Build21 Release Schedule

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Widelands is now in Winter Time Freeze.

All critical bugs are now thoroughly snowed under and it's time to announce the schedule for the remaining release steps.

On Friday, June 26, 2020, at 13:00 CEST, Widelands has gone into Winter Time Freeze. From now on, no changes other than translation updates and AI training rounds are permitted at all. Only the most critical bugs are reason enough to thaw up this freeze.

The deadline for translations and AI training will be Saturday, July 11, 2020, 08:00 CEST. After this point, the repo will not change at all in preparation for the release. (Due to a necessary last-minute string change the original deadline of July 8, 2020, 21:00 CEST was extended.)

The first (and hopefully only) release candidate will be published on Saturday, July 11, 2020. The actual release shall follow one week later on Saturday, July 18, 2020.

This post would get too long if I mentioned all the great improvements since the release of Build 20, so here is an incomplete list of the highlights:

• A much stronger AI

• New “Peaceful Mode” and several new starting conditions

• More detailed user controls for game speed, map scrolling, and many properties of building windows; new hotkeys; re-added quick navigation with ‘,’ and ‘.’; partly redesigned and modernized user interface

• Allow the player to choose the soldiers to send in the attack box

• New planning-ahead ship scheduling algorithm

• Ferries carry wares over waterways

• Improved display of work areas

• Spritesheets and mipmaps provide high-quality graphics when zooming in

• Numerous fixes and improvements to the tutorials and scenarios

• New editor tool to resize the map

• Lots and lots of balancing tweaks to all tribes

• Extensive behind-the-scenes source code cleanup and refactoring

• Support for Big Endian architectures

• Widelands is currently fully translated into Catalan, Finnish, French, German, Low German, Danish, and Dutch; and >75% into Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Portuguese.