Campaigns

• The Deceiver's Gambit
  • Spells: clarified "Counterspell" description
  • S05: the allied AIs now attack at Dawn instead of Second Watch
  • S08: changed Trappers' dialogue to be less overtly hostile
  • S14: the final boss now heals less on lower difficulties

Editor

• Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115)

Multiplayer

• Resolve crash on attempting to download MP replay from server, when using cURL 7.85.0 or later (issue #10139).

Translations

• Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Italian, Japanese

Units

• Necromancer:
  • Changes to emphasize the Necro's thematic plague ability, while lowering his/her durability closer to that of other mages:
  • hitpoints 76 -> 64, impact resist 10% -> 0%, cold resist 0% -> 10%
  • plague staff (melee impact) 6-3 -> 7-3
  • chill wave (ranged cold) 19-2 -> 20-2
  • shadow wave (ranged arcane) 16-2 -> 13-2, added "plague" weapon special

User interface

• UI support the multi-hex ranged attacks has been added
• Support for 800xN window sizes has been removed

WML Engine

• Added WFL `byte_index` function to convert between character indices and byte indices, accounting for multi-byte characters
• IPFs that affect color values no longer skip fully transparent pixels.

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Pick Unit Advancement modification throwing lua errors on every recruitment
• Fixed unit appearance not being immediately updated when affected by an ability