Author: jtn
Date: Sat Nov 19 13:00:57 2016
New Revision: 34568
URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv?rev=34568&view=rev
Log:
Refresh NEWS-2.5 for 2.5.6, from wiki.
Modified:
branches/S2_5/NEWS-2.5
Modified: branches/S2_5/NEWS-2.5
URL:
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv/branches/S2_5/NEWS-2.5?rev=34568&r1=34567&r2=34568&view=diff
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========================
-Welcome to Freeciv 2.5.5
+Welcome to Freeciv 2.5.6
========================
The changes in the 2.5.x series are summarised below.
For changes prior to 2.5, see NEWS. For more detailed changes,
see the ChangeLog file.
+
+
+CHANGES FROM 2.5.5 to 2.5.6
+---------------------------
+
+ (from <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.5.6>)
+
+ 2.5.6 is a bugfix release.
+
+Server / General
+
+Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)
+
+ * Disbanding a caravan-type unit with the "Disband" action (Shift-D)
+ in a city that's building a wonder no longer contributes 100% of
+ that unit's production cost towards the wonder. You must explicitly
+ use the "Help Build Wonder" action (B). This change was made
+ because this allowed rules to be bypassed -- it allowed adding
+ shields to foreign cities' wonders. GNA#23911
+ * If autoattack is enabled, cargo now preferentially attacks before
+ its transport. GNA#25259 GNAPATCH#7985
+ * Air units could fail to return to refuel automatically and be lost,
+ despite having enough movement points. GNA#25294
+ * A spurious enemy land unit could be shown in the middle of the sea
+ on the client if the client's player saw its transporter being
+ sunk, in games with 'killstack' disabled. GNA#24921
+ * Borders were sometimes not adjusted after tiles changed from land
+ to water. GNA#23179
+ * It was possible to launch a spaceship that was not entirely
+ connected (in a specific way). GNA#24979
+ * The server could emit assertion failures when a barbarian leader
+ could not or did not want to move. GNA#24929
+ * The server could emit assertion failures shortly after creating a
+ new barbarian player. GNA#24545
+ * The server now gives a clear error message if it fails to parse a
+ saved game file. GNA#24972
+ * After selecting a specific nation to play and then reverting to
+ random selection, it was possible to end up with previously
+ selected nation anyway, due to the leader name persisting.
+ GNA#24170
+ * Removed duplicate city 'Orange' from Texan ruleset. (This was
+ harmless.) GNA#25003
+
+Changes affecting other rulesets / modders
+
+ * Remove init_government from the Lycian nation. This prevented using
+ the standard nation set nationlist.ruleset in a ruleset not
+ containing a 'Despotism' government type. GNA#24904
+ * Extra sanity checking when loading rulesets. GNA#24905 GNA#25137
+
+Changes affecting server operators
+
+ * When reducing command permissions (cmdlevel) on game start to
+ 'basic' for connected players, new connections after game start
+ still got 'ctrl' permissions. GNA#24774
+
+General
+
+ * A tiny optimization for speed. GNAPATCH#7567
+ * Various internal changes which should only affect developers.
+ GNA#25007 GNA#25301
+
+AI
+
+ * The building advisor will no longer automatically build (and hence
+ move) 'small wonder' buildings of any kind. (Previously it only
+ refused to move the Palace.) GNA#7598
+ * The AI could send caravans toward foreign cities in the mistaken
+ belief that (a) they could help build a wonder there, (b) this
+ would be somehow useful. GNA#24662
+
+Clients
+
+ * Sound is no longer disabled by default for fresh installations,
+ unless it was not compiled in. GNA#24280
+ * If a sound set with menu music was in use, a brief snatch of it
+ would be played when quitting the client. GNA#24844
+ * The 'Turn Done' button is now disabled for dead players. (It did
+ not do anything useful.) GNA#24945
+ * (Gtk3) Fix misdrawing of the scenario choosing page. GNA#24882
+ * (Gtk3) Fix warnings about use of Pango font syntax seen with newer
+ versions of Gtk. GNAPATCH#7162 GNA#25226
+ * (Gtk3) Fix various other trouble when using the newest Gtk (3.22).
+ GNAPATCH#7845 GNA#25160
+ * (Qt) Fix constantly blinking research text the turn when the tech
+ tree is complete. GNA#25071
+ * (Qt) Added the option to show which tiles are native to a unit, as
+ in other clients. GNAPATCH#6445
+ * (Qt) Added the 'Default' option to theme selection. GNAPATCH#7666
+ * (Qt) Fix artifacts on minimap: a vertical line of bright (unfogged)
+ pixels was shown in hex topologies, and more unfogged pixels could
+ be left after unit movement. GNA#24370 GNA#24861
+ * (Qt) Now shows any startup message set on the server with
+ 'connectmsg'. GNAPATCH#7537
+ * (Qt) Now displays information about new releases of Freeciv from
+ the metaserver, like other clients. GNA#24935
+ * (Qt) Trying to start the game very quickly after loading a savegame
+ or scenario could fail. GNA#24859
+ * (Qt) Picking a nation for another player in pregame could set that
+ player's leader name to the client's username. GNA#24906
+ * (Qt) When sending a chat message, the position in the chat history
+ is reset to the bottom. GNA#24881
+ * (Qt) Chat messages containing non-ASCII characters could be
+ displayed incorrectly. GNA#24888
+ * (Qt) Windows-specific fixes:
+ + Some changes that may help with failure to start this client
+ on Windows. GNA#24901
+ + The map could fail to be drawn initially. GNA#24860
+ + Fix possible networking trouble. GNA#24909
+ * (SDL) It was usually impossible to cancel a treaty. Opening the
+ diplomacy dialog when it would have been possible would usually
+ crash the client. GNA#25245 GNA#25085
+ * (SDL) With hex topologies, the city map was drawn over other parts
+ of the city dialog. GNA#25251
+ * (SDL) The goto/airlift dialog had a hardcoded limit to the number
+ of cities it could display, making some inaccessible. GNA#25024
+ * (SDL) Fix possible trouble when entering or leaving the main game
+ view. GNA#23992
+ * (SDL) Fix possible trouble on theme change. Theme changes are not
+ applied until a restart. GNA#25117
+
+Tilesets / Art
+
+ * Minor fixes to civ2civ3 wonder graphics. GNA#25009
+ * An invisible fix to improve hex2t performance slightly.
+ GNAPATCH#7953
+
+Help / Documentation
+
+ * Documented the FREECIV_OPT client environment variable. GNA#25165
+ * Miscellaneous changes to developer/ruleset docs. GNA#24941
+ GNA#24996 GNAPATCH#7688
+
+Translations
+
+ * Updated translations:
+ + Complete translations: Russian.
+ + Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 92% nations),
+ German (100% core, 87% nations), Ukrainian (99.1% core, 79%
+ nations).
+ * (We're looking for a new primary maintainer for the German
+ translation. See <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/Translations>
+ if you can help.)
+
+Build/portability
+
+ * Fix portability issues when building for 64-bit Windows.
+ GNAPATCH#7558 GNAPATCH#7588 GNA#24902 GNA#24900
+ * Fix some compilation warnings on OpenBSD. GNA#24948 GNAPATCH#7634
+ * Fix use of deprecated types in the Qt client, causing warnings.
+ GNAPATCH#7704
+ * Some incomplete changes aimed at enabling compilation with tcc.
+ GNAPATCH#7509 GNAPATCH#7519 GNAPATCH#7526
+ * Fix generation of the configure script with the (rather old)
+ autoconf 2.64. This would not affect building from our release
+ tarballs. GNA#24907
+ * The FREECIV_LABEL_FORCE variable is now cached between runs of
+ 'configure'. GNAPATCH#7987
CHANGES FROM 2.5.4 to 2.5.5
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