Add-ons client

• 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).
  

Campaigns

• 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.
    
  
  

Editor

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

Multiplayer

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

Packaging

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

Terrain

• 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).
  

Translations

• 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).
  

Units

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

User interface

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

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• 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}`
  

Campaigns

• 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)
    
  
  

Editor

• Added some missing terrain groupings (issue #6643)
  

Terrain

• 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
    
  
  

Translations

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

User interface

• Added integer scaling options for the entire UI.
  

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• 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.
  

Add-ons client

• 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)
  

Campaigns

• 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).
    
  
  

Lua API

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

Terrain

• 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)
  

Translations

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

User interface

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

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• 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-ons client

• 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)
  

Packaging

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

Translations

• Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Czech
  

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• 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)
  

Add-ons client

• 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.
  

Campaigns

• 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.
    
  
  

Lua API

• Upgrade to Lua 5.4.4.
  

Translations

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

1.16.2:

Campaigns

• A Tale of Two Brothers
  
  
  • The mercenary will now spawn in a less sudden way (issue #6183)
    
  
  

• Delfador’s Memoirs
  
  
  • S07: Clarified objectives (issue #5608) and remove End Turn being required to trigger victory (issue #6173)
    
  
  

• Descent into Darkness
  
  
  • S08: Prevent possibility of Darken Volk advancing to Lich (issue #6351)
    
  
  

• Heir to the Throne
  
  
  • S05b: Temples given an aged appearance to match ‘ancient temples’ description (issue #5576)
    
  
  

• Liberty
  
  
  • S06: Enforce failure condition for allied team (issue #6019)
    
  
  

• Northern Rebirth
  
  
  • Give Eryssa’s side a consistent team color (issue #5375)
    
  
  

• Sceptre of Fire
  
  
  • S04: Mining objectives are much clearer now (issue #6154)
    
  
  

• Secret of the Ancients
  
  
  • S06: Ardonna should no longer mistake hostile bats as ‘my pet’
    
  
  

• The Rise of Wesnoth
  
  
  • S08: The appearance of Naga is now smoother (issue #6140)
    
  • S19: The troll’s gold is automatically collected upon victory if not already obtained (issue #6141)
    
  • S19: Avoid units spawning over chasms
    
  • 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) and add an icon overlay (issue #6126)
    
  • S02: Pinnacle rock is now shown during dialogue (issue #6125)
    
  • S05: Avoid village just taken by the player being re-assigned to the enemy (issue #6187)
    
  • S06b:
    
    
    • Account for non-elvish units encountering Dwarf Sergeant (issue #6196)
      
    • Grog will not die as quick now (issue #6196 & #6197)
      
    • Hermit dialogue cannot be accidentally skipped now (issue #6196)
      
    • Fixed bug where tentacles would not spawn (issue #6196)
      
    • Fast units cannot get stuck on the wall now (issue #6196)
      
    • Camera now moves to where the charges are blown up (issue #6197)
      
    • Fixed weird scout AI behaviour (issue #6196)
      
    
    
  
  

• S09: Rebels joining Kaleh’s side are now loyal (issue #6229 and #6365)
  
• The last unit killed to trigger certain events should no longer linger during those events (issue #6341)
  
• The Dark Assassin’s race is not revealed until uncloaked (issue #6213)
  
• The Dust Devil’s XP bar is now blue (issue #6212)
  
  

• Winds of Fate:
  
  
  • New Drakes-centric Campaign added to mainline
    
  
  

• World Conquest:
  
  
  • Fixed for Winged Scepter not giving the correct defence values
    
  • Corrected the attack icon of ice bow from a lightning bolt to an iceball
    
  
  

Editor

• Avoid rare crash situation after editing scenarios (issue #5883)
  

Lua API

• Fixed an error in `gui.get_user_choice()` and added support for the current DescriptionWML syntax (PR #6247)
  

Translations

• Added translations: Spanish (Latin American)
  
• Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Turkish.
  
• gettext plural forms now have caret prefixes stripped as well (PR #6094).
  

Units

• Added attack image for the Bone Knight’s trample
  

User interface

• Added a VSync option (issue #5018). This defaults to enabled and is available in Preferences -> Display only with SDL 2.0.17 and later as older versions do not support VSync with the software renderer.
  
• The names of the abilities used as specials appear in the attack prediction window with specials weapons
  
• 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.
  
• Ban expiry intervals in the MP UI now only mention the most significant time unit (e.g. "3 minutes" instead of "3 minutes, and 20 seconds") (PR #6097).
  
• 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)
  

WML Engine

• `[heal_unit]` no longer sets the `heal_amount` variable.
  
• `[heal_unit]` now supports a `variable=` key.
  
• Added an `id` field to the items of the arrays generated by `[harm_unit]`.
  

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
  
• Messenger MAI: fixed bug of own units sometimes blocking the path to a waypoint for the messenger
  
• Correct unit display adjustments on certain tiles when at zoom level other than 100% (issue #5974)
  
• Fix the engine exiting immediately due to a corrupt .mo file (issue #6194)
  
• Removed support for writing BMP screenshots (PR #6206).
  
• Password storage was fixed to work with multiple accounts (PR #6290)
  
• wmllint now automatically removes {MAGENTA_IS_THE_TEAM_COLOR}.
  
• wmllint, wmlscope and wmlindent now support the command line `--version` flag, which reports the current version of Wesnoth (issue #6346).
  
• wmllint is now capable of handling unit levels and types when checking recruitment patterns.
  

1.17.0

Campaigns

• A Tale of Two Brothers
  
  
  • The mercenary will now spawn in a less sudden way (issue #6183)
    
  
  

• Delfador’s Memoirs
  
  
  • S07: Clarified objectives (issue #5608) and remove End Turn being required to trigger victory (issue #6173)
    
  
  

• Descent into Darkness
  
  
  • S08: Prevent possibility of Darken Volk advancing to Lich (issue #6351)
    
  
  

• Heir to the Throne
  
  
  • S05b: Temples given an aged appearance to match ‘ancient temples’ description (issue #5576)
    
  
  

• Liberty
  
  
  • S06: Enforce failure condition for allied team (issue #6019)
    
  
  

• Northern Rebirth
  
  
  • Give Eryssa’s side a consistent team color (issue #5375)
    
  
  

• Sceptre of Fire
  
  
  • S04: Mining objectives are much clearer now (issue #6154)
    
  
  

• Secret of the Ancients
  
  
  • S06: Ardonna should no longer mistake hostile bats as ‘my pet’
    
  
  

• The Rise of Wesnoth
  
  
  • S08: The appearance of Naga is now smoother (issue #6140)
    
  • S19: The troll’s gold is automatically collected upon victory if not already obtained (issue #6141)
    
  • S19: Avoid units spawning over chasms
    
  • 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) and add an icon overlay (issue #6126)
    
  • S02: Pinnacle rock is now shown during dialogue (issue #6125)
    
  • S05: Avoid village just taken by the player being re-assigned to the enemy (issue #6187)
    
  • S06b:
    
    
    • Account for non-elvish units encountering Dwarf Sergeant (issue #6196)
      
    • Grog will not die as quick now (issue #6196 & #6197)
      
    • Hermit dialogue cannot be accidentally skipped now (issue #6196)
      
    • Fixed bug where tentacles would not spawn (issue #6196)
      
    • Fast units cannot get stuck on the wall now (issue #6196)
      
    • Camera now moves to where the charges are blown up (issue #6197)
      
    • Fixed weird scout AI behaviour (issue #6196)
      
    
    
  
  

• S09: Rebels joining Kaleh’s side are now loyal (issue #6229 and #6365)
  
• The last unit killed to trigger certain events should no longer linger during those events (issue #6341)
  
• The Dark Assassin’s race is not revealed until uncloaked (issue #6213)
  
• The Dust Devil’s XP bar is now blue (issue #6212)
  
  

• Winds of Fate:
  
  
  • New Drakes-centric Campaign added to mainline
    
  
  

• World Conquest:
  
  
  • Fixed for Winged Scepter not giving the correct defence values
    
  • Corrected the attack icon of ice bow from a lightning bolt to an iceball
    
  
  

Editor

• Avoid rare crash situation after editing scenarios (issue #5883)
  

Lua API

• Fixed an error in `gui.get_user_choice()` and added support for the current DescriptionWML syntax (PR #6247)
  

Translations

• Added translations: Spanish (Latin American)
  
• Updated translations: British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Turkish.
  
• gettext plural forms now have caret prefixes stripped as well (PR #6094).
  

Units

• Added attack image for the Bone Knight’s trample
  

User interface

• Added a VSync option (issue #5018). This defaults to enabled and is available in Preferences -> Display only with SDL 2.0.17 and later as older versions do not support VSync with the software renderer.
  
• The names of the abilities used as specials appear in the attack prediction window with specials weapons
  
• 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.
  
• Ban expiry intervals in the MP UI now only mention the most significant time unit (e.g. "3 minutes" instead of "3 minutes, and 20 seconds") (PR #6097).
  
• 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)
  

WML Engine

• `[heal_unit]` no longer sets the `heal_amount` variable.
  
• `[heal_unit]` now supports a `variable=` key.
  
• Added an `id` field to the items of the arrays generated by `[harm_unit]`.
  

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
  
• Messenger MAI: fixed bug of own units sometimes blocking the path to a waypoint for the messenger
  
• Correct unit display adjustments on certain tiles when at zoom level other than 100% (issue #5974)
  
• Fix the engine exiting immediately due to a corrupt .mo file (issue #6194)
  
• Removed support for writing BMP screenshots (PR #6206).
  
• Password storage was fixed to work with multiple accounts (PR #6290)
  
• wmllint now automatically removes {MAGENTA_IS_THE_TEAM_COLOR}.
  
• wmllint, wmlscope and wmlindent now support the command line `--version` flag, which reports the current version of Wesnoth (issue #6346).
  
• wmllint is now capable of handling unit levels and types when checking recruitment patterns.
  

Add-ons server

• Fixed `core=` attribute in `_server.pbl` being completely ignored (issue #5664).
  

Campaigns

• Tutorial
  
  
  • Use a portrait on the Campaigns menu.
    
  
  

• Sceptre of Fire
  
  
  • S02p5: Added defeat condition if Alanin dies.
    
  
  

Multiplayer

• Increased the limits of timer values (up to 10 minutes turn bonus, 50 minutes reservoir).
  
• Re-added HTML character escaping.
  

Lua API

• Fixed an error in `gui.get_user_choice()` (part of PR #6247).
  
• Fixed an error in handling `x,y` locations (issue #6231).
  

Packaging

• Fixed missing dependency on boost-math in the vcpkg config.
  
• Made `get_dlls.py` install libraries for `wesnothd` too.
  

Translations

• Updated translations: Dutch, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil).
  
• Added po hints for time format strings.
  

User interface

• Made the Add-ons Manager search box less unwieldy on very small resolutions.
  
• Made listbox header toggle buttons taller.
  
• Fixed a crash when assigning players to different teams while creating an MP game.
  
• Fixed a crash when using nickname tab autocompletion in the MP lobby.
  

WML Engine

• Fixed `[item]x,y=` at scenario scope (issue #6231).
  

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing tooltips on the side-bar (hover over the unit type to see a description, etc) (issues #6007 and #6096).
  
• Fixed several issues in the multiplayer server about TLS connections, error-handling and disconnections.
  
• Added `.DS_Store` and `Thumbs.db` to wmltool's list of files to ignore.
  

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)