There are many many changes since 2.2 including:
A new program has been added to the Freeciv suite: 'freeciv-modpack'.
This makes it easier to download and install add-ons ('modpacks':
rulesets, tilesets, etc) to the right place; you can enter a URL,
choose an add-on from the list, and the tool will install it to the
correct place for this version of Freeciv to use it.
See http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/NEWS
We also include a security fix.
* Fixed crash bugs.
* GTK2 client - improved city dialog.
* GTK2 client - made interface more usable on netbook class displays.
* GTK2 client - improved city bar.
* Fixed bug where two bases could not be built on the same tile on the same
turn.
* Allowed settler and worker units in custom rulesets to become veterans.
* Fixed bug where an editor window was displayed on startup.
* Fixed bug where settler/worker progress was lost upon loading a saved game.
* Fixed bug where the effect of the Great Wall wonder was not limited to units
in cities.
* Added current city size to "needs an improvement to grow further" messages.
* Removed outdated and unused debian watch file.
* Changed name prefix of savefiles from civgame to freeciv.
* Added deep ocean graphics to some bundled tilesets.
* Updated translations: Ukrainian, Catalan, French, British English, Swedish,
Spanish, Italian
Fixes a security vulnerability. (SA40078)
Changelog:
--- 2.1.x - 2.2.0
* Built-in editor
* Expanded ruleset format:
* Unit classes
* Movement restrictions
* Can limit which terrains a unit can enter
* River-boats
* Wheeled units
* Which units another unit can transport
* Migration
* Plague
* Bases
* Calendar effects
* Changes to gameplay with default ruleset:
* New terrains:
o Deep Ocean (as Ocean but no specials and cannot be transformed)
o Lake (as Ocean but no Whales special; inland water below a certain size is generated as Lake)
* Triremes are not restricted to tiles next to land, but to (shallow) Ocean tiles; they now cannot even attempt to enter unsafe tiles
* Triremes no longer get the +1 movement bonus from Nuclear Power that other sea units get
* Triremes and Carriers can no longer attack land units
* Submarine attack strength reduced from 15 to 12 (to make it easier to defend against them with escorts)
* New base type buoy, which can be built by Engineers on water tiles with the Radio advance, and gives vision.
* Ruins (left behind by destroyed cities, no effect on gameplay currently)
* New advance Environmentalism and Solar Plant improvement, which can eliminate pollution from production
* Trade route value now depends on size of cities, not on trade generated in them
* New national borders system
* Coastal Defense now available earlier (requires Gunpowder instead of Metallurgy)
* No restrictions on specialists in small cities
* Terrain within working range of a city can no longer remain unknown
* Units in fortresses now regain 25% HP per turn (as in 2.0.x) instead of 100%
* New nations
* AI difficulty level: Cheating
* New server options:
* foggedborders: visibility of borders is subject to fog of war
* borders gains new modes where player can see all tiles inside borders, and borders extend to unknown tiles revealing them
* endspaceship controls whether spaceship reaching Alpha Cen ends the game
* trademindist controls the minimum distance for trade routes between your cities
* Times now specified in turns instead of years (endyear becomes endturn, onsetbarbs expressed in turns)
* simultaneousphases renamed to phasemode and gains new options
* Client interface changes:
* Menus and shortcut keys revamped; notable changes include:
o Connect with Road/Rail/Irrigation changes from Ctrl+Shift+R/L/I to Shift+R/L/I
o City Report: F1 to F4
o Go/Airlift to City: Shift+L to T
o Wake up Others (Shift+W) becomes Unsentry all on tile (Shift+S)
o Orders menu split into Select, Unit, Work, and Combat; Reports becomes Civilization
* Scripting improvements
* Event cache: messages from the last few turns can be replayed to clients on connection and saved in savegames
* Featured text in Gtk client, including colour coding and clickable links to mentioned cities/units/tiles
--- 2.2.0 - 2.2.1
* Stability fixes and refactoring. GNA#15305 GNA#15356 GNA#15432 GNA#15426 GNA#15332 GNAPATCH#1465 GNA#15348 GNA#15442 GNA#15468 GNA#15469 GNA#15480 GNA#15483 GNA#15456 GNA#15500 GNAPATCH#1490 GNA#15582 GNAPATCH#1513 GNAPATCH#1515 GNA#15661 GNAPATCH#1537 GNA#15450 GNA#15671 GNA#15714 GNA#15643 GNA#15734 GNA#15741 GNA#15730 GNAPATCH#1544 GNA#15377 GNA#15778 GNAPATCH#1598 GNA#15709 GNA#15844 GNA#15857 GNA#15908 GNA#15899 GNA#15983 GNA#16003
* client-sdl: Push the maximal resolution to 3200x2400 in options. GNA#15346
* Make impossible to change the server settings trademindist when the game is running. GNA#15405
* Fixed the display of workable tiles when investigating foreign cities. GNA#15411 GNA#15944
* Improved server logging. GNA#15404 GNA#15336 GNA#15460 GNA#15333 GNA#15523 GNAPATCH#1498 GNA#15923
* client-gtk2: Canceling server logon takes you back to the main menu. GNA#15388
* Fixed a bug where you were unable to initiate diplomatic meetings with other players under certain circumstances. GNA#15439
* Internationalization and string fixes. GNA#15443 GNA#15403 GNA#15427 GNA#15457 GNA#15440 GNA#15455 GNA#15467 GNA#15478 GNA#15477 GNA#15484 GNA#15487 GNA#15585 GNA#15665 GNAPATCH#1569 GNA#15790 GNA#15809 GNA#15808 GNA#15802 GNA#15890
* Fixed bugs with voting. GNA#15451
* client-gtk2 Use city id instead of name in the goto dialog. GNA#15435
* Fixed a bug where air bases wouldn't work on certain tiles. GNA#15446
* Improved city illness. GNA#15373 GNA#15394 GNA#15422 GNA#15499
* Do not show new city dialog if city cannot be built GNA#15328
* client-gtk2: Made the unit info label scrollable to prevent the map view to resize. GNA#15504
* Do not show team name in victory message in the case there's only one team member. GNA#15511
* Improved documentation. GNA#13848 GNA#15667 GNA#15345
* Fixed goto turn time calculations. GNA#15503 GNA#15722
* Fixed a bug where the -M <metaserver> command line parameter was ignored. GNA#15538
* Improvements to Lua scripting. GNAPATCH#1503 GNA#15531 GNA#15586 GNA#15596 GNA#15602 GNA#15606 GNA#15612 GNAPATCH#1526 GNAPATCH#1531 GNAPATCH#1532 GNAPATCH#1533 GNAPATCH#1535 GNA#15675 GNA#15624 GNAPATCH#1553 GNAPATCH#1554 GNAPATCH#1552 GNA#15705 GNA#15706 GNA#15707 GNAPATCH#1599 GNA#13709 GNA#13709 GNAPATCH#1621 GNA#15725 GNA#15860 GNAPATCH#1617 GNA#15586 GNA#15696
* Fixed configuration and compilation warnings. GNA#15549 GNA#15575
* Added a column for plague risk in city report. GNA#15376
* Fixed bugs with loading saved games. GNA#15520 GNA#15581 GNA#15660
* Fixed the display of global warming / nuclear winter in the client. GNA#15563
* Disallowed paradrops inside peaceful foreign borders. GNA#15569
* Give a palace to nations split off by civil war. GNA#15548
* Fixed editor UI bugs. GNA#15578 GNA#15579 GNA#15605
* client-gtk2: Made 'Work' menu adapt to terrain for multiple units on single tile. GNA#15611
* Introduced Lake terrain in more scenario maps. GNA#15610
* Fixed minor issues with isotrident and amplio tilesets. GNA#15621 GNA#15777
* client-gtk2: Made the pregame player context menu stay open with one click. GNA#15593
* Disallowed transporter units to load into themselves. GNA#15616
* Don't close client dialogs when switching tileset. GNA#15620
* client-gtk2: Made client work with GTK versions older than 2.6. GNA#15637
* client-gtk2: Added tooltips for columns in the city report. GNA#15603
* Made improvement upkeep visible in "Info" column of worklist editor. GNAPATCH#1563
* Fixed mangled server "help options" output. GNA#15723
* client-gtk2: Improved the "Start Scenario Game" page. GNA#15663
* client-gtk2: Center map view at start of first game. GNA#15738
* Show pillage activity in middle-click map popup. GNAPATCH#1566
* Create ruins for disbanded cities. GNAPATCH#1570
* Avoid getting migrants that starve to death instantly. GNA#15760 GNAPATCH#1579
* client-gtk2: Improvements diplomacy dialog. GNA#15776
* client-gtk2: Sort the science dialog technologies in alphabetical order. GNA#15779
* Do not require an extra endline at the end of ruleset files. GNA#15816
* client-sdl: Fixed bug where popups were not displayed. GNA#13493
* Fixes to freedesktop.org file. GNA#15878
* Avoid transforming a city tile to a terrain that won't support the city. GNA#15630
* Fixed a bug with the France scenario that caused trouble building improvements the first few turns. GNA#15892
* Fixed bugs with the CMA UI. GNA#15909
* Reworked pillaging. GNA#15744 GNA#15742
* Changed the build system to work better with shared libraries. GNA#15973
* Fixed typos in civil war nations. GNA#15378
* Made linking work with binutils-gold. GNA#15400
* Updated translations: Ukrainian, Korean, Catalan, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian
* Fixed crash due to gcc 4.x optimization bug. (#40610)
* Fixed island generator rivers and double-continent bug. (#15947, #17435)
* Fixed auto-explore not respecting borders. (#40570)
* Fixed stack teleporting exploit. (#40658)
* Fixed crash when doing irrigation-connect on a mine. (#40676)
* Fixed update bug for the city report total buy cost label. (#40695)
* Fixed memory leak in server scan code. (#40707)
* Fixed data type conversion bug affecting unit power factor. (#40746)
* Fixed many typos and style errors in translated messages. (#40688, #40686, #40685, #40684, #40699, #40687, #40689, #40691, #40693, #40694, #40725)
* Changed the save file name format to <savename>-T<turn>-Y<year>.sav. (#40681)
* Changed the selection rectangle drawing method to speed up map drawing. (#40646)
* Changed the city report concise rapture symbols back to * and X. (#40700)
* Changed mass unit selection to include units with order or units under AI control. (#40727)
* Changed the default metaserver for both client and server to the one at cazfi.net. (#40752)
* Improved gtk widget layout so that the Freeciv window can fit on a 800x600 display. (#12825)
* Improved map decoration drawing (popup info, goto lines, city high-lighting) for speed and memory efficiency. (#40717)
* Improved mass unit selection: j selects a single unit, k selects tile units, y selects continent units. (#40727)
* Improved automatic chatline scrolling. (#40721)
* Added option to disable mouse cursor changing. (#40678)
* Added option to draw traderoute lines with toggle shortcut Ctrl+t. (#40668)
* Added option to prefix client chat messages with the current time. (#40706)
* Added option to preferentially select cities over units with the selection rectangle. (#40703)
* Added option to show production buy cost in the city descriptions. (#40702)
* Added option to not clear unit orders when units are selected. (#40724)
* Added option to split the lower chatline area in to two notebooks, with the message window appearing in the right notebook. (#40705)
* Added option to disable the automatic caravan arrival popup. (#40730)
* Added client shortcut b for buying production in selected cities. (#40704)
* Added a list view in the network page showing current players on a server. (#40707)
* Added client ability to center on an event tile by right-clicking on a row in the message window. (#40719)
* Added client ability to reorder city report columns by dragging the column headers in the gtk2 client. (#40680)
* Added worklist manipulation operations to the city report menus. (#40723, #40728, #40729)
* Added multiplayer allies-only chat toggle button. (#40487)
* Added more information to map popup info window. (#40488)
* Added a toplevel menu item for the Governor menu in the city report. (#40677)
* Added city production clipboard shortcuts Shift+right-click to copy and Ctrl+Shift+right-click to paste. (#40679)
* Updated Finnish, Catalan, Estonian, Danish, Lithuanian, German, Korean, and Swedish translations.
* Fix buffer overrun by create_md5sum().
* Make aifill player removal recursion safe.
* Send connection info when cmdlevel is changed.
* Send information about lost connections not attached to players.
* Fix longstanding connection freezing bug.
* Updated German, Korean, Catalan translations.
* gui-sdl Fix crash when trying to bribe a unit
* Fixes for UTF-8 and local encoding mismatch
* Fixed crash when unit is killed by the breaking of a treaty
* gui-gtk2 Theme had checkbox images reversed in some situations
* Improvements to server authentication backend
* Check that there is no acinclude.m4 left from old builds in the source
tree
* Fixes to strings and i18n
* Fixed pathfinding crash when ferry is forced to leave path
* Fixed warnings and crashes caused by AI trying to updgrade allied units
* Fixed "take -" crash when there is no free player slots
* Fixed crash in citizen governor
* Avoid overwriting player name given as /create parameter
* Fixed AI crash when city destroyed during trade negotiation
* Send /cut and /cmdlevel commands correctly to server
* Fixed handling of quoted command parameters
* Prevent server crash during explore.
* Improve client robustness and error logging.
* More GTK2 client support for saving server settings, add buttons on dialogs.
* Updated sentence fragments, plurals, text, and translations; specifically
Catalan, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, German, Lithuanian, Russian, Swedish,
and Turkish.
* Improved support for GGZ Gaming Zone.
* Fix support for Leave and Load in the same client session.
* Add GTK2 client support for saving server settings.
* Add realistic terrain requirements for three default wonders, as well a number
of missing ones to civ1 and civ2.
* Improve startup speed, reducing duplicate internal messages sent.
* Updated GTK2 hotkeys, menus, text, and translations, especially Catalan,
Finnish, Korean, Lithuanian, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
- Fix memory leaks in AI code.
- Client worklist fix.
- Several compilation fixes.
- Fix for status of bribed units.
- Fix client crashes.
- Fxi server crashes.
- Extra checks against starting position on poles.
- Fix security problem in attributes code.
- Helicopters no longer lose hitpoints when on a carrier.
- Fix bug causing some pregame messages to be lost.
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
- Simplification of pubserver authentication system, and other
pubserver-related changes.
- Fix problems with some strings in some languages on windows.
- Fix a potential desynchronization bug when establishing connections.
- Fix a potential crash when reading packets (CVE-2006-0047).
- Fix some bugs allowing illegal rehoming of units.
- Allow loading of savegames created by Freeciv 2.1.
- Allow client goto into unknown tiles.
- Fix a set of crashes likely to happen with the XAW client on
64-bit systems.
- Fix a bug that allowed unlimited incoming airlifts.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
- Cannot rehome homeless units.
- Fixed bug when city bonuses (shield, gold, etc.) became negative.
- Send messages (for instance, about failed observer creation) to detached players.
- When choosing a tech to research at random, prefer one that works toward the goal.
- Don't allow duplicate entries in the ruleset.
- Fix some bugs caused by duplicate entries in civ1 and civ2 rulesets.
- When closing the client, don't interrupt the running server. This fixes a bug
where the server could be interrupted in the middle of a save.
- Fixes for some nations and nation flags.
- Some translation updates.
- Update the mapview selection rectangle when redrawing is done.
- Fix bug with transported units and watchtower vision.
- Improve the Freeciv desktop entry.
- Fix a bug where using the mouse scroll wheel could completely break the client.
- Fix a bug with discovery of techs in huts.
- Don't allow observers to be put on teams.
- Fix a bug with sorting of techs in the intel dialog.
- Fix some memory leaks.
- Fix some bugs with uploading of CMA parameter data.
- Upload CMA parameter data when the user disconnects mid-turn.
- Include despotism penalty in the middle-mouse tile popup.
- Fix the attack/defend changes in the middle-mouse tile popup.
- Correctly show veteran status in the middle-mouse tile popup.
- Don't allow recursive transporting even if the ruleset allows it.
- Fix bugs with use of the techlevel setting and teams.
- Fix some situations where changing tech targets could erronously cause
bulbs to be lost.
- Work around some bugs with desynchronized team research.
- Remove some duplicate/unnecessary messages.
- Fix a possible crash with the debug command.
- In the GTK-2 client, show the LAN tab by default (rather than the
metaserver tab).
- In the win32 client, fix some untranslated strings.
- Add a leader unit to the ruleset (for use with the startunits setting).
- Fix bugs with government setting of new civs (barbarians and civil war
nations).
- Fix a bug where some mapgen settings would create more continents than
the server could handle.
- Fix a bug that allowed free changing of techs after finding a tech other
than the one currently being researched.
- Fix a bug where removing and creating a new player would give the new
player the old one's team.
- When the player disconnects in a normal game, make a savegame and exit
immediately rather than continuing to run. (This fixes the bug where
savegames made after a client crash would reveal the entire map.)
- Fix a bug in the "endyear" setting.
- Don't send server-only settings to the client (to be shown in the
settings dialog).
- Send a unit's info to the client when its transporter is disbanded.
- Fix several bugs where crashes could happen if an invalid connection
was left in the lists.
- Better fallbacks when starting positions can't be placed (previously
the server would crash in this situation).
- Fix several bugs in the detection of multiple servers on the LAN.
- Make sure units in combat are not in the hidden (focus unit) state.
- Update menus for the focus unit when a transporter becomes available for it.
- Fix a bug in the GTK2 client where diplomat actions would sometimes
become impossible.
- Clicking on the focus unit in the panel will center it.
- Set aifill values for several scenarios.
- Fix some buffer underruns on the terrain array (this bug could have
been the cause of arbitrary crashes on some platforms).
- Don't automatically pop up the city dialog when in observer mode.
- Treat an alt-left click the same as a middle click, to allow two-button
mice to work on windows (GTK-2 client).
- Fix a bug - when a city was transferred/conquered twice the client
sometimes wouldn't get an update about the second exchange.
- Fix the behavior of Granary and Pyramids in the Civ2 compatibility ruleset.
- Fix Pyramids so they are no longer cumulative with Granary.
- Fix a minor bug that prevented 2.0 savegames from working properly with
1.14 Freeciv.
Changes 2.0.3:
- Fix some bugs that show up on 64-bit machines.
- Fix some bugs with future techs in some situations.
- Fix some bugs that allowed naval units onto land.
- Fix a bug that could crash the server when a player picked their nation.
- Fix a bug with player info not being updated after an alliance is broken.
- Fix a bug with happiness of a unit's home city when borders change.
- Fix a bug with happiness of a unit's home city when the unit moves.
- Fix some bugs with nation starting positions in scenarios.
- Fix a bug when running the server without stdin input.
- Don't allow teams to be changed when loading a game.
- Don't allow observers to vote.
- Fix a bug with the fallback when generator 3, startpos 3 fails.
- Fix a crash in the help dialog (when looking at Engineers).
- Don't popup the caravan dialogs when in observer mode.
- Fix a crash in goto mode when the mouse is near the map overview window.
- Fix a bug when a diplomat is killed while the diplomat dialog window is
in the process of opening.
- Fix a bug with the diplomat dialog window for spies when you don't have
an embassy.
- The GTK+-2.0 client is now built by default.
- Lots of improvements to the GTK+-2.0 client.
- The GTK+-2.0 client should now compile for Win32.
- Teams are supported.
- Civserver now works on UTF-8 locales.
- Lots of bug fixes.
Changes:
1.14.0:
=======
- Unique city names, you no longer can name your cities the same,
and you can enforce unique city names globally (optional).
- A new map generator (generator 5) which creates pretty fractal
maps.
- You can load savegames from the server prompt.
- You can save client commandline defaults.
- Specialists are taken from content citizens first, instead of from
unhappy citizens first. This makes it more difficult to quell unrest
using taxmen and scientists.
- You now start with no technologies by default, and angry citizens
are enabled by default, although they will rarely make an apperance.
- The algorithm used for calculating the effects of tax settings has
been changed. It is now no longer possible to get 100% effect from
60% choice of tax goal.
- A new, historically more correct version of the rulesets included.
- There is an option to require several turns of rapture/celebration
before it takes effect. See "show rapturedelay" in server.
- The sequence of some end of turn activities have been regrouped.
- Several AI improvements. It should now build and buy units and
buildings slightly more intelligently.
- Many internal code improvements that will lead to more features
later.
- /fix and /unfix commands to stop modifications after game has
started.
- The server commands "rulesout", "log", "freestyle" and "crash"
have been removed, while "rfcstyle" now toggles between rfcstyle
and freestyle.
- civ2 ruleset now more accurately reflects civ2 deity level defaults.
- A truly massive amount of bugfixes.
1.13.0:
=======
- Citizen Management Agent (CMA) allows you to automate workers
and specialists in cities.
- Sound support has been added.
- The new "isotrident" tileset has been made the default. The
"hires" and "engels" tilesets have been taken out of the
distribution but can be downloaded from the web page.
- New city dialog in the gtk client.
- Windows version of the client. It has improved connection
dialog and supports loading and saving from the client.
- GTK 2.0 version of the client.
- The client will try to suggest names for your cities that
correspond with what they mean.
- Improved players dialog shows sortable and colored information,
including the players' flags.
- Server no longer takes the --server command line option,
instead you can use the --info option to set the metaserver
announcement text to whatever you like. The -a option when given
to the client skips the connection dialog entirely.
- A "wall" server command added which gives message to all players.
- A new flexible timeout set through "timeoutinc" server option.
- Leftover research bulbs will carry over to next advance.
- Trade routes are more effective.
- Units attacking ships in cities double their firepower, while
defenders get only 1 firepower.
- Helicopters defending against air units get 50% penalty, and
have their firepower reduced to 1 against fighter units.
- You can build city walls even though you have Great Wall wonder.
- The Communism government's food cost in default ruleset has
been changed to 1, while it has been changed to 2 for the Civ2
ruleset.
- Stealth fighter and bomber now really are stealthy, and are
partially invisible just like subs. Also, stealth bombers have
increased their attack strength from 14 to 18.
- Civ2 ruleset now has Fundamentalism.
- Improved modpack abilities: The caravan ability has been split.
New ways to calculate technology costs. Better documentation.
Rulesets can specify starting techs. You can have more than one
bonus tech. Split settler abilities. Buildings ruleset syntax
has been significantly extended, but effects do not work yet.
- Server option "tinyisles" allow 1x1 size islands and
"separatepoles" allow continents connected to the poles
- "citymindist" specify minimum distance between cities, while
"notradesize" and "fulltradesize" regulate the trade generated
by smaller cities.
- You can turn on angry citizens with "angrycitizens" option.
- Fortresses may give you extended vision. See watchtower options.
- If you lose your palace, you get a new one for free in a
randomly chosen city. This behaviour can be turned off with the
server option "savepalace".
- Rulesets are now loaded from inside the server through the
"rulesetdir" command.
- The limit on the number of nations that can be included with
Freeciv has been removed.
- The format of the isometric tileset spec-files has changed.
- The map and ai code has been cleaned up significantly.
- Translations improved. Added better support for plural forms.
- Several bugs squished and a lot of work done under the hood.
- For an overview of the remaining bugs please visit doc/BUGS.
to 1.12.0. Major changes from version 1.11.4 include:
- Big fixes, of course.
- Better compatibility with Civilization II.
- Better internationalization.
- Prettier graphics/tiles.
- More maps.
- Players can agree to give shared vision, which means that you
automatically see everything the other player sees.
include it to include bsd.pkg.mk themselves. Convert to use buildlink.mk
files and mark freeciv packages as USE_BUILDLINK_ONLY. Include zlib's
buildlink.mk file in server and clients as -lz is used.
first component is now a package name+version/pattern, no more
executable/patchname/whatnot.
While there, introduce BUILD_USES_MSGFMT as shorthand to pull in
devel/gettext unless /usr/bin/msgfmt exists (i.e. on post-1.5 -current).
Patch by Alistair Crooks <agc@netbsd.org>
