NEWS-3.1.6

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 3.1.5

3.1.6 is a generic bugfix release in the freeciv-3.1 series.

Server / General

• Fixed a variable lookup problem when loading rulesets RM#114
• Fixed an error that unowned tiles were sent to client as owned by player number 255 when there was such a player in the game RM#1474
• Fixed units carrying goods RM#1579
• Fixed assert failures with illegal lua scripts RM#1550
• Refresh city capital status information after a savegame has been loaded. Previously no city was considered capital for a turn after savegame loading RM#1524
• Corrected what situations make it impossible to airlift a unit RM#1564
• Fixed crash with illegal action lists in savegame RM#1646
• Fixed culture victory with very high values of culture RM#1673
• Fixed crashes after continuing game from a savegame RM#1741 RM#1768 RM#1769

Changes affecting other rulesets / modders

• "quiet" requirement property is now respected in building "obsolete_by" definitions RM#1238
• Improved sanity checks at specialists loading RM#1400
• Lua handling of achievement and disaster names fixed RM#1458

General

• Various internal changes which should only affect developers. RM#1359 RM#1468 RM#1443 RM#1484 RM#1582 RM#1503

AI

• Tex AI fixes towards consulting its own copy of map where it should RM#1409
• Fixed air unit goto RM#1657
• Fixed an error after player is added mid-game RM#87

Clients

• Show tech upkeep correctly for very high values of it RM#1654

• gtk
  • Fixed saving and restoring city dialog size RM#1289
  • Use "meta" key as menu accelerator on MacOS RM#1292 RM#1489
  • Client now remembers size of the help dialog RM#1287
  • Client now remembers size of the options dialog RM#1288
  • 'gtk4 only Fixed goto dialog Show All Cities toggle RM#1578
  • Don't show "Bonus" for non-road extras in help RM#1637

• qt
  • Fixed crash on savegame preview RM#1641
  • Added Help menu entry "Policies", removed duplicate entries RM#1671
  • Fixed disappearing "About..." menu items in MacOS RM#1672
  • Worked around Qt-6.9 theming issue RM#1697
  • Message window is now cleared between games RM#1239

• sdl2
  • Fixed drawing of very wide or tall surfaces RM#1467
  • Fixed text placement on combo widgets RM#1727

Tools

• Modpack installer
  • Command line version of the fcmp tells how to install any of the listed modpacks RM#1486

Help / Documentation

• Doxygen documentation updates RM#1401 RM#1466 RM#1234 RM#1461 RM#1481
• Miscellaneous improvements to in-game text and user documentation. RM#1335 RM#1354 RM#1277 RM#1386 RM#1476 RM#1496 RM#1534 RM#1577 RM#1614 RM#1648 RM#1764
• Miscellaneous changes to developer/install/ruleset docs RM#1446 RM#1585 RM#1622 RM#1722

Translations

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

Build/portability

• Refreshed bootstrap files from their upstreams RM#1342 RM#1368 RM#1398 RM#1540 RM#1644 RM#1689 RM#1690 RM#1692 RM#1748 RM#1795
• Meson based build improvements
  • Asserts are now properly disabled in release builds RM#1455
  • Fixes to build system internal dependency definitions, fixing intermittent and rare build failures RM#1479 RM#1788
• Included copy of lua has been updated to 5.4.8, and official patches applied
  • 5.4.7 patch 6 RM#1330
  • 5.4.7 patch 7 RM#1341
  • 5.4.7 patch 8 RM#1407
  • 5.4.8 RM#1431
  • 5.4.8 patch 1 RM#1537
  • 5.4.8 patch 3 RM#1664
• Server binary is no longer built to ruledit appimage RM#1594
• Fixed compiler warning about curl usage RM#1679

See NEWS for older lists of changes.