Somewhat reluctantly I have concluded we are going to need to forgo 0.11.7 and bump the (semi-)major version number for the next release. wintertime and I have both hit places where the 0.10.x compatibility code is impeding progress, so it is time to drop support for the 0.10 format save games and protocol. I do not like doing this, as its unhelpful to the users, but at least the 0.11 series has been reasonably long.
Meanwhile I strongly suspect I have also already broken even some old 0.11.x games, but I am not planning to fix that until stabilizing the comms changes. Some of these will now be easier, and progress continues. The comms protocol has already changed, however I bumped the protocol version number a while back so no issues should have arisen there. To clarify: we promise that FreeCol 0.x.* can read 0.x.* and 0.x-1.* format games, but do not promise FreeCol can interoperate in multi-player unless the protocol versions match. We try not to vary the protocol version within a series 0.x.*, but it has happened. Cheers, Mike Pope
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