0.19.3

[flemming-n-larsen]

📦 0.19.3 - Maintenance - 04-Aug-2023

🚀 Improvements

• Server and Booter:
  • The command-line options and commands are now case-insensitive.
  • Changed --botSecrets and --controllerSecrets into --bot-secrets and --controller-secrets.
• GUI:
  • The standard output and standard error messages are now being cached within the GUI for the current round for the individual bots, so the history of the round is available when opening the bot consoles.
  • Changed the display name of the bot on the bot buttons and bot console title.

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Server:
  • Allow bots to connect to non-localhost addresses (PR [Allow bots to connect to non-localhost addresses #69]).
• Bot API:
  • Fixed broken unit test for .Net.
• GUI:
  • Fixed the issue, where the battle graphics was not displayed when starting the battle.
  • Fixed calculation of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places.

📄 Documentation

You can read the Robocode Tank Royale documentation here.

🔨 Try it out

Please head over to My First Bot tutorial to learn how to set up your first bot for Robocode Tank Royale.

▶ Running Robocode

You need Java 11 as a minimum or newer, e.g. the newest version of Java available.

You can read the installation guide to get more details about installing both Java and Robocode.

The main application is the GUI Application, which is a Java application.
You can read more about how to use the GUI Application here.

The Robocode GUI application is run from the command line (shell or command prompt) in order to start and view
battles:

java -jar robocode-tankroyale-gui-0.19.3.jar

If you are new to Robocode, you need to download some bots and extract those to directories on your system.
These bot directories can be added from the menu of the GUI: Config → Bot Root Directories

🤖 Sample bots

These sample bots are currently available:

Platform	Archive	Requirements
C#	sample-bots-csharp-0.19.3.zip	Microsoft .Net SDK 5.0 or newer
Java	sample-bots-java-0.19.3.zip	Any Java SDK 11 or newer

All bots are put in zip archives, which should be installed in independent directories.
Each zip archive contains a ReadMe.md file with more information for the specific platform.

📦 Bot API

In order to start developing bots for Robocode, the following APIs are available.

📦 Java:

Available as:

• Jar file: robocode-tankroyale-bot-api-0.19.3.jar
• Artifact at Nexus Repository
• Artifact at Maven Central Repository (available after some time)

📦 .Net:

Available as:

• Artifact at Nuget repository

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This discussion was created from the release 0.19.3.