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April 2007

Wesnoth 1.2.4: Maintenance Release

Sunday, April 15 2007

Wesnoth 1.2.4 has been released. Quite some important changes did take place that should fix quite some bugs regarding savegames, recall lists and maybe even replays. Now tSG should be playable again. All the other nice and small fixes and additions can be found in the changelog. You can read the announcement and make your comments in this forum thread. The Mac and Windows binaries and infos about some of the GNU/Linux binaries are already available at the download page. The Debian package (that should also work with *ubuntu) should be available at the usual place, too.

If you have problems, follow the instructions given here. If this does not help, please report them.

Forums up and working

Sunday, April 8 2007

Wesnoth forums have been down for a few days due to data corruption in our database. It took more time than expected to recover because the administrator was not available. Note that we have tried to recover as much as possible, but some of the data might have been lost. Thanks for your patience.

WIP: Wii and PS3 version

Sunday, April 1 2007

Now that we got some basic gp2x support implemented in it's own branch and another (still quite early) alpha version is being uploaded to sf.net, I can now proudly announce that we are currently working on Wii and PS3 support. We are even playing a little with our first (closed alpha) version of the Wii port. Thanks to alinks patches for drag&drop it is huge fun to play it. For some more infos and a photo, have a look at the respective forum thread.

Update: Happy April Fools day!

March 2007

Wesnoth 1.2.3: Maintenance Release

Thursday, March 15 2007

Wesnoth 1.2.3 has been released. The most important bugs fixed in this release were not listed in the changelog but they are in this forum thread. All the other nice and small fixes and additions can be found in the changelog. You can read the announcement and make your comments in this forum thread. The Mac, Windows and OpenBSD binaries and infos about some of the GNU/Linux binaries are already available at the download page.

If you have problems, follow the instructions given here. If this does not help, please report them.

Febuary 2007

Wesnoth 1.3.1: Development Release

Monday, Febuary 26 2007

Wesnoth 1.3.1 is finally available. Compared to 1.2.x many things were changed in this brand new version. For example we now have a completely rewritten terrain engine supporting multiple letters. This allows to use many more different terrains and two new terrains were already added. But also a lot of other things did change. This also has a negative impact: It is likely that almost all usermade content that did work in 1.2.x will not work without problems in 1.3.1. Since there were really many changes in all areas of the game and it is a development version it might be more unstable than the stable 1.2 tree. Since quite a lot was rebalanced, balancing might not be as perfect yet as it is in 1.2.x. And finally, the damagetype 'holy' was changed to work a little bit different. So be warned, this one is the first development release, who knows what is broken...

Of course, like for every other version, we do have a forum thread to discuss the release and a really lengthy changelog. For the changelog we do offer two versions, a rather nice to read players changelog that only includes changes every player will probably notice and the complete changelog with all the details. The Mac binaries and infos about some of the GNU/Linux binaries are already available at the download page. The working Windows binaries will probably be available soon.

Remove your old installation before installing this development version otherwise you might get some strange problems. You should also remove all usercontent you have left from 1.2.x since it is likely to cause problems. Keep in mind that it is a development release which might include quite many bugs. If you find one, please report it.

Wesnoth 1.2.2: Maintenance Release

Wednesday, Febuary 21 2007

Wesnoth 1.2.2 has been released. The most impressive changes are the speed improvements maxy did implement. Especially in the mp-lobby and when showing animations the game should be a whole lot faster. Savegames were cleaned up to be a little smaller. Because of this only beginning of scenario saves will work as expected, others may have problems with the recall list. Of course there were many other changes so that i can not list them all in here. For all the nice details have a look at the changelog. You can read the announcement and make your comments in this forum thread. The Mac binaries and infos about some of the GNU/Linux binaries are already available at the download page. Don't ask when the Windows binaries will be ready, we have no idea about this...

If you have problems, follow the instructions given here. If this does not help, please report them.

January 2007

Wesnoth 1.2.1: Maintenance Release

Sunday, January 14 2007

Wesnoth 1.2.1 has been released. It is the first maintance release for 1.2. Some little bugs were fixed and general speed was a little improved. Many spelling and grammar mistakes are now corrected and other little things were added. For all the nice details have a look at the changelog. Read the announcement and comment it in this forum thread. The Windows and Mac Binaries are already available at the download page. If you have problems, follow the instructions given here. If this does not help, please report them.

December 2006

Problems with Wesnoth 1.2?

Thursday, December 28 2006

Since the release we had quite many reports of problems with the game in the new version. Most of these problems, about 99.99% to be more precise, were related to not uninstalling the old version before upgrading and to using old content from 1.0.x with the new 1.2 version. So if you have any problems with the new version, first follow the steps sugggested in this forum thread. It will probably solve most "bugs" you think you are seeing. Keep in mind that 1.2 is incompatible with 1.0.x, so your 1.0.x saves and campaigns will not work as expected when using 1.2. You should either finish the campaigns in 1.0.x, or restart them in 1.2.

Wesnoth 1.2

Saturday, December 23 2006

More than one year has gone by since we released Wesnoth 1.0. As a Christmas present for you, and to thank you for more than 1,000,000 downloads via sourceforge.net, we now proudly present Wesnoth 1.2. You can look at the (translated) release notes to get an idea about what has changed since 1.0. For those who just want to play, the new release is available for download. If you have any comments, we would be happy to hear them in the forum thread dedicated to this release. We hope there are no bugs left, but if you find any, report them.

At the moment, we are also looking for help in several areas, so that many other releases of similar caliber can follow this one. We are especially looking for translators, graphic artists (sprite, portraits, terrain, story images), music composers (a background in classical composition, and good equipment required), sound artists (for special effects), authors (writing/maintaining campaigns, creating content like unit descriptions, improving the ingame help) and, of course, coders. If you want to participate in developing Wesnoth, just have a look at the forum or visit us in the IRC channel #wesnoth-dev at irc.freenode.net.

Update: The Windows binaries are now available at the download page.

Wesnoth 1.1.14: fourth 1.2 release candidate

Saturday, December 16 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.14 has been released. Wesnoth 1.1.14 is the fourth (and hopefully last) 1.2 release candidate. Thanks to your reports we were able to fix quite many problems so please, test it and continue reporting bugs to get a great 1.2 release. But not only many bugs were fixed, some graphical improvements were made and translations were updated. For all the info you should read the announcement and the changelog

Wesnoth 1.1.13: third 1.2 release candidate

Sunday, December 03 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.13 has been released. Wesnoth 1.1.13 is the third 1.2 release candidate. Please, test it and continue reporting bugs to get a great 1.2 release. You can read the announcement and the changelog.

November 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.12: second 1.2 release candidate

Saturday, November 11 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.12 has been released. Wesnoth 1.1.12 is the second 1.2 release candidate. Please, test it and continue reporting bugs to get a shiny 1.2 release. You can read the announcement and the changelog.

October 2006

New and clean campaign server

Thursday, October 05 2006

Together with the release of the first release candidate for 1.2 (aka 1.1.11) we have a new campaign server running for the new stable branch. At the moment this server is completely empty. All the content creators should upload their stuff to the new server if it really is compatible with the rc1. You automatically reach the new server when clicking on the 'Add-ons' Button in the mainscreen. Some more infos and a way to reach the old content can be found in this forum thread.

Wesnoth 1.1.11: first 1.2 release candidate

Thursday, October 05 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.11 has been released. Wesnoth 1.1.11 is the first 1.2 release candidate. Please, test it and continue reporting bugs to get a spiffy 1.2 release. You can read the announcement and the changelog.

September 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.10: third 1.2 beta

Wednesday, September 20 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.10 has been released. Wesnoth 1.1.10 is the third 1.2 "official" beta release. Please, test it and continue reporting bugs to get a shiny 1.2 release. You can read the announcement and the changelog.

Server relocation

Monday, September 4 2006

After having to leave our previous location, and having the servers hosted for some days in a DSL, we have found a definitive (for now) location for them. While the DNS entries get updated, you may have to enter manually the names of the new servers, as explained in the forum. Update: The DNS entrys are now updated. This means you should soon be able to use the normal addresses server.wesnoth.org and campaigns.wesnoth.org again.

August 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.9: second 1.2 beta

Sunday, August 27 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.9 has been released. Wesnoth 1.1.9 is the second 1.2 "official" beta release. Please, test it and continue reporting bugs to get a shiny 1.2 release. Have a look at the new screenshots. You can read the announcement and the changelog.

Wanted: Coders

Thursday, August 25 2006

After asking for new translators was such a great success, we are now looking for people willing to contribute code to Wesnoth. We are especially looking for people who want to help fixing bugs and submitting patches in the short term. It is quite normal that the people commiting patches get developer access after some accepted patches. But we are not only looking for people to fix bugs in the short term. In the long term it might make sense to change the current graphics engine. This means it could be a rewrite or maybe a port of the current one to OpenGL (but still 2D). So if you know OpenGL, want to learn how to use it or just want to help improve the Wesnoth engine as it is, visit us in the irc channel #wesnoth-dev on irc.freenode.net or post a message in the Coder's Corner in our forum.

July 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.8: first 1.2 beta

Thursday, July 27 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.8 has been released. Wesnoth 1.1.8 is the first 1.2 "official" beta release. Please, test it and continue reporting bugs to get a shiny 1.2 release. You can read the announcement and the changelog.

June 2006

Wanted: Translators

Wednesday, June 28 2006

We are now really heading towards a new stable version. Right now the strings ingame are frozen so that translators have a chance to catch up. That is where you could come in. The translators do need every help that they can get. So if you want to help, have a look at this page. Just contact the maintainer listed for the translation you want to help with. If the maintainer does either not react or there is noone listed, you can become maintainer of the translation. Just have a look at the How-To. If your favorite lang does not have a translation yet, you can start it. Just have a look at this site.

Wesnoth 1.1.7: approaching 1.2

Monday, June 26 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.7 has been released, which should be quite similar to the upcoming 1.2 version. Wesnoth 1.1.7 can be considered a 1.2 beta, from now on, only bugfixes and translation updates will be added to the game until 1.2 is out. Be sure to keep reporting bugs. You can read the announcement and the changelog.

The golden string freeze

Tuesday, June 13 2006

As many of you should know we are not too far away from releasing 1.2. To prepare this there is now a string freeze. While this freeze is active there will be no changes to strings so that translators can catch up with the changes and are able to provide a complete translation for the upcoming stable release. You can find some more infos over here.

Wesnoth 1.1.5: Highspeed for Windows (?)

Sunday, June 11 2006

Since it looks like there are some performance issues in the Windows binary we did now (like we already announced in the forum) manage to build it using a different way. The speed should be massivly improved but there are still some problems with it. Remember this is a very early testing version. We do need as many comments as possible to improve this build further. You can find the binary over here.

Wesnoth 1.1.5: Development release

Friday, June 9 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.5 has been released and should be much more polished than the previous releases, although we are sure you will still manage to discover some bugs. Do not forget to report them. You can read the announcement and the changelog.

May 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.4: Development release

Saturday, May 27 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.4 has been released as soon as possible fixing most of the nasty bugs discovered in version 1.1.3. We hope you enjoy this release and keep reporting bugs to have a really polished Battle for Wesnoth 1.2. There also is some kind of announcement and a (very short) changelog.

Update: In the Windows binary package you have to rename python23.dll to python24.dll. Since there were this many problems with the Windows binary in the last days, maybe we should drop official Windows support? ;) (For those who do not understand irony: We will have a Windows binary as long as someone volunteers to make it...)

Update 2: The new, fixed windows binary is already available for download.

Updated screenshots

Saturday, May 27 2006

Now that we released 1.1.3 (with some minor bugs) there also are some brand new screenshots. Feel free to have a look at the screenshot page.

Dev meeting to coordinate work on 1.2

Thursday, May 25 2006

Following the release plan there is a dev meeting sheduled on Saturday, May 27th, 4pm UTC. It would be good if as many devs as possible take part in that meeting. It will take place in our IRC-channel #wesnoth-dev on irc.freenode.net. Main topic will be the feature list. We'll try to have a look at which features are possible for 1.2 and which have to be removed from the list. And we'll also try to coordinate a little so that we are able to get the most important things into 1.2.

Wesnoth 1.1.3: Development release

Wednesday, May 24 2006

We were really busy working on Wesnoth in the last two months. Now here is the result of our hard work. Be aware that there were many changes. Be careful when looking at the changelog since it is really huge. A very short and compressed list of changes can be found in the announcement. Of course you can find the downloads on the download page.

At the moment we are heavily working on preparing a new stable release that will be called 1.2. So if you find bugs in the brand new 1.1.3 release, please report them. Feel free to comment the official campaigns so that we can further improve them, too.

Update: It looks like there are some serious problems mainly related to the windows version of 1.1.3 and to the heavily changed mp-modus. ATM we are working on fixing some of these bugs. Keep an eye on the forum for more infos.

April, 2006

Heading towards a stable release

Friday, April 28 2006

Soon the time has come to get out another stable release. To be able to coordinate some things for this we do have a nice release plan. Of course we won't stick closely to any of the dates and we'll try to break all of these deadlines. Now let's get serious: the plan only gives a rough timeline, nothing more.

Hey, we have a trailer

Sometimes at the end of April 2006

As you might have already seen, there now even is an official "The Battle for Wesnoth"-Trailer. Have a look at its downloadpage and watch it ASAP. Radoz made a great job with this video. You can get the trailer over here. In the forum there is a thread dedicated to this video. Feel free to post your suggestions on how to further improve it over there.

March, 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.2a: Bugfixes to the Development release

Thursday, March 23 2006

We had a few bugs in our release of 1.1.2. It seems that some scenarios from TROW had unexpectedly vanished. Fortunately, after a short ordeal by our best and bravest, we've recovered them, and present them to you in our release of 1.1.2a, which fixes both that and a few minor bugs. The only changes in this release are to the data/ subdirectory, and the release is compatible, for multiplayer, with 1.1.2. If you find any other bugs, please report them here. The announcement is over here. The changelog is really tiny, since this release is only meant to fix these bugs. To download this release, go to the download page.

Wesnoth 1.1.2: Development release

Tuesday, March 21 2006

Many things have happened in the time that has passed since the last release, and our developers have not been idle. We proudly present our latest release, which features two new campaigns, several great new music tracks and sound effects, as well as hundreds of graphical improvements. Inevitably, a few bugs have crept in as well, and if you find any, please report it. If you can't wait to read the announcement, have a look at this page. A list of all the changes (be careful, it's long) is in the changelog. To download this release, go to the download page.

Febuary, 2006

Wesnoth 1.1.1: Development release

Tuesday, Febuary 7 2006

After more than a month of development, time has come for a release of 1.1.1. Beside a new campaign there are hundreds of other great improvements. For example the castle graphics have been updated and a complete new set of terrain graphics has been added. You can find the whole announcement with many more thrilling details over here. All changes are listed in the changelog. To download this release, go to the download page.

January, 2006

Wesnoth 1.1: Development release

Sunday, January 1 2006

This is the first development release after the 1.0.x branch. There are hundreds of great improvements not only graphics and balancing wise. Be aware that it is not a stable release. You can find the whole announcement over here. All changes are listed in the changelog. To download this release, go to the download page.

December, 2005

Wesnoth reviewed in MACup

Monday, December 12 2005

The german magazine MACup includes a half-page review of Wesnoth in their issue 01/2006:

 »The OpenOffice of gaming: extensive, fascinating and free of charge.«

They're also shipping the Mac build of 1.0 on a CD-ROM.

November, 2005

Wesnoth 1.0.2: The 2nd Maintenance Release

Sunday, November 20 2005

This release fixes several small bugs and the especially annoying MP bug called "error in gamelist diff". Lots of multiplayer maps have been updated, problems in campaigns were fixed, new terrain tiles (swamp, paved road, ...) added and several translations updated. You can find the whole announcement over here. All changes are listed in the changelog.

October, 2005

Wesnoth 1.0.1: Maintenance Release

Thursday, October 20 2005

This release fixes some small bugs, but also adds new unit graphics and a new main menu music theme. In addition, multiplayer maps have been reviewed. Regarding internationalization, Polish translation is now included and several other translations have been updated.

Migration completed

Saturday, October 15 2005

All bugs have finally been migrated to Gna! and have crossreferences so that the old comments and attachments are easily available. From now on, all bug activity should happen at Gna.

September, 2005

Moving to Gna!

Tuesday, September 20 2005

We're moving Wesnoth development from Savannah to Gna!. Unfortunately, we had some problems during the migration of the bug tracking system, so we will continue using Savannah to track the old bugs. New bugs should be reported to Gna!

August, 2005

Play with the Wesnoth developers

Friday, August 12 2005

In the lead up to 1.0, and probably for some time after in celebration of the release of 1.0, the Wesnoth developers would like to invite users to come and play some friendly games of Wesnoth with us.

Wesnoth reviewed on PC4War

Friday, August 12 2005

The august issue of the french magazine PC4War includes a one-page review of Wesnoth:

«an excellent turn-based fantasy game, whose characteristics are essentially to be free, and evolutive!»

They're also shipping the game in a CD-ROM. Update: article available now.