Well you're right about the bugs and so it is more rapid solution in the Linux world.
To well paid programmers or/and to many bosses gives can give bad results.

I personally have just paid for a single Windows version a looong time ago and it was W95', after that it has been a job benefit to make back-up's and install Pro / Ultimate versions of the Corporate MSDN Library.

urbanterror.info:
With less than a week to go before the release of Urban Terror 4.2 Beta we would like to share some more information about the Auth system.

First of all, to be able to use the Auth system you need to be registered. And like the game, registering an account is free ! Of course you can still play Urban Terror 4.2 without an account, we don't expect all game servers to force full authentication.

The Auth system is a powerful tool that allows you to sign in to your Urban Terror account from within the game. The game servers you connect to will be able to identify you as well as the other players on the server.
As you maybe can imagine this will make it easier to manage servers and can potentially give many more benefits to improve your gaming experience.



Features:
• One account per player.

• Notoriety
Your notoriety in Urban Terror says something about your experience. In general, the longer you play and the more experience you gain, the higher your notoriety.

• With Auth enabled clan tag's are protected.
Later account name protection will follow. For now players can use whichever alias they want on servers. However, on connection to a game server your Urban Terror account name will be displayed to everyone.

• Server admins decide whether the connection on their server allows for players who do not have an account: /auth_notoriety 0.

• Server admins can also use a cvar to turn off/on the auth system: /auth_enable 0/1.

• Server admins can get information about the players on their servers like account levels with rcon. /rcon auth-whois playername/id.

• Server admins manage their ban-lists through their group management page. You can find your group(s) here.

• Server admins may choose to use the ban-lists of other admins. You can find the banlist of each group here.

The Auth system is available with Urban Terror 4.2 using the dedicated server binary provided by Frozen Sand.

NB: Do not share your Auth key with anyone ! It is private like a password.

The Auth system is still a BETA. Many more features will follow, we will gradually introduce more and more.

For further discussion please visit our forum.

-we also need to discuss the de- or activation of the auth system. as you see there are lots of advantages listed, unfortunately it comes with some disadvantages, too.

I think we need to play with the auth system before any final decision is made, so I'm inclined to say we leave it off for now.

We are currently suffering from a Server Failure. We have closed the forums in order to continue service. They will return as soon as we replace the faulty hardware!

is the "french" way to say we found some release-critical bugs and were not able to fix it in time...

2 hours later....

www.urbanterror.info

Forums Locked

The forums are temporarily closed, but you can use the website as usual.
We apologize for any problems caused.


translation: -complaints or annoying questions are temporarily blocked- ( )

Current version (4.2)
Coming soon!

Why does this not surprise me? Oh, wait. They're just continuing the trend.

Frozen Sand choose a favorite!:

“Sometimes life is so complicated to keep promises.”
― Lee Monroe

“Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.”
― Kristin Hannah, Distant Shores

“Some promises aren’t worth keeping.”
― Holly Black, Black Heart

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.”
― Bree Despain, The Dark Divine

“Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.
~Author Unknown

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
~Hannah Arendt

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

All promise outruns performance.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
~Thomas Fuller

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. ~Norman Vincent Peale

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
~Proverb

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
~German Proverb

A promise made is a debt unpaid.
~Robert Service

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
~Jonathan Swift

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
~Abraham Lincoln

If you need help to choose, here's two good ones: Thomas Fuller's or Abe's!!!

k, i somehow managed to get the client and server binary:

ive tested the UrTdownloader on:
Linux 64 bit, Linux 32 bit, Windows 7 64 bit, Windows XP 32 bit
-NADA- it didnt work for me on ALL Operating Systems -FAIL-. In Linux it wont start downloading, in Windows u have to install a M$blabla.DLL which also didnt work for me

I had to download the client software via torrent: k.cher.pp.ru/UrbanTerror42.torrent
you can put it in your UrT 4.1 directory and it still keep all your previous settings and bindings.
I also downloaded the server binary via wget command by pasting the direct-link from urbanterror.info onto the S3 LG server.


my message @FrozenSand: game indeed "BETA" only, UrTdownloader is ALPHA/"experimental",

@clan: after testing this I cannot imagine that any UrT league is going to use UrT 4.2 beta for the upcoming season. I could setup an additional 4.2 server, but i highly recommend to not replace the 4.1.1 version until EVERYBODY wants to play the new version. JFI: atm there are 2 master server lists for both versions and 24 servers running the new version.


another comment: @Frozen Sand: I found your "HARDWARE ISSUE/SERVER FAILURE" -> well hidden in the server binary's name: "ioQ3 1.35urt linux-x86_64 Aug 3 2012". reread it: 3rd of August

Thanks man for the info and the effort

...and well they manage to disappoint a lot of people and seems to believe that closing the forum will help silence the questions and what not reactions.