Pioneers News

A new version of Pioneers has been released.

Changes:

• Fix for #307: Prevent writing invalid games in the editor
• Re-enabled the Windows port (15.5 was not released for Windows)
• New feature: Allow automatic rolling of the dice
• New feature: When trading, charity can be prevented
• Explicit language selection with an environment variable: LANG for Windows, LANGUAGE for Linux
• Better IPv6 support for games found with Avahi
• Support for building with gcc 10
• Cosmetic improvements for many themes
• Use a more modern 'beep' on Linux
• New default: wide-screen layout
• Various improvements in the editor
• Code quality improvements

A new version of Pioneers has been released.

Changes:

• Fix for #298: Allow trade after a road building development card
• Use more modern helper libraries for the inline help
• Minor code quality improvements

A new version of Pioneers has been released.

Changes:

• New theme Nouvellia, by Brian Mansberger
• Fixed rendering issues in ccFlickr theme
• Improvements for the MinGW port
• Fix for #290: check for the winning condiation at the beginning of the turn
• Fix for #285part2: Fixed unplayable development card
• Use the default about dialog
• Framework change: replaced glib-gettextize by intltool
• GTK+3 deprecation checks are turned off per default
• Minor code quality improvements

A new version of Pioneers has been released.

Changes:

• Relicense of the desktop icons to CC-BY-SA-4.0

Version 15.2 was not announced here, it contains:

• Ported from GTK+2 to GTK+3
• A new computer player, by Rodrigo Espiga Gómez

New features:

• Full IPv6 support
• More graphics are in vector format instead of bitmaps
• A map preview is shown when creating a game from the client
• A toolbar is added to the editor
• Added a dice deck instead of rolling the dice completely randomly
• The computer player uses more various chat messages
• The Microsoft Windows port now also has a server
• Code cleanup, including fixed memory leaks

Hello all,

The server pioneers.game-host.org has been taken down for relocation. It will be up in the second half of december. In the mean time you can publish your self-hosted games on pioneers.debian.net.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
Roland Clobus

The server for pioneers.game-host.org will be relocated. Around 4 december it will shut down, and will be up again somewhere at the end of december.

New features:
* Added the game comments to the editor. With thanks to Micah Bunting
* Added island discovery bonus in the editor. With thanks to Micah Bunting
* Spectators see the nosetup nodes
* Editor uses shortcuts for games folders
* Large icons for the GNOME3 desktop

Bugfixes:
* Speedup of server-gtk
* Setting the avatar icon works again
* Trade is possible again in games without interplayer trade
* Right-click in the editor shows the menu again
* Code cleanup (Preparation for Gtk+3, hardening flags, memory leaks, ...)

* New features:
* These features were written by Micah Bunting:
* The maps in the editor can be manipulated more easily
* The map can be zoomed
* Full screen mode
* Notifications. With thanks to Patrick
* Bugfixes:
* Cosmetic fixes to the way the map is drawn
* Fixed some crashes involving the pirate
* Fixed some memory leaks in the meta server

Pioneers for Windows, version 0.12.4 has been re-released.

The original installer did not include all needed DLLs and did not install properly on Windows 7.

Pioneers 0.12.4 has been released.
* New features:
* Added a logbot type computer player. With thanks to Andreas Steinel
* New map: North Americ by Ron Yorgason
* New map: Ubuntuland by Matt Perry
* Added a close button on tab pages. With thanks to Anti Sullin
* Use AVAHI, With thanks to Andreas Steinel
* In the connect dialog, the games can be sorted
* Computer player uses the soldier cards and monopoly cards better
* New theme ccFlickr, by Aaron Williamson
* Tooltips for the development cards. With thanks to Aaron Williamson
* The editor can set/unset nosetup nodes
* Bugfixes
* Fixed the FreeCIV-like and Wesnoth-like themes
* The computer player is more stable
* The meta-server is more stable
* Use the correct size for the icons in the context menu in the editor

Pioneers 0.12.3.1 is a translation update for 0.12.3, with updated translations for all languages and two new languages, Galician (provided by Indalecio Freiría Santos) and British (provided by Philipp Kleinhenz).

The themes Wesnoth-like and FreeCIV-like have been fixed, you can now read the black text on a background that is not black too.

Pioneers 0.12.3 has been released.
The source code has been released on 2009-11-04, and the Windows installer on 2010-01-10

* New feature: Look in $XDG_DATA_HOME/pioneers/themes for themes
* New feature: Look in $XDG_DATA_HOME/pioneers for games
* Fixed IPv4 vs IPv6 connection issues when adding local computer players
* Some cosmetic changes

The previous news item mentions that pioneers.game-host.org was down. It is now up for quite some time already, and many games are being played.

The secondary meta server at pioneers.gamehost.org is down for the moment. It will take several days before it will be online again.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

This bugfix release fixes two bugs introduced in 0.12.1 and updates several translations.

New in 0.12.1:
* Fixed bugs in the server that could crash it
* Cosmetic changes
* A new language: Czech
* Several bugfixes

Pioneers has two new languages available:
Danish, kindly provided by Carson, and Portuguese, kindly provided by Filipe Roque.

You can find them in the 'Translation updates' download section (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5095&package_id=208313)

Don't forget to read the notes for instructions where to put the new files.

This bugfix release fixes some issues that are visible in servers that are running for a long time.

This bugfix release fixes the OK button in the discard dialog.

* New languages: Afrikaans and Japanese
* Added customizable player icons
* Added winnable check in the server and editor
* New game feature: city walls
* Map preview in the server
* Cluster development cards of the same type
* The chat panel can be moved to the right
* Lauch the client from the server
* Cosmetic changes
* Various bugfixes
* The 0.11 server can also handle 0.10 clients

The host pioneers.game-host.org is finally back online.
About a month ago it started to host the lobby for 0.10 again, and now it is running a meta-server, capable of starting 5 games.

Enjoy!
Roland Clobus

Due to severe filesystem corruption, the host pioneers.game-host.org went down by itself.

I'm sorry, but it'll take a few days before I'll have it running again, and have a diagnosis to avoid this situation from happening again.

pioneers.game-host.org hosts the Lobby (for 0.10 and 0.9) at the public meta server, and is a metaserver that allows the creation of new games.

Pioneers has two new languages available: Afrikaans, kindly provided by Petri Jooste, and Japanese, kindly provided by Yasuhiko Takasugi.

You can find them in the 'Translation updates' download section (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5095&package_id=208313)

Don't forget to read the notes for instructions where to put the new files.

* Added --version for all executables
* Workaround for a Gtk+ bug
* The metaserver unregisters inactive servers
* The contents of the tarball is more complete
* Various bugfixes

The previous release for Windows didn't run.