Add-ons client

• The Add-ons client now supports UI Theme type add-ons (id 'theme').

Campaigns

• Son of the Black-Eye
  • Allowed Saurian Skirmishers to advance into Saurian Spearthrower.

• The Hammer of Thursagan
  • Added Achievements.

Multiplayer

• OOS-bugs have been fixed.

Translations

• Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Turkish

Units

• Elvish Scout: XP 42 -> 32
• Elvish Rider: XP 75 -> 60, HP 49 -> 46, bow damage 11 -> 9, cost 28g -> 27g
• Elvish Outrider: MP 11 -> 10, HP 60 -> 57, bow damage 11 -> 9, sword damage 8 -> 7, cost 58g -> 50g
• Elvish Avenger: HP 59 -> 55, cost 60g -> 55g
• Elvish Marshal: HP 68 -> 60, MP 5 -> 6
• Huntsman: HP 57 -> 53, bow 9x4 marksman -> 10x4 marksman, cost 43g -> 47g, new ability: Swamp Lurk (invisibility in swamps)
• Ranger: HP 60 -> 64, bow 7x4 -> 8x4, cost 43g -> 50g, defense: castle 60% -> 50%, frozen 20% -> 30%, reef 30% -> 50%, sand 30% -> 40%
• Forest Lion: HP 42 -> 48, MP 9 -> 7, claws 5x4 -> 6x4, bite 15x2 -> 9x2 charge, arcane resistance 20% -> 10%, cost 21g -> 30g
• New ship units Derelict Hulk and Fireship
• Pirate Galleon and Transport Galleon moved to Ship race, sprite updated and animated
• Portraits for ships and their crew

User interface

• About Dialog's General tab now has a button to open the game manual for the currently selected language.
• An entry for accessing the Add-ons Manager has been added to the Campaign Selection dialog.
• Help Browser now has a checkbox for showing/hiding the contents list in low-resolution systems (800x600 or less).
• It is now possible to select text in MP Lobby chat and Gamestate Inspector via mouse drag.
• Switched default Pango/Cairo backend from CoreText to Fontconfig on macOS to fix issues with certain fonts such as Oldania ADF Std being unrecognized on current OS versions (issue #8488).
• More titlescreen images have been added.

WML Engine

• Add a [remove_specials] tag in [effect] to be able to remove specials with other criteria than the id (type of the special, active_on, apply_to or other attributes).
• Add [filter_special] to [has_attack/filter_weapon] in order to simultaneously check specials with id and type, and/or other attributes.
• [modify_unit_type] can add a list of AMLAs in the unit_type, if a list is already written, it will be replaced.
• [modify_unit_type] can modify [male/female] or [variation] subtags if already written in unit_type.

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• Removed `--nodelay` launch flag