v3.2-dev.4

This is the forth development release for the upcoming v3.2 following our standard release cadence. The 3.2 series is now part of the development release process. The game is undergoing a lot of refactoring work at this time. It is recommended you play the stable v3.1.3

Big Changes

Freeciv21 v3.2 brings us to the Qt6 age. The Qt 5 LTS library is end of life and many development teams are moving to the new Qt6 LTS and we are doing the same.

Other big changes coming to v3.2:

• Ton of code refactoring to speed compilation and follow newer Include What You Use (IWYU) policies in the C++ sphere.
• Many Lua scriptcore extensions allowing much more dynamic rulesets.
• Many changes to the format of the help with modern markdown support.
• Improved compatibility with civ2
• A new Map Editor!

You can track progress towards the Qt6 Miletone, the Lua Refactor Milestone, and the Map Editor Milestone

If you know C/C++ and want to help, please feel free. Contributions are always welcome.

Game

Visual appearance and usability

• Implement links to other help topics from texts in the help browser #2984 #2990 #2991

New Features

• Lua: Added function to make units perform actions #2918
• Lua: Allow querying and modifying buildings #2919
• Lua: Make Unit_Class Lua methods accept a const punit_class #2961
• Lua: Add time utilities, TC time functions, and fixed up Lua sphinx docs #2977
• Build units with a nationality of the citizens spent on them #2967

Bug Fixes

• Avoid maybe-uninitialized in dio_get() #2925
• Fix name parameter type in Tile has_extra/has_base/has_road stubs #2936
• Fix client bugs with the Capture The Flag ruleset #2944
• Lua: Removed rogue name property from E module stubs #2953
• Lua: Removed find.cities_iterate and find.units_iterate #2954
• Fix upkeep unhomed units and server setting #2956
• Fix the output folder of map images #2965
• Fix 2 CVSS security vulnerabilities in savegame code #2987
  • https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/security/advisories/GHSA-f5fg-xmpr-832q
  • https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/security/advisories/GHSA-8hc7-7xxw-vhmg

Rulesets/tilesets/...

• Nothing for this release

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• Nothing for this release

Build Tools

• OBS: Update for 3.2-dev.3 #2916
• OBS: Fix Debian and Fedora unresolvable #2917
• OBS: Fix target project path #2923
• OBS: Support all editions of our package in the Longturn project #2949
• Fixed Dockerfile build fail on ARM #2934
• Allow unsafe PR checkout for clang-tidy #2937
• Update vcpkgid in build.yaml #2951
• Add support for lua 5.5.x patch versions #2958
• Update libpq-dev version in Dockerfile #2969
• Add a new clang-tidy CI check #2992

Code Refactoring

• More refactoring of packet code #2913 #2920
• IWYU: AI, Common, Server, Utility #2931 #2939 #2940 #2945 #2946 #2950 #2952 #2955 #2995

Other

• Various documentation updates: #2911 #2912 #2927 #2928 #2977

Attribution

• With this release we welcome a new contributor: @LuShadowX (#2936)

ASSET NOTE

Community members wishing to download the source code. You will notice that there are two sets of source code in the assets section below. One set will have a label of "Source Code (zip)" and "Source Code (tar.gz)" and the other set will be a tar.gz and zip file with the name of the tagged release and a file size shown. Please download and use the files with the name of the tagged release and file size shown. The other two will not compile properly.