v3.0-beta.6

Game

Visual appearance

• The look of the classic theme has been improved #1523
• The game page is now fullscreen by default! #1474
• The minimap layer showing terrain is now enabled by default #1474
• Support the better-maintained Libertinus font as an alternative to Linux Libertine. This is important for Linux distributions phasing out Libertine support #1472
• The icons used for the Messages button are more clear #1481
• The plague risk for cities is no longer shown when plague is disabled in the current ruleset #1460 #1475

Ruleset support

Two patches from the 2.6 Longturn server have been cleaned up, improved, and merged into Freeciv21:

• One can now control what kind of information is visible to other nation in the diplomacy screen #1430
• Nukes can make nukes destroy infrastructure #1456

Usability

• The detailed output table in the city dialog now groups related entries together #1494
• The Tutorial is now accessible from the main menu #1383
• Scrolling the map can now be done with the mouse wheel or the touchpad #1483
• The "Advanced Unit Selection" dialog box is now movable #1434
• The time left until the next turn change was added to the tool tip of the Turn Done button #1520
• Goto handling was improved #1476 #1480

Bug Fixes

• A very annoying performance regression in the chat line code was fixed #1459
• Underscores are once again allowed in usernames #1467
• Saving map images works again #1496
• Values shown in the settings dialog once again always reflect the values sent by the server #1509
• Several instances of low contrast have been fixed #1500 #1501 #1514
• Files in the tarballs are now properly grouped in a folder #1527

More fixed bugs

• Fixed a crash with bouncing units #1443
• Right-clicking within Units widget closes it and doesn't change appearance of "Units" button in top bar #1462
• Rename changable_budget -> changeable_budget, add changable_tax compat #1468
• Check return value of client_start_server() #1471
• Fix a bug where the Messages widget could be moved #1482
• Fix build with NLS disabled and GCC 11 #1493
• Fix opening load saved game or start scenario game on start menu #1504
• Fix spelling mistakes in timeout command help texts #1506
• Close the tile info popup when another button is pressed #1508
• Clear closing reason for connection object when a client connects #1519
• Right-clicking within the Units widget was closing it and didn't change appearance of the "Units" button in top bar #1462

Spec File Support

• Add sprites for all the buildings and wonders for all the rules we support #1431
• Fix an issue with tilesets that reference Amplio2 Units #1432
• Fix a few tileset sprite errors #1458 #1461

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• Nothing for this release

Code Refactoring

• Simplify update_queue #1439
• Remove fc_client::quit() #1479
• Remove a function doing nothing #1469

Tools

• Various Documentation Updates: #1430 #1432 #1435 #1465
• Bump jidicula/clang-format-action to v4.9.0 #1505
• Add a top level directory to source archives #1528

Build Tools

• Add a message reminding to close-open the AutoRevision PR #1436

NOTE: Community members wishing to download the source code. You will notice that there are two sets of source code in the assets section below. One set will have a label of "Source Code (zip)" and "Source Code (tar.gz)" and the other set will be a tar.gz and zip file with the name of the tagged release and a file size shown. Please download and use the files with the name of the tagged release and file size shown. The other two will not compile properly.