Campaigns

• Eastern Invasion
  • Prevent Dacyn from picking up a different staff (issue #8885)
  • Reduce Barrow/Pyre Wight vulnerability to arcane
  • Many minor bugfixes

• Heir to the Throne
  • Li'sar is no longer renameable.

• Sceptre of Fire
  • S7: Fewer and slower enemies, to balance the buff to the Elvish Outrider unit type

• Tutorial
  • Better timing for some of the hints

• World Conquest
  • Fix World Conquest's Help dialog showing double scrollbars due to the left tree having it's vertical scrollbar disabled. Changed both vertical and horizontal scrollbar modes to automatic. (issue #8576)

Editor

• Allow loading .mask files

Packaging

• Fixed building with Boost 1.85.

Translations

• Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian

User interface

• Added a button to the build info dialog to rerun the 1.16 to 1.18 migration tool (issue #7936)
• Overhauled the Language selection dialog to make it more informative, including displaying translation progress and making it easier to select highly-incomplete translations.
• Made the Changelog option in the macOS app menu link to the changelog for the particular Wesnoth app version rather than the Git master branch changelog.
• Add a Community button to the title screen to link to the forums, discord, etc.

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• Fixed replays marking achievements as complete (issue #8858)
• Fixed build with Boost 1.85
• Fixed a crash in the recall dialog when turning off all sorting options (issue #8878)
• Fixed clicking on a trait in the sidebar sometimes opening the wrong traits help page
• Removed wesnothds unused threads commandline options
• Trying to load an image filename ending ".jpg" will now automatically try ".webp" if the ".jpg" isnt found.
• Fix: releasing a mouse button at the same time as a dialog pops up sometimes dismissed the dialog immediately (issue #8644)
• Fixed macOS saves going in the wrong directory.
• Fixed unit portraits being too large in the in-game help when a pixel scale multiplier was set but disabled.
• Fixed the unit idle animation preference not being saved correctly.
• Fixed multiplayer games not entering linger mode after the scenario ends due to a turn limit.
• Fixed achievements being marked completed when only watching a replay.
• Fixed Wesnoth crashing when reloading a multiplayer game in debug mode.