IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles: Dedicated Server patches

This is a mirror of official patches for dedicated server of «IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles» flight simulator.

Contains original EXE files.

Also includes ZIP versions, which are just repacked versions of original EXE. Useful for non-Windows systems.

Patches

Patches are listed on the releases page.

Docker images

Docker images are available as il2horusteam/il2ds.

Downloader

This repository contains a downloader of server's patches downloader/il2fb_download_ds.py.

The downloader allows to fetch both EXE and ZIP versions of patches.

Installation

Depends on Python 3.7+.

The downloader runs as a local script, hence clone this repo or download the following files:

• downloader/il2fb_download_ds.py
• downloader/requirements.txt

Installation of dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage synopsis

usage: il2fb_download_ds.py [-h] [-v VERSION_SPEC [VERSION_SPEC ...]]
                            [--with-zip] [--no-zip] [--with-exe] [--no-exe]
                            [-o OUTPUT_DIR]

Download patches for dedicated server of IL-2 FB

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v VERSION_SPEC [VERSION_SPEC ...], --version VERSION_SPEC [VERSION_SPEC ...]
                        versions to download, all versions are downloaded by
                        default; separate mulpiple values with space; ex:
                        '4.14.1', ex: '>=4.12', ex: '<3', ex: '==4.12.*', ex:
                        '>=4.12,<4.13', ex: '==4.11.1' '==4.10.1'
  --with-zip            download repacked ZIP versions of pathes (enabled by
                        default)
  --no-zip              do not download repacked ZIP versions of pathes
  --with-exe            download original EXE versions of pathes (enabled by
                        default)
  --no-exe              do not download original EXE versions of pathes
  -o OUTPUT_DIR, --output-dir OUTPUT_DIR
                        output directory for downloaded files (default:
                        './patches')

Checksums

The downloader fetches MD5 checksums for every patch. However, it's up to the user to check patches against their checksums.

Usage examples

Download all patches, both EXE and ZIP:

./il2fb_download_ds.py

Download all patches, EXE-only:

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-zip

Download all patches, ZIP-only:

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-exe

Download ZIP patch of version '4.14.1':

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-exe -v '4.14.1'

Download all ZIP patches of version '4.12' and newer:

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-exe -v '>=4.12'

Download all ZIP patches older that version '3':

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-exe -v '<3'

Download all ZIP patches of version '4.12.*' ('4.12', '4.12.1', '4.12.2'):

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-exe -v '4.12.*'

The same as above:

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-exe -v '>=4.12,<4.13'

Download all ZIP patches between versions '4.09' and '4.12' inclusive:

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-exe -v '>=4.09,<=4.12'

Download ZIP patches of versions '4.11.1' and '4.10.1':

./il2fb_download_ds.py --no-exe -v '4.11.1' '4.10.1'

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