Version 0.18.28

[FactorioBot]

Gui

• Minor visual changes and fixes to achievement and tutorial related guis.

Bugfixes

• Fixed that changing script areas and positions through the map editor in multiplayer as the client didn't work correctly. (85308)
• Fixed a crash when clearing logistic requests. (85323)
• Fixed some styles being defined twice in style.lua. (85337)
• Fixed follower robot count alert not showing correctly. (85313)
• Fixed container gui not showing logistics filters properly in large containers. (85338)
• Fixed wrong open/close sound for chemical plant. (85315)

Modding

• Added support to play a sound when opening dropdowns through opened_sound.
• Improved performance by up to 2.5x when the game needs to iterate Lua tables on the C++ side.
• Improved save/load performance of mod script data.

Scripting

• Lua functions are now explicitly disallowed in the script 'global' table.
• Added LuaSurface::generate_with_lab_tiles read/write
• Added LuaEntity::mine().

Use the automatic updater if you can (check experimental updates in other settings) or download full installation at http://www.factorio.com/download/experimental.

[SuperSandro2000]

Steam version is in the pipeline?

[billbo99]

• Improved performance by up to 2.5x when the game needs to iterate Lua tables on the C++ side.
• Improved save/load performance of mod script data.

Does any one have a reference posts on these two changes ?

[raiguard]

• Improved performance by up to 2.5x when the game needs to iterate Lua tables on the C++ side.
• Improved save/load performance of mod script data.

This is amazing! Thank you for the speedup!

[Zaflis]

Steam version is in the pipeline?

It is already available for Steam.

[Optera]

Why did the Quickbar option button get even smaller!?

[SuperSandro2000]

Steam version is in the pipeline?

It is already available for Steam.

It wasn't when I wrote the post. Took an hour or so longer.

[leoch]

• Improved performance by up to 2.5x when the game needs to iterate Lua tables on the C++ side.
• Improved save/load performance of mod script data.

Does any one have a reference posts on these two changes ?

In case you didn't see it yet, bottom of the last blog post: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-349

I guess all the mod-breaking changes recently are to pave the way for 1.0. Good stuff. (I learned my lesson and now backup the entire game folder before updating. Hard-links (cp -al) work fine for this!)