Editing Release 114 (section)

==RELEASE 114, May 25th, 2023==
Greetings Fellow Avatars!

Release 114 goes live May 25th at 10:30 AM CDT.

Welcome! The Catnip Games development team marks this monthly release of [[Shroud of the Avatar]] with new content and improvements. For Release 114 (R114), we offer a few new quests in [[Port Harmony]] and a few old beings who resent have been awakened.

For those wishing to participate in any [https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=35475 community activities], upcoming one-time and recurring community events have been announced! Be sure to also review the [https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/playerguide/ Player Guide] and [https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/knownissues/ Known Issues] for additional information on recent changes and upcoming fixes.<ref>[[Avatar's Update]]: [https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=132426 Play Release 114!]</ref>
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===Release Day Work Window Changes===
[https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/release-deployment-work-window-may-25th-for-release-114.174406/ From a Forum Post by Ravalox]<br>[[Image:sota-ornate-hourglass.jpg|800px]]

Starting with this release, we will be taking the game server offline at 08:00 AM CT instead of 9am as in the past. This is mainly to streamline the time used for the work window and prevent our maintenance from extending further into the day when additional maintenance is required.

Shifting our work windows to start at 8am better syncs with our pre-scheduled database backups (preventing us from having to execute a second backup when we take the server down) and provides more time to perform any additional maintenance steps, including database migrations, while still returning the server to operation by 10:30 AM CT.

Our published work window will be from 08:00 AM CT to 10:30 AM CT, but we will bring the server back up as soon as work is completed if earlier than the end of the work window. This means that, for most release deployments, the work should be completed and the server restored to service by 09:30 AM CT instead of the usual 10:30 AM CT.

In the event we have a larger deployment, we will still advise the community of any extended outage times well in advance of the scheduled work day/time.
– Ravalox

===Blood River Outskirts and Vermillion Lens Quest Items===
We are working to resolve issues that are preventing players from obtaining or using certain quest items in Blood River Outskirts as well as the Vermillion Lens Assembly quest.

Though we put a fix in place, it appears that the issues are not fully resolved. We will provide a patch for this as soon as we have verified a fix on the QA server.

– Ravalox