Campaigns

• Eastern Invasion: "Drowned Plains" drastically shortened in length. Objective now involves gathering gold, not killing enemy leaders.

Editor

• Fixed a crash in some cases after setting which direction a unit is facing.

Lua API

• Added new function gui.switch_theme() to allow switching to another gui2 theme from inside a scenario.

Terrain

• Improved handling of bluffs/gulch transitions with mountains and frozen terrain
• Bluffs/Gulches less intrusive in mini-map

Translations

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Turkish

Units

• Walking Corpse: arcane vulnerability reduced from 40% to 20%.
• Soulless: arcane vulnerability reduced from 40% to 20%.
• Skeletal Dragon stats were changed:
  • hitpoints from 171 to 98
  • cost from 288 to 160
  • fire resistance from -20% to 20%
  • jaw attack from 17x4 to 15x3
  • claw attack from 24x3 to 27x2

User interface

• GUI2 themes can be loaded from add-ons. Requires a `gui-theme.cfg` file in add-on root with a `[gui]` tag that acts as the entry point for the theme.
• Hovering over units and selecting units now highlights reachable hexes instead of obscuring unreachable ones.
• Option key is now identified as such instead of Alt in the Hotkeys preferences section on macOS builds
• Search filter should now be case-insensitive for more than just ASCII characters (#9328)
• Added attack and defend animations for the Orcish Warrior, standing and attack animations for the Goblin Pillager, and an alternate attack animation for the Orcish Warlord.
• Fixed the displayed team name not always matching the actual teams that players are on.

WML Engine

• Removed properties `unit.side` and `terrain.owner`. Use `unit.side_number` and `terrain.owner_side` instead.
• rechange [experimental_filter_ability/active] and [experimental_filter_specials] to [filter_ability/active] and [filter_specials] and make "experimental_" deprecated.
• Add alignment in [attack] to specify the alignment of an attack independent of the unit's alignment.
• GUI2 themes can now be provided by add-ons.
• When using `sub` in a weapon special to decrease the number of attacks a unit has, going below zero is now treated as still being 0.

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• A variety of issues have been fixed in the rewritten in-game Help browser.
• Fixed the editor saving plain maps in a different folder than the game creation screen expects.