v3.1-rc.1

This is the 1st release candidate for upcoming v3.1 following our standard release cadence.

If you are looking for a stable release of Freeciv21, see: https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21/releases/tag/v3.0-patch.5.

Game

Visual appearance and usability

• Include both the veteran rank name and number in sentry message #2372
• Add buttons to scroll the research tree to the current research targets #2391
• Support ESC key to close the production menu #2407
• Send updated research after it is fully updated #2408
• City Dialog: Expand/Collapse present units list #2428

Bug Fixes

• Fix research refresh button #2384
• Draw waypoints immediately after adding them #2422
• Remove dangling city pointers from the governor code, fixing crashes #2385
• Cleanup two divide-by-zero issues from Coverity #2386
• Fix wrong unit being linked to stack kill message #2387
• Fix drawing AllSeparate roads in hex mode #2393
• Rework how the units view is updated #2400
• Fix showing the city count when there is no capital #2406
• Fix a crash in the units view #2416
• Fix compiling with clang 19 by patching our copy of Sol2 #2418
• Fix buffer overflow in quote_block #2419
• Fix reports being shown out of screen #2420
• Fix issues with effects in help dialog #2435
• Fix the minimap sometimes getting out of sync #2409
• Fix a build failure when compiling only the server #2380

Rulesets/tilesets/...

• Action names: You're Fired -> Disband Unit #2426
• Fix tileset backwards compatibility #2429

Utility / Tools / Code Refactoring / Other

Utility

• Nothing for this release

Build Tools

• Manually update AutoRev to 3.1-beta.2 with failure of CI #2374
• Release Action Updates #2379
• Update AutoRev release steps #2381

Code Refactoring

• Initialize order.sub_target in path_finder #2421
• Rename MAX_NUM_UNITS to MAX_NUM_UNIT_TYPES #2430

Other

• Various documentation updates: #2377 #2378 #2398 #2401 #2438

Attribution

With this release we welcome a new contributor @XHawk87 (#2372)

ASSET 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.