1.5.2

MAngband Version 1.5.2 (30th May 2019)

Bugfix release with many new features.

• Introduce 21 new vaults, designed by Acenoid. (#877)
• All clients now use PNG tilesets (instead of BMP). (#1247)
• House Foundation stones will now appear in the dungeon. (#632)
• House Foundation stones and House Creation scrolls will
  now appear at the Black Market. (#632)
• New menu: select command (Return/Enter) from Angband. (#1260)
• New command: Refill Bottle (Ctrl+G). (#915)
• "New" command from Angband: List visible monsters ('['). (#1262)
• "New" command from Angband: List visible items (']'). (#1274)
  • Plus, a new sub-window: visible items. (#1274)
• New, newbie-friendly Macro Editor allows one to supply actions
  by picking a command, an item, or a spell from a menu. (#1270)
• "New" command from Angband: toggle inven/equip windows (^E). (#1285)
• "New" command from Angband: repeat last log message (^O).
• Add proper support for long (>80 chars) log messages. (#1279)
• Introduce in-dungeon Mouse support. (#1267)
  • Click to Run with Angband pathfinder.
  • Ctrl+Click to Alter nearby grid.
  • Shift+Click to pick up items or enter stairs.
  • On SDL, you will need to press '!' to activate mouse.
    Other clients will have it enabled by default.
• Introduce term-window Mouse support.
  • Several "quick" actions now happen when you (Shift/Ctrl)
    • click on inventory/equipment windows.
  • Custom macros are supported (see 'user/mouse.prf' for an example).
  • Chat channels in chat window can now be selected by mouse.
• Spells and items can now be selected by mouse.
• New option: "expand_inspect" will list equipped item alongside
  the item being inspected, if they aim for same equip slot. (#1284)
• Bug: level feelings recharge check was inverted. (#1244)
• Bug: CHR indicator would never update. (#1257)
• Bug: fix Scroll of Recharging not prompting for item. (#1249)
• Bug: refresh floor info after picking up gold. (#1251)
• Bug: refresh floor info for charging wands/staves/rods. (#1254)
• Bug: fix client crashing on inventory listings on wide terms. (#1276)
• Bug: macros with templates were completely broken when read from pref
  files, since 1.5.1, now fixed. (#1288)
• Bug: race/class.prf pref files were ALL loading in, messing with
  player macros (since 1.5.0), now fixed. (#1289)
• Fix server crashing when DM tries to spawn a vault. (#1280)
  • Also improve item colors in DM menu forge.
• Fix potential crash in player hostility check. (#1246)
• Ghosts were not getting max HP properly set. (#1190)
• Fruit bats were not completely restored on "night" ressurection. (#1286)
• Fix remembered map not being reset correctly on login/logout, using
  cave generation timestamping (thanks, PowerWyrm!). (#1005)
• Fix negative speed leading to infinite speed. (#1281)
• Fix "invisible monsters can affecting running" bug. (#534)
• Fix "the brave hero" moniker applied to non-brave characters. (#1243)
• Bug: monster list would not update at many events, made much
  more responsive. (#1241)
• Fix "display player (history)" sub-window. (#1283)
• WIN client: fix annoying cursor flickering. (#1259)
• WIN client: stop "long message splitter" truncating some messages. (#955)
• WIN client: pressing PageUp/PageDown inside the chat prompt will
  now cycle through the chat channels. (#955)
• All clients: restore cursor in UI prompts, as seen in Angband. (#1259)
  • Also fix some rare bugs with cursor in looking/targeting mode.
• Fix various instances of graphics not working in sub-windows. (#1278)
• Spells can now be selected by name (tomenet-like). (#1261)
  • This includes a special "Project? [y/n]" prompt for Projectable
    spells/prayers.
• Spellbooks can now be selected by spell name (tomenet-like). (#1261)
• All "by-name" queries can now be accessed via quote symbol (")
  and terminated by another quote symbol (instead of \r), so
  the macros could look like this: \er"Phase door". (#1258)
  • The old/tomenet format (\er@Phase door\r) will also work.
• Item "by-name" queries will now include floor items. (#1282)
• New 'auto_showlist' option to pre-list spells when selecting one
  (similar to 'auto_itemlist'). (#1269)
• User pref files can now execute game commands, so, essentially,
  multi-line multi-command macros could be created. (#1183)
• User pref files now have a '{', inscribe-by-name command,
  so simple auto-inscription files could be created.
  • See 'user/inscribe.prf' for an example script.
• Server will once again report its version when started. (#1273)
• Windows servers should no longer mix up player savefiles
  based on case-sensitivity, or the 8.3 filename truncation. (#1017, #861)
• Old players should no longer end up in newly created parties by
  accident. (#1291)

Developer changes:

• Add port ('!') command. (#1266)
• p_ptr->redraw is now 64-bit wide. (#1255)
• Finish inkey() port, matches V312 now. (#1265)
• Server will tell stdout if it's running in DEBUG mode. (#1273)
• NCurses port now uses keypad(TRUE) mode (as does V). (#1277)
• Slight protocol breakage re:#1279, backwards-compatible, though.
• New "dngtest" console command for collecting dungeon stats. (#1290)