Cute Chess 1.4.0-beta3

This is the third public beta release of 1.4.0

Full release notes will be released closer to the final 1.4.0 release.

Cute Chess 1.4.0-beta2

This is the second public beta release of 1.4.0

Full release notes will be released closer to the final 1.4.0 release.

Cute Chess 1.4.0-beta1

This is the first public beta release of 1.4.0

Full release notes will be released closer to the final 1.4.0 release.

We opted for bump the version to 1.4.0 instead of 1.3.2.

Cute Chess 1.3.2-beta3

This is the third public beta release of 1.3.2.

Full release notes will be released closer to the final 1.3.2 release.

Cute Chess 1.3.2-beta2

This is the second public beta release of 1.3.2.

Full release notes will be released closer to the final 1.3.2 release.

Cute Chess 1.3.2-beta1

This is the first public beta release of 1.3.2.

Full release notes will be released closer to the final 1.3.2 release.

Cute Chess 1.3.1

1.3.1 - 2023-07-30

Added

• CodeQL and Coverity code analysis support (#763)

Fixed

• Windows: Terminal window pops up with release builds (#765)
• Crash when terminating match with SIGINT (#764)

Cute Chess 1.3.1-beta2

This is the second public beta release of 1.3.1.

Full release notes will be released closer to the final 1.3.1 release.

Cute Chess 1.3.1-beta1

This is the first public beta release of 1.3.1.

Full release notes will be released closer to the final 1.3.1 release.

Cute Chess 1.3.0

1.3.0 - 2023-07-28

Added

• New variants:
  • Knight-Relay Chess by @ddugovic
  • Cfour (7x6, line up 4 to win) by @alwey
  • Tic-tac-toe by @alwey
  • Gomoku Free-Syle (5 in a row to win) by @alwey
  • Gomoku (15x15, exactly 5 in a row to win) by @alwey
• Qt 6 support (Qt 5 support is unchanged)
• CMake build support
  • Library detection for both Qt 5 and Qt 6
  • make install target for Unix-like operating systems
  • CTest compatible test suite
  • Default build type is release with debug info (RelWithDebInfo)
• The --version command-line option includes basic system information to aid
  debugging
• Unit tests now cover parts of the Xboard protocol parsing
• HTML and text versions of the manual pages are included with the Windows
  installer and zip releases
• release-tool, a developer tool, for creating consistent releases
• Initial clang-format configuration
• AppImage generation for releases
• Setting to scale chess engine timeouts periods by @kiudee
• Draw nicer move arrows by @kdave

Fixed

• Non-Latin 1 characters included in PGN tags (#423)
• Modern Windows theme is now applied correctly
• FRC: Fixed incorrect "illegal move" adjudications when castling (#616, #637, #755, #756)
• Fixes for Shogi:
  • Fix result strings for Shogi, Dobutsu Shogi and Judkins Shogi
  • ShogiBoard: Assert both sides have exactly one King
  • Add logic to ShogiBoard to keep track of perpetuals
  • Add comment describing the 27-point rule to break Impassé (FESA rule 5.3)
  • Fix Chick drop rules in Dobutsu Shogi
  • Fix symbol of promoted Chick in Dobutsu Shogi
  • Dobutsu: Modify adjudication of "try" win by Lion on farthest rank
• Implement Dirichlet prior for SPRT; handle case where one or more of the counts (WDL) is 0 (#360)

Changed

• Minimum supported Qt version is 5.15
• Rename the manual engines.json.5 to cutechess-engines.json.5
• Update QCustomPlot to 2.1.1
• libcutechess is always built statically with CMake: API / ABI stability of
  the library cannot be guaranteed in the future due to lack of developer
  resources
• Default build now includes debug symbols

Removed

• QMake build system was removed in favor of CMake
• Travis and AppVeyor CI systems were removed in favor of GitHub Actions
• Dynamic linking of libcutechess