Battle for Wesnoth News

• Fixed downloading an add-on causing a crash.
  

• Son of the Black Eye
  • S15: improved AI behavior.
    

• The Deceiver’s Gambit
  • Easy and Normal difficulties are now more challenging
    
  • Delfador now references Elende's prophecy much more in Part II
    
  • Numerous minor dialogue changes, scenario tweaks, and bug fixes
    
  • Various dialogue tweaks in Part II to better-resolve some of Part I's lingering plot threads.
    
  • S11: use simple_attack MAI for AI-vs-AI fighting, to reduce lag
    
  • S11: reduced number of Orcish Adepts/Shamans, and added a voiceline when one of them is attacked
    
  • S13: replaced Orcish Adepts/Shamans with regular cannon-fodder units.
    

• Added support for server-side queueing.
  

• Updated translations: British English, Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, Italian
  

• Added and updated a variety of boats.
  

• It is now possible to mark certain units as favorite in Unit List and Recall dialogs. Units can be sorted by whether they are favorite or not.
  
• Fixed Wesnoth freezing when using a textbox.
  
• Add support for marking units as favorites in the recall list.
  

• Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115).
  

• Resolve crash on attempting to download MP replay from server, when using cURL 7.85.0 or later (issue #10139).
  

• Fix bluff/gulch terrain overlays being conspicuously visible on the minimap display (bug #8924).
  

• Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Esperanto, Finnish, Italian, Japanese
  

• Fixed an issue with the Help browser over-scaling portraits up on configurations with a pixel scale higher than 1 (e.g. macOS and Retina screens), causing blurry rendering and lacking enough room for text.
  

• Fix failure to build with recent versions of Visual Studio due to missing `` include.
  
• Support compilation with GCC 15.
  

• The Deceiver's Gambit
  • Spells: clarified "Counterspell" description
    
  • S05: the allied AIs now attack at Dawn instead of Second Watch
    
  • S08: changed Trappers' dialogue to be less overtly hostile
    
  • S14: the final boss now heals less on lower difficulties
    

• Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115)
  

• Resolve crash on attempting to download MP replay from server, when using cURL 7.85.0 or later (issue #10139).
  

• Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Italian, Japanese
  

• Necromancer:
  • Changes to emphasize the Necro's thematic plague ability, while lowering his/her durability closer to that of other mages:
    
  • hitpoints 76 -> 64, impact resist 10% -> 0%, cold resist 0% -> 10%
    
  • plague staff (melee impact) 6-3 -> 7-3
    
  • chill wave (ranged cold) 19-2 -> 20-2
    
  • shadow wave (ranged arcane) 16-2 -> 13-2, added "plague" weapon special
    

• UI support the multi-hex ranged attacks has been added
  
• Support for 800xN window sizes has been removed
  

• Added WFL `byte_index` function to convert between character indices and byte indices, accounting for multi-byte characters
  
• IPFs that affect color values no longer skip fully transparent pixels.
  

• Fixed the Pick Unit Advancement modification throwing lua errors on every recruitment
  
• Fixed unit appearance not being immediately updated when affected by an ability
  

• Fixed campaigns not using the correct map settings
  

• `Convert To Scenario` menu item added to `File` menu that allows converting an already opened map to a scenario.
  

• Added the foundation for multiplayer queueing
  

• Add `mvt_alias` and `def_alias` to `wesnoth.terrain_types`.
  

• Boost 1.70 or later is now required
  

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Finnish, Italian
  

• It is now possible to search help topics by name/id in the Help Browser.
  

• `[unit]dismissable` and `[unit]block_dismiss_message` keys added that allow marking an unit as dismissable, and what message to show if user clicks `Dismiss` button in Unit Recall dialog.
  
• Added [have_side] as a conditional tag. It takes the same arguments as [filter_side]. It returns true if a side matching the SSF exists, false otherwise. Added to the schema.
  

• GUI.pyw: use the Windows API through the `ctypes` library to detect the user's language on Windows (#9972).
  
• Fixed persistent WML being stored in the wrong folder
  

• Eastern Invasion
  • S04c: achievement now only triggers when escaping with all knights alive
    
  • S11/S99: flying units can no longer enter prison cells via the river
    
  • S12: fixed Dra-Nak (if present) having incorrect traits and portraits
    
  • S17b: AI is now more forced to recruit only higher-level units when gold reserves get too high
    
  • S99: prisoners now escape if their jailers are killed
    

• Added Show Tool Information toggle option in the menus and toolbar to allow hiding the informational tooltip on the edge of the screen that shows the current editor tool's usage and palette information
  

Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Turkish

• Switched default Pango/Cairo backend from CoreText to Fontconfig on macOS to fix issues with certain fonts such as Oldania ADF Std being unrecognized on current OS versions (issue #8488).
  
• Search filter should now be case-insensitive for more than just ASCII characters (#9328)
  
• Fixed the palette button not being clickable after scrolling in palette widget without moving the cursor
  

• Fix crash when weapon specials' filters lead to infinite recursion (issue #8940)
  

• Fixed the Load Game dialog forgetting the filename filter when changing directory