v0.5.0

OpenReliant needs your own copy of StarLancer: see the README for where to point it. The macOS builds are not signed, so macOS blocks them at first; run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine openreliant once to allow it.

0.5.0 (2026-09-27)

Features

• a mission's end pauses into the menu (#369) (e79fc12), closes #368
• Find New Target, Escort and Mill (#315) (ab6a94b)
• hitting friends draws Moose's warnings, and destroying one sends the player home (#385) (6df33a1)
• joysticks --watch shows every axis and button by its number, in place (#299) (53e34b6)
• mission 1's convoy commands, PRIMARY TARGET and the nav pointer (#313) (1d42b08)
• missions load and bind as a mission's start does (#284) (ee4a103)
• Object Attach and Toggle Cloak (#316) (4c6fb2e)
• PERMISSION TO LAND is asked and answered on the radio (#377) (ead1615)
• planets are set up as the original sets them up, lit by the sun alone (#388) (787a34c)
• ships dock at a station's port (#321) (9d14cd8)
• ships follow the mission's curves (#319) (7994c25)
• ships jump out and jump in (#311) (2bb2dc6)
• ships launch from the Reliant, and the commands mission 1's launch needs (#306) (fe4022e)
• the AI tests its course against a ship's parts, and pulls out of a component by its firing arc (#387) (5de906b)
• the director's camera flies the mission's curves (#318) (d57726d)
• the escort point's marker (#372) (aed76b1), closes #312
• the game's variables start as a new campaign's, and those mission 1 uses are named (#383) (8bba5b5)
• the launch's hangar keeps the ship on its retainer, rings, and flashes its beacons on it (#343) (127d3ab)
• the mission's events fire its triggers (#308) (6cf624b)
• the mission's sun and nebula markers aim the sun, the lights and the nebula (#384) (b523cf5)
• the nebulae are magnified smoothly (#345) (f61355f)
• the objectives window shows the objectives and pages through them (#379) (3efa337)
• the pilots speak by themselves on the radio (#378) (f804423)
• the pilots' face films decode (#354) (ee948ad)
• the planets' atmospheres glow round their rims as a haze (#348) (4ec95a7)
• the player's ship lands on the Reliant (#350) (3780a1a)
• the radio's lines are heard (#352) (5568003)
• the radio's menu pages to the wingmen, the enemy and the base (#386) (73c9c17)
• the radio's window shows the speaker's face (#356) (3cab6c6)
• the Ripper lifts cargo pods onto the Mammoth (#325) (98d294d)
• the Ripper's pod glides between the ticks, and the tractor beams glow (#344) (840b2ab)
• the sandbox is mission 0, a mission file played through the mission's start (#302) (8f9a795)
• the script VM runs a mission's threads, calls, clock and timers (#296) (63192ab)
• the wingmen answer ATTACK MY TARGET, BACK OFF and HELP ME (#380) (52d7d6e)
• what a jump shows: its trails, lights, burst and flare (#375) (85c1fe5)
• write mission files and assemble their scripts (#286) (88ef23c)

Fixes

• a point in front of the camera's plane no longer overflows the display's pixels (#327) (723cc58)
• capital ships turn flat, as the executable's flight stats have them (#323) (830c803)
• F2, F3 and F4 work in the sandbox alone (#393) (305f781)
• mission 1's ambush ends, with the torpedoes flying and the players counted (#367) (a080117)
• the hangar's beacons flash on the launching ship's hull (#347) (93ed976)
• the sandbox's capital ships hold their fire until the wing is out (#336) (8baa2d2)

Documentation

• a Mammoth's cargo slots are hidden by the mission's script (#374) (a7efcad), closes #324
• a shorter README status, with the graphics and rumble (#394) (a9c5185)
• point the gaps the closed issues left at the open ones (#389) (0c940ef)
• the README's status is mission 1 played through, and how to start it (#392) (9726c5e)