Hammer of Thyrion (uHexen2) 1.5.2 is released

Version 1.5.2 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion (uHexen2) is released.
This is a maintainence release fixing several small bugs found in
the previous v1.5.1. It also adds new features such as support for
FOV adjustment, anisotropic texture filtering, non-power-of-two
textures, and so on.

Uploaded the full sources, as well as win32, win64, dos, linux-x86
and linux-x86_64 binary packages, here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uhexen2/files/Hammer%20of%20Thyrion/1.5.2/
The Mac OS X packages will hopefully follow shortly. We would also
like to have linux-ppc rpms or tarballs if anyone can prepare them
for us.

The changes since the previous release are as follows:

* All platforms: Incremented versions for the hexen2 engine
to 1.25, hexenworld engine to 0.25, gamecode to 1.25 and
the gtk-launcher to 1.0.7.
* Verified correct compilation by clang (using v3.0) and by
the new gcc version 4.7.x.
* All platforms, gamecode: Fixed occasional crashes in the
original hexen2 game with the Paladin's axe.
* All platforms, hexen2 net play: fixed connection getting
stuck sometimes after displaying the "Connection accepted"
message.
* All platforms: Ported server model code optimizations and
cleanups from h2ded to hwsv (hexenworld server).
* All platforms: Added support for transparent console in
the software renderer, controlled by new cvar "contrans".
Valid values for contrans are 0 (solid), 1 (transparent)
and 2 (very transparent).
* All platforms, software renderer: Fixed wrong transparency
issue with certain models when not using the x86 assembler
drawing routines.
* All platforms: Added on-screen fps counter to hexen2 (do
"showfps 1" from the console). Updated existing showfps
code of hexenworld.
* All platforms, OpenGL: Added anisotropic texture filtering
support (gl_texture_anisotropy). Revised existing texture
filters. Texture filtering options now saved to the config.
* All platforms, OpenGL: Added support for non-power-of-two-
textures extension.
* All platforms: Implemented fov in opengl hexen2, useful
for widescreen resolutions. Revised the implementations
in hexenworld, as well as the software renderer.
* All platforms, OpenGL: Fixed shadows spot which was broken
back in 2007 during v1.4.2 development.
* All platforms, input: Discard mouse/joystick motion when
in cameramode. Discard the accumulated mouse motion when
starting a game or when loading a saved game to prevent
any unintended viewangle changes.
* Windows input: Disabled GDI mouse acceleration flags for
better behavior on XP and newer versions.
* SDL / Unix: Revised SDL unicode and dead keys support.
* SDL / Mac OS X: Fixed console and message mode backspace
key (bug #2688151.)
* Unix / SVGAlib mouse: Fixed missing camera mode and ideal
roll handling.
* Unix / SVGAlib video: Fixed planar modes when using the
svgalib_helper kernel module. Removed the need for x86
assembly for compilation and the linux-only limitation.
* Unix / SVGAlib video: Fixed messed up colors upon coming
back from a vt switching.
* Unix: Fixed compilation on GNU/kFreeBSD (Debian, #657793)
* Unix, MIDI: Several updates to the Timidity backend.
* Timidity, Windows MIDI: Support for Microsoft RMID format.
* Windows MIDI: Fixed broken tempo with certain midi files
(problem was introduced in version 1.5.1)
* Windows software renderer: Fixed restoring of the saved
video mode on startup (problem was introduced in v1.4.4.)
* Windows software renderer: Disabled MGL DirectDraw support
by default (causes more trouble than it's actually worth.)
Can be enabled by -useddraw or -usedirectdraw command line
switches, if required.
* All platforms: Revised the cross-episode demo recording
and playback behavior, allowing the intermission screens
to be displayed.
* All platforms: Removed code that prevented deathmatch and
coop cvars to be set at the same time, which was reported
for possibility of causing compatibility issues with mods.
* All platforms: Majorly revised the support mechanism for
different versions of progs. Added old v1.03 progs support
to hexen2, added old v0.11 and v0.14 progs support to hw.
* All platforms, h2ded: Removed error when neither coop nor
deathmatch is set and rely on server admin.
* All platforms, hexenworld client: Fixed a crash in the
credits display when one waited long enough to see all the
text to be printed.
* Unix / gtk-launcher: Added support for gtk3. Several bug
fixes and code cleanups.
* Mac OS X: Fixed compilation failure due to a typo in MIDI
code introduced in v1.5.1.
* DOS: Added WatTCP (WATT-32) networking support for hexen2
internet play.
* DOS: Added experimental DOS support for hexenworld using
WatTCP library. (doesn't work yet due to WatTCP bugs.)
* DOS: Added "-nogus" command line option so that UltraSound
initialization can be skipped by the user if necessary.
* Miscellaneous source code cleanups.

Enjoy.