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The main purpose of the release is to fix a regression in the Windows Gtk client, which led to crashes when resizing the city dialog. HRM#735238

There are a handful of other bugfixes and improvements:

    Stealing a future technology was accidentally yielding two of them. HRM#736836
    Put a message about nuclear attack in a more appropriate category. HRM#735934
    Some minor improvements to autogenerated terrain help. HRM#733865 HRM#733902
    Fix a crash with a malformed tileset. HRM#729532
    Fix an erroneous diagnostic for a malformed savegame. HRM#729275
    Fix a geographical error in the Cuyavian nation description. HRM#706252
    Fix typo in ruleset help comments. HRM#738322
    Fix a possible failure to build the Qt client (undefined reference to SDL_main), observed on Mac OS X Sierra. HRM#734798
    Fix some compiler warnings with Clang 6.0 HRM#733013 and GCC 8 HRM#731162.
    Updated translations: Catalan, Russian, British English, Polish, Finnish, Esperanto.
    Various internal changes which should only affect developers. HRM#715161 HRM#729900 HRM#736810

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Beta3 is mainly a bugfix release. Notably, it should fix crashes in the Windows Gtk clients when moving or resizing dialogs, and the default Gtk3 client now draws animations in a new way which is less laggy.

Server / General

Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets)

    Units were prevented from moving between transports on different tiles in some circumstances. HRM#693380
    In the Gtk3.x and Qt clients, it's now possible to move a unit between transports on the same tile. HRM#732489
    Stealing a future technology was accidentally yielding two of them. HRM#736836
    Units can no longer help to build small wonders such as the Palace. (However, this is likely to be reverted before 2.6.0; see known issues.) HRM#705580
    Fix a cause of error messages like "Team 0 had invalid technology goal" when loading savegames with AI players. HRM#695971
    Put a message about nuclear attack in a more appropriate category. HRM#735934
    The tutorial scenario was not displaying messages about technology if you acquired them by means other than research (for instance, from a hut). HRM#657359
    Changes to the civ1 ruleset to improve its fidelity:
        It's no longer possible to know a tech without its prerequisites. HRM#729171
        Adjusted the progress of years to be more like the original. HRM#731631

Changes affecting other rulesets / modders

    More checking (and documentation) of the relationship between extra and base/road sections in the ruleset. HRM#736838 HRM#736837
    Fix a crash with a malformed tileset. HRM#729532
    Remove any special handling of terrain name "unused" (which hasn't done anything useful for some time). HRM#707585
    The new help system for extras works best if their main effect clause is simplified and any special cases moved to subsidiary clauses; this particularly affects the standard pattern of irrigation and farmland effects. 2.6 ruleset authors may wish to compare their effects.ruleset to the changes in supplied rulesets; without these changes, the terrain help may not show the bonuses of your extras.
    The onus is now on rulesets to describe the effects of irrigation, mining, and pollution if relevant. 2.6 ruleset authors may wish to change their help in line with the changes to supplied rulesets.

General

    Fix an erroneous diagnostic for a malformed savegame. HRM#729275
    Fix a minor server memory leak. HRM#735637
    Various internal changes which should only affect developers. HRM#715161 HRM#730564 HRM#696674 HRM#729900 HRM#733792 HRM#735850 HRM#735940 HRM#740444

Clients

    The Windows builds of the Gtk clients tended to crash when certain dialogs were moved or resized. This was a regression since beta1. (This fix unfortunately leads to the rubber-band selection rectangle in the Windows Gtk3 client becoming uglier.) HRM#735238
    Less laggy animations in the Gtk3 client (these were already in Gtk3.22). However, map scrolling animation is still absent. HRM#726552
    In the city dialog, clicking on the middle tile to rearrange workers could fail to update the city dialog map display. HRM#736822
    Music system: in-game music could be played even after leaving a game. HRM#730597
    Give error messages when the tileset specified with the --tiles command-line option, or suggested by the ruleset, can't be loaded. HRM#730777 HRM#657414
    Gtk3.22: when a unit died while the client was still showing its earlier movement (for instance when attacking), the animation of its movement was not shown fully. HRM#737277
    Gtk3.22: remove some spurious underscores from UI element names. HRM#719507
    SDL2: fix "Unable to create Sprite" errors on console when city dialog is opened. HRM#684183

Tools

    The ruleset editor statistics now include the number of multipliers. HRM#735246

Tilesets / Art

    Updates for the Hexemplio/Toonhex tilesets: hex-shaped forts/fortresses and city walls, less obtrusive ruins, and improved water. HRM#729151 HRM#729137 HRM#731454
    Less obtrusive ruins in Amplio2. HRM#697692
    Other very minor tileset tweaks. HRM#692596 HRM#729141

Help / Documentation

    The built-in help now fully covers the updated 2.6 terrain improvement and conversion system and corresponding ruleset features. Some errors in the already existing help were also fixed. HRM#732512 HRM#733895 HRM#733989 HRM#657410 HRM#732507 HRM#733863 HRM#733865 HRM#733902 HRM#736795 HRM#736830 HRM#736833
    The help for the 'sandbox' ruleset now notes that savegames may not be portable even between minor releases. HRM#732480
    Miscellaneous improvements to in-game text and user documentation. HRM#699164 HRM#696673 HRM#691877 HRM#660409 HRM#733864 HRM#733913 HRM#733929 HRM#730586
    Miscellaneous changes to developer/ruleset docs. HRM#732479 HRM#699149 HRM#736837 HRM#738322 HRM#738321 HRM#738908 HRM#740593

Translations

    Updated translations:

        Complete translations: Russian.
        Incomplete translations: Catalan (100% core, 100% nations, 98.2% ruledit), Polish (99.6% core, 100% nations, 98.2% ruledit), Finnish (98.5% core, 91% nations, 98.2% ruledit), British English (95.1% core, 100% nations, 100% ruledit).

Build/portability

    Fix a possible failure to build the Qt client (undefined reference to SDL_main), observed on Mac OS X Sierra. HRM#734798
    We now recommend that packagers favor the Gtk3.22 client over the Gtk3 one. HRM#726799
    The supplied appdata .xml files have been updated to a more modern format. HRM#690231
    The appdata .xml file for the Gtk3.22 client referred to the wrong .desktop file. HRM#738290
    Fix some compiler warnings with Clang 6.0 HRM#733013 and GCC 8 HRM#731162.

Known issues

    The rule change which disallows caravans/freight from helping build small wonders breaks the multiplayer ruleset, where most wonders are small wonders. We may revert it from 2.6 and postpone to 3.0. HRM#745360
    The Gtk3 clients currently don't have animation for moving the map view. HRM#735217
    The right-click map selection rectangle in the supplied Windows Gtk3 package is ugly and leaves trails behind on the map view. HRM#736230

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Server / General Edit
Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets) Edit

    Reverted the change in beta3 which prevented units from building small wonders, because it broke the multiplayer ruleset. This change will be made more selectively in the next major version of Freeciv. HRM#745360
    Partisans are supposed to only be granted when a city is conquered, but could be granted whenever a city changed hands for any reason (including by treaty. Surprise!) HRM#759770
    When a unit such as a Leader was cargo on a transport that was lost with its home city, it could be 'saved' by teleporting to the site of that city. This could leave non-allied units on the same tile (Leader and city's conqueror), and prevent the Leader teleporting to a more distant, safe city. HRM#761808
    The end-game score for an arrived spaceship included population in habitation modules that weren't actually attached to the spaceship at launch. HRM#757442
    When gaining free Future Techs (for instance from Darwin's Voyage), some messages showed the wrong Future Tech number. HRM#761977
    Setting a high "techlevel" setting could give the first player hundreds of spurious messages about newly available governments. HRM#759020

Changes affecting other rulesets / modders Edit

    Fixed errors in some supplied tilesets that could cause failure to load with errors about missing extrastyles when used with non-default rulesets (such as the Alien World modpack). HRM#758964
    Font sizes specified in tilesets (city_names_font_size and city_productions_font_size) are now ignored in clients which have their own font configuration. HRM#760420

Changes affecting server operators Edit

    The '/list scenarios' command was also listing normal savegames. HRM#731199

General Edit

    Fix a rare compression failure which could stop commnication between client and server. HRM#746878 HRM#747319
    Some improvements to unit debugging (/debug unit). HRM#760368 HRM#760370
    Tweak format of comments in various output files. HRM#761206
    Various internal changes which should only affect developers. HRM#746481 HRM#748740 HRM#750470 HRM#753754 HRM#752336 HRM#756106 HRM#756330 HRM#756589 HRM#756596 HRM#756731 HRM#756736 HRM#756880 HRM#756893 HRM#756188 HRM#757062 HRM#758949 HRM#758950 HRM#758952 HRM#758434 HRM#758725 HRM#750895

Clients Edit

    In clients which support setting worker tasks from the city map (Gtk3/Qt), you can now request cleaning pollution/fallout. HRM#760367
    Improve the display of negative science output, and forecasting of the time to loss of a tech. HRM#756203
    Most clients could give trouble such as assertion failures when attempting a new unit action after another action turned out to be illegal. HRM#747465
    The pillage select target dialog did not give the option to continue pillaging, and did not pop up at all for a unit that was already pillaging one of two possible targets. HRM#756325
    (Gtk) Fix longstanding inability to permanently change the city name font size on the map view. This used to get overridden by the tileset; now the font specified in the options is always used. HRM#760420
    (Gtk3) The pillage select target dialog has been reworked; it now shows the owner of the pillage target, if applicable, and an icon. HRM#753268 HRM#753305
    (Gtk3) The button order in the dialog used for transport selection is more intuitive. HRM#756225 Also fix possible trouble with the radio buttons in this dialog. HRM#754966
    (Gtk3) The right-click map selection rectangle in the supplied Windows Gtk3 package is back to looking as intended. HRM#736230
    (Gtk2, Qt) The icon indicating a unit's activity could be drawn in the wrong place when zoomed. HRM#731629
    (Qt) Fix assertion failure in science report when no research, or future tech, was selected. HRM#732483
    (Qt) Fix a few cosmetic issues, particularly with zoom. HRM#738922 HRM#756105 HRM#738921

Tilesets / Art Edit

    In the Amplio2/Cimpletoon/Hexemplio/Toonhex tilesets, large unwalled 'industrial' style cities used the wrong graphics. HRM#761751

Help / Documentation Edit

    The civ2civ3/sandbox rulesets' government help now contains less duplication and is more accurate. HRM#657407
    The online help now describes the effects of root requirements in the tech tree, in rulesets which have them (such as the experimental ruleset). HRM#758591
    Miscellaneous improvements to in-game text and user documentation. HRM#744655 HRM#744672 HRM#747005 HRM#727051 HRM#760366 HRM#760497 HRM#689474 HRM#761776
    Miscellaneous changes to developer/ruleset docs. HRM#744666 HRM#733917 HRM#758948 HRM#761202

Translations Edit

    Updated translations:
        Complete translations: Catalan, Polish, French.
        Incomplete translations: British English (95.3% core, 100% nations, 100% ruledit).

Build/portability Edit

    The Windows .cmd scripts gave a syntax error when started without a parameter. HRM#700914

Known issues in 2.6

    Turn change in AI games has got slower; we suspect this is a result of action generalization.
    There's some evidence that autosettlers have got less effective.
    There are still problems in the new way tilesets are selected. HRM#685235
    The Gtk3 clients currently don't have animation for moving the map view. HRM#735217

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Server / General Edit
Changes affecting players (supplied rulesets) Edit

    Bribe cost for damaged units has increased. Previously (due to a bug) it was halved if the unit had lost any hitpoints at all. Now it depends on how damaged they are (up to at most a discount of half, as before). HRM#763896
    Huts were never yielding settler-type units. HRM#700906
    Global warming and nuclear winter had a small chance of occurring even when the client displayed the chance as 0%. HRM#763882
    A few resources could be added to the map even when none were requested. HRM#763879
    Historians were never reporting on the "LARGEST Civilizations" (with the most citizens), by mistake. HRM#763883

Changes affecting other rulesets / modders Edit

    Fix longstanding bug in rulesets with 129 or more unit types; if any of the later units was an upgrade or conversion target, the client would not allow the action. HRM#763984
    The Lua function find.role_unit_type() can now find a unit with a given flag, as well as a given role. (This compensates for the property "Cities" having changed from a role to a flag in 2.6.) HRM#700906

Clients Edit

    The number of turns for a path displayed in Goto mode was one too few. HRM#763943
    (Gtk2, Qt) Borders are now displayed correctly when zoomed in. HRM#756115
    Various fixes and improvements to the Qt client:
        Fix a client crash in goto mode. HRM#761748
        Fix a client crash when observing a player with diplomacy dialogs open. HRM#764026
        Opening the Policies dialog caused a client crash on some systems. HRM#759242
        Fix non-working terrain and government links in help. HRM#763708
        The Shift-E keyboard shortcut was used for both Airbase-type orders and for the Patrol order. Patrol is now Q, as in the Gtk clients. HRM#764407
        The unit display now shows the extra turns left for fuel units. HRM#764524
        The city dialog now shows help tooltips for buildings and units that are in the build queue, and buildings that are already built. HRM#735308
        The battle log can now be resized. HRM#764025
        The help dialog position and size are now remembered. HRM#764218
        Change scaling of sidebar. HRM#760162
        Other cosmetic issues and optimizations. HRM#735301 HRM#759976 HRM#764525

Tilesets / Art Edit

    Amplio2, Cimpletoon, Isotrident, and Isophex tilesets now have icons for showing units' activity building specific extras. HRM#762838 HRM#762839

Help / Documentation Edit

    Invisible change to assist localization. HRM#763068

Translations Edit

    Updated (complete) translations: Catalan, Russian, Polish.

Known issues

    Turn change in AI games has got slower; we suspect this is a result of action generalization.
    There's some evidence that autosettlers have got less effective.
    There are still problems in the new way tilesets are selected. HRM#685235
    The Gtk3 clients currently don't have animation for moving the map view. HRM#735217

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