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[Widelands-announce] Widelands 1.2 Released

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

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of the stable release Widelands 1.2.

Since the release of version 1.1, we implemented several hundreds of new
features and bugfixes; for example, to name just a few of the highlights:

- **UI Plugins** are add-ons that can add more functionality to the user
interface
- **Naval Warfare** preview: Invade foreign coasts using warships!
   *This is included as a preview feature and needs to be explicitly
enabled in the game setup screen.*
- **Soldier garrisons** for ports and headquarters
- Balancing changes to the Amazon economy
- Fifth scenario for the Frisian campaign
- More settings in the game setup screen, such as configurable durations
for timed win conditions
- Diplomacy handling for the computer players
- Stick **pinned notes** onto map fields to mark important points
- **Hyperlinks** let you navigate within the encyclopedia and to the
online help
- Easy **maps publishing** inside the editor
- High-resolution images for many more units
- Accessibility enhancements for many user interface components
- Expose more functionality to the add-ons and scenario scripting interface
- Fixed many crashes and hangs and enhanced error handling

Widelands 1.2 is translated completely into Catalan, German, Hungarian,
Low German, and Russian, and the translations for 8 other languages are
more than ⅔ complete.

Widelands is distributed for Windows (64-bit and 32-bit), Mac OS X ≥
12.0 (Intel 64-bit) and Arm (≥ 14.0), 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 1.2 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, have a look around 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).

[Widelands-announce] 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).

[Widelands-announce] Widelands 1.0 Released

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

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of the stable release Widelands 1.0, the first-ever stable
release after the end of the beta Builds series. 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 <https://www.widelands.org> to learn more.

Since the release of Build 21, we implemented several hundreds of new
features and bugfixes; for example, to name just a few of the highlights:

- A new tribe: the Amazons   
- An add-on system   
- A third frisians scenario   
- Dynamic tribe loading to speed up game loading  
- Targeting individual map objects for removal  
- Mute/unmute messages by buildings  
- Fully redesigned main menu   
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts   
- Enhanced keyboard and mousewheel support in the UI  
- Long-term stable Lua API for game content designers  

Widelands 1.0 is translated completely into German, Hungarian and Low
German, and the translations for 12 other languages are more than ⅔
complete.

Widelands is distributed for Windows (64-bit and 32-bit) and Mac OS X >=
10.7 (Intel, 64-bit) and in source code. For Linux users, we provide a
Flatpak package and a Ubuntu PPA and try to make compiling as easy as
possible, and most distributions will pick up Widelands 1.0 into their
repositories very quickly. Both binary and source packages are available
from https://github.com/widelands/widelands/releases/tag/v1.0 and our
Downloads page at https://www.widelands.org/wiki/Download/ .

If you like what you see, please visit our homepage,
https://www.widelands.org <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).

[Widelands-announce] Widelands Build 21 Released

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

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of Widelands Build 21. 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 <https://www.widelands.org> to learn more.

Since the release of Build 20, we implemented several hundreds of new
features and bugfixes, for example:
- A much stronger AI
- New “Peaceful Mode” and several new starting conditions
- More detailed user controls for game speed, map scrolling, and many
properties of building windows; new hotkeys; re-added quick navigation
with ‘,’ and ‘.’; partly redesigned and modernized user interface
- Allow the player to choose the soldiers to send in the attack box
- New planning-ahead ship scheduling algorithm
- Ferries carry wares over waterways
- Improved display of work areas
- Changing settings for buildings in the constructionsite
- Spritesheets and mipmaps provide high-quality graphics when zooming in
- Numerous fixes and improvements to the tutorials and scenarios
- New editor tool to resize the map
- Lots and lots of balancing tweaks to all tribes
- Extensive behind-the-scenes source code cleanup and refactoring
- Support for Big Endian architectures

Widelands is translated completely into Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish,
French, Scottish Gaelic, German, Low German, and Spanish; and the
translations for 9 other languages are more than ⅔ complete.

Widelands is distributed for Windows (64-bit and 32-bit) and Mac OS X >=
10.7 (Intel, 64-bit) and in source code. We no longer ship binary Linux
packages because of the poor compatibility between Linux distributions.
Instead, we try to make compiling for Linux users as easy as possible.
Also, most distributions will pick up Build 21 into their repositories
very quickly, and we provide a PPA for Ubuntu users. Both binary and
source packages are available from
http://launchpad.net/widelands/build21/build21
<http://launchpad.net/widelands/build21/build21>

If you like what you see, please visit our homepage,
https://www.widelands.org <https://www.widelands.org>. You may also want
to check the forums and our IRC channel, #widelands on Freenode, 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/ <https://www.widelands.org/> or
subscribe to wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public
<http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public>.
Releases are also announced to wid...@li...
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/widelands/lists/widelands-announce
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/widelands/lists/widelands-announce>).

[Widelands-announce] Widelands Build 20 Released

[Fòram na G. <fi...@fo...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of Widelands Build 20. 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
(https://wl.widelands.org) to learn more.

PeerTube Trailer:
https://peerwatch.xyz/videos/watch/916f3d81-c3a7-4f1a-85a7-444607f7641c

YouTube Trailer:
https://youtu.be/7BIO2qmH8y0


Since the previous release, we have implemented over 400 features, code
cleanups and bug fixes. Build 20 features a new tribe – the Frisians –
as well as four new campaign scenarios and a new “Barracks” building for
recruiting soldiers. Also, the AI has been rewritten to use a genetic
algorithm. The user interface comes with new features that make it
easier to use, like map zoom, dropdown menus, a new ships list, and
improved keyboard navigation. Build 20 also continues the behind the
scenes cleanup, polish and modernization that was started with Build 19.
There have been additional improvements to the stability and
performance, as well as numerous bug-fixes.

Here are some highlights of the new features in Build 20:


### Gameplay

* New Frisian tribe
* New “Village” starting condition
* New “Barracks” building for recruiting soldiers
* Forester/Ranger now prefers good soil, and is thus more efficient
* Scouts now spend more time near to enemy military sites
* Improved algorithm for promotion and demotion of roads
* Diverse balancing improvements and fixes


### Maps, Tutorials, Campaigns & Scenarios

* 2 new missions for the Empire campaign
* 2 new missions for the new Frisians tribe
* Tweaked timings in tutorials and scenarios
* Minor fixes to the “Last Bastion” map where a player's expansion could
become completely blocked across the sea
* Fixed bug in then“Crossing the Horizon” map where an artifact couldn’t
be conquered by a player


### Graphics & User Interface

* New Zoom feature
* New Ship Statistics window
* In building windows, see how many wares and workers are already on
their way
* Update all ware priorities for a building when the Ctrl key is pressed
while clicking
* New animation graphics for wheat fields, Barbarian Big Inn and Wood
Hardener, Atlantean Smoker and all tribes’ resource indicators
* New menu background graphics
* New graphics for field selectors and field action tabs
* Special field selector for road building mode
* Added new information to in-game Encyclopedia and online scripting
reference
* Improved keyboard navigation for tables
* Dropdown menus
* Try to show a basic error message box to the user if the graphics
driver will not work with Widelands


### Sounds and Music

* 6 new music tracks
* Added new sound effects and improved the sound mix
* Never play the same song twice in a row


### Networking & Multiplayer

* Host internet games without opening a port in your router
* When the connection to a client in a multiplayer game is broken, the
host can decide to exit or to replace the payer with an AI
* Added support for IPv6
* Increased password security by no longer storing and transmitting it
in plain text
* Made debugging desyncs easier


### Scripting

* Extended the Lua scripting API with new functions and objects
* Added capability to add custom scenario buildings
* Allow writing and loading of campaign data, so that some scenario
state can be transferred from one scenario to the next in campaigns
* Allow resetting of teams via Lua during game


### Saveloading

* Improved reliability and performance of game and map saving and loading
* Unfortunately, we had to break savegame compatibility in version
bzr8747 for an important bug fix in the economy code. So, you will not
be able to load your old savegames from Build 19.


### AI

* The AI now uses a genetic algorithm
* Multiple changes and improvements to the AI logic
* New command line switches --ai_training and --auto_speed to help with
AI training


### Internationalization

* Show translation statistics next to the selected language in the
Options screen
* Glossary checks for inflected languages and glossary generation with
support from the Translate Toolkit (http://toolkit.translatehouse.org/).


### Editor

* Animals now have categories
* Display of animals, immovables and resources can now be toggled
individually
* New layout for Player menu allows the selection of random tribe
* Improved text layout for the Info tool
* Limited the editor undo function to 500 items to prevent boundless
growth of memory use


### Operating System Support

* Windows: Allow parallel installation of multiple Widelands versions
* Windows: Widelands is now installed into local %appdata%
* Windows: No longer write log output to installation folder
* Mac OS X: Modernized how releases are done
* Compiling: Added support for gcc7 and llvm8.
* Compiling: Support for Glbinding version 3 and Boost version 1.69

Widelands is currently fully translated > 50% into the following
languages: British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Low
German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Spanish
and Swedish. You can help with translations directly in your web browser
via Transife (https://www.transifex.com/widelands/). Help for
translating is available in the Widelands Wiki
(https://wl.widelands.org/wiki/TranslatingWidelands/).

Widelands is distributed for Windows (64-bit) and Mac OS X >= 10.7
(Intel, 64-bit) and in source code. We no longer ship binary Linux
packages because of the poor compatibility between Linux distributions.
Instead, we try to make compiling for Linux users as easy as possible.
Also, most distributions will pick up Build 20 into their repositories
very quickly. Both binary and source packages are available from our
Download page (https://wl.widelands.org/wiki/Download/).

If you like what you see, please visit our homepage at
https://wl.widelands.org/. You may also want to check the forums and our
IRC channel, #widelands on Freenode, 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 (https://wl.widelands.org/forum/) or subscribe to
wid...@li...
(http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public).
Releases are also announced to wid...@li...
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/widelands/lists/widelands-announce).

[Widelands-announce] Widelands Build 19 Released

[Fòram na G. <fi...@fo...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of Widelands Build 19. Widelands is a free, cross-platform
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 widelands.org to learn more.

Build 19 focuses on behind the scene cleanup, polish and modernization -
for example we ported Widelands to the modern c++11 standard and removed
old code that was a maintenance burden. These changes will facilitate
feature development going forward, but they come at a price: Savegames
from Build 18 and older do not load in this version of Widelands and we
now require graphics hardware acceleration (OpenGL 2.1). We also
recommend that you uninstall Build 18 before installing Build 19,
because our file structure has changed a lot due to big changes to the
engine.

Build 19 also comes with a bag of goodies. Some of the highlights are:

* Seafaring AI and other AI improvements
* Message filtering
* New in-game and in-editor help system
* Efficient graphics loading and rendering.
* New starting condition “Trading Outpost”
* New win condition “Artifacts”
* 4 Tutorials
* Improved Barbarians and Empire campaigns
* 3 new maps
* No separate worlds anymore. All terrains can now be used on all maps.
  Old maps stay compatible.
* No separate tribes anymore: Though in game the tribes still seem
  separate, they are in fact now the same tribe with different
  buildings and workers enabled. This allows for interesting concepts
  down the line like a mixed economy or trading.
* New animations, overlay images and icons
* New forested mountains terrains
* Many menu redesigns
* Improved support for non-Latin scripts and right-to-left languages
* Various small balance changes (for example more experience in mines,
  stronger barbarian soldiers)
* Behind the scenes: move to SDL 2, Build system refactoring, move to
  c++ 11, continuous integration, move to Transifex and merge bot.
  Also tons of cleanups to the code base.

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and
performance, as well as numerous game-play improvements and bug-fixes.

Widelands is currently fully translated into the following languages:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Scottish Gaelic,
Polish, Slovak, and Spanish. It is > 90% translated into Czech,
Hungarian and Italian and > 70% into Dutch, Portuguese, and Russian. You
can help with translations directly in your web browser:
https://www.transifex.com/widelands/. Help for translating is available
on https://wl.widelands.org/wiki/TranslatingWidelands/.

Widelands is distributed for Windows (64-bit) and Mac OS X >= 10.7
(Intel, 64-bit) and in source code. We no longer ship binary Linux
packages because of the poor compatibility between Linux distributions.
Instead, we try to make compiling for Linux users as easy as possible.
Also, most distributions will pick up Build 19 into their repositories
very quickly. Both binary and source packages are available from
http://launchpad.net/widelands/build19/build-19

If you like what you see, please visit our homepage, widelands.org. You
may also want to check the forums and our IRC channel, #widelands on
Freenode, 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 subscribe to
wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep
up with development on a daily basis or meet us on the forum.

For a full changelog, visit:

https://launchpad.net/widelands/build19/build19

[Widelands-announce] Widelands Build 18 has been released

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of build 18 of Widelands. Widelands is a free, cross-platform 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 http://www.widelands.org/ to learn more.

Some of the highlights of this build are:
   * Seafaring enhancements: expeditions and colonization.
   * Eviction of workers from production sites.
   * Soldier preference selection in military sites.
   * Better in-game stock charts with new information.
   * new maps, sounds, music, graphics & animations.
   * On demand loading of graphics improves startup time.
   * Better performance: Widelands needs less CPU and memory.

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and performance, as well as numerous game-play improvements and bug-fixes.

Widelands is currently translated 100% into the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Slovak. It is > 80% translated into the following languages: Gaelic; Scottish, English (United Kingdom), Czech, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish. You can help out translating directly in your web browser: http://translations.launchpad.net/widelands .

Widelands is distributed for Windows (32-bit) and Mac OS X (Intel, 64bit) and in source code. We no longer ship binary Linux packages because of the poor compatibility between Linux distributions. Instead, we try to make compiling for Linux users as easy as possible. Also, most distributions will pick up build 18 into their repositories very quickly. Both binary and source packages are available from http://launchpad.net/widelands/build18/build18

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported, download a source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage for the libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to contribute by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages are always needed. If you want to get even more involved in the further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to wid...@li... on http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep up with development on a daily basis or meet us in the forum.

Known issues / Notes to packagers:

Lua
Widelands currently depends on lua5.1, and will not build with lua5.2. This is being worked on (https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/1073932).

[Widelands-announce] Widelands Build 18 has been released

[Holger R. <Si...@gm...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of build 18 of Widelands. Widelands is a free, cross-platform 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 http://www.widelands.org/ to learn more.

Some of the highlights of this build are:
   * Seafaring enhancements: expeditions and colonization.
   * Eviction of workers from production sites.
   * Soldier preference selection in military sites.
   * Better in-game stock charts with new information.
   * new maps, sounds, music, graphics & animations.
   * On demand loading of graphics improves startup time.
   * Better performance: Widelands needs less CPU and memory.

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and performance, as well as numerous game-play improvements and bug-fixes.

Widelands is currently translated 100% into the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Slovak. It is > 80% translated into the following languages: Gaelic; Scottish, English (United Kingdom), Czech, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish. You can help out translating directly in your web browser: http://translations.launchpad.net/widelands .

Widelands is distributed for Windows (32-bit) and Mac OS X (Intel, 64bit) and in source code. We no longer ship binary Linux packages because of the poor compatibility between Linux distributions. Instead, we try to make compiling for Linux users as easy as possible. Also, most distributions will pick up build 18 into their repositories very quickly. Both binary and source packages are available from http://launchpad.net/widelands/build18/build-18

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported, download a source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage for the libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to contribute by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages are always needed. If you want to get even more involved in the further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to wid...@li... on http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep up with development on a daily basis or meet us in the forum.

Known issues / Notes to packagers:

Lua
Widelands currently depends on lua5.1, and will not build with lua5.2. This is being worked on (https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/1073932).

[Widelands-announce] Widelands Build 17 has been released

[Holger R. <Si...@gm...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of build 17 of Widelands. Widelands is a free, cross-platform 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 http://www.widelands.org/ to learn more.

Some of the highlights of this build are:
    * Basic sea-faring functionality.
    * Improvements to the Editor.
    * Multiplayer scenarios (Fun maps).
    * Support for dismantling buildings.
    * Support to adjust the number of wares in a building.
    * a new in-game help for many buildings. Work is ongoing.
    * Improved in-game statistics.
    * Improved rendering engine.
    * new maps, sounds, music, graphics & animations.

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and performance, as well as numerous game-play improvements and bug-fixes.

Widelands is currently translated to 100% into the following languages: German, Italian. It is > 80% translated into the following languages: Polish, French, Slovak, Czech, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian, Swedish, Russian, Portuguese. You can help out translating directly in your web browser: http://translations.launchpad.net/widelands .

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently available for Windows (32-bit) and Mac OS X (Intel) and in source code. We no longer ship binary Linux packages because of the poor compatibility between Linux distributions. Instead, we try to make compiling for Linux users as easy as possible. Also, most distributions will pick up build 17 into their repositories very quickly. Both binary and source packages are available from http://launchpad.net/widelands/build17/build-17

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported, download a source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage for the libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to contribute by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages are always needed. If you want to get even more involved in the further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to wid...@li... on http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep up with development on a daily basis or meet us in the forum.

Known issues
=============

Widelands Build 17 takes us a good step forward towards a stable 1.0 version. However, as Widelands is still under heavy development, there are some unfinished features and minor known bugs that haven't been fixed in the release of Build 17. The following list is not meant to be complete, but is supposed to help you avoiding known problems and handling them if they appear.

1st) Compile time issues
------------------------
* Widelands does not compile, if using gcc 4.7. Fix: add "#include <unistd.h>" to the file "src/main.cc"

2nd) Unfinished feature "seafaring" issues
------------------------------------------
Build 17 ships with the very basics of the new "seafaring" feature. Many sub-features are not yet implemented, so don't waste your time searching for them ;).

The limitations are as follows:
* It is not possible to colonize other islands, just transport between existing ports.
* There are no "rowboat roads" yet.
* Computer players do not use seafaring.
* The only official map supporting seafaring is the multiplayer scenario "Together we're strong" (Start it in scenario mode!)
* On maps without port buildspaces, the shipyard is buildable, but will not produce ships.
* On maps with port buildspaces, it might happen that ships are build in small lakes, so best place shipyards near the coast but away from smaller lakes.

3rd) OpenGL rendering issues
----------------------------
* The "smooth" rendering of the terrain does not work on all graphics chips.

4th) Other known bugs
---------------------
* Editor: Unable to reload a self created map in the editor. A workaround can be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/787217/comments/4
* Campaign: Games from the atlantean campaign saved in Build16 are playable in Build17, but can't be won.

[Widelands-announce] Widelands Build 16 released

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of build 16 of Widelands. Widelands is a free, cross-platform 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 http://www.widelands.org/ to learn more.

Some of the highlights of this build are:
   * a new scripting Engine that allows for complex scenarios.
   * a new watch-me-do tutorial and a new scenario for the Atlanteans
   * win conditions for multiplayer games which add variety 
   * OpenGL renderer
   * improvements to the user interface in many places
   * more control over which wares are stored in ware houses
   * team support in multiplayer
   * shared kingdom for multiplayer, more than one player can control the same kingdom
   * new maps
   * new sounds
   * extremely many new graphics and animations: there is no concept graphic in widelands anymore.

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and performance, as well as numerous game-play improvements and bug-fixes.

Widelands is currently translated to 100% into the following languages: German, French and Dutch. It is > 80% translated into the following languages: Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, English (United Kingdom), Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Galicia, Italian, Finnish, Czech. You can help out translating directly in your web browser: http://translations.launchpad.net/widelands .

The new scripting engine makes it impossible to load scenario maps from build 15 or earlier. If you are in the middle of a scenario (like a campaign map), finish it in build 15, then upgrade to build 16 and continue the next map in build 16. Loading of non scenario games from build 15 is supported.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently available for Windows (32-bit) and Mac OS X (Intel, PPC) and in source code. We no longer ship binary Linux packages because of the poor compatibility between Linux distributions. Instead, we try to make compiling for Linux users as easy as possible. Also, most distributions will pick up build 16 into their repositories very quickly. Both binary and source packages are available from http://launchpad.net/widelands/build16/build16

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported, download a source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage for the libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to contribute by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages are always needed. If you want to get even more involved in the further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to wid...@li... on http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep up with development on a daily basis or meet us in the forum.

[Widelands-announce] The first ever Widelands Tournament

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

Hello,

Widelands Tournament 2010

The WiHack 2010 Reloaded was just announced and I promised you a
tournament. And so it shall be! 

A quick run down:

* Everyone (except for Kristin) can participate. However, for the
  brackets we need a number of players that is a power of two; so be
  quick with your sign up or you might be one of the few rounded
  off.
* You do not have to come to the WiHack to participate, you can also
  join in over the internet.
* Finals however will be played while the WiHack happens so we can
  watch the games life here in Karlsruhe.
* Signup will only run for a week and a bit. So be quick or be out:
  Read the Wiki Page, then send a PM to Kristin.
* The winner might get a T-Shirt. :)

I am very much looking forward to this. Note that competition is
secondary to fun, but Kristin will look after Fairness as much as
she can. And yes, I will participate as well. :)

Important Links:

* Wiki Page with all information. Will be kept updated:
    http://wl.widelands.org/wiki/WLTournamentTwentyTen/)
* Forum Post for Questions
    http://wl.widelands.org/forum/post/3260/

[Widelands-announce] WiHack 2010 Reloaded

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

Hello People,

there is a WiHack 2010 Reloaded at the end of october; please see the news post[1], wiki[2] and forum thread[3]:

[1] http://wl.widelands.org/news/2010/09/5/wihack-2010-reloaded/
[2] http://wl.widelands.org/wiki/WiHackTwentyTenReloaded/
[3] http://wl.widelands.org/forum/topic/566/

I am super pumped for this. Hope to see you all. 

Cheers,
SirVer

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build 15 has been released

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of build 15 of Widelands. Widelands is a free, cross-platform 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 http://www.widelands.org/ to learn more.

Widelands underwent some organisational changes: SourceForge recently enforced certain US rules upon their projects which defies the idea and spirit of Open Source Software. The widelands team was therefore forced to move to another provider. See our news post [1] for more information about our move. Our choice felt on launchpad.net and widelands is now developed and can be reached under [2]. This move includes bug trackers, code hosting and downloads. We benefited from this move also from a technical perspective. For example, everybody with a launchpad.net account or OpenID can now translate widelands into other languages. If you want to help with this undertaking, please to so at [3].

[1] http://wl.widelands.org/news/2010/02/11/what-we-are/
[2] http://launchpad.net/widelands
[3] http://translations.launchpad.net/widelands

Some of the highlights of this build are:
   * Second carriers on busy roads: donkeys, oxen and horses.
   * Scouts that can reveal a big area around their house
   * Zoom inside the mini map
   * A new scenario part to the "The green plateau"
   * Statistics will now show the reason why a building is not producing anything
   * Random maps will now contain resources, immovables and critters.
   * Improvements to the messaging system
   * new sounds
   * new music
   * new graphics

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and performance, as well as numerous game-play improvements and bug-fixes.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently available for Linux/x86, Windows (32-bit) Mac OS X (Intel) and in source code. Both binary and source packages are available from http://launchpad.net/widelands/build15/build15

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported, download a source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage for the libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to contribute by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages are always needed. If you want to get even more involved in the further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to wid...@li... on http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep up with development on a daily basis.

[Widelands-announce] WiHack 2010

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

Hello,

Usually, this list is only used to announce new versions of widelands.  
This time, the Widelands Development Team has to announce an event  
that is at least as important:

Announcing the
    WiHack - Widelands International Hacking
             and Coding (in) Karlsruhe 2010


For the first time in its existence, the widelands community - that is  
players and developers - will meet in persona. The meetings is in  
Karlsruhe - in the middle of Germany - from the 2nd to the 5th of  
January 2010. The participation is free of charge and everybody is  
welcome to join in.

We will use those 4 days to play widelands together and hack on it to  
advance its development.

All information - from organisational issues to projects we want to  
tackle - can be found in the widelands wiki at:
http://wl.widelands.org/wiki/WiHackTwentyTen

We are looking forward to meeting you face to face at the WiHack 2010!

Holger (aka SirVer)
on behalf of the Widelands Development Team

[Widelands-announce] Build14

[Peter S. <Pe...@dr...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of Build14 of Widelands. Widelands is a free,
cross-platform 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,
http://www.widelands.org/ , to learn more.

Some of the highlights of Build14 are:

    * an user interface to set up target quantities for all wares, to
allow a better regulation of your tribe's economy.
    * basic internet gaming with lobby and chat (!!alpha state!!).
    * improved userinterface (now supporting nearly all resolutions).
    * full tree cycle (trees are now seeding, growing and dieing
themselves).
    * improved game setup (different start types and the possibility to
switch start positions)..
    * a basic autogeneration tool for random maps.
    * a basic message system (currently only showing new warehouses and
resources).
    * an improved computer player (still not good enough to be called
"AI" ;) ).
    * some new sounds.
    * some new songs.
    * some new maps including a completely new scenario mission.
    * many new graphics and animations.

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and
performance, as well as numerous gameplay improvements and bugfixes.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently
available for Linux/x86, Windows (32-bit) and in source code. Both
binary and source packages are available from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40163

We still search for a Mac user, who can provide us with a MacOSX *.dmg
file of Build14. If you would like to help out, please write on our
mailinglist.

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the
widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported,
download a source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the
homepage for the libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to
contribute by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages
are always needed. If you want to get even more involved in the further
development of Widelands, you can subscribe to
wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep
up with development on a daily basis.

[Widelands-announce] Build14RC

[Peter S. <Pe...@dr...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of Build14RC of Widelands. Widelands is a free,
cross-platform 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,
http://www.widelands.org/ , to learn more.

Some of the highlights of Build14RC are:

    * an user interface to set up target quantities for all wares, to
allow a better regulation of your tribe's economy.
    * basic internet gaming with lobby and chat. (!!alpha state!!)
    * improved userinterface (now supporting nearly all resolutions).
    * full tree cycle (trees are now seeding, growing and dieing
themselves).
    * improved game setup (different start types and the possibility to
switch start positions).
    * a basic autogeneration tool for random maps
    * a basic message system (currently only showing new warehouses and
resources)
    * an improved computer player (still not good enough to be called
"AI" ;) )
    * some new sounds
    * some new songs
    * some new maps including a completely new scenario mission.
    * many new graphics and animations

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and
performance, as well as numerous gameplay improvements and bugfixes.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently
available for Linux/x86, Windows (32-bit) and in source code. Both
binary and source packages are available from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40163

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the
widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported,
download a source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the
homepage for the libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to
contribute by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages
are always needed. If you want to get even more involved in the further
development of Widelands, you can subscribe to
wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep
up with development on a daily basis.

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build-13 released!

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate  
availability of build-13 of Widelands. Widelands is a Free, cross- 
platform 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, http://www.widelands.org/ 
  , to learn more.

Some of the highlights of build13rc2 are:
- stability of multiplayer game increased
- FPS regulation for decreased CPU usage
- improved economy routing
- many new sounds
- four new songs
- many new graphics and animations especially for the atlanteans
- balancing work for all tribes

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and  
performance, as well as numerous gameplay improvements and bugfixes.

This release changes some basic data structures, including directory  
and file naming. Thus savegame handling will be broken. Because of  
these changes we recommend to uninstall any older version of  
Widelands, before installing the new one, to make sure that Widelands  
is only using the up to date data. While we welcome bug reports about  
crashes or misleading error messages when loading pre-build13 savegame  
or data structure (like starting new widelands with old data  
installed), we ask you to keep in mind that we are concentrating our  
development efforts on improving new features. Read the next paragraph  
for details about those new features.  Concerning save games we  
introduce a new directory in your personal config folder. New  
savegames will be stored in $HOME/.widelands/save instead of  
$HOME/.widelands/ssave.  $HOME/.widelands/ssave will be silently  
ignored as of the release of build-13.

New features include some serious change with the economy system. We  
are still discussing the best way to use this "on demand production".  
Please file ideas for the user interface about this engine as feature  
request rather than as bug.  While there might be situations in  
build-13-games where you have to use quite sophisticated ways to  
finally get some production site to produce the very ware you need,  
most of the time you will find the new engine quite intelligent and  
convenient for the player.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently  
available for Linux/x86, Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, and in source  
code. Both binary and source packages are available from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40163

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run  
the widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported,  
download a source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the  
homepage for the libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to  
contribute by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages  
are always needed.  If you want to get even more involved in the  
further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to wid...@li... 
  on http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to  
keep up with development on a daily basis.

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build-13rc2 released!

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate  
availability
of the second release candidate of build-13 of Widelands. Widelands is  
a Free,
cross-platform 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, http://www.widelands.org/ ,  
to learn
more.

Some of the highlights of build13rc2 are:
- stability of multiplayer game increased
- FPS regulation for decreased CPU usage
- improved economy routing
- many new sounds
- four new songs
- many new graphics and animations especially for the atlanteans
- balancing work for all tribes

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and
performance, as well as numerous gameplay improvements and bugfixes.

This release changes some basic data structures, including directory  
and file
naming. Thus savegame handling will be broken. Because of these  
changes we
recommend to uninstall any older version of Widelands, before  
installing the
new one, to make sure that Widelands is only using the up to date  
data. While
we welcome bug reports about crashes or misleading error messages when  
loading
pre-build13 savegame or data structure (like starting new widelands  
with old
data installed), we ask you to keep in mind that we are concentrating  
our
development efforts on improving new features. Read the next paragraph  
for
details about those new features.  Concerning save games we introduce  
a new
directory in your personal config folder. New savegames will be stored  
in
$HOME/.widelands/save instead of $HOME/.widelands/ssave.
$HOME/.widelands/ssave will be silently ignored as of the release of
build-13.

New features include some serious change with the economy system. We  
are still
discussing the best way to use this "on demand production". Please  
file ideas
for the user interface about this engine as feature request rather  
than as bug.
While there might be situations in build-13-games where you have to  
use quite
sophisticated ways to finally get some production site to produce the  
very ware
you need, most of the time you will find the new engine quite  
intelligent and
convenient for the player.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently  
available for
Linux/x86, Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, and in source code. Both binary  
and
source packages are available from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40163

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the
widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported,  
download a
source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage  
for the
libraries you need to have installed.

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

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to  
contribute
by helping us find bugs. Also translators for all languages are always  
needed.
If you want to get even more involved in the further development of  
Widelands,
you can subscribe to wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep  
up with
development on a daily basis.

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build-13rc released

[Peter S. <Pe...@dr...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability
of the release candidate of build-13 of Widelands. Widelands is a Free,
cross-platform 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, http://www.widelands.org/ , to
learn
more.
 
Some of the highlights of build13rc are:
- more stable multiplayer
- FPS regulation for less CPU usage
- improved economy routing
- many new sounds
- many new graphics and animations especially for the atlanteans
- balancing work for all tribes

As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and
performance, as well as numerous gameplay improvements and bugfixes.
 
Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently available
for Linux/x86, Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, and in source code. Both binary
and source packages are available from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40163
 
Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the
widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported, download a
source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage for the
libraries you need to have installed.
 
If you like what you see, please visit our homepage,
http://www.widelands.org/ , and shout out somewhere in the forums.
You may also want to check the forums and our IRC channel, #widelands on
Freenode, to arrange multiplayer games with other players.
 
We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to
contribute by helping us find bugs. If you want to take part even more
in the
further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to
wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep up
with development on a daily basis.


Changelog:

- Count casualties/kills, military/civilian buildings lost/defeated and
present
  them in the general statistics menu (except for civilian buildings
defeated,
  which is omitted from the user interface).
- Improved map options menu.
- Implemented counting of casualties and kills and added this data to the
  general statistics.
- Improved progresswindow use and added new loading screens.
- Added menu for editor to the mainmenu.
- Improved save game dialog.
- Improved mapselect and launchgame menu.
- Improved ingame UI.
- Implemented "/me" command for multiplayer chat.
- Improved multiplayermenu.
- Improved optionsmenu and added possibility to set autosave interval.
- Implemented option for maximum FPS to smaller CPU-usage.
- Improved editor new map dialog.
- Made automatic roadbuilding mode after creation of non-connected flag
optional.
- Improved production program handling:
    * Eliminated the need for line numbers in the programs.
    * Fixed bug that the consume command required that all wares in a
      consume-group must be of the same type. For example the command
      "2=consume smoked_fish,smoked_meat 2" required 2 smoked_fish
      or 2 smoked_meat. Now it will also work if there is only one of each.
    * Change the syntax of a consume-group to
ware1[,ware2[,...]][:quantitiy]
      (for example "smoked_fish,smoked_meat:2").
    * Extend the consume command to take any number of consume-groups (for
      example "smoked_fish,smoked_meat:2 bread:2"). This means that
unless all
      consume-groups can be satisfied, nothing is consumed when the
command fails.
      This will fix many bugs in the game data where programs had for
example
      "2=consume smoked_fish,smoked_meat 2" and "3=consume bread 2". If
there was
      not 2 bread, it would consume 2 smoked_fish or 2 smoked_meat and
then fail.
    * Get rid of the command check. It was only a work-around for the
previously
      deficient command consume (and some programs forgot to use it).
    * Implement the new command return. It can return from a program.
There are
      3 different return values; Failed, Completed and Skipped. Only
programs
      returning Failed and Completed will affect statistics. A program that
      reaches the end will be considered to have implicitly returned
Completed.
      The return command can optionally take a condition. Currently only two
      conditions are supported; economy needs ware_type and workers need
      experience. The former will allow a program to have a command
      "return=skipped unless economy needs marblecolumn". It will
prevent Game
      Over as a result of a production deadlock on marble when a user
forgets to
      turn off a stonemason for a while. This fixes the huge problem with
      production deadlocks that hit every new player in their first
games and
      every experienced player once in a while. The condition makes a
query to
      the economy, which now simply checks if there are no warehouse
supplies
      that supply the ware type. This can of course be made much smarter
later.
      The latter is used in the barbarian micro-brewery to let it
practice making
      beer until the brewer has become a master_brewer even if the
economy does
      not need any beer.
    * Extend the produce command to take any number of ware types with
quantities.
    * Fix the call command to validate that the called program exists. This
      requires changing declaration order in some data files (for example if
      "work" calls "seed", "program=seed" must come before
"program=work" in the
      "global" section of the productionsite definition. (However the
definition
      order of the programs does not matter.) This fixes the bug that a call
      command may fail at run-time because the called program does not
exists.
    * Extend the call command with an optional error handling specification
      (call=<program_name> [on failure {ignore|repeat|fail}]). It will
make it
      possible to ignore a failure of a called program and continue the
calling
      program, or repeat the failed program until it succeeds.
    * Extend the sleep and animate commands. If no duration is given as
the last
      parameter, the return value from a previous action is used for
duration.
      This makes it possible to for example let the mining command
calculate how
      long the following sleep/animation should last, depending on ore
      concentration and mining depth.
    * Get rid of the set command and the associated catch and nostats flags.
    * Fix the mine command to parse and validate its parameters at
parse-time
      instead of at run-time. This fixes the bug that the game engine
could fail
      with the message "Should mine resource <resource_type>, which
doesn't exist
      in world. Tribe is not compatible with world!!" at run-time the
first time
      a mining command is executed.
    * Fix most other commands that had insufficient validation or did
parsing at
      run-time (for example the consume command reparsed its wares at
each execution).
    * Optimize the parsing by eliminating needless string copying.
- Rename the building property "enhance_to" to "enhancement" and
validate that
  the given building type exists.
- Improved editor handling of bobs and animals, so they can not be placed on
  invalid locations.
- Implemented loading of savegames in multi player
- Only allow attacking seen buildings.
- Improved computer player behaviour.
- Updated and cleaned up tribes economies.
- Introduced automatic update of Campaign-list via campaign-menu.
- Added global objects usable in every world.
- Added 12 new maps (9 from map contest).
- Added atlantean building graphics.
- Added a lot of new sounds and integrated them in the game.
- Rework of campaign missions.
- Fix bugs in parsing of building types'sbuildcosts and inputs. Check
that the
  ware types exist and are not duplicated and that the quantities are
within range.
- Fix bug in parsing of productionsite types' outputs. Check that the
ware types
  exist and are not duplicated.
- Fix bugs in parsing of productionsite types', critter_bob types' and
worker
  types' programs. If a program was declared twice, it was parsed twice
and the
  memory used to store the first instance was leaked.
- Fixed bug #1792379 - little trees set with editor don't grow.
- Fixed bug #1913902 - collosseum now trains evade 0 and 1.
- Fixed bug that upgraded worker were used in buildings instead of
training new
  simple ones.
- Fixed crossplatform network bug (win32 path on unix).
- Fixed disk_filesystem handling on win32.
- Fixed strange, unwanted behaviour of multilined editboxes.
- Fixed loading of settlers 2 maps in widelands.
- Fixed bug that caused segmentation fault when executing
  ./widelands --editor=nonexistent_file.
- Fixed bug that caused segmentation fault when executing
  ./widelands --scenario=nonexistent_file.
- Fixed bug that caused invalid use of uninitialized memory when an
animation
  configuration defined playercolor=true but a mask file was missing.
- Fixed bug #1968196 - Scenario-maps aren't loaded as one.
- Fixed bug #1900477 - Objectives description are not translated and
objective
  names are not included in PO templates.
- Fixed hotspots of animals.
- Fixed editor height tool dialogs.
- Fixed language-settings-menu for Linux - now Widelands sets
system-language
  variable correctly.
- Fixed bug that prevented releasing the last soldier from a trainingsite.
- Fixed memory access errors in the game logic, causing segmentation
fault or
  any kind of strange undefined behaviour.
- Fixed memory access error in save game dialog.
- Fixed many memory access errors when trying to read missing sections in
  configuration files.
- Fixed bug that the computer player did not check if a planned large
building
  would be completely inside his borders.
- Fixed bug that the empire wine bush lived forever, blocking the map.

[Widelands-announce] First Widelands Map Contest

[Peter S. <sea...@gm...>]

First Widelands Map Contest

The Widelands development team are pleased to announce their first map 
contest. Entries are invited from all Widelands players. Use your 
creativity in designing original new maps, and compete for the grand 
prize! We hope this contest will result in many new maps for the 
official Widelands distribution. Even if your entry doesn't win a prize, 
if its good enough, it's likely we'll include it in our next official 
release. To make sure this is possible, all submissions must be licensed 
under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

 From now until 31st August 2008 submissions will be accepted in two 
categories: non-scenario maps, and single player scenario maps.
When all the submissions are in, a jury will choose up to ten finalists 
in each category. The community will then vote to decide the final 
winners. We hope to provide some modest prizes for the top ranked 
entries; so far we have two Widelands t-shirts for the winners. If you'd 
like to help us by contributing a prize, please contact Nasenbaer.

For more information about this contest, please see 
http://xoops.widelands.org/modules/Contest/


======================

RULES AND REGULATIONS

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

a. Entry into the Widelands map contest is free, and available to 
members of the general public, without prejudice regarding age, 
ethnicity, nationality or gender or any other factor.

b. The Widelands map contest runs from 07th August 2008 to 21st 
September 2008 inclusive.

c. Submissions will be accepted between 07th August 2008 and 31st August 
2008 [at TIME]. No submissions will be accepted outside of these times.

d. There is no separate registration for this contest. To submit an 
entry, all that is required is an account on Widelands.org.

e. There is no limit to the number of submissions that may be made by 
any given participant, nor any restriction upon which categories those 
submissions may be in.

COPYRIGHT AND ORIGINS

a. All submissions MUST be original work for this contest, and must not 
have previously appeared in any distribution, commercial or 
non-commercial, of any kind for any game, including, but not limited to, 
Settlers 2. Any submission in violation of this rule will lead to ALL 
submissions by that author being disqualified, without exception.

b. You may NOT submit maps for which you do not hold sole copyright. If 
submitting on behalf of a team, the team combined must have sole 
copyright of all original materials submitted. Any submission in 
violation of this rule will lead to ALL submissions by that author being 
disqualified, without exception.

c. All submissions must be explicitly licensed under the GNU General 
Public License version 2. Any submission not properly licensed will be 
disqualified.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

a. Submissions will be accepted in two categories:
(i) Single player scenario maps
(ii) Non-scenario maps (for either single or multiplayer).

b. Non-scenario map submissions must be created with Widelands build 12 
or later. Any submission created with an earlier version of Widelands 
will be disqualified.

c. Single player scenario map submissions must be created with a build 
of Widelands from SVN as of revision 3246 or newer.

OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONTENT

a. The Widelands development team reserve the right to exclude any 
submission as unsuitable for this contest on any grounds.

b. Any illegal content submitted to this competition is the sole 
responsibility of the submitter; the Widelands development team neither 
accept any responsibility for such content, nor indemnify the submitter 
against any legal proceedings resulting from it.

JUDGING

a. Between 31st August 2008 and 6th September 2008 an internal jury will 
select up to ten maps as finalists from each category.

b. The provisional members of the jury are [list of members]. This list 
is subject to change without notice.

c. Between 7th September 2008 to 21th September 2008 the Widelands 
community will vote for their favourite maps in each category.

d. After 21th September 2008 the authors of the winning submissions will 
be notified and prizes distributed.

e. Voting is for individual maps, not for participants. Scores and votes 
for a participant's submissions will not be aggregated.

f. Voting and judging in each category is independent

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build-12 released!

[Nicolai H. <pr...@up...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of build-12 of Widelands. Widelands is a Free, cross-platform
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, http://www.widelands.org/ , to learn more.

Some of the highlights of build-12 are:
 - fully working multiplayer games
 - improved animations and graphics
 - a first glimpse of the third tribe, the Atlantids
As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and
performance, as well as numerous gameplay improvements and bugfixes.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently available
for Linux/x86, Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, and in source code. Both binary
and source packages are available from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40163

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the
widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported, download a
source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage for the
libraries you need to have installed.

If you like what you see, please visit our homepage,
http://www.widelands.org/ , and shout out somewhere in the forums.
You may also want to check the forums and our IRC channel, #widelands on
Freenode, to arrange multiplayer games with other players.

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to
contribute by helping us find bugs. If you want to take part even more in the
further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to
wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep up
with development on a daily basis.

All releases are announced on the widelands-announce mailing list. Please
visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-announce if you
want to receive email announcements of future releases.

Greetings,
Nicolai Hähnle
Developer and release manager for build-12

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build-12rc released

[Nicolai H. <pr...@up...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate
availability of the release candidate for build-12 of Widelands.
Widelands is a Free, cross-platform 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, and will remind players of
Settlers II by BlueByte. More information is available on
http://xoops.widelands.org/modules/mediawiki/index.php/About_Widelands .

This release candidate is a preview for the upcoming build-12, which is
scheduled for release on April 12th. We strongly encourage players to help
test this release candidate, in particular by participating in multiplayer
test games, and report any bugs you encounter.

Some of the highlights of build-12 are:
 - fully working multiplayer games
 - improved animations and graphics
 - a first glimpse of the third tribe, the Atlantids
As usual, there have been many more improvements to the usability and
performance, as well as numerous gameplay improvements and bugfixes.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently available
for Linux/x86, Windows (32-bit), Mac OS X, and in source code. Both binary
and source packages are available from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40163

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run the
widelands executable! If your operating system is not supported, download a
source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage for the
libraries you need to have installed.

If you like what you see, please visit our homepage,
http://www.widelands.org/ , and shout out somewhere in the forums.
You may also want to check the forums and our IRC channel, #widelands on
Freenode, to arrange multiplayer games with other players.

We especially welcome every helping hand, even if you just want to
contribute by helping us find bugs. If you want to take part even more in the
further development of Widelands, you can subscribe to
wid...@li... on
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-public to keep up
with development on a daily basis.

All releases are announced on the widelands-announce mailing list. Please
visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands-announce if you
want to receive email announcements of future releases.

Greetings,
Nicolai Hähnle
Developer and release manager for build-12

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build-11 released

[Nicolai <pre...@gm...>]

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Greetings,
Nicolai H=C3=A4hnle
(Developer and release manager for build-11)

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build-11rc released

[Nicolai <pre...@gm...>]

The Widelands Development Team is proud to announce the immediate availabil=
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cross-platform strategy game in which players control the fate of a small=20
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test this release candidate and report any bugs you encounter.

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Greetings,
Nicolai H=C3=A4hnle
Developer and release manager for build-11

[Widelands-announce] Widelands build10 released!

[Holger R. <Hol...@gm...>]

Hello,

Build10 of Widelands, a free, cross-platform strategy game has been  
released. The game is heavily inspired by Settlers II by BlueByte.

Widelands uses SDL as graphics and input library and is currently  
available for Linux/x86, Mac OS X, Windows 32 and in Source Code.

There is a lot of enhancements in this version compared to build9. A  
whole new tribe, various new musics and sounds, new worlds and two  
new campaign missions. Also a lot of in game features were added and  
a few bugs fixed. We were not lazy.

If you like what you see, and you want to contribute, please register  
on our homepage and shout out somewhere in the forums. Work is easy  
to be found. Make sure to check our mailing list and also subscribe  
there to talk to the developer and take an active part in the further  
development of widelands.
wid...@li...
subscribe here: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/ 
widelands-public


Changes in this release:
- new worlds
- new tribe
- new campaing missions
- new music and sounds
- new translations and translation updates
- mac os native support
- many new graphics

Both binary and source packages are available from http:// 
sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? 
group_id=40163&package_id=32323&release_id=495158

Simply download the binary package for your operating system and run  
widelands! If your operating system is not supported, download a  
source package and try to compile it for yourself. See the homepage  
for the libraries you need to have installed.

All releases are announced on the widelands-announce mailing list.  
Please visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/widelands- 
announce if you want to receive email announcements of future releases.

Greetings,
Holger Rapp
Chieftain