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We are just weeks away from 3.2.0-beta1 release. Alpha4 already had both datafile formats and the network protocol frozen, so is freeciv-3.2 compatible, but we want to have a bit more serious beta release out already. Stay tuned.

First draft of the list of 3.2 features has been published as NEWS-3.2.0

When we started 3.2 development, the assumption was that it would be a bit smaller release, due to scheduling. But now this feature list doesn't seem so short, after all.

Could you write what are main improvements of the gtk4 client? Is it more convenient than the gtk3.22 client?

Mahler wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:07 pm Could you write what are main improvements of the gtk4 client? Is it more convenient than the gtk3.22 client?

Obviously the main thing is that it uses gtk4 instead of gtk3, meaning it will work to the future where gtk3 is no longer readily available in various systems.

The map drawing is different enough from gtk3.22-client that gtk4-client supports more zoom levels (even arbitrary levels, if you use the command line parameter to set the level). In freeciv-3.3 the new animations support is available in gtk4-client only. Downside of this is that it's much more CPU hungry (constantly redrawing entire screen instead of just individual tiles when their content changes)