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The Battle for Wesnoth v1.15.2 Release Notes

  • ### AI:

    • Experimental AI:
      • Fix guardians being used for village actions
      • Fix poisoners ignoring [avoid] tag
      • Recruitment: add optional parameter high_level_fraction to make the ExpAI recruit units of level 2 or higher
      • Recruitment: adopt optional randomness parameter from the Rush Recruitment Micro AI ### Campaigns
    • Delfador's Memoirs:
      • S20: Improve leveling of units and give player a note about it (issue #4219)
      • S21: Better indication that the book has gone missing (issue #4220)
    • Descent into Darkness:
      • Use set colors for each faction throughout the campaign
    • Eastern Invasion:
      • Updated to use the new mushroom terrains (PR #4335)
    • Heir to the Throne:
      • S04: Sea Orc uses now a portrait
    • Northern Rebirth:
      • Updated to use the new mushroom terrains
    • The Rise of Wesnoth:
      • Updated to use the new mushroom terrains
    • Under the Burning Suns:
      • Updated to use the new mushroom terrains (PR #4336)
    • Wings of Victory:
      • S01: Make easier on easy and improve flow of enemies
      • Slight dialog improvements ### Editor
    • Added an editor-only overlay for deprecated terrains (PR #4347)
    • Re-enabled and updated the editor topics in the help browser (PR #4414) ### Language and i18n
    • New translations: Ancient Greek
    • Updated translations: British English, Czech, Chinese (Simplified), French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish
    • Set up for translating the Wings of Victory campaign (PR #4265)
    • Changed the :help command's output to split over multiple lines
    • Added translatable explanations of :droid, :help and :idle's arguments
    • Allow carets in translatable strings - 'hintTbTf' will show 'TbTf' to the user
    • Removed translations: Old English (ang), Friulian (fur_IT) and Asturian (ast) ### Terrains
    • Added new Tf mushroom terrain whose statistics are fungus+base terrain, as suggested by the existing graphics (PR #4299)
    • Added Tb mushroom base terrain, which can be used alone or as TbTf when a terrain with the fungus-only stats is wanted ### User interface
    • Draw ellipses during draw/sheath animations (issue #1527).
    • In the combat dialog and elsewhere, clicking the "Profile" button opens the help on the correct unit variation (e.g., Walking Corpse (Swimmer)) (issue #4142).
    • The attack dialog now shows the correct name of an inactive weapon special (issue #4352).
    • Tooltips of sidebar, top bar, and status table now show a side's color's name in words, for the colorblind (issue #1217).
    • In the recruit dialog and recall dialog, units that are too expensive to recruit/recall are grayed out (PR #4362, PR #4444, part of issue #1282).
    • Hide the "Suppose Dead" key from the hotkeys list (it does nothing since 1.9.12)
    • Sidebar: In replays with "View: Full Map", show all enemy units in "Damage versus:" tooltip
    • Multiplayer Create Game screen now shows map previews for scenarios that use map_file= (PR #4407).
    • Remember zoom level between play sessions (issue #1518) and add zoom options to context menu (issue #1213)
    • Sidebar shows number of attacks left, for units that can attack multiple times per turn (issue #2667) ### Lua API
    • Accessing wesnoth.theme_items.unit_status no longer prevents the unit status (poisoned/slowed/etc) from being shown in the sidebar (issue #4079).
    • side.flag is now writable. wesnoth.set_side_id remains supported (issue #4396).
    • Units now have a __tostring method that shows their id and location. ### WML engine
    • Ranges can now have upper limit "infinity" instead of using a big number like "99" or "99999"
    • Print a deprecation warning for [terrain_type]'s partly-implemented vision_alias
    • Special notes for units now use a new system, with a [special_note]note= tag:
      • This tag is supported both in [unit] and in [unit_type]. If used in [unit], it will override the type's notes.
      • Standard special notes should now be added with {NOTE_*} instead of {SPECIAL_NOTES_*}.
      • In [effect]apply_to=profile, [special_note] is now supported to add/remove special notes.
    • Support for the deprecated "&image.png=text" syntax has been removed in all contexts - use the DescriptionWML attributes instead.
    • Fix infinite recursion in SUF with [hides] and [filter_vision] (issue #1389).
    • The {TRAIT_LOYAL} trait now adds the loyal overlay.
    • The ellipse, overlay & image_mods attributes of units are now reset when a unit advances. This means those attributes should now by default changed via [effect].
    • New tag [modify_unit_type] that goes into [campaign]/[era]/[modification] and can change some unit type properties like advancement and recruit costs.
    • New debug command :terrain for changing the terrain of the selected hex (PR #4405).
    • New predefined macros {LEFT_BRACE} and {RIGHT_BRACE} (PR #4432).
    • Weapon filtering special=* deprecated, replaced by new special_id=* and special_type=* (issue #3915). ### Miscellaneous and bug fixes
    • Fixed :droid's arguments not all being optional (issue #4308).
    • Ported the expand-terrain-macros, wmlflip, wmlparser, umc-dev/build/update_version, wiki_grabber, ai_test and unused_functions tools to Python 3
    • It's now possible to chat with oneself in SP campaigns. Chat is shown in replays (issue #1111).
    • Removed unused scoutDefault, journeylifter, wescamp_import and wmlvalidator Python tools
    • Fixed wmlscope not correctly performing expansion of square braces in filenames in some conditions
    • New help topic outlining common (and less common) reasons for losing a scenario (PR #4217).
    • Add help text for some debug commands (part of issue #2500).
    • Improve the terrain code's encapsulation and documentation (PR #4411).
    • Fix duration=scenario objects expiry for units on the recall list at scenario end.
    • Fix maps with scenario_generation= being unavailable in the editor.
    • Passing relative paths to --user-data-dir is deprecated (part of PR #4449). However, on Windows relative paths that start with .\ are not deprecated.
    • Removed incomplete joystick support.
    • Removed option to disable unit and item halos.
    • Added support to wmlxgettext for double-quote characters in translatable raw strings