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Release ticket for 3.3.0-beta1: https://redmine.freeciv.org/issues/2190
First draft of 3.3 NEWS: https://www.freeciv.org/wiki/NEWS-3.3.0

Tbh the Scout action sounds proper handy, but i cant work out one thing... can a ruleset limit how far away the target tile is, say by unit type, or is it just whatever the usual action range settings allow? Cheers, just trying to get my head round how Recon would work without every fighter seeing ...

Beyond that, I ran into the issue that any of the packages can change at any time, and there's no way to get any but the latest version. And a change can break the build - I set up a shell script to download the packages and build from a freeciv source tarfile, and it worked until one day it didn't...

New freeciv-3.2 Windows (msys2) build with meson, from sources of 23-Oct-26 (3.2.6+-261023), commit '1a16be1897', available at https://files.freeciv.org/packages/windows/testing/cazfi/installer_msys2/snapshots/meson/freeciv-3.2/ Change log since 3.2.6: gitlog-3.2.6..1a16be1897.log Change log since p...

New action type Scout RM #2184

It shows the area around the target tile (which can be some distance away from the actor unit) for a turn.

As an example, granularity ruleset is going to implement "Recon" air unit mission type with this action.

New freeciv-3.3 Windows (msys2) build with meson, from sources of 19-Oct-26 (3.3.0-alpha3+261019), commit '4bf5b8eb63', available at https://files.freeciv.org/packages/windows/testing/cazfi/installer_msys2/snapshots/meson/freeciv-3.3/ Change log since previous snapshot build: gitlog-189339da3f..4bf5...

Poll ended at Fri Oct 16, 2026 10:41 am

cazfi wrote: ↑Mon Oct 19, 2026 5:51 pm

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if ! cp data/freeciv-client.icns "${SERVERCONTENTS}/Resources/freeciv-server.icns" ; then

Shouldn't you be copying freeciv-server.icns, not freeciv-client.icns here?

I changed that part, and added patches to the redmine ticket. Also changed lua@5.4 to lua@5.5 in S3_3/main patches.

Shouldn't you be copying freeciv-server.icns, not freeciv-client.icns here?

cazfi wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2026 4:50 pmEventually I'd like to get the build script merged to the source repository - to be part of the official source release

-> https://redmine.freeciv.org/issues/2388