BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: Housekeeping Release Wraps Major Refactor
Version 2026.10.25 ships the October code-health refactoring with no gameplay, save, or protocol changes. The same window brings critical supply-chain updates, privacy fixes for recovery codes and reply keys, and creature placement corrections.
Duration: PT2M16S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-10-24T04:01:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M16S
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Good morning, it's Saturday, October 24th, 2026.
The signal this week is consolidation: a behavior-preserving refactor is now shipped as version 2026.10.25, with security and simulation fixes riding along.
First, code health. Pull request 2916 capped the October refactoring epic, splitting the game server core from fourteen feature systems behind compiler-generated interfaces, with no change to gameplay, saves, wire format or world generation. Pull requests 2930 and 2947 then closed the loop, fixing the bugs that…
Second, trust and supply chain. Pull request 2939 moves the asset tools to Pillow 13 to resolve nine Dependabot alerts, including JPEG and image parsing flaws, and raises the minimum Python to 3.11. Pull request 2940 updates certificate bundles to drop compromised signing roots that enabled person-in-the-middle…
Third, world correctness from field reports. Pull request 2946 fixes sleeping placement: a sky ray's ten-block wing disc is now sampled in its drawn plane, big animals check the line to the head when stepping, and leaves no longer count as ground except for perching birds. On the client, the interview panel canvas…
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