Just in time for Christmas, we're releasing two patches, one regular and one to the beta channel! The former includes mostly small changes and bugfixes, while the latter includes more significant developments. Chief among those is Apple Silicon support! Note this is only available on the beta channel release, and (especially given how new the platform is), we would appreciate reports of any issues Mac players have with this new patch. Happy (late) Hanukkah, and Merry (early) Christmas! [hr][/hr]

Patch 1.14.15

Add-ons client

• Fix potential crashes when working with installed add-ons that have a corrupted _info.cfg file.

Campaigns

• Descent into Darkness:
  • S11: fix low probability case of enemy being unreachable
  • S11: recall ghosts if available and ensure the player gets one level 2 ghost.

• Eastern Invasion:
  • S03: fix the initial keep being blocked at the start

Translations

• Updated translations: British English, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish

User interface

• Fixed formatting of hyperlinks when the same URL appears more than once in a block of text

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare issue on Windows that could result in wesnoth.exe sticking around waiting for console input after encountering an error despite not being launched with the `--wconsole` option.
• Removed documentation for network proxy-related command line options previously removed in version 1.13.1 along with libana.

Development Patch - 1.15.8

Add-ons client

• Fix potential crashes when working with installed add-ons that have a corrupted _info.cfg file.
• Improved license information prompt for uploads.

Add-ons server

• Fixed inability to write files (including the server configuration file) on Windows.
• Dropped plain text passphrase migration, unused in production since version 1.12.7 and 1.13.0 (issue #5080).
• Uploading add-ons with versions not greater than the latest uploaded version is no longer allowed (issue #5079).
• Implemented optional server information query used by connecting clients.

Campaigns

• Dead Water
  • Reduce campaign difficulty

• Eastern Invasion:
  • Tweak campaign difficulty
  • S03: fix the initial keep being blocked at the start

• Heir to the Throne
  • Tweak campaign difficulty

• The Hammer of Thursagan
  • Reduce campaign difficulty

• The South Guard
  • Reduce campaign difficulty

Multiplayer

• Added `/roll N` command to multiplayer games and game lobbies which produces a publicly visible random integer number ranged from 1 to N inclusively (issue #5221, PR #5326).

Packaging

• SDL_Image 2.0.2 or later is now required (was 2.0.0).

Translations

• Updated translations: British English, Czech, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish

Units

• Undead variations for Falcon, Giant Rat, serpents, and Gorer/Tusklet

User interface

• Minor streamlining on the Game Version and Add-ons Manager dialogs.
• Text labels now use the hyperlink mouse cursor while hovering links.
• Link awareness is now configured on a per-instance basis for labels/scroll labels instead of globally in their definition.

WML Engine

• Add a overwrite_specials option for weapon special abilities to allow the effect of the ability to take precedence over the effect of any identical weapon special.

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• Fixed several possible crashes in wmllint
• Screenshots now default to JPG instead of PNG
• Fixed screenshot popup sometimes using the wrong path when trying to open the screenshot after saving