After two and a half years of development and thousands of commits made by dozens of contributors, the Battle for Wesnoth development team is proud to announce the availability of version 1.18.0 on Windows, macOS, and Linux! This release features many new additions as well as refinements to existing content including a new Drake campaign, a full remake of our oldest Loyalist campaign, greatly improved graphical performance, major balance changes for multiplayer, achievements, many enhancements to the editor, and so much more!

A full list of changes and new features added since version 1.16 can be found in the release notes[www.wesnoth.org] for this series.


Wesnoth 1.18.0 was made possible by the contributions of many, many people all over the world. In no particular order, we would like to thank:

alberic89, Alexander Lacson, Amir Hassan, ancestral, Andrei BENCSIK, Arnav Vijaywargiya, Astrid Halberkamp, AugustVesterbacka, Bruno Macabeus, Celtic Minstrel, Charles Dang, Cody Burchell, Dalas121, Daniel Bruno, Daniel Diefenthaler, Daniel Foerster, Daniel Santos, demario, Descacharrado, Discontinuum, Đoàn Trần Công Danh, doofus-01, Dou1622, Elvish_Hunter, Eric Gallager, Eugene, Evan Miller, Ferk, fujimo-t, gfgtdf, Goncalo Gomes, Gothyoba, Grzegorz Halat, Gunter Labes, Gwyn Ciesla, Hejnewar, inferno8, Iris Morelle, irregularBismuth, Ivo Julca, Jason Stephenson, Jonathan-Kelly, kabachuha, Kingofd, Larkin Nickle, larry_the_cow, lomekragow, loonycyborg, Luis Miguel Iglesias Sánchez, Luther, macabeus, Martin Hrubý (hrubymar10), Martin Liska, mattsc, max-torch, MechanicalDragon963, Michal Fusatý, Michal Žejdl, Miguel Magno, MJ, nemaara, newfrenchy83, Nils Kneuper, OrekOrek, Pentarctagon, P. J. McDermott, PointMeAtTheDawn, Rafael Silva, Ryan Schmidt, Sergey Popov, Severin Glöckner, Severin Schoepke, shijie.chen, Slayer95, smokespren, spixi, Steve Cotton, Subhraman Sarkar, SyedSaifuddin045, Tahsin Jahin Khalid, TheFlamelet, TheShadowOfHassen, Till Noffke, tofilwiktor, Tommy, Toom, Toranks, User, VALiUM, V N, walodar, Wedge009, zBugH1, and our many current and past translators, artists, musicians, and anyone we might have missed.

With this release the feature freeze has (mostly) begun, meaning that if you've authored an add-on for 1.16 then this is the point at which you can start testing to see what issues there might be in preparation for 1.18.0 releasing in a few months. There may also have been bugs introduced with all the changes that have been made, so please report any that you find! We do our best, but we do nevertheless rely on people using these APIs and reporting problems they run into as well.

• Under the Burning Suns
  • More AMLAs for Kaleh and Nym.
    
  • Balance changes.

• Record and replay chat messages when joining a game that has not started yet

• New experimental Lua undo API
  
• New Lua mouse click callback

• New embellishment for adding windows to impassible walls.

• Updated translations: Welsh
  
• Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Slovak

• Update graphics and stats of Roc
  
• New monster unit line - Ravens
  
• New Jumping Spider monster.
  
• Drakes:
  • Saurian Oracle – xp changed from 66 to 74
    
  • Saurian Soothsayer – xp changed from 100 to 66

• Village ownership is shown with flag and side number in terrain info (issue #4334)

• New ability attributes `halo_image=` and `halo_image_self=`, to illustrate the effects of the illumination ability, HttT's initiative, etc.
  
• New ability attributes `overlay_image=` and `overlay_image_self=`.
  
• New ability tag and attribute `[overwrite]priority=`.
  
• Two new tags, `[filter_ability]` and `[filter_ability_active]`, which have a temporary exception from the API freeze.

• The implementation of `[allow_undo]` has changed, the behavior should be the same.

• Asset copyright tracking is now handled in a .csv file, and sanity checked during CI builds.