WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE 2.6.7[]

2.6.8 is a bugfix release in freeciv-2.6 series.

Server / General[]

Silenced some unused entry warnings when loading saved games osdn#45526 osdn#46143
Fixed memory corruption issue when number of continents change due to land to ocean transformation osdn#45768
Freeciv now uses new libcurl API, instead of one deprecated in latest versions, to communicate with the metaserver and, in case of modpack installer, to fetch files osdn#46345
When starting from a saved game, dead players are no longer counted towards ready/unready player counts in pre-game osdn#44621
- Dead players do not affect whether game can start or not (no need to wait for them)
- Gtk- and Qt-clients' pre-game dialog "Start" button is never sensitive when the client is attached to a dead player
Fixed problems with the filename encoding when saving mapimg on Windows osdn#45507
Fixed bad memory access issue after player who had already founded cities has been removed from the game osdn#46503

Fixed loading base building orders from savegames older than freeciv-2.3 osdn#45692
Stopped endless spam on server console about iconv inability to convert between encodings. Just tell it once when the issue is first encountered osdn#46497

Fixed crash when handling an error from deeply included data file osdn#45418
Fixed buffer overflow on creating savegames, e.g., on Windows osdn#45682
Improved boundary checks in constructing text strings osdn#45719
Fixes to the directory creation
- Do not try to create what really isn't a directory osdn#45830 osdn#46036
Robustness improvements to low-level fallback functionalities used, e.g., in Windows builds osdn#45905
Fixed re-entrancy problem in getting current time, e.g., if both metaserver communication and regular game (main thread) would want to write log at the same moment osdn#46228

Fixed memory leaks, bad memory access, and improved cleanup on shutdown osdn#45422 osdn#45630 osdn#45544 osdn#45771 osdn#45903 osdn#45547 osdn#46418 osdn#46579
Various internal changes which should only affect developers. osdn#45629

Make AI to select techs to research when pooled research is not enabled, even if there's human player in the team osdn#45397
Fixed AI diplomats targeting cities that have a id higher than 64k osdn#45116
Fixed a crash when hunter cannot attack its target. Now it doesn't waste time hunting such targets at all osdn#46176
Stop AI from erroneously thinking that a Growth_Food effect with a negative value would give food osdn#46290

Fixed crash when ai_manual_turn_done setting is changed in pre-game, or by global observer osdn#45310
Do not show transports, that unit can't really load to, in the transport selection dialogs osdn#45331
Fixed client crash on unfortunate timing of menus updating exact moment worker finish tile changing activity osdn#45781
Fixed which version of the wall graphics are shown about opponents' cities osdn#46092
Fixed an issue causing client quit sound from playing osdn#46426
Fixed client crashes when description of unit's activities were constructed simultaneously for multiple units osdn#46559

gtk
- Fixed <ctrl> + <shift> + key combinations to work on edit mode osdn#45802

qt
- Fixed installation of cities icon on NightStalker theme osdn#45451
- Pop down possibly remaining older tile info before opening a new one. This avoids popups that were left on screen until client was closed osdn#44177
- Fixed Classic theme syntax osdn#44857
- Fixed issues, potetially even client crash, with prev/next city buttons osdn#46404

Updated translations:
- Complete translations: French, Russian
Fixed fetching translations of the names of the nations from the core nationset, for the game to actually show translated names osdn#45761

Mariadb configurator is now searched by more names
- mariadb-config osdn#45703
- mariadb_config osdn#46015
Fixed compiler warnings with macos clang++ osdn#45998
Fixed build failures when readline headers define system macros because they have not been defined yet osdn#46225
Made the code to comply with c2x (likely to come out as c23) standard, as implemented in gcc-13 osdn#46340 osdn#46310 osdn#46372
Fixed configure time mysql version check (usually not needed - any version accepted) osdn#46449
Fixed compiler warning seen on Void Linux / musl about including "sys/signal.h" osdn#44997
Fix clang compiler warnings from luasql osdn#44815
Fixed Qt-client linking issue. It was seen with msys2 clang64 toolchain, but could affect other toolchains osdn#46575

See NEWS for older lists of changes.