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  • v1.17.0 Changes

    ### Campaigns

    • A Tale of Two Brothers
      • The mercenary will now spawn in a less sudden way (issue #6183)
    • Delfador’s Memoirs
      • S07: Clarified objectives (issue #5608) and remove End Turn being required to trigger victory (issue #6173)
    • Descent into Darkness
      • S08: Prevent possibility of Darken Volk advancing to Lich (issue #6351)
    • Heir to the Throne
      • S05b: Temples given an aged appearance to match ‘ancient temples’ description (issue #5576)
    • Liberty
      • S06: Enforce failure condition for allied team (issue #6019)
    • Northern Rebirth
      • Give Eryssa’s side a consistent team color (issue #5375)
    • Sceptre of Fire
      • S04: Mining objectives are much clearer now (issue #6154)
    • Secret of the Ancients
      • S06: Ardonna should no longer mistake hostile bats as ‘my pet’
    • The Rise of Wesnoth
      • S08: The appearance of Naga is now smoother (issue #6140)
      • S19: The troll’s gold is automatically collected upon victory if not already obtained (issue #6141)
      • S19: Avoid units spawning over chasms
      • Remove time-runs-out lose condition for final scenario (issue #6109)
    • Under the Burning Suns
      • Avoid a few possibilities where the Dust Devil could speak (issue #4892)
      • Avoid dehydration status icon persisting into the next scenario (issue #5687)
      • Correct Traveler’s Ring description (issue #6043) and add an icon overlay (issue #6126)
      • S02: Pinnacle rock is now shown during dialogue (issue #6125)
      • S05: Avoid village just taken by the player being re-assigned to the enemy (issue #6187)
      • S06b:
        • Account for non-elvish units encountering Dwarf Sergeant (issue #6196)
        • Grog will not die as quick now (issue #6196 & #6197)
        • Hermit dialogue cannot be accidentally skipped now (issue #6196)
        • Fixed bug where tentacles would not spawn (issue #6196)
        • Fast units cannot get stuck on the wall now (issue #6196)
        • Camera now moves to where the charges are blown up (issue #6197)
        • Fixed weird scout AI behaviour (issue #6196)
      • S09: Rebels joining Kaleh’s side are now loyal (issue #6229 and #6365)
      • The last unit killed to trigger certain events should no longer linger during those events (issue #6341)
      • The Dark Assassin’s race is not revealed until uncloaked (issue #6213)
      • The Dust Devil’s XP bar is now blue (issue #6212)
    • Winds of Fate:
      • New Drakes-centric Campaign added to mainline
    • World Conquest:
      • Fixed for Winged Scepter not giving the correct defence values
      • Corrected the attack icon of ice bow from a lightning bolt to an iceball ### Editor
    • Avoid rare crash situation after editing scenarios (issue #5883) ### Multiplayer ### Lua API
    • Fixed an error in gui.get_user_choice() and added support for the current DescriptionWML syntax (PR #6247) ### Translations
    • Added translations: Spanish (Latin American)
    • Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Turkish.
    • gettext plural forms now have caret prefixes stripped as well (PR #6094). ### Units
    • Added attack image for the Bone Knight’s trample ### User interface
    • Added a VSync option (issue #5018). This defaults to enabled and is available in Preferences -> Display only with SDL 2.0.17 and later as older versions do not support VSync with the software renderer.
    • The names of the abilities used as specials appear in the attack prediction window with specials weapons
    • Added a prompt to allow migrating settings and redownloading add-ons used in a previous version of Wesnoth when starting a new versions for the first time.
    • Ban expiry intervals in the MP UI now only mention the most significant time unit (e.g. "3 minutes" instead of "3 minutes, and 20 seconds") (PR #6097).
    • Steam cloud file is no longer listed in the Load Game dialog.
    • Redefine green text in dialogs and tool-tips so they are no longer ‘too dark’ with recent Pango versions (issue #4348)
    • Gave the main menu's Language button a label again, now displaying the current language.
    • Tweaked margins around the main menu's bottom row.
    • Difficulty no longer displayed in the Load Game dialog when it is not relevant to a save file (issue #5321) ### WML Engine
    • [heal_unit] no longer sets the heal_amount variable.
    • [heal_unit] now supports a variable= key.
    • Added an id field to the items of the arrays generated by [harm_unit]. ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Fixed: keyboard input during the loading screen intermittently caused a crash (issue #4447)
    • AI: fixed custom synced commands not changing the game state
    • Messenger MAI: fixed bug of own units sometimes blocking the path to a waypoint for the messenger
    • Correct unit display adjustments on certain tiles when at zoom level other than 100% (issue #5974)
    • Fix the engine exiting immediately due to a corrupt .mo file (issue #6194)
    • Removed support for writing BMP screenshots (PR #6206).
    • Password storage was fixed to work with multiple accounts (PR #6290)
    • wmllint now automatically removes {MAGENTA_IS_THE_TEAM_COLOR}.
    • wmllint, wmlscope and wmlindent now support the command line --version flag, which reports the current version of Wesnoth (issue #6346).
    • wmllint is now capable of handling unit levels and types when checking recruitment patterns.

  • v1.17.0-dev Changes

    ### Add-ons client ### Add-ons server ### Campaigns

    • A Tale of Two Brothers
      • The mercenary will now spawn in a less sudden way (issue #6183)
    • Delfador’s Memoirs
      • S07: Clarified objectives (issue #5608) and remove End Turn being required to trigger victory (issue #6173)
    • Descent into Darkness
      • S08: Prevent possibility of Darken Volk advancing to Lich (issue #6351)
    • Heir to the Throne
      • S05b: Temples given an aged appearance to match ‘ancient temples’ description (issue #5576)
    • Liberty
      • S06: Enforce failure condition for allied team (issue #6019)
    • Northern Rebirth
      • Give Eryssa’s side a consistent team color (issue #5375)
    • Sceptre of Fire
      • S04: Mining objectives are much clearer now (issue #6154)
    • Secret of the Ancients
      • S06: Ardonna should no longer mistake hostile bats as ‘my pet’
    • The Rise of Wesnoth
      • S08: The appearance of Naga is now smoother (issue #6140)
      • S19: The troll’s gold is automatically collected upon victory if not already obtained (issue #6141)
      • S19: Avoid units spawning over chasms
      • Remove time-runs-out lose condition for final scenario (issue #6109)
    • Under the Burning Suns
      • Avoid a few possibilities where the Dust Devil could speak (issue #4892)
      • Avoid dehydration status icon persisting into the next scenario (issue #5687)
      • Correct Traveler’s Ring description (issue #6043) and add an icon overlay (issue #6126)
      • S02: Pinnacle rock is now shown during dialogue (issue #6125)
      • S05: Avoid village just taken by the player being re-assigned to the enemy (issue #6187)
      • S06b:
        • Account for non-elvish units encountering Dwarf Sergeant (issue #6196)
        • Grog will not die as quick now (issue #6196 & #6197)
        • Hermit dialogue cannot be accidentally skipped now (issue #6196)
        • Fixed bug where tentacles would not spawn (issue #6196)
        • Fast units cannot get stuck on the wall now (issue #6196)
        • Camera now moves to where the charges are blown up (issue #6197)
        • Fixed weird scout AI behaviour (issue #6196)
      • S09: Rebels joining Kaleh’s side are now loyal (issue #6229 and #6365)
      • The last unit killed to trigger certain events should no longer linger during those events (issue #6341)
      • The Dark Assassin’s race is not revealed until uncloaked (issue #6213)
      • The Dust Devil’s XP bar is now blue (issue #6212) ### Editor
    • Avoid rare crash situation after editing scenarios (issue #5883) ### Multiplayer ### Lua API ### Packaging ### Terrain ### Translations
    • Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish.
    • gettext plural forms now have caret prefixes stripped as well (PR #6094). ### Units
    • Added attack image for the Bone Knight’s trample ### User interface
    • Added a VSync option (issue #5018). This defaults to enabled and is available in Preferences -> Display only with SDL 2.0.17 and later as older versions do not support VSync with the software renderer.
    • The names of the abilities used as specials appear in the attack prediction window with specials weapons
    • Added a prompt to allow migrating settings and redownloading add-ons used in a previous version of Wesnoth when starting a new versions for the first time.
    • Ban expiry intervals in the MP UI now only mention the most significant time unit (e.g. "3 minutes" instead of "3 minutes, and 20 seconds") (PR #6097).
    • Steam cloud file is no longer listed in the Load Game dialog.
    • Redefine green text in dialogs and tool-tips so they are no longer ‘too dark’ with recent Pango versions (issue #4348)
    • Gave the main menu's Language button a label again, now displaying the current language.
    • Tweaked margins around the main menu's bottom row.
    • Difficulty no longer displayed in the Load Game dialog when it is not relevant to a save file (issue #5321) ### WML Engine ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Fixed: keyboard input during the loading screen intermittently caused a crash (issue #4447)
    • AI: fixed custom synced commands not changing the game state
    • Messenger MAI: fixed bug of own units sometimes blocking the path to a waypoint for the messenger
    • Correct unit display adjustments on certain tiles when at zoom level other than 100% (issue #5974)
    • Fix the engine exiting immediately due to a corrupt .mo file (issue #6194)
    • Removed support for writing BMP screenshots (PR #6206).
    • Password storage was fixed to work with multiple accounts (PR #6290)
    • wmllint now automatically removes {MAGENTA_IS_THE_TEAM_COLOR}.

  • v1.16.6 Changes

    ### Translations

    • Updated translations: Arabic, British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Turkish ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Fixed drake flare leadership animation over water (issue #3996)
    • Fixed animations not clearing properly when zoomed (issue #6589)
    • Fixed the {IS_HERO} macro to avoid losing the hero ellipse when a unit levels up
    • Fixed highlighted movement range when hovering over units after their owner ends turn. It now shows their max movement next turn, instead of the remaining moves from their previous turn. (issue #6716)
    • Fixed out of sync errors occurring when unused add-ons contain the [resistance_defaults] or [terrain_defaults] tags (issue #6650)

  • v1.16.5 Changes

    ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

    • Fixed frequent crashes occurring in multiplayer matches (issue #6863).

  • v1.16.4 Changes

    ### Campaigns

    • Eastern Invasion
      • S07a:
        • Better handling for side 2 (issue #4145)
        • Fixed Grug upkeep, added dialogue about ogres joining (issue #4145)
    • Northern Rebirth
      • S1: Fixed Al'Tar confusing an orc for a slave (issue #6735)
    • Under the Burning Suns
      • S5: Enforce encounter with the Cloaked Figure (issue #6364) ### Translations
    • Updated translations: Arabic, British English, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Polish, Finnish, French ### Units
      • Fixed Warden’s and Arbiter’s animations popping on water tiles (issue #6508) ### User interface
    • Resolved broken layout in some low-resolution configurations (issue #5620, #6544) ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Fixed path finding visibility bug that sometimes caused OOS errors on maps with tunnels and at least three sides that do not share vision (PR #6744)
    • Fixed being unable to interact with units when Scroll Lock is active (issue #6759)
    • Removing the Protect Unit Micro AI no longer causes a Lua error
    • Fixed chance of being unscathed in damage calculation for some fights in which both units can die (issue #6590)
    • Fixed visibility bug in ai_helper.get_attackable_enemies() for some complex filters
    • Fixed bug in Bottleneck Micro AI involving units without moves on terrain with multiple open passages (issue #6599)
    • Fixed error in Castle Switch CA of the Experimental AI after a leader was killed (issue #6440)
    • Fixed error in retreat-injured CA when regenerate ability code does not include a value= key
    • Retreat-injured CA no longer takes villages from allies
    • Experimental AI no longer uses generic_recruit_engine: fixes a data leakage bug between Experimental AIs of different sides
    • Experimental AI recruit rushers: include unit types from extra_recruit (issue #4924)
    • Fix segfault when weapon is removed during attack (issues #4927 and #5914)
    • Add no-unit error message for unit debug command (issue #6116)
    • Significantly improve efficiency of move-to-any-enemy CA

  • v1.16.3 Changes

    ### Add-ons client

    • Fixed: using the up or down arrow keys in small-screen mode returned to the title screen (issue #6485).
    • Add-on passwords that are not stored in the _server.pbl can now be stored in the same credentials file as multiplayer passwords (PR #6543). ### Campaigns
    • Delfador’s Memoirs
      • S11: Finding Chantal will now share her side’s vision with the player, as originally intended.
      • S14: Smoother appearance of enemies and added dialogue (#6176).
    • Descent into Darkness
      • S08: Prevent Spectral Servant from picking up the book (issue #6576).
    • Northern Rebirth
      • S05a_01: Solve units getting stuck in the wall before the spider chamber (issue #6607).
    • Sceptre of Fire
      • Fixed Thursagan's Arcanister advancement being "lost" after dismounting a minecart.
      • Improvements and spelling corrections to the English prose text (PR #6177).
      • S9: Allow Grypon Riders to complete the scenario (issue #6332)
    • Son of the Black Eye
      • Improvements and spelling corrections to the English prose text (PR #6166).
    • The Rise of Wesnoth
      • S22: Fixed the possibility of a misplaced dialogue when a bridge was broken (issue #6376).
    • Under the Burning Suns
      • S08: Kromph and the Dust devil now trigger a critical event (issue #6211).
    • World Conquest
      • Updated the modding instructions, helping add-on authors add extra factions etc. ### Editor
    • Add documentation for the magenta D and special terrain overlays (PR #6460).
    • Added some missing terrain groupings (issue #6643) ### Multiplayer
    • Fixed updating add-ons when joining a game that requires a new version (issue #6383).
    • Add a /clear command for the lobby-chat window. ### Packaging
    • flatpak: update freedesktop runtime version to 21.08 (issue #6497). ### Terrain
    • Better transition for Swamp to Icy Cobbles (PR #6491).
    • New graphics variations for icy and rocky terrains.
    • The help browser adds special notes for castles and healing terrains (PR #6461). ### Translations
    • Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian
    • Fixed the stats for Spanish being overwritten by the stats for Spanish (Latin American). ### Units
    • Saurian sprites cleanup (PR #6450).
    • Various small sprite updates for sea serpents and swamp lizards (PR #6452). ### User interface
    • Mark the Plan Unit Advance mod as MP-only so it doesn't show up as available for campaigns. ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • wmlscope can now report about calls to deprecated macros when using the --unresolved switch.
    • wmlxgettext’s old behavior of processing files in the order they’re given on the command line can be selected with the --no-sort-by-file option (PR #6586).
    • Fixed a crash with "laststrike" (firststrike given to the opponent) weapon specials (issue #6575).
    • Fixed a crash with locally-edited add-ons that had neither _server.pbl nor _info.cfg (issue #6389).
    • Added more unit tests for weapon specials.
    • Resolve crash on systems using musl implementation of libc (issue #6603)
    • The --stringfreeze (-Z) command line flag has been removed from wmllint.
    • The checks for the old special notes system have been removed from wmllint; the notecheck off, notecheck on and match <ability> with <note> magic comments no longer have any effect.
    • Resolved title screen flashing during the loading screen (issue #2395)
    • Fixed erratic keyboard and mouse scroll speed (issue #3607)
    • wmllint automatically removes the obsolete lines {SOUND:SLOW} and `{SOUND:POISON}

  • v1.16.2 Changes

    ### Campaigns

    • Delfador’s Memoirs
      • S07: Clarified objectives (issue #5608) and remove End Turn being required to trigger victory (issue #6173)
    • Descent into Darkness
      • S08: Prevent possibility of Darken Volk advancing to Lich (issue #6351)
    • Heir to the Throne
      • S05b: Temples given an aged appearance to match ‘ancient temples’ description (issue #5576)
    • Sceptre of Fire
      • Added notes about Thursagan’s rune mechanics
      • S04: Mining objectives are much clearer now (issue #6154)
    • Secret of the Ancients
      • S06: Ardonna should no longer mistake hostile bats as ‘my pet’
      • S20: Directions “left” and “right” in character speech now use the character’s orientation, not the player’s
      • Consistently capitalise the name of the Academy of Magic (issue #6310)
    • The Rise of Wesnoth
      • S08: The appearance of Naga is now smoother (issue #6140)
      • S08: Refactored ship-boarding events (issue #6298)
      • S19: The troll’s gold is automatically collected upon victory if not already obtained (issue #6141)
      • S19: Avoid units spawning over chasms
    • Under the Burning Suns
      • Correct Traveler’s Ring description (issue #6043) and add an icon overlay (issue #6126)
      • Remove the “formation” ability from the attack predictions dialog, as it was in a confusing location; its effect is still shown in the calculations and chance-to-hit percentage (PR #6326)
      • S02: Pinnacle Rock is now shown during dialogue (issue #6125)
      • S04: Improve dialogue about dark underground tunnels (PR #6345)
      • S06b:
        • Account for non-elvish units encountering Dwarf Sergeant (issue #6196)
        • Grog will not die as quick now (issue #6196 & #6197)
        • Hermit dialogue cannot be accidentally skipped now (issue #6196)
        • Fixed bug where tentacles would not spawn (issue #6196)
        • Fast units cannot get stuck on the wall now (issue #6196)
        • Camera now moves to where the charges are blown up (issue #6197)
        • Fixed weird scout AI behaviour (issue #6196)
      • S09: Rebels joining Kaleh’s side are now loyal (issue #6229 and #6365)
      • The last unit killed to trigger certain events should no longer linger during those events (issue #6341)
      • The Dark Assassin’s race is not revealed until uncloaked (issue #6213)
      • The Dust Devil’s XP bar is now blue (issue #6212)
    • World Conquest:
      • Fixed for Winged Scepter not giving the correct defence values
      • Corrected the attack icon of ice bow from a lightning bolt to an iceball ### Multiplayer
    • Lobby joins are no longer displayed in chat even when that preference has been disabled (issue #6234)
    • Added a specific prompt for moderators before joining password-protected games (issue #4101)
    • Fixed add-ons not getting enabled for clients, leading to errors such as Unknown Terrain (issue #6285)
    • Fixed an information leak where planned multi-turn moves could be visible to enemy players (issue #6292)
    • Made planned moves visible to allies; this refers to trying to move more hexes than the unit can move this turn, it isn’t the whiteboard (issue #6292) ### Lua API
    • Fixed an error in gui.get_user_choice() and added support for the current DescriptionWML syntax (PR #6247) ### Translations
    • Added translations: Spanish (Latin American)
    • Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Scottish Gaelic, Turkish.
    • Lots of corrections of typos in en_US (untranslated text), which will require marking translations as non-fuzzy again
    • Implemented delayed translation option for gettext plurals (issue #6036, PR #6097)
    • Comments in .po files are now kept in order when the .pot is regenerated (issue #5989) ### Units
    • Added attack image for the Bone Knight’s trample
    • Added attack image for the Nightblade’s kick ### User interface
    • Improved translatability of MP ban durations (issue #6036, PR #6097)
    • Fixed missing sidebar tooltips in low resolutions such as 800x600 (issue #6264) ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Password storage was fixed to work with multiple accounts (PR #6290)
    • wmllint now automatically removes {MAGENTA_IS_THE_TEAM_COLOR}
    • Added workaround for connecting to the multiplayer server taking too long when Chinese or Japanese language is selected (issue #6291)
    • Added KeyboardInterrupt handling to many Python WML tools
    • Added --simple-version command line option
    • wmllint, wmlscope and wmlindent now support the command line --version flag, which reports the current version of Wesnoth (issue #6346).
    • wmllint is now capable of handling unit levels and types when checking recruitment patterns.
    • Fixed units on a recall list sometimes being put on the map by [modify_unit] or [store_unit]...[unstore_unit] (issues #6295 and #6315)
    • Fixed abilities that are shown as weapon specials in the attack prediction window being shown on the placeholder for units with no ranged attack, or dark adepts' melee response
    • Fixed a glitch after a move is interrupted, paths to the hex where the move started were shown (issue #6292)

  • v1.16.1 Changes

    ### Add-ons server

    • Fixed core= attribute in _server.pbl being completely ignored (issue #5664). ### Campaigns
    • Tutorial
      • Use a portrait on the Campaigns menu.
    • Sceptre of Fire
      • S02p5: Added defeat condition if Alanin dies. ### Multiplayer
    • Increased the limits of timer values (up to 10 minutes turn bonus, 50 minutes reservoir).
    • Re-added HTML character escaping. ### Lua API
    • Fixed an error in gui.get_user_choice() (part of PR #6247).
    • Fixed an error in handling x,y locations (issue #6231). ### Packaging
    • Fixed missing dependency on boost-math in the vcpkg config.
    • Made get_dlls.py install libraries for wesnothd too. ### Translations
    • Updated translations: Dutch, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil).
    • Added po hints for time format strings. ### User interface
    • Made the Add-ons Manager search box less unwieldy on very small resolutions.
    • Made listbox header toggle buttons taller. ### WML Engine
    • Fixed [item]x,y= at scenario scope (issue #6231). ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Fixed missing tooltips on the side-bar (hover over the unit type to see a description, etc) (issues #6007 and #6096).
    • Fixed several issues in the multiplayer server about TLS connections, error-handling and disconnections.
    • Added .DS_Store and Thumbs.db to wmltool's list of files to ignore.

  • v1.16.0 Changes

    ### Campaigns

    • Sceptre of Fire
      • S06: Fix some WML variable handling causing autodefeat in S06 or rune-equip bugs in a later scenario (issue #6146)
    • Under the Burning Suns
      • S05: Avoid village just taken by the player being re-assigned to the enemy (issue #6187) ### Lua API
    • Fixed wesnoth.audio.volume = N always setting volume to 0. ### Translations
    • Updated translations: British English, Czech, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish. ### User interface
    • Don't display the locale API identifier on the Language button (issue #6205). ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Fix the engine exiting immediately due to a corrupt .mo file (issue #6194)
    • When showing [message] with [options] but no default, highlight the first one (issue #6038)
    • Ensure that [modify_unit] has some expected side-effects of unstoring a unit (issues #4978 and #5133)

  • v1.15.18 Changes

    ### Campaigns

    • Northern Rebirth
      • Give Eryssa’s side a consistent team color (issue #5375)
    • The Rise of Wesnoth
      • Remove time-runs-out lose condition for final scenario (issue #6109)
    • Under the Burning Suns
      • Avoid a few possibilities where the Dust Devil could speak (issue #4892)
      • Avoid dehydration status icon persisting into the next scenario (issue #5687) ### Editor
    • Avoid rare crash situation after editing scenarios (issue #5883) ### Translations
    • Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Czech, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish.
    • gettext plural forms now have caret prefixes stripped as well (PR #6094). ### User interface
    • Steam cloud file is no longer listed in the Load Game dialog.
    • Redefine green text in dialogs and tool-tips so they are no longer ‘too dark’ with recent Pango versions (issue #4348)
    • Gave the main menu's Language button a label again, now displaying the current language.
    • Tweaked margins around the main menu's bottom row.
    • Difficulty no longer displayed in the Load Game dialog when it is not relevant to a save file (issue #5321) ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Correct unit display adjustments on certain tiles when at zoom level other than 100% (issue #5974)