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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

Beta Release 1.15.15

The most visible change added with this release is that when a major version is newly installed Wesnoth will migrate user preferences and attempt to redownload add-ons from its new add-ons server.

Translations
  • Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish
User interface
  • Added a prompt to allow migrating settings and redownloading add-ons used in a previous version of Wesnoth when starting a new versions for the first time.
Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
  • Fixed: keyboard input during the loading screen intermittently caused a crash (issue #4447)
  • AI: fixed custom synced commands not changing the game state