Battle for Wesnoth News

• Added automatic schema-validation of `_server.pbl` files when uploading an add-on. (PR #7239)
  

• Legend of Wesmere
  • Adjusted gold and carryover between S11, S14 and S17. (issue #7230)
    
  • S03: Fixed an event trigger when Urudin retreats. (PR #7221)
    
  • S16: Updated screen flash to use new macros.
    

• Secrets of the Ancients
  • S17: Use the new `screen_fade` visual effect.
    

• Son of the Black Eye
  • S14: Fixed Grüü’s dialogue not appearing during the intro. (issue #7280)
    

• The South Guard
  • S04: Updated safeguard against AI leader stupidity to match map changes.
    

• Under the Burning Suns
  • Quenoth Rework, including the major changes listed below. (PR #7349)
    
  • Redesign of the Quenoth Fighter line, with multiple attacks instead of the formation ability.
    
  • Redesign of the Quenoth Shaman line, with songs and the tailwind ability.
    
  • Redesign of the Tauroch Rider line, giving both Tauroch and Rider one attack each.
    
  • Hide XP bars for some enemies that are never expected to advance a level.
    

• World Conquest
  • Fix mechanic when a commander replaces a dead leader. (issue #7284)
    

• Scrolling the map north or south can move the text that overlays the map, so it doesn’t always obscure the southmost hexes of the map. (issue #6422)
  

• Allied units’ orbs no longer look like the player’s own units’ orbs. (issue #7108)
  • By default, they are now two-color during the ally’s turn.
    
  • Added an advanced setting to always show them as single-color (the ally color).
    

• Add waterfall animations to Isar’s Cross. (PR #7348)
  

• Added Art Placeholder overlay (terrain code `^Xxxx`), used for Isar’s Cross’ new waterfalls. (PR #7348)
  

• Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish
  
• wmlxgettext always uses Unix-style file paths in .pot files, to reduce changes when working on different platforms. (issue #7380)
  

• Add Merman Brawler and Citizen to core.
  
• Add Dwarvish Miner to core.
  
• Add Sand Scamperer unit.
  
• Giant Ant now advances to Soldier Ant, requiring 26 XP.
  
• Soldier Ant now costs 16 gold, has 35 HP and needs 50 XP to advance.
  

• Added icons for invulnerable and unhealable states. (PR #7363)
  
• The help browser shows groups (`[race]help_taxonomy=`) in subfolders. For example Humans/Dunefolk and Elves/Quenoth. (PR #7228)
  

• New `attacks_used` key in `[attack]` causes the attack to deduct more than 1 from `attacks_left`. (PR #7351)
  
• Fixed `[foreach]` when nested loops used the same variable name for the inner and outer loop. (issue #6305)
  
• New `[trait]require_traits=` and `[trait]exclude_traits=` to control random trait generation. (PR #7109)
  

• Added basic achievements functionality.
  

• Fixed a regression in 1.17.x resulting in overlarge unit HP and XP bars in some cases. (issue #7171)
  
• Fixed the editor’s unit tool crashing when placing a unit. (issue #7296)
  
• Many command-line options that log to stdout/stderr now automatically imply `--no-log-to-file`. (issue #7310)
  
• General consolidation of code paths for logging between Windows and non-Windows platforms.
  
• Fixed crash and missing output in `--report`.
  
• Schema validation accepts variables in `[harm_unit]alignment`.
  
• Schema validation no longer accepts the unused `[unit]hp_bar_scaling` and `[unit]xp_bar_scaling`.
  
• Fix an issue with schema validator not reporting errors at top level.
  
• The `unit_tree` tool which generates https://units.wesnoth.org/ now ignores the `[advancefrom]` tag.
  
• Fix the search for the game data directory when doing a local Visual Studio build.
  
• Fixed warnings when compiling with Boost 1.81.
  

• Fixed: the unit tool crashes when placing a unit (issue #7296).
  

• Updated translations: Finnish, Spanish
  

• Make the log messages about "Skipping duplicate unit variation ID" say which `[unit_type]` is causing the error.
  

• Added support for allowing multiple people to upload updates to an add-on (PR#7268)
  

• Sceptre of Fire
  • S9: Update for terrain codes introduced in 1.17.9 (issue #7210)
    

• Heir to the Throne:
  • S03: Rewrite intro text, including a hint about training troops (PR #7214)
    
  • S05B: Delurin now has traits Loyal + resilient + intelligent
    

• Liberty:
  • The non-loyal character Delurin now has traits resilient + intelligent
    

• Updated translations: Arabic, British English, Czech, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish
  

• Moved Kraken from campaigns to core, updated sprite
  
• Added some dragonfly units to "monsters"
  
• Dunefolk Rover portrait added
  
• Update sprites for Loyalist General, Spearman, Cavalryman, and Grand Knight
  
• Add more ant types
  
• Fix and adjust Falcon and Elder Falcon attacks
  

• Improved the layout of the orb colors dialog, and added tooltips.
  

• Fixed a crash when moving certain walking corpse variations north due to missing animations. (issue #7190)
  
• Fixed special notes being duplicated when storing units (issue #7153).
  
• wmllint now validates `rank=` values in `[campaign]` (issue #7224)
  
• Fixed a crash when checking if abilities are active during game initialisation after loading a saved game. (issues #5643, #7238)
  

• Updated translations: Arabic, British English, Czech, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Turkish
  

• wmllint now validates `rank=` values in `[campaign]` (issue #7224)
  
• Add disconnect check to alert users when they lose connection to the multiplayer server (issue #1336)
  
• Fixed a crash when checking if abilities are active during game initialisation after loading a saved game. (issues #5643, #7238)
  
• Fix a crash when an out-of-bounds side number is used in Lua’s `sync.evaluate_multiple` (PR #7222)
  
• Fixed special notes being duplicated when storing units (issue #7153).
  

• `^Qhhf` and `^Qhuf` terrain codes available to allow forest terrain on bluff/gulch hexes
  

• Updated translations: British English, Czech, French, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil)
  

• Merkfolk units movement cost on forest and hills reduced from 5 to 4.
  
• Orcish Slayer can advance to the Orcish Nightblade by default.
  
• Orcish Slayer's xp required to level up reduced from 100 to 64.
  
• Dunefolk Falconer portrait added.
  

• Fixed not being able to undo moves (bug #6898)