Some of the updates inlcude the ability for infected to hear you through objects, reduced FPS usage and a number of exploits have been fixed.
UPDATE : 9 JULY 2012
Use Beta patch 94444 or above
Affected addons:
- dayz_code 1.7.2
- dayz 1.3.1
- dayz_equip 1.3.4
- dayz_anim 0.3
Changelog:
[FIXED] Infected hear perfectly through objects (noise reduced by 50% through an object)
[FIXED] Animal bodies despawn way too fast (now despawn automatically after 2 minutes)
[FIXED] Corrupted update data causes people to spawn in debug forest (now will not save corrupted position data)
[FIXED] States where animal might stop walking around (now should walk around more)
[FIXED] Animal AI routines consuming large amounts of FPS (now in line with Infected AI routines, reduced FPS usage)
[FIXED] Hatchet/Crowbar requires reloading ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34903 )
[FIXED] Unlimited Wire fence/Sandbag/Tank Trap Bug ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34283 )
[FIXED] Duplication Exploit on object pickup ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/34031 )
[FIXED] Not full magazines disappear when you reconnect ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/33998 )
[FIXED] Dead bodies still have the heart beat for low humanity ( https://dev-heaven.net/issues/35050 )
[FIXED] Object cleanup causing significant (huge) performance issue on servers (reduced by up to 50%, means more players + zombies possible)
[FIXED] Use of "allMissionObjects" causing performance issue on clients (new engine command "entities" used to improve FPS on clients)
[FIXED] Too easy to break legs due to infected (reduced probability of leg damage, reduced amount of leg damage)
[FIXED] Inspection of dead bodies does not work (fix only applies with ArmA2 Beta 94033 and above)
[FIXED] Error reports are almost invisible (has now been fixed)
[FIXED] Daylight calculations causing slight FPS issue
[NEW] Visibility now smoothly alters based on sun, moon, cloud, rain, and fog state
[NEW] Aubility now dampened in rain and increased by fog
[NEW] Exponent driven probability introduced into visibility calculation
[NEW] Player Syncing system replaced (increased performance and ammo quantity tracking)
[NEW] Set Bear Traps that break player and infected legs, kills animals, when activated
[NEW] Authentication process streamlined with new ArmA2 Beta commands (publicVariableServer and publicVariableClient)
[NEW] Authentication for duplicate IDs supportive of the new beta patch (ArmAX users)