[Widelands-public] Widelands 1.1 Released

[Benedikt S. <ben...@we...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of the stable release Widelands 1.1. Widelands is a free,
cross-platform economy strategy game in which players control the fate
of a small tribe that can grow into a big empire, in a style of play
that is unique in the open source world. Please visit our homepage at
https://www.widelands.org/ to learn more.

Since the release of version 1.0, we implemented several hundreds of new
features and bugfixes; for example, to name just a few of the highlights:

- **Three new scenarios**: One each for the Atlantean and Frisian
campaigns, and a new standalone singleplayer mission
- An **add-ons webserver** allows efficient down- and uploading of
add-ons as well as interactions such as voting and commenting on add-ons
- **High-resolution images** for many units
- **Multithreading** provides smoother performance
- Multiple enhancements to the in-game **encyclopedia**
- **Diplomacy**: Manage your alliances during the game
- **Fastplace**: Assign custom shortcuts to buildings to place them with
one keystroke
- In-game loading and restarting of games and scenarios
- Save and load in-game windows
- Editor tool history dialog
- Various AI enhancements

Widelands 1.1 is translated completely into Catalan, German, Hungarian,
and Low German, and the translations for 10 other languages are more
than ⅔ complete.

Widelands is distributed for Windows (64-bit and 32-bit), Mac OS X >=
11.0 (Intel 64-bit and M1 Arm), Linux (AppImage, 64 bit), and in source
code. For Linux users, we also provide a Flatpak package and a Ubuntu
PPA and try to make compiling as easy as possible, and most
distributions will pick up Widelands 1.1 into their repositories very
quickly. Both binary and source packages are available under the links
below and from our Download <The Widelands Development Team is proud to
announce the immediate availability of the stable release Widelands 1.1.
Widelands is a free, cross-platform economy strategy game in which
players control the fate of a small tribe that can grow into a big
empire, in a style of play that is unique in the open source world.
Please visit our homepage at https://www.widelands.org/ to learn
more.,,Since the release of version 1.0, we implemented several hundreds
of new features and bugfixes; for example, to name just a few of the
highlights:,,- **Three new scenarios**: One each for the Atlantean and
Frisian campaigns, and a new standalone singleplayer mission,- An
**add-ons webserver** allows efficient down- and uploading of add-ons as
well as interactions such as voting and commenting on add-ons,-
**High-resolution images** for many units,- **Multithreading** provides
smoother performance,- Multiple enhancements to the in-game
**encyclopedia**,- **Diplomacy**: Manage your alliances during the
game,- **Fastplace**: Assign custom shortcuts to buildings to place them
with one keystroke,- In-game loading and restarting of games and
scenarios,- Save and load in-game windows,- Editor tool history dialog,-
Various AI enhancements,,Widelands 1.1 is translated completely into
Catalan, German, Hungarian, and Low German, and the translations for 10
other languages are more than ⅔ complete.,,Widelands is distributed for
Windows (64-bit and 32-bit), Mac OS X >= 11.0 (Intel 64-bit and M1 Arm),
Linux (AppImage, 64 bit), and in source code. For Linux users, we also
provide a Flatpak package and a Ubuntu PPA and try to make compiling as
easy as possible, and most distributions will pick up Widelands 1.1 into
their repositories very quickly. Both binary and source packages are
available under the links below and from our
[Download](https://www.widelands.org/wiki/Download/) page.,,If you like
what you see, please visit our homepage, https://www.widelands.org. You
may also want to check the forums and our IRC channel, `#widelands` on
LiberaChat, to arrange multiplayer games with other players.,,We
especially welcome every helping hand: Help us find bugs, translate the
game, add new scenarios or features! If you want to get even more
involved in the further development of Widelands, you can meet us on the
forum at https://www.widelands.org/ or subscribe to
wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public. Releases
are also announced to wid...@li...
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/widelands/lists/widelands-announce).>
page.

If you like what you see, please visit our homepage,
https://www.widelands.org. You may also want to check the forums and our
IRC channel, `#widelands` on LiberaChat, to arrange multiplayer games
with other players.

We especially welcome every helping hand: Help us find bugs, translate
the game, add new scenarios or features! If you want to get even more
involved in the further development of Widelands, you can meet us on the
forum at https://www.widelands.org/ or subscribe to
wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public. Releases
are also announced to wid...@li...
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/widelands/lists/widelands-announce).