[Rails-announce] Release 1.8.5 of rails

[Martin B. <dr....@t-...>]

We would like to announce the release of 1.8.5.

Be advised that this will alter behaviour of save games (it even might
break some) for the following game variants: 1880, 1856 and 1835.

 This is a minor release fixing the following bugs:

    - 1880: Operation rounds in 1880 would end after 3 occurrences with
            a hard reset towards the first company in the current round.
            Stockrounds would be ignored. The hard coded end after the
            third OR is now enforced at game end if specific conditions
	    are met. Fixed definition error on Map - Water tile J16
	    didn't have its negative value set.
            Please check if the YC-Specialproperty is working as
            intended.

    - 1856: The position of the CGR-share on the stockmarket was
	    hardcoded to the second row on formation. This has now been
	    moved to row 0. Please check. This will break/alter all
	    1856 games in progress so caution is advised.

    - 1835: Introducing a switch name PrussianReservedIgnored. This 	
	    switch if toggled to yes on game start will tell rails to
	    ignore unavailable prussian shares (shares that have not
	    yet been converted in the Prussianformation process) in
	    determining if the prussian shares are sold out or not.
	    The old and current default method will treat unconverted
	    shares as unsold !

Contributors to this release:
Stefan Frey,
Volker Schnell,
Martin Brumm


Thank you to all who reported the bugs.

Please report any bugs you find on the mailinglist as usual.

Thank you for the patience and feedback.

The Rails Crew wish you a Happy New Year 2014 !

Martin