Patch 1.16.2 is out for all players. The first release of our 1.17.0 development series is now also available as a beta channel! Keep in mind 1.17 builds are experimental and can have unexpected bugs.

1.16.2:

Campaigns

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

• Delfadors 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 Eryssas 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 trolls 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 Travelers 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 Kalehs 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 Assassins race is not revealed until uncloaked (issue #6213)
• The Dust Devils 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 Knights 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)

• Delfadors 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 Eryssas 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 trolls 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 Travelers 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 Kalehs 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 Assassins race is not revealed until uncloaked (issue #6213)
• The Dust Devils 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 Knights 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.