alternative for player data storage. Added a default path to binary to the zone server demo scene. Added an explicit maximum number of connections to the master server. Improved the error handling when spawning a new game server instance. Removed redundant networkManager property from the game server. Version 1.07: Fixed bug that prevented new game server instances from being spawned after a while due to an accumulation of internal helper connections not being properly cleaned up. Version 1.06: Upgraded project to Unity 5.5.1. Removed the authentication server and integrated its functionality into the master server. Added the concept of zone servers, which allow you to distribute the game server load across different machines (useful for load balancing or region-based matchmaking). Removed the configuration file. All the server settings can be modified visually via Unity's inspector now. Version 1.05: Several improvements in the matchmaking API to simplify its usage. Replaced authenticationEnabled flag with authenticationRequired in the configuration. Added maxPlayers property to the configuration. The database does not store the “is logged in” status of a player anymore; the master server does now. Version 1.04 Upgraded project to Unity 5.5.0. Improved the default support for games using UNET's high-level Network Manager. The master server now resets the 'logged in' flag of all the registered users upon launch. Trying to join an expired game/match/room results in a proper error now. Several improvements and refinements in the API and the organization of the kit. Version 1.03 Implemented a player properties API. Updated the demo's UI. Fixed bug that caused spawned game server instances to not be properly destroyed sometimes. Version 1.02 Generalized database support for player data storage and added three default implementations: SQLite, MongoDB and LiteDB. Added configuration flag to enable/disable authentication. Players cannot be logged in the master server more than once at the same time with the same credentials now. Improved the behavior of UI dialogs in the accompanying demo. Version 1.01 Implemented in-lobby and in-game chat with support for public and private messages and an unlimited number of channels. Version 1.0 First release.