Changelog v2.8.0 | Legends of War MUD

v2.8.0 - 2026-06-28

Delivered the magic overhaul release, introducing the Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, and Shadow school model across reviewed spell damage, resistance resolution, saves, combat tests, and builder-facing displays.
Added direct NPC school resistance support, including mstat reporting, medit schoolres <school|all> <value>, area save/load persistence, and medit auto* defaults for generated mobs.
Modernized legacy spell identities toward Warcraft-themed names, including wrath, frostbolt, arcane barrage, arcane missiles, holy fire, shadow word ruin, thunderstorm, blinding light, scorch, curse of agony, lay on hands, and Shadow fear.
Split old generic spell families into class-themed variants, including the cause line and multi missile, while adding deployment conversion for class-aware player files, class templates, area/object references, and data/skills.dat.
Removed obsolete spells and stale class data, including control weather, create rose, know level, age, youth, non-playable Bard/Defiler/ Illusionist class templates, and the legacy ROM skill-group subsystem.
Made class files sparse by defaulting missing abilities to inactive 102/0 and preventing legacy skills.dat sLevels/sRates rows from overriding class-file assignments.
Added scripts/feature-deploy.sh to wrap runtime backups, persisted-state conversion, idempotence verification, build, and optional copyover for the forward-only spell-name migration.
Archived the release checklist as docs/changes/v2.8.0-TODO.md and the final magic-overhaul report as reports/magic-overhaul.md.