Likewise, I don’t see the reason you started this update discussion. I only created the thread to ask about how mp3 files were enabled in 3.2 and get some suggestions regarding that specifically. I agree that the rest is largely a waste of words.
After a quick search, this post includes my conclusions after testing early 3.2 private servers and provides links to this thread. It’s possible I also mentioned that fix in some other related threads.
My use case was explained in one or more threads on this forum several years ago. You might also want to search the posting history of user danmey, who used to help my gaming group with the hack until his unfortunate death last fall.
If you’re interested, there are also some several years old feature request threads. However, our most needed features were already implemented in our 3.1.20 hack. It’s amateurish hack, but so far it works for us well enough.
There are also some minor interface changes that I don’t think you would want to include (I pretty much disabled chatting and some server controls that we never use).
But really, I suggest that you don’t bother with that stuff.