NEWS-3.1.0-beta4

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 3.1.0-beta3

3.1.0-beta4 is the final beta of the freeciv-3.1.

Server / General

• 3.1.0 Release Month set to March 2024 osdn#48751
• gtk4-client status changed to supported osdn#48671
• Cities stop working tiles turned unworkable at turn change osdn#46423
• Fixed clearing city border claims when player gets removed from the game osdn#48837 RM#81
• Fixed nation color selection assert failures when moving from pre-game to turn 1 RM#1

Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)

• nations
  • Han dynasty removed from modern era group osdn#48764 osdn#48714
  • The new nation from Mongols civil war now might be China osdn#48780 osdn#48715

• scenarios
  • Bordering Glaciers in italy scenario replaced by Inaccessible terrain osdn#42869

Changes affecting other rulesets / modders

• Fixed problems in passing integer values through lua calls osdn#48722
• Applied upstream patches for lua-5.4.6 to included copy of lua engine
  • Patch 2 osdn#48895
  • Patch 3 osdn#48946
  • Patch 4 RM#15

Low-level changes

• Fixed growing of the internal string handling buffer, fixing, e.g., issues with very long lines in the savegame RM#3
• Fixed fc_vsnprintf() return value on Windows, fixing, e.g., issues on loading the tutorial scenario RM#58

General

• Fixed memory leaks, bad memory access, and improved cleanup on shutdown osdn#47186 osdn#48787 osdn#48797 osdn#48788 osdn#48821 osdn#48807
• Optimizations osdn#47809 osdn#43379 osdn#48711 osdn#48211 osdn#47737 osdn#48525 osdn#47345 osdn#48838 osdn#48369 osdn#48678
• Various internal changes which should only affect developers. osdn#48587 osdn#48731 osdn#48771 osdn#48811 osdn#48772 osdn#48768 osdn#48673 osdn#48433 osdn#48869 osdn#48868 RM#47

AI

• Tex AI fixes towards consulting its own copy of map where it should osdn#48423 osdn#48929 osdn#48933 osdn#48943
• Fixed several places where wants were rounded to integers, often causing low want (lower than '1') to be not wanted at all ('0') osdn#48421 osdn#48842
• AI missile carriers now launch only such missiles that they are carrying themselves osdn#48627

Clients

• gtk (See also separate list of gtk4 development)
  • gtk3.22 Theme gets applied to all windows, not just root one osdn#48580
  • gtk3.22/gtk4 Fixed conflicts between system theme and loaded theme osdn#48679 osdn#45601
  • gtk3/gtk3.22 Window title mentions gui type osdn#48600
  • gtk3 Revert applying theme to all dialogs osdn#48770

• Qt
  • Battle Groups menu added osdn#48732 osdn#48860
  • Fixed UTF8 characters handling osdn#48795

• gtk4
  • Avoid deprecated function calls osdn#47924
  • Menu item renaming implemented osdn#47444}
  • Zoom, with many levels, implemented osdn#48740
  • Made detachable panes to work osdn#47440
  • Fixed units taking chat message typing as commands to themselves osdn#48815
  • Mnemonic added for Battle Groups menu osdn#48818

Tools

Modpack Installer

• Updated gtk4 to avoid a deprecated function call osdn#48744

Ruledit

• Added sound tag editing
  • Buildings osdn#48750
  • Units osdn#48791
• In experimental mode builds, newly initialized objects get their flags properly cleared osdn#48767
• Fixed ruleset sanity checking after an object has been removed osdn#48766

Manual Generator

• Setting page format fixed osdn#48762

Tilesets, Art, etc

• Added Feluca to amplio2 extra units osdn#48643
• Added Savannah terrain to hexemplio osdn#48644 osdn#48898

Help / Documentation

• Miscellaneous improvements to in-game text and user documentation. osdn#48710 osdn#48713 osdn#48709 osdn#48761 osdn#48743 osdn#48941 RM#11 RM#66
• Miscellaneous changes to developer/install/ruleset docs osdn#48877 osdn#48955

Translations

• Updated translations:
  • Complete translations: Russian
  • Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 92% nations, 100% ruledit), Polish (99% core, 100% nations, 96% ruledit)

Build/portability

• Refreshed bootstrap files from their upstreams osdn#48799 osdn#48890 osdn#48889 osdn#48956 RM#4 RM#5
• Fixed some clang analyzer warnings osdn#48623 osdn#48776 osdn#48834 osdn#48624 osdn#48677 osdn#48875 osdn#48904 RM#14 RM#28 RM#37 RM#42 RM#50 RM#56
• Metainfo updates
  • Modpack .desktop and .metainfo.xml files renamed to follow org.freeciv.<gui>.mp pattern. osdn#48729 osdn#48754
  • Qt modpack installer screenshot updated osdn#48775
• Meson based builds improvements
  • Support for bz2 compressed savegames osdn#48724
  • Set user data paths in ./run.sh osdn#48697
  • freeciv-3.1 marked to be in beta phase osdn#48752
  • Respect localedir configure option osdn#48726
  • Added localeprefix configure option supporting relative locale paths osdn#44814
  • Added zero-byte malloc() optimization osdn#48936
  • Properly define SIZEOF_INT RM#7
  • Fixed cross-compilation RM#10
  • Do not look for sys-lua at all when its use is disabled RM#20
  • ChangeLog-1.0-S3_0 is compressed in installations RM#52
• Crosser based builds improvements
  • Native bin directory added to PATH osdn#48432
  • Dropped Qt5 support RM#27
• Flatpak updates
  • Qt sdk and platform updated to 6.6 osdn#48909
  • Download SDL2_gfx from sourceforge RM#92
• Fixed gcc-14 development version compiler warnings osdn#48849 osdn#48850
• Translations on Windows Installers enabled
  • msys2 (the default / official) RM#6
  • Crosser RM#9
• MagickWand headers and libraries searched also by pkgconf name MagickWand-6.Q16HDRI RM#32 RM#36

See NEWS for older lists of changes.