Battle for Wesnoth News

• Fixed: using the up or down arrow keys in small-screen mode returned to the title screen (issue #6485).
  
• Add-on passwords that are not stored in the `_server.pbl` can now be stored in the same credentials file as multiplayer passwords (PR #6543).
  

• Delfador’s Memoirs
  • S11: Finding Chantal will now share her side’s vision with the player, as originally intended.
    
  • S14: Smoother appearance of enemies and added dialogue (#6176).
    

• Descent into Darkness
  • S08: Prevent Spectral Servant from picking up the book (issue #6576).
    

• Northern Rebirth
  • S05a_01: Solve units getting stuck in the wall before the spider chamber (issue #6607).
    

• Sceptre of Fire
  • Fixed Thursagan's Arcanister advancement being "lost" after dismounting a minecart.
    
  • Improvements and spelling corrections to the English prose text (PR #6177).
    
  • S9: Allow Grypon Riders to complete the scenario (issue #6332)
    

• Son of the Black Eye
  • Improvements and spelling corrections to the English prose text (PR #6166).
    

• The Rise of Wesnoth
  • S22: Fixed the possibility of a misplaced dialogue when a bridge was broken (issue #6376).
    

• Under the Burning Suns
  • S08: Kromph and the Dust devil now trigger a critical event (issue #6211).
    

• World Conquest
  • Updated the modding instructions, helping add-on authors add extra factions etc.
    

• Add documentation for the magenta D and special terrain overlays (PR #6460).
  
• Added some missing terrain groupings (issue #6643)
  

• Fixed updating add-ons when joining a game that requires a new version (issue #6383).
  
• Add a `/clear` command for the lobby-chat window.
  

• flatpak: update freedesktop runtime version to 21.08 (issue #6497).
  

• Better transition for Swamp to Icy Cobbles (PR #6491).
  
• New graphics variations for icy and rocky terrains.
  
• The help browser adds special notes for castles and healing terrains (PR #6461).
  

• Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian
  
• Fixed the stats for Spanish being overwritten by the stats for Spanish (Latin American).
  

• Saurian sprites cleanup (PR #6450).
  
• Various small sprite updates for sea serpents and swamp lizards (PR #6452).
  

• Mark the Plan Unit Advance mod as MP-only so it doesn't show up as available for campaigns.
  

• wmlscope can now report about calls to deprecated macros when using the `--unresolved` switch.
  
• wmlxgettext’s old behavior of processing files in the order they’re given on the command line can be selected with the `--no-sort-by-file` option (PR #6586).
  
• Fixed a crash with "laststrike" (firststrike given to the opponent) weapon specials (issue #6575).
  
• Fixed a crash with locally-edited add-ons that had neither `_server.pbl` nor `_info.cfg` (issue #6389).
  
• Added more unit tests for weapon specials.
  
• Resolve crash on systems using musl implementation of libc (issue #6603)
  
• The `--stringfreeze` (`-Z`) command line flag has been removed from wmllint.
  
• The checks for the old special notes system have been removed from wmllint; the `notecheck off`, `notecheck on` and `match with ` magic comments no longer have any effect.
  
• Resolved title screen flashing during the loading screen (issue #2395)
  
• Fixed erratic keyboard and mouse scroll speed (issue #3607)
  
• wmllint automatically removes the obsolete lines `{SOUND:SLOW}` and `{SOUND:POISON}`
  

The MacOS build has a known issue with input coordinates being wrong. This will be fixed in 1.17.5.

• Sceptre of Fire
  • S9: Allow Grypon Riders to complete the scenario (issue #6332)
    

• Under the Burning Suns
  • S5: Enforce encounter with the Cloaked Figure (issue #6364)
    
  • S8: Spawned units will now be unable to be blocked into walls (PR #6677)
    

• Added some missing terrain groupings (issue #6643)
  

• new terrain variations
  • `Rrd` for desert road/cobbles - just a recolor, but has some different transitions than the normal roads
    
  • `^Bsa*` for snowy stone bridge
    

• Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Italian
  

• Added integer scaling options for the entire UI.
  

• The `--stringfreeze` (`-Z`) command line flag has been removed from wmllint.
  
• The checks for the old special notes system have been removed from wmllint; the `notecheck off`, `notecheck on` and `match with ` magic comments no longer have any effect.
  
• Resolved title screen flashing during the loading screen (issue #2395)
  
• Added the {PASSABLE_HEX} macro to core and deleted it from TRoW S19 (PR #6677)
  
• Converted most portrait images to webp (PR #6611).
  
• Hardware accelerated rendering has been enabled in SDL.
  

• The `forum_auth` attribute now allows authenticating with your forum credentials, as well as no longer requiring the `passphrase` or `email` attributes be populated in the `_server.pbl`. (PR #5866)
  

• Descent into Darkness
  • S08: Prevent Spectral Servant from picking up the book (issue #6576)
    

• Northern Rebirth
  • S05a_01:
    • Solve units getting stuck in the wall before the spider chamber (issue #6607)
      
    • Enhance dialogue between Tallin and Abhai (issue #6608)
      

• Sceptre of Fire
  • Fixed Thursagan's Arcanister advancement being "lost" after dismounting a minecart (PR #6484).
    
  • Improvements and spelling corrections to the English prose text (PR #6177).
    

• New `wesnoth.interface.add_overlay_text` function allows placing arbitrary floating text anywhere on the screen - like `[print]` but with more options (PR #5837).
  

• New palisades terrain (^Eqp) and general fence terrain macros cleanup
  
• Rubble pile overlay terrain now connects with adjacent rubble piles
  
• Replace old-style terrain macros (PR #6606)
  

• Updated translations: British English, Czech, French, Italian
  

• Map labels are scaled by zoom (PR #6604).
  
• Revamped the Game Load dialog.
  

• Reduced the size of Isar's Cross map background images.
  
• Resolve crash on systems using musl implementation of libc (issue #6603).
  
• Refactoring of the C++ GUI2 event dispatcher.
  
• Refactoring of the `display` class' theme initialization.
  
• Fixed a crash with "laststrike" (firststrike given to the opponent) weapon specials (issue #6575).
  
• Added more unit tests for weapon specials.
  

• Add-on passwords that are not stored in the _server.pbl can now be stored in the same credentials file as multiplayer passwords. (PR #6543)
  

• SDL2_image now requires webp support be enabled. (PR #6392)
  
• Lua is now a submodule. (PR #6549)
  

• Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Czech
  

• wmlscope can now report about calls to deprecated macros when using the `--unresolved` switch
  
• Webp images can now be used in mainline and in add-ons. (PR #6392)
  

• Fixed: using the up or down arrow keys in small-screen mode returned to the title screen (issue #6485)
  
• Set the right default port number for the 1.17.x add-ons server.
  

• Delfador’s Memoirs
  • S11: Finding Chantal will now share her side’s vision with the player, as originally intended.
    
  • S14: Smoother appearance of enemies and added dialogue (#6176)
    

• Sceptre of Fire
  • Fixed Thursagan's Arcanister advancement being "lost" after dismounting a minecart.
    

• The Rise of Wesnoth
  • S22: Fixed the possibility of a missplaced dialogue when a bridge was broken (issue #6376)
    

• Under the Burning Suns
  • S08: Kromph and the Dust devil now trigger a critical event (issue #6211)
    

• World Conquest
  • Fixed artifacts "draining" HP on pick-up.
    

• Upgrade to Lua 5.4.4.
  

• Updated translations: Czech, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian