NEWS-3.2.0-RC1

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 3.2.0-beta2

3.2.0-RC1 is the first Release Candidate of freeciv-3.2. Number of bugs have been fixed since beta2.

Server / General

• Fixed an variable lookup problem when loading rulesets RM#114
• Supplied scenarios now correctly show 3.2 as their format version (they have been saved with freeciv-3.2.0-beta2) RM#1381 RM#1385
• Fixed server crash when loading malformed savegame RM#1382
• 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
• Moved from beta to stable mode RM#1448

Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)

• civ2civ3 & sandbox
  • Number of Storms reduced RM#1456

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#1280 RM#1265 RM#1312 RM#1359 RM#1365 RM#1360 RM#1434 RM#1498 RM#1468 RM#1495 RM#1499 RM#1443

AI

• Tex AI fixes towards consulting its own copy of map where it should RM#1409
• Better consider action enabler imposed restrictions on selecting rampage targets RM#1242

Clients

• Fixed corner road graphics for RoadAllCombined tile types RM#1276

• 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
  • gtk3.22 only Fixed edit mode fog of war toggle sync RM#1492

Help / Documentation

• Doxygen documentation updates RM#1401 RM#1466
• Miscellaneous improvements to in-game text and user documentation. RM#1322 RM#1335 RM#1394 RM#1354 RM#1430 RM#1277 RM#1386 RM#1472 RM#1476 RM#1496 RM#1397
• Miscellaneous changes to developer/install/ruleset docs RM#1285 RM#509 RM#1306 RM#1307 RM#1340 RM#1343 RM#1344 RM#1347 RM#1364 RM#1366 RM#1446 RM#1390 RM#1441 RM#1447 RM#1477

Translations

• Updated translations:
  • Complete translations: Russian
  • Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 90% nations, 100% ruledit), Galician (99% core, 99% nations, 100% ruledit), Polish (99% core, 100% nations, 100% ruledit)

Build/portability

• Refreshed bootstrap files from their upstreams RM#1297 RM#1298 RM#1310 RM#1327 RM#1370 RM#1388 RM#1342 RM#1368 RM#1391 RM#1398
• Meson based build improvements
  • Provide freeciv version information for meson system RM#1272
  • Fixed Qt6 version detection RM#1296
  • Svg flag features enabled by default in the build level RM#1442
  • Asserts are now properly disabled in release builds RM#1455
  • Fixed an dependency issue very rarely causing build failures RM#1479
• Fixed DeprecationWarning: pathlib.PurePath.is_reserved() RM#1227
• Windows Installers updates
  • 'make qt-installer' now correctly builds Qt6-client installer RM#1311
  • gtk4-client is not built to "win64" target RM#1376
• Fixed sdl2-client build on systems without X11 present RM#1314
• Flatpak updates
  • Updated kde Platform and Sdk to version 6.9 RM#1299
• Applied official patches to included copy of Lua
  • Patch 5 RM#1319
  • Patch 6 RM#1330
  • Patch 7 RM#1341
  • Patch 8 RM#1407
• Fixed SDL3_rotozoom errors from 'make src-check' RM#1291
• emscripten build improvements
  • Updated emscripten to 4.0.9 RM#1357 RM#1463
  • emsbuild.sh now accepts relative path to the environment RM#1358
• Crosser updated to 2.10 RM#1393 RM#1424

See NEWS for older lists of changes.