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Note for Steam Players

With the upcoming release of 1.16 on October 24th, Steam players who are on the default branch (aka what you're using if you haven't chosen 1.15.x in the Betas) as well as itch.io players who are on the Stable channel will be automatically upgraded from 1.14.17 to 1.16.0. While 1.16 will have numerous improvements over 1.14, there are also some things that are incompatible between these two versions as well as add-ons that may exist for 1.14 but not for 1.16. As such, for Windows and macOS players who wish to remain on 1.14.17 for the time being, standalone downloads are available on SourceForge. For players who wish to continue using 1.14.17 without needing to download the standalone version from SourceForge, or if you're a Steam Linux player, see below for instructions on how to do this.

Steam
Go into your Steam library and right click Battle for Wesnoth.
Click the "Properties..." option.
Select the "BETAS" section.
In the dropdown under "Select the beta you would like to opt into:" select the option "1.14.x - 1.14 old stable".

Beta Release 1.15.18

Campaigns
  • Delfador’s Memoirs
    • S07: Clarified objectives (issue #5608)
  • Northern Rebirth
    • Give Eryssa’s side a consistent team color (issue #5375)
  • The Rise of Wesnoth
    • Remove time-runs-out lose condition for final scenario (issue #6109)
  • Under the Burning Suns
    • Avoid a few possibilities where the Dust Devil could speak (issue #4892)
    • Avoid dehydration status icon persisting into the next scenario (issue #5687)
    • Correct Traveler’s Ring description (issue #6043)
Editor
  • Avoid rare crash situation after editing scenarios (issue #5883)
Translations
  • Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Czech, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish.
  • gettext plural forms now have caret prefixes stripped as well (PR #6094).
User interface
  • Steam cloud file is no longer listed in the Load Game dialog.
  • Redefine green text in dialogs and tool-tips so they are no longer ‘too dark’ with recent Pango versions (issue #4348)
  • Gave the main menu's Language button a label again, now displaying the current language.
  • Tweaked margins around the main menu's bottom row.
  • Difficulty no longer displayed in the Load Game dialog when it is not relevant to a save file (issue #5321)
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
  • Correct unit display adjustments on certain tiles when at zoom level other than 100% (issue #5974)

Beta Release 1.15.17

Campaigns
  • World Conquest is re-enabled.
Translations
  • Updated translations: British English, Polish
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
  • Messenger MAI: fixed bug of own units sometimes blocking the path to a waypoint for the messenger
  • A bug that would corrupt WML sent to the multiplayer and add-ons server was fixed.

As it nears a new release, The Battle for Wesnoth is looking for new contributors

The team behind the classic strategy title issues a call to arms, as it seeks to increase contributions and community participation.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/as-it-nears-a-new-release-the-battle-for-wesnoth-is-looking-for-new-contributors

Beta Release 1.15.16

Campaigns
  • Liberty
    • S06: Enforce failure condition for allied team (issue #6019)
  • The South Guard
    • S8b: Reduced difficulty
  • Tutorial
    • S01: Don't let the first Quintain chase the player to a village (PR #5968)
    • S01: Synchronise the choice of character dialog, so that replays don't get OOS (issue #5926)
    • S01: Fix some glitches on HDPI displays (PR #6005)
  • Secrets of the Ancients
    • Synchronise the walking corpse recruitment dialog, so that replays don't get OOS (issue #5334)
  • Under the Burning Suns
    • S09: Reveal the boss of the scenario at the end of part 1 (issue #5540)
  • World Conquest
    • Add campaign icons, campaign image and credits (PR #5958)
    • Update to new mushroom terrain from the deprecated mushroom terrain (issue #5135, PR #5960)
Multiplayer
  • If an add-on needs to be installed on all players' devices but doesn't specify a min version, assume it needs the latest (issue #5004)
Terrain
  • Fix transition between snowy mountains and castles (issue #6016)
Translations
  • Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish
Units
  • Added and improved Naga animations (issue #5980, PR #6012)
  • Added Troll defense animations (PR #5964)
User interface
  • The names of the abilities used as specials appear in the attack prediction window with specials weapons
  • In the Load Game dialog, list directories from previous versions in decending order
  • Refined design of the Faction Select screen
  • Made the campaign selection on bigger on HDPI screens (PR #6013)
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
  • Added a timeout when connecting to the wesnothd server
  • Improved logging of deprecation messages, fixing duplication and missing timestamps (issue #5942)
  • Added `[era]` attributes to the schema
  • Added to wmllint an automatic update of four terrain-graphics macros
  • Removed wmllint's check for spaces in e-mail addresses
  • Standardised the date line of copyright statements, and updated them to 2021