> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Breaking Changes**
> - DecodePacket and EncodePacket delegates replaced with IClientEncryption interface
> - NetState.Connection (Socket) replaced with internal RingSocket management
> - NetState.RecvPipe and NetState.SendPipe removed (buffers managed internally)
## Summary
Upgrades the networking stack from PollGroup-based I/O to io_uring, significantly improving I/O performance on Linux.
This also adds native client encryption support for encrypted UO clients.
## Major Changes
io_uring Networking Architecture
- Replaced PollGroup with IORingGroup for async socket I/O operations
- Removed Pipe.cs (mirrored ring buffer) and TcpServer.cs in favor of RingSocketManager
- Added NetState.Network.cs - centralized network infrastructure handling accept, recv, send, and disconnect
completions
- Added SocketHelper.cs - platform-specific socket utilities for raw socket handle operations (getpeername,
getsockname)
- Buffer management now handled by RingSocketManager with configurable slab allocation
### Client Encryption Support
- Added full encryption stack in Network/Encryption/:
- EncryptionConfig.cs - configurable encryption modes (None, Unencrypted, Encrypted, Both)
- EncryptionManager.cs - encryption detection and initialization for login/game packets
- LoginEncryption.cs - handles login packet encryption with version-derived keys
- GameEncryption.cs - handles game server encryption using Twofish
- TwofishEngine.cs - optimized Twofish block cipher implementation
- LoginKeys.cs - encryption key table for client versions
- IClientEncryption.cs - interface for client encryption implementations
### NetState Improvements
- Replaced Socket Connection with RingSocket _socket for managed socket lifecycle
- Changed from GCHandle polling to event-based completion processing
- Disconnect handling now properly waits for pending sends to flush
- Simplified connecting socket management using lazy queue removal
### Configuration
- New settings: network.encryptionMode and network.encryptionDebug
- Encryption mode flags: Unencrypted, Encrypted, or Both
### Dependencies
- Replaced PollGroup NuGet package with IORingGroup
- Linux requires liburing-dev / liburing-devel package
### Test plan
- Verify server starts and accepts connections on Linux with io_uring
- Verify server starts and accepts connections on Windows (fallback to IOCP)
- Test unencrypted client connections (ClassicUO with encryption disabled)
- Test encrypted client connections if available
- Verify graceful disconnect flushes pending data
- Confirm CI builds pass on all target platforms
### Summary
- Create BitMask256 struct with scalar operations (benchmarks showed AVX2 vectorization provides no benefit for this size)
- Refactor Map.cs to use BitMask256 for full Z range support (-128 to 127)
- Remove SectorSpawnCache struct, use BitMask256 directly in manager
- Update tests to use BitMask256 directly
- Remove unused test assertions for old 64-bit behavior
### Summary
Refactors ScheduledEvent and EventScheduler API to use TimeOnly so recurrence offset is explicit.
API:
```cs
public ScheduledEvent(
DateTime startAfter,
DateTime endOn,
TimeOnly time,
IRecurrencePattern recurrence,
TimeZoneInfo timeZone = null
)
```
Example:
```cs
// Schedule a daily event at 8:00 AM UTC
EventScheduler.DailyAt(
new DateTime(2024, 6, 1, 8, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc),
() => Console.WriteLine("Daily event triggered!")
);
// Schedule a custom recurring event at 3:30 PM UTC every Monday
var recurrence = new WeeklyRecurrencePattern(1, DaysOfWeek.Monday);
EventScheduler.Shared.ScheduleEvent(
DateTime.UtcNow,
new TimeOnly(15, 30),
() => Console.WriteLine("Weekly Monday event!"),
recurrence
);
```
### Summary
* Adds an event scheduler.
* Adds conveniences for hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, ordinal monthly, and yearly recurrences
Example:
```cs
var tz = TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("America/New_York");
// Specify the time of the day, and the day of the week you want it to occur. Make sure it is translated into Utc.
// The next occurrence will be _after_ the specified date/time.
var scheduledEvent = EventScheduler.WeeklyAt(new DateTime(2025, 04, 26, 17, 00, 00), StartEvent, tz);
void StartEvent()
{
World.Broadcast(0x30, false, "The event has started!");
}
Console.WriteLine("Event starts on {0}", scheduledEvent.NextOccurrence);
```
In this example, on _Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 @ 5pm ET_, the message "The event has started!" will be broadcasted.
> [!Note]
> **Developer Note**
> Now developers will only need to build/run the Application project instead of everything.
> When adding new projects, make sure to:
> 1. Add a reference to that project in the Application project.
> 2. Add the dll file to the Distribution/Data/assemblies.json file
### Summary
- Adds an application project
- Consolidates process restarts to use `Core.Kill(true)`
- Removes some old messaging, for example processor optimization
- Fixes missing build cleanup
## Breaking Changes
Incoming packet registration signature has changed to:
```cs
delegate* void OnReceiveCallback(NetState state, SpanReader reader, int packetLength);
IncomingPackets.Register(int packetID, int length, bool ingame, OnReceiveCallback onReceive);
```
For example, an incoming packet handler signature would now look like this:
```cs
public static void SomeIncomingPacket(NetState state, SpanReader reader, int packetLength)
{
// Parse the data
}
```
## Summary
Updates the network Pipe class to use a mirrored memory technique. This technique involves mapping the same physical memory to two contiguous virtual memory spaces so the byte buffer appears duplicated. This allows writing to a double-sized array to wrap around without the need for the `CircularBuffer` classes.
In practice this allows us to use `Span<byte>` as if the buffer was a regular array.
### Bug Fixes
- [X] Fixes bad fixed length string parsing
- [X] Adds a stop music packet
- [X] Converts chat packets
- [X] Breaks out chat code a little bit more
- [X] Converts character statue animation packet
- [X] Renames some folders to have spaces
- [X] Organizes and consolidates incoming/outgoing packets for other content
- [X] Fixes virtual checks
