Update 2.2.0.529 of 8th of March 2015

• Farkle: C key works also even if it isn't your turn
• Added /add and /accept commands
• From now on, new accounts aren't allowed to talk, send PM, or add friends during their 3 first days

A surprise news, and not a small thing, also appeared in this release. Try to find it !
Small clue: space pizza

Update 2.2.0.536 of 14th of March 2015

You can now subscribe to a forum, so that you are notified by e-mail when a new message is posted.

Update 2.2.0.567 of 28th of August 2015 :

• 1000 miles: definitive fix of the bug, which allowed from time to time to make a dirty trick with unrelated cards, e.g. an unflattenable against an accident.
• Preparations for a future IPv6 support, part 1/3

Update 2.2.0.272 of 17th November 2015

1000 miles: Key I now gives information / game state only for yourself, and that's now Shift+I that gives information for all players. Suggested by jeremyp3.

Update 2.2.0.574 of 1st December 2015 :

• New in Rami, Spades, Tarot, Jass and 1000 miles: if there is a tie, a new round is started, even if the score limit or the fixed number of rounds have been reached.
• Change in Rami: it is now always possible to make rami even if the minimum number of points needed for a first meld isn't reached, except in games without discard pile.
• New in free table: table master can activate dice rolls and coin tosses with command /rolls, then /NdF and /Nc, N=nb. rolls/tosses, F=nb. die faces.
• New in Monopoly: new board Latin-America
• Upgraded to Java 8

2015 Christmas update :

• New games: backgammon and belote
• Tarot: in games with 5 players, according to the official rules of FFT (France tarot federation), it isn't allowed to start the first trick with the called suit. But it is possible to start with the exact card called. (Example: if the king of hearts is called, you aren't allowed to start the first trick with hearts, but you can start with the king of hearts). This later possibility is now also available on the playroom.
• Tarot: fixed bugs in scoring with poignées and petit au bout.

• Tarot: fixed bugs in scoring in games with 6 players in case there are only 2 attackers instead of 3. Score repartition in these cases can now be 1/2-1/2, 2/3-1/3 or 5/6-1/6 depending on where were the called cards.
• Jass: match is now worth 257 points (bonus of 100 points)
• Jass: fixed a bug which allowed to choose trump after having passed to the parthner. Signaled by YNWA.
• Forum: fixed bugs related to subscriptions, whcih whether didn't work, or redirected to random topics after subscription/unsubscription.

Update 2.2.0.588 of 27th March 2016

• Important update to the friend list, of which the capacity doubled for the occasion
• PM work again as before; a letter case bug has been solved
• Backgammon: fixed a bug when restoring a game

Update 2.2.0.603 of 8th of October 2016

The web client got a major update:

• Bug fixed on firefox 49+ and Safari 10+ which prevent input dialog boxes from poping up
• Definitive disappearance of flash for browsers that are uncompatible with websockets
• Added support for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9. Portable braille notetakers which run under an old windows CE embedding a light version of IE7 or IE8 should also work
• Added support for Microsoft Edge

Update 2.2.0.606 of 17th of December 2016:

• The website and the web client can now work with HTTPS, making the communications between you and the playroom server encrypted and thus protected from malicious people. Warning: this doesn't work yet for windows client, for which communications are still in clear. We hope also to support secure communication in the windows client soon.
• Bug fixed in monopoly, which blocked sometimes a game because of an undeclared bankrupt

Update 2.2.0.607 of 29.01.2017:

• Improvement Yahtzee: when doing a yahtzee, you can now put 30 or 40 points in any row
• Improvement farkle: bots have been made slightly smarter
• Bug uno: when the timer expired, an extra turn were skipped when the card drawn wasn't playable
• Bug spades: the number of tricks bid wasn't correct during the betting phase
• Bug belote: the cancel option was passing instead of cancelling i the menu take/pass/cancel

Update 2.2.0.617 of 9th of July 2017

• General: the playroom switched to SSL by default
• General: when a player is spectator at a table, his status stays available instead of becoming busy.
• Zanzibar: added a sound when the load phase is over
• Quiz: the game goes next as soon as everybody has answered to the question, instead of always waiting to the end of the thinking time

Update 2.2.0.618 of 28th of September 2017:

• Scopa: a messages is displayed at the last card distribution (suggestion by GK)
• Quiz: the shortcut Ctrl+G to signal questions should now work again for all users

News of 15th of november 2017:
Renewed the site and the web client. For more info, see the associated news topic.

News of 27th of May 2018:
Beginning the progressive distribution of the windows client in version 2.2.8. This version fix a few bugs and connection to playroom is from now on by default in SSL.

Update of 12th of October 2018

Release two new games:

• Citadels
• Mexican train

Update of 5th of January 2019:

• Citadels: the queen didn't get her coins in case she was the last player in the table and the king the first or conversely
• Rummy, 1000 miles: opening the context menu by a double long tap on web client / iPhone didn't do it on the right card
• Rummy, 1000 miles: new gestures web client / iPhone: double long tap then sweep right to junk a card, sweep left to draw
• Hearts, Cribbage, Tarot: space key allows now to select/deselect cards as enter key in multiple selection menus, too (exchanges / send to kitty / send to crib)
• General: when a player join a table while he's in spectator mode, it is now mentioned

• General/Home: in the join table, the context menu key, Shift+F10, or a triple tap allow to have scores or rules of the table (equivalent of informations delivered by S, Shift+S and R keys) without the need to join the table
• Spades, tarot, jass, belote, Hearts, bouillabaisse, Eternal second: number keys now also tell who played which card
• chess: move messages now tell the starting square
• Yahtzee: the game kept still going after the second last player leave the table

Update of 4th of August 2019

When you have received several invitations, pressing Ctrl+J now shows a menu where you can select which table to join, instead of responding to the last invitation received. If you have only a single invitation, you go directly to the table as before, no menu shows up.

Update of 26 december 2019:

• New in Citadels: with 3 and 4 players, you can now play with two characters per turn
• New in dominos: two new game options: enable/disable draw and team finish mode.
• Improvement Citadels: The D key outside character or card menus now tell you which character(s) you have chosen for the current turn
• Improvement dominos: You can now sort your dominos like in the mexican train, with the key Shift+H
• Bug monopoly: values were sometimes abnormally rounded, especially during trades (e.g. 2000 changed to 1999 after typing in the amount or when the operation is performed)
• Bug monopoly: incorrect announcement of having a complette group, after changing board
• Bug mexican train: IF sorting was on (shortcut Shift+H), it wasn't kept when drawing a domino
• Bug Cribbage: when a player left the table when counting his hand or the crib, the replacing bot didn't count it, blocking the game
• Bug reversi: correcting a weakness, allowing to multiply victories

Update of 14th March 2020:

• General: fixed a bunch of translation errors and typos
• General: bots have been slightly accelerated in most of your favorite games
• Uno: The D key now allows to play a card directly without asking a color or exchange hand
• Hearts: updated rules on the webpage about shooting the sun
• Hearts: with 6 players, a round contains 25 points instead of 26points, because of the removed 3s and in particular the 3 of heart. Shooting the moon is adjusted to 0/25 and shooting the sun to -25/+25 instead of 0/26 and -26/+26.
• Citadelles: When playing with two characters and when the thief stole himself, stolen gold disappeared completely
• Monopoly: fixed scoring display
• Chess: fixed FEN import/export
• Chess: the long and the short castle are now notified differently
• Chess: the playroom sometimes allowed castling in conditions where it should normally be illegal, for example when the king was in check or when a square traversed by the king was under opponent's control

Update of 2nd October 2020:

• Added new board in ducks race: ducks' anniversary
• Added new game: barbu

Update of 24th of December 2020:

• Scopa: added a new game variant suggested on the forum: inverted scopa / scopa muerto. See updated rules for more details.
• Scopa: in manual trick selection mode, a teammate could catch you for an error and so make your own team win 2 points.
• Spades: added three new optional game variants. See updated rules for more details.
• Barbu: barbu is now in statistics page
• Bouillabaisse: fixed statistics
• Quiz party: it is now possible to submit questions from web client

3 september 2021: launching client 3.0 for the first time
See the associated news: http://qcsalon.net/en/forum8/topic84196

1st of April 2022:

• True false April fool's news
• Move to a new server
• Switching to a new networking software library (netty)
• New duck's race challenges: musical challenge, counting, braille, speed question; updated existing challenges mental math and number writing.
• New humoristic game for the 1st of April: press enter game

See associated news: https://qcsalon.net/en/forum8/topic95046

Update of mid-may 2022

• Fixed bugs related to new duck race challenges released in april 2022
• New duck race challenges: rhythmic challenge, secret code
• New duck race challenges are now also available with the web client
• Fixed some bugs related to automatic message reading in ARIA live zones on the web client
• New web client feature: browser speech synthesizer
• New feature little exam: random draw judge mode. In that mode, the judge is randomly chosen for each proposition, taking if possible someone different than those who made the proposition to be judged. This allows to no longer totally skip a round because you are judge for the round.

Update of 24th of september 2022:

• Opening the playroom in Serbian language! Everything isn't yet translated, but a significant part has been already done to allow this new language to be available for everyone. Thank you to Nikola for the translation!
• Cribbage: in case of scoring error, opponents will at most get 10 points. There was no limit previously, what could make a game to be lost very quickly because of a single error.
• Dominos: new options have appeared, and now the double 0 is always worth 0 points in all cases.
• Little exam: when you have filled all answers, press space to immediatly close the round. You get a bonus of 3 points if all your answers are judged correct, or a malus of 3 points otherwise.

Update of 11th of november 2022:

• Official release of the game scrabble
• Fixed a bug visualization of permanent or forum messages on the windows client
• Setting up development website, preparing for web client and website modernisation
• Other minor bugfixes and preparations for upcoming new games

Update of 28th of december 2022

- Added the poll/survey feature in forums

Update of 13th of january 2023

- Ninety nine: added new limited time per turn option like in uno and some other games

Update of 27th january 2023

• Ducks race: new board: ducks at the casino
• Ducks race: added the super challenge principle
• Ducks race: added 16 new challenges and super challenges, for a total of 27
• ducks race: several fixes that should allow to better manage events in chain such as a question and then a challenge, a challenge and then a super challenge, or a challenge, then a move, and then another challenge

Update of 7th of July 2023:

• General: reply to the person yo wrote to last with @@. The simple @ don't change, it still allows you to reply to the perso who wrote to you last.
• General: from now on, only tables you can effectively join are displayed in the join table menu. Tables you can't join because they are private or due to confidentiality settings of the table master are no longer displayed at all.

Update of 15th of July 2023:

• The little exam: new option to enable/disable stopping the round with space key.
• Duck racing: it is now possible to save duck racing tables. To be able to do so, no action (challenge, question, etc.) must be in progress.

Update of 29th of October 2023:
Three new games are added to our list: Golf, Fives and threes, Tysiac/1000, after a first successful beta-test session.
Thank you very much to all beta-testers, who helped us releasing these new games today without major bugs!
Stay tuned for the next beta-test session, which won't be about new games.

Update of 24th of February 2024

Big update of the web client and website in general. View the associated news