Battle for Wesnoth News

• Fixed crash when the AI simulates a fight between two units which can slow but aren't yet slowed, then simulates another fight for one of them in Monte Carlo mode (issue #3650).
  
• Experimental AI recruiting: fixed AI crash for unit type with unknown race
  
• Support for modifying the available AIs using cores:
  • New parameter default_ai_algorithm for setting the default AI
    
  • New parameter mp_rank for setting the order in which AIs appear in the MP computer player selection menu
    

• New option "Keep saved AI" when reloading games from the MP Create Game screen. Choosing this option prevents overwriting of the saved AI by the default AI. (issue #3791)
  
• Forest Animals Micro AI: fix AI crash when using custom rabbit hole image
  
• Fix Lua AIs using the ai.stopunit_*() functions potentially creating infinite candidate action loops
  

• Dead Water:
  • S12: Slightly rebalanced enemy reinforcements and ai gold
    

• Descent Into Darkness:
  • Allow converting L3 necromancers to liches from S12 onwards (issue #3165).
    
  • Added an alternative method of completing the campaign (issue #3167).
    
  • S8, S9 (A Small Favor II & III): Clarify objectives. (PR #3711)
    
  • S8 (A Small Favor II): Fixed units created via the plague ability not available in S9. (PR #3711)
    

• Sceptre of Fire:
  • S1&2: increased difficulty
    
  • S6: additional guards for the elves
    

• Secrets of the Ancients:
  • S01 Slipping Away: It is now obvious that the wild animals cannot cross the fences.
    
  • S02 Dark Business: Simplify scenario by removing the temporary invisible starting keep.
    
  • S05 Blackwater: Additional dialog from Ardonna at the start.
    
  • S11 Battleground: Ghosts are now able to be recruited after the scenario is complete.
    
  • S15 Mountain Pass: Bird bones moves so bird is easier to keep alive when discovered.
    
  • S21 Against the World: Leader of the elves is now same elf from S12.
    
  • S21 Against the World: Adjustment so player doesn't have to chase down some leaders at the end.
    
  • Proper animation for finding the bird bones.
    
  • Newly made liches will now receive a move point upon transformation if they weren't recalled. this turn and haven't moved yet.
    

• The Hammer of Thursagan
  • S12 'The Underlevels': redesigned with completely new map and scenario
    

• Northern Rebirth:
  • Fix loyal units obtained in S7 costing upkeep (introduced in 1.14.5)
    
  • S13: Improvement to the AIs
    

• The Rise of Wesnoth:
  • S15: victory text is not used upon hero death
    
  • S17d: enemy units are killed upon victory except for bats
    
  • S22: cuttlefish now have the loyal icon
    

• The South Guard:
  • Revised scenario and story dialogue.
    
  • Reworked and rebalanced all scenario and map designs.
    
  • Removed S6a 'Tidings Good and Ill'.
    

• Tutorial:
  • S2: Wolf riders are not initially recruited, to not hinder the player from reaching the island in time
    

• Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian.
  

• Fix wesnoth.set_dialog_callback calling the function immediately when used in the previous callback. (issue #3794)
  
• Fix wesnoth.set_dialog_value not triggering re-layout. (issue #3572)
  
• wml.tostring() now outputs a string that can be parsed back to WML without loss of data.
  

• Fix crash with custom themes on desktop PCs. (issue #3599)
  
• Add --campaign-skip-story command line switch for skipping directly to turn 1. (issue #3472)
  
• Remove --data option, --data-path has the same functionality.
  
• Fix documentation of --render-image command line switch. (issue #3568)
  
• Update manpage with options previously only documented by wesnoth --help.
  
• Fix wrong ordering for BW / BF years, for example in Play a Campaign when sorted by date. (issue #3187)
  
• GUI.pyw can now terminate a running maintenance script
  
• Fix SDL_DestroyRenderer assertion failure under XMonad. (part of issue #3716)
  
• Fix map item names not being translated in the scenario editor.
  
• Usernames specified in the MP UI and command line are now stripped of leading and trailing whitespace, including newlines.
  
• Show ability of a selected unit as active/inactive with respect to mouseover hex. (issue #3912)
  
• macOS: Wesnoth now uses the app sandboxing feature, which means there is a new location for saves. All saves will be migrated during first launch automatically. For info about backwards compatibility see: https://gist.github.com/hrubymar10/eb5afd896f933a46fac344ced940e020
  
• Many units lacking animations now have at least a defense animations
  

• Fix stale temporary bans continuing to have an effect on players until cleared by phpBB on the next ban/unban operation.
  

• new scons option, intended to be used when building releases inside a git repo: autorevision=False
  
• Fix build with Boost 1.69. (issue #3646)
  
• Fix build with Pango 1.43. (issue #3840)
  

• Fix regression: Game Load screen would not select 1.12 savegames. (issue #3561)
  
• Fix regression: the in-game "Observers" icon (an eye) was covered by the minimap. (issue #3543)
  
• Increase step size when clicking sliders in the MP Create Game dialog. (issue #3552)
  
• Fix overlapping top bar elements with small screen resolutions. (issue #3714)
  
• Don't scroll to an invisible unit that recruits another invisible unit. (issue #3559)
  
• When a recruited unit is fogged, scroll to the recruiting unit and play recruit animation. (issue #3577)
  
• Fix line breaks in first statistics line in unit type pages in the help. (issue #3256)
  
• Don't scroll to an enemy unit that teleports to or from an invisible hex. (PR #3578)
  
• Don't show in the sidebar the time of day schedule of a shrouded hex. (PR #3638)
  
• Game Load screen gracefully handles savefiles that can't be parsed. (issue #3652)
  
• The sidebar now shows alignment and damages as they would be on the hex under the mouse, rather than at the unit's current location. (PR #3642)
  
• When a unit has multiple statuses (slowed/poisoned/invisible/etc), the sidebar shows all of them, not just the first. (issue #3197)
  
• Fixed being able to dismiss a game lobby by pressing Esc.
  
• Fixed multiple severe issues in the classic theme.
  
• The "Attack Enemy" dialog now shows inactive weapon specials in gray. (PR #3686)
  
• Taking screenshots in title screen is possible again (issue #3235)
  
• The "Recruit Unit" dialog is searchable by unit type name. (PR #3787)
  
• Add text filter to hotkeys preferences. (PR #3759)
  
• Hide leader in status table if it's unfogged but invisible. (PR #3854)
  
• macOS: Dark GUI on macOS Mojave and later when dark appearance is enabled.
  

• Fixed crash in AI code when a side has multiple leaders.
  
• Fix AI ignoring teleport locations when moving leader to leader goals.
  
• Fast Micro AI: Fix bug crashing the AI when units with chance-to-hit specials without id are on map.
  

• Heir to the Throne:
  • S6: Allow canceling an attack when a move+attack spawns enemy units (issue #3459).
    
  • S6: Change the trigger for spawning undead reinforcements (issue #3459).
    
  • S17: Add dialog explaining the lava game mechanic and an easter egg (issue #3473).
    
• Liberty:
  • S3: Add story and war drums music.
    
• Northern Rebirth:
  • S12: empty sides are hidden.
    
  • S13: allied leaders whose death causes defeat won't leave their keep and the lich brothers and Krash got more gold.
    
• Sceptre of Fire:
  • S4: a cave entrance has been added.
    
  • S5: Gryphon Riders are now available starting form S5 (formerly S3).
    
  • S7: it's now impossible to kill all pursuers.
    
• Secrets of the Ancients:
  • Fix dialog said by wrong unit & revert previous fix (issue #3294).
    
• The Hammer of Thursagan:
  • S10: Fix objectives requiring too much of the player.
    
• The South Guard:
  • S2: the case where Deoran is not sent to the Citadel is handled better.
    
  • S2: enemy units will no longer neutralize villages instead of capturing or burning them. This also means certain units will no longer be hidden in the Game Stats list.
    
  • S4: bodyguards are never spawned next to other units, and always in forest.
    
  • S5: zombies have now one castle with two leaders.
    
  • S6a: mermen leave after this scenario and will no longer be available.
    
  • S7a & S8a: a certain hero may now die.
    
• Tutorial:
  • Show an undo reminder if one is out of moves, but can't end the turn yet.
    
  • Added more information to the Status Table prompt about how to access it (issue #2883).
    
• Under the Burning Suns:
  • New graphics for Eloh.
    

• A New Land: Fixed village gold being 1 instead of 2.
  
• Fixed Random Start Time not working (issue #3515).
  
• Fixed a possible crash when leaving a game as an observer (issue #3017).
  
• Fixed Start Game locked when other players abort the faction/leader selection dialog (issue #3452).
  
• Fixed Skip Replay when joining MP campaigns.
  
• Fixed OOS errors when undoing after ally chat.
  
• Fixed game freezing upon droiding with Delayed Shroud Updates (issue #3453).
  
• Fixed require_scenario and require_era attributes.
  

• Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, Ukrainian.
  

• On laptop computers we now show how much battery you have left.
  
• MacOS: Fixed moving the mouse with a touchpad also scrolling GUI dialogs.
  
• MacOS: Add build number to OS version report.
  
• Fix layout of Preferences window with some localizations (such as Czech).
  
• Load Game now shows the chosen difficulty with the same name that you originally selected.
  
• Load Game now shows the modifications enabled in the selected savegame (issue #3495).
  
• Force leader sprites larger than 72x72 to be downscaled in Load Game (issue #3474).
  
• Add left padding to dialog messages shown with a portrait on the right (issue #1938).
  
• Addon Manager uses clearer terms for sort order.
  
• Fix reversed sort order by unit level in Unit List and Recall Unit.
  
• Fixed crash in Recall Unit when no units match the filter (issue #3475).
  

• Fixed [animate_unit] and [heal_unit] preventing unit halo from disappearing if the unit dies later (issue #3509).
  

• Fix some minor problems with the macOS package.
  
• Fixed crash when trying to attack with a unit without usable weapons (issue #3424).
  
• Fixed the debug mode Create Unit dialog crashing when changing the gender of the previous selection after causing the list to come up empty using the filter box.
  
• Allow searching by race and internal unit type id with the Create Unit filter box as well.
  
• wmlxgettext is now included in release packages, so a separate download is no longer required to use it with GUI.pyw.
  
• Fixed crash when pressing Reset replay (issue #3439).
  
• Fixed editor cannot add starting location for > 9 players.
  
• Fixed crash in Lua tstring comparision (issue #3541).
  
• Fixed objectives at scenario start using old/cached values of conditions/variables (issue #3544).
  
• Show an error message when trying to open the Lua console while not in debug mode.
  
• On enemy side's turn, don't scroll to that side's leader if it's invisible.
  
• Fixed :droid ignoring its second argument.
  
• Fixed :droid giving no feedback when successful.
  

• Fixed Lua being able to escape sandboxing via load/loadstring (CVE-2018-1999023).
  

• Made it so plain-text .po catalogues in add-ons are detected and added to the list of translations for them.
  

• Dead Water:
  • In 'Tirigaz', take the situation into account of orcs being killed either first or by undead.
    

• Delfador's Memoirs:
  • Fix hero units costing upkeep (issue #3722)
    

• Eastern Invasion:
  • Fixed missing prisoners and loss of recallable units in 'Captured'.
    

• Northern Rebirth:
  • Level 0 units are not available anymore after scenario 5
    

• Secrets of the Ancients:
  • Adjust gender of enemies to better match story in S11 & 21 (issue #3294)
    
  • Simplify dialog to fix possible confusion in S16 (issue #3291)
    
  • Have nagas be able to recruit in S21 (issue #3293)
    

• The South Guard:
  • S4: undead leader won't leave the castle anymore
    
  • S5: the untypical situation that one can defeat the lich before finding Urza Afalas is now handled
    

• Under the Burning Suns:
  • S11: added custom graphics for the citadel.
    
  • S12: clarified the alien bodies' weaknesses.
    
  • Various visual improvements.
    

• Fixed saving a map as a scenario not enabling scenario editor tools.
  

• New attack animation for the Peasant.
  
• Tweaked the Ruffian's attack animation timing.
  

• Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Spanish
  

• Upgrade to Lua 5.3.5.
  

• Fixed lobby and whisper messages not having a maximum length.
  

• Improved the layout of the Statistics dialog.
  
• Allow changing dropdown menu selections with the scrollwheel (FR #3251).
  
• Fixed lobby chat box scrolling to top on a new message if it isn't at the bottom (issue #2789).
  
• Fixed the unit preview pane not showing the default race icon when detailing a single unit's stats.
  
• Sort units secondarily by XP in the unit list dialog.
  
• Whiteboard related bugfixes
  

• Fixed errors about WESNOTH_VERSION not being defined when trying to load add-ons that have preprocessor errors (issues #1924, #1634).
  

• Added an advanced preference to enable experimental PRNG combat.
  
• Campfires use illumination instead of a different ToD.
  
• Linux builds now enable security hardening by default.
  
• Fixed MP admins being unable to observe private games.
  
• Fixed MP faction, leader, and leader gender changes persisting even if the selection dialog is dismissed.
  
• Fixed an issue with positioned sound sources ignoring the volume set in Preferences after going off the audible radius and back (issue #3280).
  
• Fixed wmllint choking on gzipped binary files (e.g. gzipped tarballs).
  
• Fixed wmllint crashing on nonexistent paths provided in the command line (issue #3286).
  
• Slight changes to the objectives dialogue (pr #3309)
  
• Greatly improved touch control support.
  
• Fixed wmlindent crashing on nonexistent paths provided in the command line (issue #3346).
  

• Fixed crash in presence of units with negative hitpoints (issue #3042).
  
• Efficiency improvements to filter evaluations in the Goto Micro AI and some AI helper functions
  

• Dead Water:
  • Fix possibility of villagers blocking pickup of sword in S10 The Flaming Sword (issue #3207).
    

• Descent Into Darkness:
  • New Parthyn map in S1 and S6.
    

• Northern Rebirth:
  • Reduced starting gold and income in scenarios 10 to 13
    

• Secrets of the Ancients:
  • Fix S09 Training Session not ending when all dark adepts die (issue #3192)
    

• Tutorial:
  • S2: made enemy starting gold equal to that of the player.
    

• Under the Burning Suns:
  • Added portrait and updated sprite for Giant Ant.
    

• Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish
  

• Fixed lan_server option not causing the server to exit once vacated, e.g. when using the Host Networked Game option from the Multiplayer menu in the game (issue #3206).
  

• The music now changes immediately when you load a save file (issue #2602).
  
• Fixed Lua errors when setting a music track that cannot be found when the playlist is already empty, e.g. if there's no music installed for the game (issue #3194).
  

• Removed validation to ensure units cannot have negative hitpoints. We learned that the ability to create such units is documented, and thus disallowing it was an API change. Since API changes aren't allowed in the stable branch, we have reverted it.
  

• Fixed an occasional crash at the loading screen related to multi-thread access of the image cache.
  
• [kill] animate=yes no longer scrolls to units through fog or shroud, thus matching 1.12's behavior again.
  
• [message] displays the unit type name when a nameless unit speaks and no custom caption= is specified (issue #3211).
  
• do_not_list=yes units are no longer excluded from the debug mode-only Create Unit dialog.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where disabled attacks could cause the wrong attack to be initially selected in the Unit Attack dialog. This bug also had the potential to cause units to the wrong attack when engaging or viewing damage calculations.
  
• Fixed [scenario] map_file= being unusable in most circumstances.
  

Northern Rebirth:

• S02.1 Infested Caves: keep side 8 AI leader from wandering off too far
  and ending up on a keep with only one hex for recruiting.
  
• S02.1 Infested Caves: AIs are less likely to kill each other in early
  game, which would make it harder for the player otherwise.
  
• S02.1 Infested Caves: Dwarvish allies are also less likely to die.
  
• S02.1 Infested Caves: minor map tweaks and improvements.
  
• S05 The Pursuit: removed a bottleneck and tweaked Rod of Justice.
  

Sceptre of Fire:

• In 'Caverns of Flame', fixed various issues with the volcano eruption.
  

Under the Burning Suns:

• Various Quenoth unit graphics updates.
  

Descent into Darkness:

• In 'A small Favor', disabled a not intended way to win the scenario.
  

Secrets of the Ancients:

• Bats are transformed to normal ones already after S5
  

• Fixed a minor team coloring mistake in the north-facing Revenant standing
  animation.
  

• Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French,
  Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Ukrainian
  

• List boxes (MP lobby game list in particular) now keep the scroll position
  when they change, instead of keeping the selected item visible (issue #3016).
  
• Fixed MP lobby player list scrolling to top when it changes
  
• Fixed the first unit sometimes not being selected when opening the Recall
  dialog.
  
• Fixed a crash when using very large portraits in [message] (issue #2912)
  
• Added a button to access the version info dialog to Preferences.
  
• Removed player list sorting options in the MP lobby. The list is now
  automatically sorted alphabetically, friends first.
  
• Rearranged campaign difficulty menu layout
  

• Removed hidden terrains that were not supposed to make it to 1.14: ^Prg,
  ^Prgo, ^Pwd, ^Pwdo
  

• Fixed memory leak in terrain filter code. In a huge map with Silver Mages,
  it could leak several gigabytes of memory in a long session.
  
• Fixed: unit halo remained after undoing a recall (issue #3065)
  
• Fixed: unit halo intensity doubled during AMLA animation
  
• [change_theme] no longer causes a Lua error when theme= is not specified
  instead of explicitly set to an empty string.
  
• [change_theme] no longer requires running a separate action to update the
  UI afterwards (e.g. [redraw]) and the status panels are updated immediately.
  as well.
  
• Lua random map generator: fixed error when flipping map; specifically this
  also fixes an assert at the start of HttT S7 (Sceptre of Fire) that had a
  50% chance of being triggered
  
• Experimental AI: fixed recruiting not working on maps without enemies, such
  as the first two turns of Dark Forecast
  
• Experimental AI: fixed recruiting evaluations sometimes not being updated
  
• Replaced deprecated Lua code and all remaining uses of FOREACH and MESSAGE
  macros
  
• Fixed [color_adjust] interacting poorly with time of day color shifts and
  values outside the [-255, 255] range (issue #3144).
  
• Fixed a regression from 1.13.10 where modification option values couldn't
  be properly saved in arrays.
  
• Added stricter validation to ensure units cannot have negative hitpoints,
  except during specific attack-related events.
  
• Added deprecation notices for several macros that had them missing before.
  
• [message] no longer scrolls to units through fog or shroud so it matches
  1.12's behavior.
  
• Fixed animation-wide text_color and blend_color keys being overwritten. This
  fixes level-in and level-out animations sometimes fading to black instead of
  white.
  
• Fixed [animate_unit] freezing the game when observing MP games (#2970).
  
• Fixed carryover behaving differently when loading a start-of-scenario save
  (issue #3152).
  
• Fixed turn replay function in MP.
  
• Fixed savegames being created even when not needed (issue #3150).
  
• Fixed handling of extra_recruit in planning mode (issue #3100).
  
• Fixed handling of skirmisher in planning mode.
  
• Fixed handling of filter_recall in planning mode.
  
• Fixed possible segfault at game end.
  
• Fixed require_resource in [resource].
  
• Fixed require_scenario=yes not working with map_generation (issue #3105).