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Dynamic enumeration and loading of plugins is working this will make maintenance of ports easier.
I still haven't tested plugins under linux but they do work in windows and mac os so linux should be fine as it uses nearly the same code as mac os does.

Speaking of which the Mac OS Port is near done and should be completed shortly after plugin support. Once both are done I'll release a new version of OpenArena and go back to work on some kind of model system and collision detection.

I'm currently porting OpenArena to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Once that's complete and any I've tested any new code in windows and linux I'll resume development of the engine. I had been unable to work on OpenArena much because I've been learning to develop for OSX for the last few months.

OpenArena v0.1.2 has been released both as a source tarball for linux and an installer for windows (source and binaries in the same installer) From the end user's perspective not much has changed from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2 however alot of the code has been rewritten/refactored. The code is much cleaner and more object oriented than before. This marks the first release that works on linux. The only feature the windows version has that the linux version doesn't is sound. The audio subsystem as well as many other subsystems are being implemented as plugins and I didn't want to confuse the existing code by adding audio support for linux when the next release should have a completely different audio system.
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The linux port is almost complete the only things left are getting the console to work (the in game one), making the mouse cursor go away when inside the window, and packaging a release. The porting has given me a chance better abstract things. I intend to implement a system of plugin libraries so an end user could select various rendering methods other than OpenGL. Some sort of plugin architecture would make the porting a little easier but probably won't happen until after christmas.... read more

The linux version is coming together. It compiles and runs but I still have to make it actually render the file and fix event handling ie input. I hope to have a new release of both the linux and windows versions soon.