Author: jtn
Date: Sat May 14 13:04:26 2016
New Revision: 32701
URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv?rev=32701&view=rev
Log:
Refresh NEWS-2.5 for 2.5.4, 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=32701&r1=32700&r2=32701&view=diff
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-Welcome to Freeciv 2.5.3
+Welcome to Freeciv 2.5.4
========================
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 2.5.3 to 2.5.4
+---------------------------
+
+ (from <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.5.4>)
+
+ 2.5.4 is a bugfix release.
+
+Server / General
+
+Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)
+
+ * When a city reduces in size causing its borders to shrink, avoid
+ messages like "City size 6, citizen count 7 for Porto Alegre" and
+ nearby cities' citizens being gratuitously rearranged. GNA#24194
+ * Founding a city on a tile occupied by a fortress could lead to
+ incorrect borders. GNA#23436
+ * The tutorial scenario now mentions boats, and warns about
+ killstack. GNAPATCH#2911
+ * In the civ2civ3 ruleset, 'happyborders' is now enabled by default.
+ GNAPATCH#7080
+ * In the experimental ruleset, some effects mistakenly did not apply
+ to Big Land units (only to Land units):
+ + Sun Tzu bonuses and Fortress defense bonuses now apply to Big
+ Land units. GNA#24539
+ + City Walls and Great Wall are now effective against Big Land
+ units. GNA#24522
+ * Transported units were never upgraded by Leonardo's Workshop. Now
+ they can be upgraded, provided that their current transport could
+ carry the resulting unit. GNA#24368
+ * When restoring from a savegame, the full map was revealed to dead
+ players regardless of whether the 'revealmap' option included
+ 'DEAD'. (Now dead players see nothing at all after a reload in this
+ situation, since their final view of the map is not currently
+ included in savegames.) GNA#21296
+ * Fix a possible server crash at turn change. GNA#24283
+ * Fix possible outdated city information in the client after
+ cancellation of a trade route involving that city. GNA#23708
+ * Some messages mentioning units could fail to localize the unit
+ name. GNA#24608
+ * When a 2.5.1 or older client received a report (history, wonders of
+ the world, top 5 cities etc) from a 2.5.2 or newer server, it could
+ contain parts of other reports. GNA#24494
+ * Starting the client or server with the --file or -f option could
+ sometimes fail if the full save file name was given, with its
+ extension (e.g., -f foo.sav.bz2). GNA#23872
+ * At game start, the map label "Highest Peak" is now placed as
+ intended, alongside "Scorched Spot" etc. GNA#24436
+
+Changes affecting other rulesets / modders
+
+ * The rule that units transporting other units cannot be paradropped
+ is now enforced. GNA#24392
+ * Large values for illness_base_factor, _pollution_factor, or
+ _trade_infection (above 255) were not correctly sent to the client.
+ The client would display the wrong illness values, although the
+ correct values would be used for gameplay. Both client and server
+ must be upgraded to benefit from this fix. GNA#24607
+ * In hex tilesets, river outlet sprites for horizontal/vertical sides
+ (road.river_outlet_{ne,sw}) are now used if present. This may
+ affect the display of existing tilesets (for instance, it affects
+ the supplied hex2t tileset). GNAPATCH#6351
+ * Using the editor, changing the ruleset, and entering the editor
+ again could leave editor tools in a funny state. GNA#24577
+ * Rulesets with ocean cities could encounter trouble if the server
+ printed debug messages about them, which can happen either with
+ --debug 4 in an --enable-debug build, or when targetted logging is
+ enabled with the /debug command. GNA#24405
+ * Extra sanity checking when loading rulesets. GNAPATCH#6833
+ GNA#24459
+
+General
+
+ * Fix possible bad handling of failure to open a bzip2-compressed
+ file. GNAPATCH#7024
+ * Fixed various warnings about unused entries when loading game
+ files. GNA#24219 GNAPATCH#7020
+ * Some changes to the Windows build, including using Winsock2 for
+ networking. This is not known to have user-visible consequences.
+ GNAPATCH#6533 GNA#24387 GNAPATCH#7139
+ * Minor memory leak fixes. GNA#24287 GNAPATCH#7015 GNA#24564
+ GNA#24600
+ * Some optimizations for speed. GNAPATCH#6934 GNAPATCH#6992
+ GNAPATCH#7126 GNAPATCH#7147 GNAPATCH#7149
+ * Various internal changes which should only affect developers.
+ GNAPATCH#6677 GNA#24322 GNAPATCH#6760 GNA#24331 GNA#24332 GNA#24284
+ GNAPATCH#6842 GNA#24350 GNA#24251 GNAPATCH#6873 GNAPATCH#6866
+ GNA#24378 GNAPATCH#6898 GNAPATCH#6906 GNAPATCH#6929 GNAPATCH#7004
+ GNA#24483 GNAPATCH#7130 GNA#24599 GNAPATCH#7135 GNA#19047
+
+AI
+
+ * When AI switched to a war footing, cities could be left building
+ workers/settlers forever, based on a desire remembered from
+ peacetime. GNA#24404
+ * Barbarians never finished pillaging tile improvements. Now there is
+ a chance that they do. GNA#23305
+ * If an AI player wanted an ally to declare war on an enemy, it was
+ much less patient if that ally was an AI than if it was a human.
+ Now AI and human allies are treated the same. GNAPATCH#7035
+ * In rare circumstances, an AI settler could report a "Failed to
+ build city" message to the console. GNA#24094
+ * AIs can now consider diplomacy with barbarian players (but the
+ default AI will now not attempt diplomacy with players with the
+ No_Diplomacy effect, so there's no change in behavior with supplied
+ rulesets and AIs). GNA#24282 GNAPATCH#6825
+
+Clients
+
+ * Setting a server option to a string value containing a space didn't
+ work. GNA#24346
+ * Fix a possible crash when starting a server, on Unix. GNA#24450
+ * Fix a crash or corruption of saved colors upon opening the client
+ settings dialog for the second time. GNA#24351 GNA#23961
+ * A client log level specified with -d is now passed on to any
+ spawned server, rather than the server logging with a fixed level
+ of 3 (verbose). GNA#21540
+ * Fix a rare assertion failure when the map is revealed at game end.
+ GNA#24562
+ * In games with 'phasemode' set for alternating movement, move the
+ client's notion of when the turn changes to after other player's
+ moves. GNA#24167
+ * (Qt) It was not possible to request more than 99 gold in a
+ diplomatic treaty. GNA#24425
+ * (Qt) The Players dialog would often forget its selection. GNA#24369
+ * (Qt) In the chat line, typing characters that clashed with menu
+ shortcuts (for instance Alt+C for Polish 'Ä') was impossible.
+ GNA#24380
+ * (Qt) Fix some menu items being enabled when they shouldn't be.
+ GNA#24396
+ * (SDL) Added item to Options menu to launch built-in help. GNA#17167
+ * (Gtk) Fix a crash when drawing the city dialog on some platforms.
+ GNA#24647
+ * (Gtk3) The background image in the default theme no longer crawls
+ around when windows are resized. This may also speed up drawing.
+ GNAPATCH#6964
+ * (Gtk3) Fix warning on console when detaching the lower part of the
+ window. GNA#24474
+ * (Gtk3) Fix possible console warnings related to the vote bar.
+ GNA#24353
+
+Tools
+
+ * The modpack installers were not treating an HTTP 404 Not Found as
+ an error; instead they would create the target file containing the
+ error message from the web server. GNA#24518 GNA#24603
+ * The modpack installers now support the --debug option to diagnose
+ errors. GNAPATCH#7060 GNA#24572
+ * Cosmetic tweak to freeciv-mp-cli output format. GNAPATCH#7113
+
+Help / Documentation
+
+ * Documented some limitations of SDI Defense (it is ineffective
+ against weapons owned by yourself, teammates, or allies). GNA#23916
+ * Miscellaneous other improvements to in-game text and user
+ documentation. GNA#23757 GNA#24205 GNA#24206 GNA#24337
+ GNAPATCH#6787 GNAPATCH#6901 GNAPATCH#6927 GNAPATCH#6951 GNA#24115
+ GNA#24431 GNAPATCH#7011 GNAPATCH#7170
+ * Miscellaneous changes to developer/ruleset docs. GNA#24393
+ GNA#24239 GNAPATCH#6924 GNA#24400 GNAPATCH#6981 GNAPATCH#6989
+ GNA#24602 GNAPATCH#7145 GNAPATCH#7161 GNAPATCH#7184 GNAPATCH#7205
+ * Invisible changes to assist localization. GNAPATCH#6893 GNA#24442
+ GNA#24660
+
+Translations
+
+ * Updated translations:
+ + Complete translations: French, British English, Spanish.
+ + Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 89% nations).
+ * Automatic language selection on a Norwegian Nynorsk version of
+ Windows gave US English translations. Now it uses the Bokmål
+ translation (the only one available) on any Norwegian version of
+ Windows. GNA#24480
+
+Build/portability
+
+ * Builds made with assertions disabled (NDEBUG defined) could fail to
+ load savegames properly. GNA#23965 GNA#24571
+ * Suppress some warnings from GCC 6. GNAPATCH#7156
+ * Fix various compiler warnings. The Freeciv core code is
+ warning-clean with Clang (3.5 to 3.8+) and GCC5/6. GNAPATCH#6759
+ GNA#24289
+ * Fix a possible failure to enable IPv6 where available. GNA#24274
+ * Fix a possible attempt to build with IPv6 where some necessary
+ functions were not available. GNA#24295
+ * configure could fail for lack of the gthread library, when that
+ library would only be needed for the optional freeciv-mp-gtk2/3.
+ GNA#24077
+ * Fix trouble with configure's Qt detection on Mac OS X. GNA#24567
+ * Fix harmless build warning "ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is
+ the default (see `U')" with recent binutils. GNA#23840
+ * Make configure --enable-client with no argument work. GNA#24471
+ * make src-check was failing on some platforms. GNA#24574
+ * Various fixes for building for Windows. GNA#24263 GNA#24291
+ GNA#24293 GNA#24292 GNAPATCH#6869
+ * Enable building with recent Gtk3, which has deprecated GtkMisc.
+ GNA#24398 GNA#24432
+ * Re-running autogen.sh from the release tarball could lead to a
+ broken tree with bits of two incompatible versions of libtool.
+ GNAPATCH#6861
CHANGES FROM 2.5.2 to 2.5.3
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