Author: jtn
Date: Sat Aug 15 13:02:02 2015
New Revision: 29513
URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv?rev=29513&view=rev
Log:
Refresh NEWS-2.5 for 2.5.1, from wiki.
Modified:
branches/S2_5/NEWS-2.5
Modified: branches/S2_5/NEWS-2.5
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http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv/branches/S2_5/NEWS-2.5?rev=29513&r1=29512&r2=29513&view=diff
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-Welcome to Freeciv 2.5.0
+Welcome to Freeciv 2.5.1
========================
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 2.5.0 TO 2.5.1
+---------------------------
+
+ (from <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.5.1>)
+
+ 2.5.1 is a bugfix release. Notably, it fixes some long-standing bugs in
+ the rules for national borders, and the rules for happiness for very
+ large empires.
+
+Server / General
+
+Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)
+
+ * Fixes to longstanding bugs in border rules:
+ + Once a city has claimed a tile within its workable radius,
+ that tile cannot be stolen by another nation. (This had been
+ broken since 2.3; now the behavior reflects the
+ documentation.) GNA#23501
+ + Water tiles next to cities and other border sources could
+ sometimes remain unclaimed, semi-randomly. Now they are always
+ claimed. Update the help to accurately reflect the rules.
+ (This had not been working as intended since at least 2.1.)
+ GNA#23503 GNAPATCH#5987
+ * Angry citizens had been accidentally disabled since 2.4. With most
+ supplied rulesets and governments, these were supposed to appear
+ when an empire had so many cities that there were no content
+ citizens left to become unhappy; now they do. This may
+ substantially increase unhappiness in very large empires, even in
+ ongoing games. Angry citizens can be disabled by editing the
+ ruleset. GNA#23743
+ * Fixes to corner cases in the civ2civ3 rules:
+ + Ending a turn on Mountains no longer gives a movement penalty
+ if the tile has a road. GNAPATCH#6014
+ + Prevent building farmland on bare desert terrain, since it
+ will provide no bonus. GNA#23609
+ + City center tiles benefiting from an automatic farmland bonus
+ no longer get the trade bonus from Super Highways, as with
+ other farmland tiles. GNA#23610
+ * The client could sometimes fail to show some cargo of a transport
+ in the unit selection dialog, due to the server not sending correct
+ information after reloading a savegame. Thus transports could
+ appear to have spare capacity when they didn't. GNA#23444
+ * Fix some bugs with unique units (such as Leaders):
+ + Actions that transfer units between players didn't have
+ sufficient checks. For instance, you could give away a city
+ containing your Leader, giving you no Leader and the recipient
+ two. (You could then attack the city, losing the recipient the
+ game.) GNA#23578 GNA#23691
+ + With gameloss_style="Loot" (not in any of the supplied
+ rulesets), dying Leader units could be transferred or revealed
+ to the conqueror, causing trouble such as the conqueror then
+ losing the game. GNA#23676 GNA#23684
+ * Maps could be generated with rivers on ocean tiles in some cases.
+ GNA#23576
+ * When the AI proposed a treaty, it could be sent in such a way as to
+ cause the client to pop it up in front of other tabs, obscuring
+ end-of-turn activities. GNA#23565
+ * Prevent creating and canceling treaties in ways that should be
+ illegal between members of the same team (such as withdrawing
+ vision), and generally improve checking for illegal pacts.
+ GNA#22993 GNA#23421 GNA#23408
+ * Fix a corner case where a technology could be granted to a dead
+ player due to changing research costs. GNA#23437
+ * Fix a possible crash after an air unit automatically returns to
+ safety to avoid running out of fuel. GNA#23728
+ * Fix a cause of the error message "Trying to update old city",
+ although the circumstances and consequences of this bug are
+ unclear. GNA#23716
+ * Give a reason when failing to create as many AI players as
+ requested. (For instance, due to the currently selected nation set
+ not having enough nations; the default 'core' set limits games to
+ 50 players, but more can be created by switching to the extended
+ nation set.) GNA#23526 GNA#23621
+ * The 'first_timeout' option was broken in various ways. Notably,
+ setting it to 0 in pregame caused the first turn to have an
+ immediate timeout rather than no timeout; setting 'timeout' or
+ 'first_timeout' during the first turn could do the wrong thing; and
+ the client display of time remaining was incorrect for the first
+ turn. GNA#23324 GNA#23724
+
+Changes affecting other rulesets / modders
+
+ * Fix a server crash in rulesets with variable city map radius. This
+ could manifest for instance if city radius depends on government.
+ GNA#23591
+ * An AI with an 'expansionist' trait value less than the default
+ never built settlers. GNA#23745
+ * AI trait settings modified by Lua script were not correctly loaded
+ from savefiles. They were saved correctly, so pre-existing
+ savefiles are now loaded correctly. GNA#23564
+ * Fix a few remaining cases where a negative value for a boolean
+ effect would erroneously enable it: 'No_Diplomacy' and
+ 'Happiness_To_Gold'. GNA#23364
+ * Units' ability to transform terrain is now documented
+ automatically. (Supplied rulesets have been updated to reflect
+ this, but add-on rulesets may need tweaking.) GNAPATCH#5981
+ GNAPATCH#5982
+ * Nations without legend text no longer crash the server. GNA#20110
+ * Add and improve load-time checks for errors in rulesets and
+ tilesets. GNAPATCH#5892 GNAPATCH#5918 GNAPATCH#5985 GNA#23299
+ * Update included Lua to 5.2.4. GNAPATCH#5939
+
+Changes affecting server operators
+
+ * Delegation is now correctly case-insensitive with respect to
+ usernames. GNA#21744
+
+General
+
+ * In a sequence of unit orders, a unit move that exhausts movement
+ points no longer necessarily prevents the next order from occurring
+ in the same turn. (But there are currently no go-to-and-do actions
+ available to players that do not require movement points to do the
+ action, so this has no visible effect.) GNA#23594
+ * Memory leak fixes. GNAPATCH#5808 GNAPATCH#5946 GNAPATCH#5989
+ GNAPATCH#6030 GNAPATCH#6090 GNAPATCH#6093 GNAPATCH#6140
+ GNAPATCH#6169 GNAPATCH#6170
+ * Various internal changes which should only affect developers.
+ GNAPATCH#6012 GNA#23285 GNA#23703 GNAPATCH#6179
+
+AI
+
+ * The AI overestimated the loss of trade from canceling an old trade
+ route when deciding whether to create a new one. GNA#23532
+ * The AI may be less likely to abandon its units once loaded onto
+ allied transports (including those owned by human players).
+ GNAPATCH#6181
+ * In the civ2civ3 ruleset, the Cheating AI now gets its cheating
+ defense bonus applied on top of the bonus from fortresses and
+ airbases. GNA#23370
+ * The AI no longer asks to sign a ceasefire if circumstances prevent
+ signing any treaty. GNA#23542
+
+Clients
+
+ * In terrain info popups, show the countdown to armistice expiry as
+ well as for ceasefire. GNA#23303
+ * The city dialog 'Happiness' tab now shows better how changes to the
+ number of cities will affect happiness. GNA#23611
+ * When the Nations report is sorted by diplomatic status, it is now
+ ordered by friendliness rather than alphabetically. GNA#23420
+ * The city footprint outline for settler units is now drawn even if
+ the map grid is enabled. GNA#23302
+ * The front part of bases such as fortresses could fail to be drawn
+ if they were on unowned territory. GNA#23418
+ * The middle-click popup now shows unit nationality if different from
+ its owner. Fix cosmetic issues with display of unit nationality in
+ other contexts. GNA#23740
+ * Fixes to the 'Turn Done' button behaviour in games with alternating
+ turns:
+ + The button could be sensitive on first connection even when it
+ was not your turn. GNA#21633
+ + The button no longer constantly blinks, in clients where
+ blinking is supported. GNA#23733
+ * Minor improvements to robustness and diagnostics of LAN game
+ announcements. GNA#23319 GNAPATCH#5865
+ * (Gtk) Add a confirmation when canceling a treaty from the Nations
+ report. GNA#23411
+ * (Gtk) Prevent the main map window layout jumping about when
+ switching between unit stacks of different sizes. (This was
+ particularly noticeable with hex tilesets.) GNA#23562
+ * (Gtk) Various minor cosmetic changes. GNA#23563 GNA#22676
+ GNAPATCH#5957 GNA#22836 GNA#22677
+ * (Qt) Add "Establish Trade Route" to menus. GNAPATCH#6054
+ * (Qt) Help claimed that mining produced food rather than shields;
+ also other typo fixes and text tweaks. GNA#23284 GNA#23282
+ GNA#23304 GNA#23557
+ * (Qt) Fix a crash when the attached player is under AI control and
+ receives a diplomatic meeting request. GNA#23626
+ * (SDL) Rulesets with specialists other than the traditional
+ entertainer / tax collector / scientist set are now supported.
+ GNAPATCH#5868
+ * (SDL) Fix a crash and other trouble when changing to a different
+ player mid-game. GNA#23540 GNA#23551
+ * (SDL) Observers are no longer invited to end their turn. GNA#17703
+ * (SDL) After leaving a game, the unit orders icons could remain
+ on-screen. GNA#23357
+ * (SDL) When a spy sabotaged a specific building, the dialog for
+ choosing that building could remain. GNA#23296
+ * (Gtk3) When run on a very small screen, the city dialog now has
+ more tabs each with less content, to try to fit. GNAPATCH#5958
+ * (Gtk3) Map in city dialog is now greyed out when under governor
+ control, as for other clients. GNA#22834
+
+Tools
+
+ * Add confirmation when quitting the Qt modpack installer.
+ GNAPATCH#6042
+ * Improve quit confirmation message. GNAPATCH#6052 GNA#23571
+ * The Qt modpack installer window is now resizeable. GNA#23193
+
+Tilesets / Art
+
+ * Added graphics for maglev, inaccessible terrain, and unit costs up
+ to 9 to all of the isotrident, isophex, and hex2t tilesets. All
+ supplied tilesets now have these graphics. GNAPATCH#5962
+ GNAPATCH#5972 GNAPATCH#5980
+ * Update Maglev art in the Amplio2 and Cimpletoon tilesets.
+ GNAPATCH#5756
+
+Help / Documentation
+
+ * Document that bombardment (as used by e.g. civ2civ3
+ helicopters/bombers) damages all units on a tile. GNAPATCH#5822
+ * Help for ruleset items more thoroughly documents what other items
+ they enable:
+ + Buildings enabled by extras (such as "Aqueduct, River" in
+ civ2civ3) and nations. GNAPATCH#5984
+ + Governments enabled by technologies and nations. GNAPATCH#5813
+ + Road types enabled by technologies. GNA#23281
+ * Corrections to civ2civ3 ruleset documentation to reflect the actual
+ rules:
+ + Document the weaknesses of Big Land units (move restrictions
+ and indefensibility). GNAPATCH#5823
+ + Quantify the work bonus of veteran Engineers. GNAPATCH#5857
+ + Nuclear fallout can be generated on oceans, and cleared by
+ Transports. GNA#23388 GNA#23428
+ + Migrants can clear fallout and build fortresses. GNA#23362
+ * Miscellaneous improvements to in-game text and user documentation.
+ GNAPATCH#5858 GNA#23346 GNA#23427 GNA#22454 GNAPATCH#5965
+ GNAPATCH#5990 GNAPATCH#5988 GNAPATCH#5986 GNA#23397 GNA#23586
+ GNA#23263 GNAPATCH#5952 GNAPATCH#6189
+ * Miscellaneous changes to developer/ruleset docs. GNA#23391
+ GNAPATCH#5948 GNAPATCH#6024 GNA#23783
+ * Invisible changes to assist localization. GNA#23333 GNAPATCH#5960
+ GNAPATCH#5880 GNA#23539 GNA#23443 GNAPATCH#5838
+
+Translations
+
+ * Updated translations:
+ + Complete translations: Spanish, French, British English.
+ + Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 87% nations),
+ German (100% core, 87% nations), Catalan (99.8% core, 100%
+ nations), Polish (97.2% core, 100% nations).
+
+Build/portability
+
+ * Improvements to configure's Qt detection:
+ + Make configure checks suitable for Mac OS X. Add new configure
+ option --with-qt5-framework-bin. GNA#18200
+ + Search in /usr/lib/qt and /usr/include/qt (the latter is
+ required for Arch Linux). GNAPATCH#5919
+ + If a Qt installation is explicitly specified with
+ --with-qt5-includes / --with-qt5-libs, don't look elsewhere.
+ GNA#23348
+ * Fix compilation of the Qt client with --disable-nls. GNA#23415
+ * If the user does not specify a client, configure now prefers
+ building the Qt client to the SDL or Xaw clients. GNAPATCH#6050
+ * Fix clang warnings. Freeciv can now be built warning-clean with
+ clang-3.7. GNA#23483
+ * Look harder for a nullptr definition; fixes warnings from clang on
+ Mac OS X. GNA#23414
+ * Fix some warnings from GCC 5 and cppcheck. Freeciv can now be built
+ warning-clean with gcc-5.1. GNAPATCH#5994 GNAPATCH#6092
+ * Check for __VA_ARGS__ handling at configure time, giving a less
+ obscure error when attempting to use a compiler that does not
+ implement the behavior we rely on (such as tcc). GNAPATCH#6033
+ * Compressed scenarios no longer embed a timestamp, fixing a
+ complaint from reproducible-builds infrastructure such as Debian's.
+ GNAPATCH#6175
+ * Fix failure to compile when Postgres support was enabled. GNA#23549
+ * Minor corrections to .desktop files. GNAPATCH#5938 GNAPATCH#5940
CHANGES FROM 2.5.0-RC2 TO 2.5.0
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