See the full ChangeLog in the source for a comprehensive list of all changes.
Download links for older releases can be found in the download archive.
WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE 2.5.7[]
2.5.8 is a bugfix release.
Server / General[]
Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)[]
- Fix trouble loading certain compressed savegames. HRM#679197
- Used diplomat units no longer increase the target's score. HRM#657298
- Fixed a warning when a player on your team goes to war with an ally of yours. HRM#662059
- Fixed an assertion failure when losing a tech while no tech goal is selected. HRM#664286
- Fixed an assertion failure when a player on your team is about to die. HRM#662701
- Fixed a bug that could lead to no huts when loading from a game or scenario that was saved in the pregame state. HRM#682576
- Fixed a typo'd leader name in the American nation. HRM#681847
- When a city can't build a unit with a population cost, this is explained better. GNAPATCH#7707
Changes affecting other rulesets / modders[]
- Fix a crash when a unit has a zero activity rate. HRM#660342
- Fix a crash when a unit has negative vision radius. HRM#661313
- Avoids warnings and incorrect behavior when a unit's initial veterancy turns out negative. HRM#661193
- Prevent the scripting API from creating a stack of illegally mixed nationality when adding a unit to a tile. HRM#661533
- Using a script to modify the map in certain ways in response to the 'map_generated' signal could cause an assertion failure. HRM#673767
General[]
- Various internal changes which should only affect developers. HRM#678452 HRM#654689 HRM#675955 HRM#679223 HRM#679917 HRM#674435 HRM#660908 HRM#678446
Clients[]
- Fix a possible assertion failure when a spaceship launched (or at other times when an AI's mood changed suddenly). HRM#660363
- (Gtk) Fix a possible Gtk warning before the map is set up. HRM#678972
- (Gtk) Fix a minor memory leak in the unit selection dialog. HRM#674321
- (Gtk3) Fix the middle-click tile info box having a transparent background and thus being unreadable on some installations. HRM#656549
Tilesets / Art[]
- Updated Isophex tileset. Adds distinct Lake terrain, various other cosmetic changes, and some extra resource types that are not used in the supplied rulesets. HRM#680743
Help / Documentation[]
- The civ2civ3 online help claimed Forest, Jungle, and Swamp gave a 25% defense bonus, but in reality they only give 20% due to a game engine limitation. The help now reflects this. (The 25% bonus will be implemented in 2.6.) HRM#682494
- Corrections in README.ruleset_civ2civ3. HRM#657562
- Online help documents that Leader units entering huts won't unleash barbarians. GNAPATCH#7545
- doc/README.tilesets was accidentally left out of the tarball. HRM#678449
- Update the FAQ a bit.
- Update docs to reflect move away from gna.org. HRM#660271 HRM#654670 HRM#664195
- Minor update to ruleset comments. HRM#685211
Translations[]
- Updated translations:
- Complete translations: Catalan, Russian, French, British English.
- Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 93% nations).
- Fix a help glitch for Migrants when using the Spanish translation. HRM#662732
Build/portability[]
- The Windows package uses a new package of libraries. This is mainly expected to improve debugging. HRM#681643 HRM#681877
- Work around a binutils bug that stops --enable-gprof working on some distributions (notably, Debian Stretch -- Debian bug #854704). HRM#675699
- tolua.pkg, a source file not needed to build from tarballs, was inadvertently not included in them. HRM#678447
See NEWS for older lists of changes.