The first beta for the next major version of Freeciv, 3.0.0-beta1, has just been released.
Major 3.0.x features are civ2civ3 being the default ruleset, addition of the alien ruleset, hex maps as the default topology on new installations, and a whole lot of extra flexibility to create custom rulesets. See the summary of changes since 2.6.x.
Source code is available here. Compiled Windows packages aren't available yet, but are expected within 24 hours.
Please report bugs you find on our bug tracker at osdn (rather than on this forum) so we don't lose track of them.
Beta release 3.0.0-beta1
Re: Beta release 3.0.0-beta1
Windows packages are now available.