v3.1-rc.1

This is the 1st release candidate for upcoming v3.1 following our standard release cadence.

If you are looking for a stable release of Freeciv21, see: https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/releases/tag/v3.0-patch.5.

Game

Visual appearance and usability

• Include both the veteran rank name and number in sentry message #2372
• Add buttons to scroll the research tree to the current research targets #2391
• Support ESC key to close the production menu #2407
• Send updated research after it is fully updated #2408
• City Dialog: Expand/Collapse present units list #2428

Bug Fixes

• Fix research refresh button #2384
• Draw waypoints immediately after adding them #2422
• Remove dangling city pointers from the governor code, fixing crashes #2385
• Cleanup two divide-by-zero issues from Coverity #2386
• Fix wrong unit being linked to stack kill message #2387
• Fix drawing AllSeparate roads in hex mode #2393
• Rework how the units view is updated #2400
• Fix showing the city count when there is no capital #2406
• Fix a crash in the units view #2416
• Fix compiling with clang 19 by patching our copy of Sol2 #2418
• Fix buffer overflow in quote_block #2419
• Fix reports being shown out of screen #2420
• Fix issues with effects in help dialog #2435
• Fix the minimap sometimes getting out of sync #2409
• Fix a build failure when compiling only the server #2380

Rulesets/tilesets/...

• Action names: You're Fired -> Disband Unit #2426
• Fix tileset backwards compatibility #2429

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• Nothing for this release

Build Tools

• Manually update AutoRev to 3.1-beta.2 with failure of CI #2374
• Release Action Updates #2379
• Update AutoRev release steps #2381

Code Refactoring

• Initialize order.sub_target in path_finder #2421
• Rename MAX_NUM_UNITS to MAX_NUM_UNIT_TYPES #2430

Other

• Various documentation updates: #2377 #2378 #2398 #2401 #2438

Attribution

With this release we welcome a new contributor @XHawk87 (#2372)

ASSET NOTE

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Freeciv21 v3.0.-patch.5

Welcome to Freeciv21 stable v3.0-patch.5 release notes page. This page will give the specific commits between v3.0-patch.4 and our fourth patch version.

NOTE: This release is the last of the 3.0 series as we are close to releasing v3.1 to stable.

Changes Between v3.0-patch.4 and v3.0-patch.5

• Update net.longturn.freeciv21.client.metainfo.xml to support release 3.0.5 -- 4c6a396
• Update vcpkg for MacOs -- 69b78f6
• Fixed scrolling on Wayland -- b1b59d6
• Use v4 for actions/upload,download-artifact -- 9fdcb95
• Create CONTRIBUTING.md -- dbadefb
• Release Action Updates -- a34f341
• Remove useless function handle_city() in governor.cpp -- 9eb0098
• Fixed a crash in governor code when destroying a city -- f47b3f7
• Fixed compilation with clang 19 -- aa98e98
• Avoid division by zero in dai_military_bodyguard() -- 6e5abce

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v3.1-beta.2

This is the 2nd beta release for upcoming v3.1 following our standard release cadence.

If you are looking for a stable release of Freeciv21, see: https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/releases/tag/v3.0-patch.4.

Game

Visual appearance and usability

• Add some protection measures for a players alliances #2265 #2266
• Always use angleDelta() for scrolling #2269
• Improve wording for the "Show/hide workers" shortcut #2270
• Add "Clean Nuclear Fallout" to "Unit Controls" widget #2274
• City dialog: Fix label alignment for negative values #2277
• Improve sizing and scrolling of the unit choice popup #2287
• Sort unit lists shown to the user #2288
• City Governor (CMA) fixes #2301 #2312
• Change the default auto explore shortcut to Shift+X #2315
• Always buy the cheapest options in the Cities View #2321
• Automatically cancel the current activity in go to #2323
• Fix Units View for many units #2328
• Keep scroll position when re-instantiating the varying views #2330
• Sort players alphabetically in the Nations View #2354
• Improved combat messages #2359
• Only send bombardment messages when targets are visible #2362 #2363

Bug Fixes

• Temporarily remove map image options #2279
• Do not rebuild contents when UWT table is updated #2305
• Fix typo: airlifttingstyle -> airliftingstyle #2309
• Don't disable the present units list when investigating a city #2316
• Forbid too many spaces in city names #2317
• Fix wrapping redundant cities in the Economics View #2325
• Don't access items in empty cache #2332
• Fix a crash for governors without specialists #2355

Rulesets/tilesets/...

• Fix North Ireland Nation #2297
• Bring nations to feature parity with legacy Freeciv #2320
• Fracture: Take map wrapping into account #2335

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• Remove legacy files no longer needed #2342

Build Tools

• Update workflows #2268
• Bring snap up to 3.1-beta.1 #2275
• Automate Snap builds #2278
• Release: Ensure source archives get the freeciv21 directory #2280
• Ignore valgrind files #2333
• Fix compile on Windows Clang CI #2341
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4 #2357 #2360 #2364
• vcpkgid for 3.1-beta.2 release #2367

Code Refactoring

• Remove unused code for tileset preferred themes #2322
• Switch server-side mapimg to Qt #2334
• Split mapgen.cpp #2345
• Finish migrating tileset layers to classes #2346

Other

• Various documentation updates: #2267 #2284 #2308 #2327 #2336 #2343 #2344 #2348 #2368

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v3.1-beta.1

This is the 1st beta release for upcoming v3.1 following our standard release cadence.

If you are looking for a stable release of Freeciv21, see: https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/releases/tag/v3.0-patch.4.

Game

Visual appearance and usability

• New modpack installer and ruledit icons #2187
• Add refresh button for tech leak #2210
• Allow using enter to select item on main menu #2229
• Show mp left and total mp on middle-click popup #2231
• Colorize (red) negative values on city dialog #2250

Bug Fixes

• Fix use-after-free in do_attack #2185
• Fix an alloc-dealloc mismatch in tile links handling #2221
• Warn about non-transport FerryBoat units #2240

Rulesets/tilesets/...

• More flexible partisans #2192
• Send action enablers at the end of the ruleset #2218
• Add celebration sprite to hexemplio #2227
• Fix borders for large tilesets #2233
• Fix drawing darkness sprites #2234
• Refactored tilespec.cpp code. #2241
• Remove duplicate sprite error in trident and hex2t tilesets #2243
• Implement tileset options #2251
• Pick river/road/rail/maglev sprite depending on terrain class #2252 #2258 #2263
• Add 15 new nations #2259

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• fcmp: Fix bogus "query failed" message #2208
• Fix a memory leak in the modpack installer #2217

Build Tools

• Update to node.js v20 actions based on deprecation warning #2204
• Remove status message used for testing #2205
• Support build without manpages on Unix-like OS #2213
• Update the eval-pr scripts and docs to match #2242
• Update vcpkgGitCommitId #2247
• Remove 32-bit Windows builds #2247
• Use native compression tools instead of git archive for releases #2256

Code Refactoring

• Simplify version support #2191
• Remove gui theme directory #2202 #2207
• Unset client.conn.playing on disconnect #2219

Other

• Various documentation updates: #2180 #2188 #2193 #2196 #2200 #2203 #2215
• New Slogan #2206 #2264

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v3.0-patch.4

Freeciv21 v3.0.-patch.4

Welcome to Freeciv21 stable v3.0-patch.4 release notes page. This page will give the specific commits between v3.0-patch.4 and our third patch version.

NOTE: This release should be the last of the 3.0 series as we are close to releasing v3.1 to stable.

Changes Between v3.0-patch.3 and v3.0-patch.4

• CI/CD - Release.yaml update -- 8e57c04 4769dc4 0504d51
• Fix release.yaml to properly run when needed -- 15209a9
• Remove "client" from the app name on Windows and in AppStream metadata -- 3b3153b f38a9fd
• Fix use-after-free in do_attack -- b00a371
• Unset client.conn.playing on disconnect -- 0b437c3
• Fix an alloc-dealloc mismatch in tile links handling -- e6d5e3c
• Fix borders for large tilesets -- d53bae7
• Fix drawing darkness sprites -- 8316edf
• Update to node.js v20 actions based on deprecation warning -- bcbef42
• Fix the macOS CI build -- 1e6a9a2
• Remove the 32-bit Windows Package -- c9667c3

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v3.1-alpha.5

This is the 5th alpha release for upcoming v3.1 following our standard release cadence.

If you are looking for a stable release of Freeciv21, see: https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/releases/tag/v3.0-patch.3.

Game

Visual appearance and usability

• LAN announcements using DNS-SD #2127
• Add an Mods button to start screen that loads the modpack installer #2143 #2150 #2151
• Rewrite drawing of citizen sprites to use multiple rows #2144
• Standardize buttons on start screen with both themes #2159
• Give the main window a title #2163
• Improve the auto-generated help for combat rounds #2164
• Add an option to add Modpacks from the Game menu #2165
• Add redundant city names to Economy View #2175

Bug Fixes

• Fix bugs affecting *BSD #2133
• Fix image saving for nonexistent pictures location #2141
• Local socket: restrict permissions to the current user #2142
• Fix fileinfoname() for non-ASCII characters #2146
• Add missing .arg() when there are no more content citizens #2153
• Units View: Fix find, disband and upgrade buttons #2156
• Force Qt to use FreeType on Windows #2160

Rulesets/tilesets/...

• Nothing for this release

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• Nothing for this release

Build Tools

• Build wasm only weekly #2109
• CI/CD Windows Clang same as macOS #2119
• CI/CD - Release.yaml update (Add support for workflow_dispatch, Add support for a weekly run of the package, and Fix the Qt package) #2120
• snapcraft.yaml - bring up to 3.1.alpha.4 #2125
• Fix passing the clang-tidy output to Codacy #2134
• Fix release.yaml to properly run when needed #2148
• cmake: Fix the option to disable man pages #2161
• Remove "client" from the app name on Windows and in AppStream metadata #2171
• Update vcpkgGitCommitId before Alpha.5 release #2178

Code Refactoring

• Remove unused feature macros #2115
• Add a few missing includes in headers #2117
• Refactor is_safe_filename() and add a test #2118
• Small refactors in utility/shared.h,cpp #2121
• QString-based interface for interpret_tilde() #2123
• Apply iwyu recommendations to utility/* #2138
• Fix and modernize listener<> #2139

Other

• Various documentation updates: #2149 #2157 #2162

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v3.0-patch.3

Freeciv21 v3.0.-patch.3

Welcome to Freeciv21 stable v3.0-patch.3 release notes page. This new release introduces fixes to enable compiling on FreeBSD and improves support for the Windows operating system. This page will give the specific commits between v3.0-patch.2 and our third patch version.

Changes Between v3.0-patch.2 and v3.0-patch.3

• Fix a bug with SDL2_mixer linking -- 83e6a1d
• Stabilize builds on FreeBSD -- d1f50af 3a3b1d7 23bf528 ce2d762
• Fix and modernize Listener<> -- 71c6e2f 9ef87d4
• Add a weekly FreeBSD CI run -- f48ff49
• Fix fileinfoname for non-ASCII characters to fix a bug preventing users with an accent in their name from loading modpacks under certain circumstances on Windows -- 6689c54
• Force Qt to use FreeType on Windows, improving the rendering of our default font -- ad693e5
• Add missing .arg() when there are no more content citizens -- 0b87ba5
• Improve the auto-generated help for combat rounds -- 2465ca4
• Give the main window a title -- 55f223d

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v3.1-alpha.4

This is the forth alpha release for upcoming v3.1 following our standard release cadence.

If you are looking for a stable release of Freeciv21, see: https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/releases/tag/v3.0-patch.2.

Game

Visual appearance and usability

• Introduced a new, keyboard-accessible multi slider widget to choose tax rates #2057
• Allowed reopening investigated cities until there is a visible change #2060
• The client no longer displays unknown diplomatic relations as war #2061
• The nations view now uses a more natural sorting order (depending on the language you use) #2082
• Two broken governor options were fixed/implemented #2083
• Support for window icons on Wayland was added #2087 and icons are no longer loaded from the tileset #2088

Bug Fixes

• Don't overwrite the "square" tileset option on startup #2034
• Fix typo: vity => city #2049
• Stop disbanding units under UWT when bouncing them #2052
• Fix crashes on missing building or tech sprites #2053
• Decades-old bugs in map sharing have been fixed #2055
• Fix dereference after null check in ratesdlg.cpp #2080
• Don't use array new to create vision sites #2081
• Prevent negative action chance in diplomat battles #2084
• Fix the server loading and the client receiving invalid requirements #2086
• Fix crash in layer_terrain() #2089
• Fix jumping to the next city when switching while in the city view #2091

Rulesets/tilesets/...

• When the tech for the current government is lost, switch to Anarchy instead of choosing a random available government #2085
• Allow using the unit type for Shield2Gold_Factor #2030
• The distance for trade routes style CLASSIC is now more natural #2094
• Updated America.ruleset #2044
• Always initialize indices in fill_terrain_sprite_array() #2066
• Added help texts for terrain resources in shipped rulesets #2096

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• Add "unit" tests checking that shipped rulesets load #2092 #2098
• Add support for Local sockets #2093

Build Tools

• We fixed building Freeciv21 on FreeBSD and will keep checking that it compiles #2101
• Update CMake files to use FindPython3 #2056
• Refactor the packet generator #2070
• Fix macOS CI #2075 #2079
• Fix SDL autodetection #2077 and a bug with SDL2_Mixer linking #2097
• A little better support for Windows Clang #2099
• Use the correct build directory for tests on macOS #2100

Code Refactoring

• Simplified the implementation of /kick #2065
• Parts of the code were slightly cleaned up #2102

Other

• Various documentation updates: #2036 #2078 #2099
• Fix Sphinx warning when building docs #2054

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v3.0-patch.2

Freeciv21 v3.0.-patch.2

Welcome to Freeciv21 stable v3.0-patch.2 release notes page. This page will give the specific commits between v3.0-patch.1 and our second patch version.

Changes Between v3.0-patch.1 and v3.0-patch.2

• Improve texts in the Research View -- 178f7b8 f19d6a7 f39a1f4 f86a922
• Fix picking a gender for the nation's ruler at init randomly -- 6f66063
• Pin Sphinx to < v7.2 for docs rendering -- f105cd4
• Fix disembarking without losing MP through adjacent transport -- 0cab365 aed78b9 2111a76
• Fix typo: vity => city -- 452fbc5
• Stop disbanding units under UWT when bouncing them -- 6bc9bb5
• Fix crashes on missing building or tech sprites -- 6b2149f
• Fix the macOS CI -- 4bbac00 f7adb81 f78d6f1 2223c30 8fb346b 8d2ab53 9edcf4f b059a44 0529063 126d09b 0d738df dd57129 90c02c5
• Fix SDL sound library autodetection -- 8d2ab53
• Fix jumping to the next city when switching while in the city view -- 96080cd

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v3.1-alpha.3

v3.1-alpha.3

This is the third alpha release for upcoming v3.1 following our standard release cadence.

If you are looking for a stable release of Freeciv21, see: https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/releases/tag/v3.0-patch.1.

Game

Visual appearance and usability

• Change the default background color for Classic #1991
• Improve texts in the research view #2008
• Ensure icon png available for win32 #2012
• Fix picking a gender and init randomly #2021
• Make units on cities visible when city drawing is disabled #2022

Bug Fixes

• Fix client timeout to 10s #1987
• Fix penalizing buy-then-change-production #1996
• Adjust start screen status bar timeout #2007
• Fix disembarking without losing MP through adjacent transport #2025

Rulesets/tilesets/...

• Nothing for this release

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• Nothing for this release

Build Tools

• Add tag to client metainfo.xml files #2000

Code Refactoring

• Distribution Refactoring Updates #2004

Other

• Various documentation updates: #1995 #2011 #2016 #2024

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