## Summary
Adopts ModernUO.Serialization 4.0.0 across the engine. Three commits, reviewable independently:
1. **Package + tool bump to 4.0.0** (`Server.csproj`, `UOContent.csproj`, `dotnet-tools.json`).
2. **Timers → `[DeserializeTimer]`** — the 8 drifting timers (BaseLight, TreasureMapChest, MarkContainer, FillableContainer, DeathRobe, DecayedCorpse, Corpse, BaseEscortable) now store their next tick as **anchored time**: server downtime no longer consumes the remaining delay, and idle-world saves are byte-stable. This changes their wire format, so each class bumps its serialization version with a `MigrateFrom` that replays the old delta-time read through the migration schema (the new `vN.json` files carry `@AnchoredTimer`; the old ones keep `@TimerDrift`, which the generator reads forever). The 2 wall-clock timers (Aquarium, FountainOfLife) keep their exact format via `wallClock: true` — no bump. Restart methods drop their `TimeSpan.MinValue` sentinel checks: v4 invokes them **only when a timer was actually running at save**.
3. **Linkage → field-side declarations** — 175 conversions across 25 files: `[SerializableFieldSaveFlag(order)]`/`[SerializableFieldDefault(order)]` become `[SaveFlag(nameof(...), nameof(...))]` on the field, and `[SerializableFieldChanged(order)]` becomes the `fieldChanged:` argument of `[SerializableField]`. **Wire-neutral: zero migration schemas changed.**
## Verification
- Solution builds with **0 errors, 0 warnings**; all three 4.0.0 packages verified indexed on nuget.org (no local feed needed).
- **835 + 708 tests green.**
- Generated output inspected: old-version content structs replay `ReadDeltaTime` (e.g. `V3Content.DecayTimerNext = reader.ReadDeltaTime()`), current versions write/read anchored time with the gated restart, and the wall-clock classes emit byte-identical `Write`/`ReadDateTime` framing.
- Schema tool run is committed (CI's `git diff --exit-code` schema check passes): exactly the 8 expected new `vN.json` files, nothing else touched.
- The conversion was scripted with a class-scoped resolver (order → same-class `[SerializableField(order)]`/`[SerializableProperty(order)]`); it planned 175/175 with zero ambiguities before applying.
## Notes
- New `MigrateFrom`s use the content structs' provided `XxxDelay` property, matching the pre-existing idiom in Corpse's and TreasureMapChest's older migrations.
- Follow-up candidate (separate PR, wire-neutral, any time): fold the ~150 eligible hand-written `[SerializableProperty]` setters (clamps, post-change side effects) down to `[SerializableField]` with `allowFieldChange`/`fieldChanged` hooks.
## Summary
- Removes allocation of a `List<ContextMenuEntry>` every time a context menu is created.
- Moves packet/context menu creation logic out of the core
- Fixes tame entry
## BREAKING CHANGE
> [!Important]
> **Developer Note**
> ```cs
> public virtual void GetContextMenuEntries(Mobile from, List<ContextMenuEntry> list)
> ```
> and similar functions changed to
> ```cs
> public virtual void GetContextMenuEntries(Mobile from, ref PooledRefList<ContextMenuEntry> list)
> ```
## Summary
### Changes
- Adds `[IgnoreDupe]` and `[SerializedIgnoreDupe]`
- Updates all _known_ classes that need the attribute. Some might be missing, please helps us find them!
- Adds `Item.Dupe()` command and encapsulates `CopyProperties` and `OnAfterDuped`. This is also overridable.
- Updates Dupe command to use the new logic.
- Fixes duping multiple kinds of objects that used to be outright broken.
### Bug Fixes
- Fixes issue with durability after duping
- Fixes issue with hue after duping
> [!Note]
> **Developer Note**
> Customizing how duping an item works now requires two steps:
> 1. Add `[IgnoreDupe]` or `[SerializedIgnoreDupe]` to the property/field
> 2. Add custom logic in an `OnAfterDuped` override
>
> When do you need to do this?
> *When the property being copied is not a primitive, and you need to manually deep-clone the contents of the property such as with Lists, Dictionaries, or sub classes.*
## Breaking Changes (New API)
ObjectPropertyList supports the following API:
```cs
list.Add(500000);
list.Add(500001, stringArgument);
list.Add("Some text");
list.Add($"Some text with {argument}");
list.Add(500002, $"{arg1}\t{arg2}");
```
## Notes
1. All API uses that require a formatter like this:
```cs
list.Add(500002, "{0}\t{1}", arg1, arg2);
```
Should be changed to use string interpolation, for example:
```cs
list.Add(500002, $"{arg1}\t{arg2}");
```
2. The following paradigm should no longer be used:
```cs
list.Add(1061170, prop.ToString()); // strength requirement ~1_val~
```
The new string interpolation API will avoid having to convert the argument to a string before writing it to the packet. Instead use the following:
```cs
list.Add(1061170, $"{prop}"); // strength requirement ~1_val~
```
### Benchmarks
```cs
| Method | Mean | Error | StdDev | Gen 0 | Allocated |
|------------------------------- |---------:|--------:|--------:|-------:|----------:|
| BenchmarkOldOPL | 241.0 ns | 0.56 ns | 0.47 ns | 0.0105 | 88 B |
| BenchmarkStringInterpolatedOPL | 199.9 ns | 2.44 ns | 2.39 ns | - | - |
```
### Changes
- [X] Removes crash in STArray.Return when array is null.
- [X] Fixes NPE in OPL when entity is null. Serial in packet will be 0 when entity is null.
- [X] Fixes NPE in AosAttributes when Parent is null.
- [X] Changes OPL to use string interpolation.
- [X] Introduces `IPropertyList` to allow extending PropertyList for other uses.
- [X] Adds question about expansion at start of server
- [X] Adds question about client version to determine old have and map diffs
- [X] Adds config setting "maps.enablePre6000Trammel"
- [X] Rearranges some of the loading order.
- [X] Added support for deserializing nullable enums from json
TODO:
Expand the nullable enums deserialization factory to work with any type by pulling the factory and creating an instance of the converter.
- [X] Removes 6017 handler since it is only used in one place
- [X] Exposes a ref int to modify the packet length. This is acceptable since we technically have access to the entire reader/buffer.
- [X] Removes some string allocations (e.g. split)
- [X] Optimizes some collections
- [X] Converts insensitive to extension methods of built-ins.
- [X] Adds ordinal (case sensitive) string helpers
- [X] Fixes conditionals for in-game commands so they use Ordinal comparisons.
- [X] Replaces ToLower.Contains with InsensitiveContains
- [X] Adds ValueStringBuilder
- [X] Implements ValueStringBuilder in a few places where it makes sense
- [X] Removes the redundant Wrap function and replaces it with an optimized version
- [X] Fixes list conversions in Utility
Closes#351
Bumps release version
- [X] Removing Kestrel & Libuv
- [X] Cleaning up NetState
- [X] Removing System.IO.Pipelines
- [X] Cleaning up packet reading
- [X] Adds a maximum of 5000 sockets (configurable) to prevent OOM
- [X] Replaces the AsyncState with a thread-safe wrapped boolean called NetworkState
- [X] Removes Parallel.ForEach (no perf gain)
- [X] Removes custom houses compression on another thread
- [X] Test high load scenarios
Bumps release version
