NEWS-3.0.2

See the full ChangeLog in the source for a comprehensive list of all changes.

Download links for the latest release can be found on the download page.

WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE 3.0.1

3.0.2 is a generic bugfix release.

Server / General

• Savegame integrity check improvements osdn#44211
• Improved the way lua variables are included to the savegame osdn#44447

Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)

• Also unit's further orders are cancelled, not only the current one, when it turns illegal osdn#44370 osdn#44504 osdn#44519
• Unit upgrade is disallowed when it's in the process of converting osdn#43328
• Activities illegal for the new unit type are cancelled after unit upgrade and conversion osdn#44410
• When a city is disbanded to an unit, and that unit cannot stay at the spot, it now can escape to neighboring tile HRM#692482
• Supplied scenarios have been refreshed to match how 3.0.1 saves them osdn#44152
• Destroyed cities are now removed from the maps of players seeing them through Reveal_Cities' effect, like the one civ1 ruleset Apollo Program gives osdn#444028
• Fixed generated team names like Team 1 to be consistent which team they refer to in all situations osdn#44382
• Corrected the number of "other units killed" when the attacked tile has also unreachable units osdn#44416
• Fixed bookkeeping of number of techs known, when one is about to receive a tech but fails to do so. This affects research cost of later techs osdn#44593
• Prevented startunits setting from creating multiple units of a type that is supposed to be unique osdn#44685
• Fixed the player created by a civil war to have as many future techs as the original player osdn#44737

• experimental
  • Upkeep of Engineers is now switched to gold once the player knows The Corporation osdn#43848

• Europe 1900 WWI scenario
  • Added missing information for tex AI module osdn#44445

Changes affecting other rulesets / modders

• Check that resources have "extra" defined now works correctly osdn#44191
• Fixed zombies appearing on the client side when unit was created by lua upon receiving "unit_lost" signal HRM#867958
• Made lua city creation methods to not allow illegal city placement osdn#44508
• Improved ruleset load time checking against illegal city_size values for units for which it's relevant osdn#44730
• Log messages about ruleset errors are less likely to get cut. They can now be as long as other log messages osdn#44704

Changes affecting server operators

• Fixed /create command used midgame not to assume that there's a dead player's slot for it to take when there is not osdn#44495
• maxplayers setting can now be changed also after the game has started osdn#44567
• /create command used midgame now respects maxplayers setting osdn#44185

Low-level changes

• Improved freeciv's idea of what are the minimum and maximum values an effect can ever reach in a given ruleset. This allows both gui and AI to adjust better to the ruleset osdn#44303
• Fixed chance for a diplomat to win a battle sometimes being over 100% osdn#44291

General

• Minor optimizations osdn#44089 osdn#43432 osdn#44090
• Fixed memory leaks osdn#44492 osdn#44432 osdn#44618 osdn#44682 osdn#44790
• Various internal changes which should only affect developers. HRM#700913 osdn#41785 osdn#44130 osdn#44212 osdn#44178 osdn#44415 osdn#43620 osdn#43900 osdn#44547 osdn#43970 osdn#44404

Clients

• Client now sends the governors data to the server just before it requests saving the game, so more up-to-date data will be saved osdn#44304
• freeciv-3.1 development version scenarios are no longer listed as compatible with freeciv-3.0 osdn#44452
• Fixed potential crash when unit awaiting details of its orders dies osdn#44757

• gtk
  • Added tooltip for the "Size" line in the city dialog osdn#44515

• qt
  • Added tooltip for the "Size" line in the city dialog osdn#44409
  • Fixed memory handling problem in server list display osdn#44421
  • Fixed option dialog crash osdn#44484

• sdl2
  • Fixed memory handling problem when the diplomacy dialogs are being closed osdn#44687

Tools

Ruledit

• Have the "same name" toggle consistenly toggled initially in all tabs osdn#44140
• Made the initial size of the window bigger HRM#721403

Ruleup

• Fixed rare case of some resources not loading correctly from a 2.6 ruleset osdn#44190
• Fixed upgrading activities of units doing terrain transforming Irrigation on Mine activitity in a 2.6 ruleset osdn#44591

Tilesets, Art, etc

• Corrected/updated flag file formats osdn#44427 osdn#44619 osdn#44701

Help / Documentation

• Vulnerability reporting email address updated osdn#44479
• Miscellaneous improvements to in-game text and user documentation. osdn#44194 osdn#44331 osdn#44120 osdn#44438 osdn#44473 osdn#43857
• Miscellaneous changes to developer/install/ruleset docs. osdn#44309 osdn#44039 osdn#44453 osdn#43945

Translations

• Updated translations:
  • Complete translations: French, Polish, Russian
  • Incomplete translations: Catalan (99% core, 100% nations, 100% ruledit), Finnish (100% core, 91% nations, 100% ruledit), German (76% core, 85% nations, 5% ruledit)
• Marked strings for translations where they erroneously were not. osdn#44556

Build/portability

• Natural languages (translations) support now works on crosser-based Qt-client installers osdn#44293 osdn#44294 osdn#44292
• Applied CVE-2022-28805 fix to included lua osdn#44467
• Improved macOS configure options for building Qt-programs
  • Added new --with-qt5-framework option osdn#44412
  • Fixed --with-qt5-framework-bin option osdn#44422
• Fixed compiler warnings from builds where asserts are not enabled osdn#44395 osdn#43868
• Fixed some clang analyzer warnings osdn#44449 osdn#44437 osdn#44569
• Appdata files have been renamed as org.freeciv.*.appdata.xml osdn#44466
• project_license field has been added to appdata files osdn#44712
• Fixed compiler warnings from clang-15 (development version) osdn#44563 osdn#44564
• Added support for flatpak packaging osdn#44463

See NEWS for older lists of changes.