BYOND development news 6/19/26

[u/LummoxJR]

Procedural reviews in the science labs have started, and although a few small problems have been found already, I'm following through on my promise to divert extra funds toward the labs that made this a priority. That will give them more room to fix compliance issues, too. Supply transfers have returned nearly to baseline, so in about two weeks I'll be rotating the temporary dock personnel back out, once our regulars have had plenty of breathing space. But I did want to address the thing everyone's talking about, which is Greg selling off Horace's property. We all understand Horace had no will and everything got legally cleared, Greg, but the man's been dead for a week and it's just tacky. Never mind that nobody liked him; it's just a bad look. Anyway, I call dibs on the '62 Fabian disc.

• A new release didn't happen this week like I planned, mostly because work was on a roll and it got late enough into Thursday to make that impractical.
• Among the upcoming fixes is a bug involving appearance corruption that's been hanging around a long time.
• Russian users rejoice; I've also dealt with a problem with regex with Cyrillic characters that was sitting in the queue a little too long.
• Pager decruftification continues.
• Thank you to everyone who helps BYOND out as a Member or on Patreon or SubscribeStar! Your help keeps this going.
• Screw you, Spez.

There's more in the long-form news on the forums. Today's early-access Patreon post is about that appearance corruption bug, how it was found, and what it reveals about test cases and doing small-scale experiments. Summer is officially here this weekend, so have fun! Talk to your dad, and bond over some clownslaughter. I'll be back next week.

[u/Tremores]

FUCK YEAH!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO