Author: jtn
Date: Sat Jul 30 13:46:21 2016
New Revision: 33378
URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/freeciv?rev=33378&view=rev
Log:
Refresh NEWS-2.5 for 2.5.5, 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=33378&r1=33377&r2=33378&view=diff
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-Welcome to Freeciv 2.5.4
+Welcome to Freeciv 2.5.5
========================
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 2.5.4 to 2.5.5
+---------------------------
+
+ (from <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-2.5.5>)
+
+ 2.5.5 is a bugfix release.
+
+Server / General
+
+Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)
+
+ * A city containing a Leader unit will now never defect in a civil
+ war. Previously this could cause the rebels to end up with both
+ Leaders. GNA#24724
+ * Units without a home city are no longer forced to acquire a home
+ city when transferred to another player. GNA#24746
+ * Barbarians no longer spawn in Lake terrain in all rulesets which
+ have it. GNA#24458
+ * Bug fix: it was impossible to change production in a city after
+ disbanding a unit there the same turn the city was built. GNA#24714
+ * The win chance of a boat in a city defending against attack was
+ erroneously displayed as 0%. GNA#24799 (A new client connecting to
+ an old server running a custom ruleset may still display an
+ incorrect defense value, this time too optimistic.)
+ * The client's display of city population could be out of date after
+ international migration. GNA#24464
+ * The 'Plague' random disaster in the classic ruleset has been
+ renamed to 'Pestilence' to avoid confusion with the unrelated game
+ concept of plague. GNA#24688 Other text changed to mitigate this
+ confusion. GNA#24689
+ * Bug fixes and improvements to Latvian, African, and Texan nations.
+ GNA#24670 GNAPATCH#7240 GNA#24726
+ * Correct descriptions of server options 'techlost_recv' and
+ 'techlost_donor' to make clear that they apply to technology theft
+ as well as trading. GNA#24609
+ * Bug fix: a non-zero 'techlevel' setting (or a ruleset which grants
+ initial techs) along with certain 'plrcolormode' settings could
+ give a (harmless) assertion failure at game start. GNA#24614
+ * Bug fix: a player observer can no longer cause the game to start on
+ behalf of a player. GNA#24678
+
+Changes affecting other rulesets / modders
+
+ * Adding a base in the editor was not taking care of side-effects,
+ such as removing conflicting bases on the same tile, granting
+ vision and borders, etc. GNA#23106
+ * In the editor, the "Nation Start Positions" property could be
+ disabled when changing other values on the Game tab of the property
+ editor. GNA#24627
+
+Changes affecting server operators
+
+ * New 'persistent' metaserver connection mode, where one failure to
+ talk to the metaserver does not prevent future attempts. Enabled
+ with the '--keep' server option or the '/metaconnection persistent'
+ server command. GNAPATCH#7300
+
+General
+
+ * Minor memory leak fixes. GNA#24634 GNA#24468
+ * Some optimizations for speed. GNAPATCH#7176 GNAPATCH#7202
+ GNAPATCH#7189
+ * Various internal changes which should only affect developers.
+ GNAPATCH#7206 GNA#24669 GNA#24636 GNA#24651 GNAPATCH#7433
+ GNAPATCH#7432
+
+AI
+
+ * AI players could occasionally be subject to the penalty for
+ changing production type. They are supposed to always be immune to
+ this penalty. GNA#24760
+
+Clients
+
+ * It's now possible to create an all-AI game from the client, by
+ becoming an observer and starting the game. (You also need to set
+ 'minplayers' to 0 and set a turn timeout.) GNAPATCH#7334
+ * Fix drawing artifacts with oriented tilesets such as Cimpletoon:
+ + A unit could be drawn with two superimposed random
+ orientations. This showed up in the Gtk unit select dialog and
+ the Qt help. GNA#24772
+ + Unit orientation in these circumstances could change randomly
+ on redraws. GNA#24771
+ * Fixes to disconnecting from servers and cleaning up spawned
+ servers. In particular, the Gtk and Qt clients now disconnect
+ cleanly from the server when you quit the client. GNA#24629
+ GNA#24872 GNA#24823
+ * For global observers, fixed display of city map outline and grid
+ coloring. GNA#24791
+ * Fixed a potential buffer overflow in some clients in the presence
+ of extremely long tileset or soundset names. GNA#24877
+ * (Gtk) Make Prev/Next City buttons insensitive for global observers,
+ since they do nothing. GNA#24059
+ * (Gtk3) On very small screens, the balance between happiness and
+ nationality areas in the city dialog has been improved. GNA#24265
+ * (Gtk3) Silence Gtk warnings on console by default with newer Gtk3
+ versions; this is necessary as it's not possible to construct a
+ theme which works across the full range of Gtk3 versions we support
+ without warnings. They can be re-enabled with
+ freeciv-gtk3 -- --gtk-warnings.
+ * (Qt) Simplified the network page, so that local and Internet
+ servers are on the same page. GNAPATCH#7392 Scans for local servers
+ are now stopped once a connection is chosen. GNA#24833
+ * (Qt) There's now a button to lock the messages and chat window
+ geometry, so that a mis-click doesn't accidentally disarrange them.
+ GNAPATCH#7467
+ * (Qt) The '5' key on the numeric keypad now selects the previous
+ unit, as in the Gtk clients. GNA#24516
+ * (Qt) Allied chat (chat messages are sent only to allies, not all
+ players) is now the default. GNAPATCH#7368
+ * (Qt) The default leader name defaults to the player name (often the
+ system user name) rather than a leader name from a selected nation.
+ GNAPATCH#7367
+ * (Qt) Added an option to change the theme. GNAPATCH#7471
+ * (Qt) The '<', '>', and '&' characters are now handled correctly in
+ chat; they are no longer interpreted as HTML. GNAPATCH#7263
+ GNA#24829
+ * (Qt) When there's a problem loading a tileset, an error message
+ explaining it is now displayed. GNA#24832
+ * (SDL) The display of shields in the city dialog immediately after
+ changing production could be overly pessimistic. GNA#24807
+
+Tools
+
+ * Minor fix to freeciv-manual tool's output. GNA#24778
+ * Minor fix to modpack installer's error reporting. GNA#24637
+
+Help / Documentation
+
+ * The 'Chatline' help is now more comprehensive. GNA#24841
+ * The tutorial scenario now has a message for when you build your
+ first military unit. GNA#24874
+ * Miscellaneous other improvements to in-game text and user
+ documentation. GNAPATCH#7119 GNA#24682 GNA#24720 GNA#24650
+ GNA#24753 GNA#24784 GNAPATCH#7303 GNA#24828 GNA#24838 GNA#24858
+ * Miscellaneous changes to developer/ruleset docs. GNAPATCH#7384
+ * Invisible changes to assist localization. GNAPATCH#6908
+
+Translations
+
+ * Updated translations:
+ + Complete translations: Catalan, French, British English,
+ Spanish, Russian.
+ + Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 92% nations),
+ Japanese (94% core, 95.4% nations).
+ * When localized into Finnish, the last character was stripped or
+ corrupted in all messages. GNA#24754
+
+Build/portability
+
+ * Package builders can now override the version label used with
+ FREECIV_LABEL_FORCE. GNAPATCH#7196 GNAPATCH#7217
+ * 'nonnull-compare' warnings from GCC 6 are now silenced. GNA#23810
+ * The included Lua now uses fseeko() instead of fseek() where
+ available. This is unlikely to make a difference in practice.
+ GNAPATCH#7322
+ * Update some of the libraries shipped with the Windows packages.
+ GNA#24321
CHANGES FROM 2.5.3 to 2.5.4
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