NEWS-3.0.6

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 3.0.5

3.0.6 is a bugfix release in freeciv-3.0 series. The focus has been in supporting current bleeding edge systems, to make freeciv compatible with latest releases of other components and tools.

Server / General

• When the worklist item cannot be currently built, server now detects more cases where it will be impossible to ever build it and purges the worklist item instead of just postponing osdn#45563
• Silenced some unused entry warnings when loading saved games osdn#46144
• 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

Changes affecting other rulesets / modders

• Fixes to Path Finding troubles when terrain move costs are high, in terms of move fragment count osdn#46039 osdn#46136
• Improvements to ruleset loading code error handling osdn#46196
• Unit Vision Range is now always recalculated at turn change for any changes in requirements to take effect osdn#46182
• Cities currently working a tile is now forced to stop doing that at the moment the tile changes in a way that Tile_Workable effect is no longer active osdn#44706

Changes affecting server operators

• 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

Low-level changes

• 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

General

• Fixed memory leaks, bad memory access, and improved cleanup on shutdown osdn#46418 osdn#46584
• Optimizations osdn#46120 osdn#46416 osdn#46487
• Various internal changes which should only affect developers. osdn#45831 osdn#46177 osdn#46108 osdn#46149 osdn#46227 osdn#46301 osdn#43049 osdn#46421 osdn#46410

AI

• Stop AI from erroneously thinking that a Growth_Food effect with a negative value would give food osdn#46290
• Reduced number of cases where AI desire to kill specific target would overflow, and thus make it to think that very desirable target is not good at all osdn#46513

Clients

• Improved the way client determines which server settings to save as user-preferred ones osdn#43748
  • Ruleset defaults are no longer saved as "non-default"
  • Value explicitly set to same as the default gets saved
• Client now resends user's desired server settings after ruleset has been changed, and server has resetted the settings for that osdn#43747
• Fixed an issue causing client quit sound from playing osdn#46426
• Make sure editor gui closes immediately when server disables edit mode osdn#46439
• Fixed client crashes when description of unit's activities were constructed simultaneously for multiple units osdn#46559

• gtk
  • Tooltip shown about nations on nation dialog and endgame score list now describes client's player's relating to that player osdn#45792
  • Made help browser links for buildings' and wonders' requirements to work regardless of the requirement type osdn#46433 osdn#46551
  • Corrected keys to control Battle Groups osdn#46588

• qt
  • Sorting of the Nations Dialog columns now happens by correct rules (e.g., AI attitude sorted by friendliness, not alphabetically) osdn#46289
  • Fixed issues, potetially even client crash, with prev/next city buttons osdn#46404
  • Fixed crash when gui-specific help requested by "-- --help" commandline parameters osdn#46660

• sdl2
  • Fixed issues stemming from button drawing being ambigious about how it worked osdn#45689
  • Fixed revolution dialog crash when player cannot change to any government osdn#46450
  • Make controlled disconnect from the server on client quit osdn#46478

Tools

Ruledit

• experimental mode builds only Consider ruleset items listed in appearance_reqs or disappearance_reqs of an extra, or first_reqs of a road, to be used by the ruleset. They cannot be removed as long as those references stay. osdn#46443

freeciv-manual

• Generated server options page no longer tells the ruleset used when creating it; ruleset makes no diffence to the server options osdn#46381

Help / Documentation

• Miscellaneous improvements to in-game text and user documentation. osdn#45936 osdn#46229 osdn#46045 osdn#45943
• Miscellaneous changes to developer/install/ruleset docs. osdn#45309 osdn#46100 osdn#46451

Translations

• Updated translations:
  • Complete translations: French, Polish, Russian
  • Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 93% nations, 100% ruledit)

Build/portability

• Generating metainfo is now silent under automake's silent mode osdn#46185
• Metainfo improvements
  • content_rating added osdn#46375
  • provided/binary added for the server metainfo osdn#46500
• Fixed some clang analyzer warnings osdn#46204 osdn#46293 osdn#46292 osdn#46348 osdn#46349 osdn#46384 osdn#45687 osdn#46336 osdn#46488 osdn#46543 osdn#46545
• Fixed gcc-13 (current development version) compiler warnings osdn#46300
• Made the code to comply with c2x (likely to come out as c23) standard, as implemented in gcc-13 osdn#46310 osdn#46306 osdn#46367 osdn#46372
• Fixed configure time mysql version check (usually not needed - any version accepted) osdn#46449
• Crosser build improvements
  • Build process now prints all errors to stderr osdn#46127
  • Never consider warnings, seen with latest MinGW compilers, from Qt headers as errors osdn#46428
• Fixed compiler warning seen on Void Linux / musl about including "sys/signal.h" osdn#44997
• Fixed Qt-client linking issue. It was seen with msys2 clang64 toolchain, but could affect other toolchains osdn#46575
• Flatpaks now have ipc permissions to improve x11 performance osdn#46565

See NEWS for older lists of changes.