Notable changes
This is a major release of the server but is fully backwards compatible with the 2.x releases. Have a look at the release announcement for more details: https://heroiclabs.com/blog/announcements/nakama-3-0/
Added
- New JavaScript runtime to write server code.
- Introduce refresh tokens that can be used to refresh sessions.
- New Realtime Parties for users to create teamplay in games. Users can form a party and communicate with party members.
- Add party matching support to the Matchmaker.
- Add options to the Matchmaker to control how long tickets wait for their preferred match.
- Add Console UI permissions API.
- New "ReadFile" runtime function to read files within the "--runtime.path" folder.
Changed
- Rebuild Console UI with Angular framework. Manage user data, update objects, restrict access to production with permission profiles, and gain greater visibility into realtime features like active matches.
- Matchmaker improvements to the process for matching and the handling of player count ranges.
- Authoritative match handlers can now tick at 60 per second.
- Support CockroachDB 20.2 release.
- Build with Go 1.15.6 release.
Fixed
- Return rank field in Lua API for leaderboard record writes.
- Return social fields for users in friend listings.
NOTE: For developers who use the Go server runtime support. The nakama-common package at v1.11.0 must be used with this release.
env GO111MODULE=on go get "github.com/heroiclabs/nakama-common/runtime@v1.11.0"