AI:

• Fixed a rare crash in attack prediction (issue #4068)
• Experimental AI: fixed guardians being used for village actions

Campaigns

• A Tale of Two Brothers:
  • S3: modify castle illumination tip on easy mode

• Dead Water:
  • S3: modify starting dialogue

• Descent into Darkness:
  • Update campaign description
  • Update maps for S1 and S6
  • S4: reduce difficulty on easy and normal modes
  • S11: reduce difficulty just after Malin turns into lich

• Eastern Invasion:
  • S9: add dialogue on victory

• Heir to the Throne:
  • Remove 'Princess' as a direct address
  • S15, S23: Add explicit hints on EASY. (PR #4329)
  • S15: Improve one branch of the victory dialog. (PR #4334)

• Legend of Wesmere:
  • S23: Landar's normal death dialogue now (properly) not used

• Northern Rebirth:
  • Remove 'Princess' as a direct address

• Sceptre of Fire:
  • S5: tell player that gryphon riders can now be recruited
  • S9: objectives changed to be more accurate upon moving to the volcano

• Secrets of the Ancients:
  • Fixed number of scenarios in campaign listing

• Son of the Black Eye:
  • S10: add dialogue on victory

• The Rise of Wesnoth:
  • Tweaked dialogue in various scenarios
  • Fixed number of scenarios in campaign listing
  • S17a: prevent time over defeat if player chooses to defeat remaining saurians

• The South Guard:
  • Update campaign description
  • Highlight narrator and gameplay explanations with colors
  • S1: create Sir Gerrick if player skips scenario with debug
  • S4: revise end of scenario dialogue
  • S5: add narrator warning when siding with bandits and reduce difficulty
  • S6b: create Urza Afalas if player skips S5 with debug
  • S6b: kill elves on side 1 if player got to this scenario with debug
  • S8b: fixed bug with shifted ToD schedules near campfires

• Under the Burning Suns:
  • Various bugfixes (objectives, allied vision, unit spawns, event firing)
  • Updated various maps
  • Add additional animations to cutscenes and events
  • S2: add dehydration explanation to objectives

Graphics

• Own portraits for higher level bats
• New Water Serpent and Cuttlefish portraits
• New Wolf, Great Wolf and Direwolf portraits
• Additional wolf/dog portrait for custom units
• Separate Mudcrawler portrait
• New Walking Corpse portrait for mounted variation

Language and i18n

• Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
• Changed the :help command's output to split over multiple lines
• Added translatable explanations of :droid, :help and :idle's arguments

Multiplayer

• A New Land:
  • Help menu can be accessed in any turn and doesn't pause the game
  • Bottleneck in the spider's caves removed
  • Swapped positions of Gryphon and Drake
  • Guards can't be tricked off position, leaders won't destroy buildings
  • Guards and Spiders are loyal AI income has been adjusted accordingly
  • AI income increases gradually in lategame (very slowly)

• The Wilderlands:
  • Fixed default village_gold being too high, disadvantaging player 5

Packaging

• Added HighContrast icon variant

WML engine

• Fixed [music] ms_after= affecting the previous track instead of the intended one

Miscellaneous and bug fixes

• Update various references of mermen to merfolk or mer
• Adjust several maps to use different castle graphics
• OpenMP support has been removed
• Clarify descriptions of income and upkeep in the help and in tooltips. (PR #4337)