Release Message
Yeah, it's that time of the year again which trees in the forest fear so much. Santa is coming and he is bringing a new version of Spring, equipped with a tougher christmas tree stand and shiny new bells and whistles.
And perhaps, if you have been a really good boy this year, it might even be less buggy for you than 84.0.

Kudos
Again, thanks everyone for your contributions!
This time, very big kudos go to B. Turner (the original author of the ROAM implementation) and Beherith (for integrating it into Spring).

Download links:

• Windows installer
• Windows portable
• Source (tar.lzma)
• Source (tar.gz)
• MacOSX

Major changes:

• ROAM \o/ - new much faster terrain rendering
• QTPFS (disabled by default) - new pathfinding system

Full changelog here.

Notice:
You may have noticed 83.0 never went live. It had some crucial bugs dragon in it, which absorbed all dev power. But at the end the dragon was slew and the princess is safe.

Release Message
Yeah, it was long ago that Spring 0.82 was released. 1 year, 2 months & 23 days to be precise or just 449 days. Much water ran down the rivers. Tunisia, Egypt & Libya freed themselves from their despots. Nuclear power mocked official estimates of risk probability again. Duke Nukem Forever was released. Pigs learned to fly.

And today: Spring 83.0 84.0 finally gets released!

Again, thanks everyone for your contributions!
This time, special thanks go to SpliFF for his ASSIMP implementation and daftalx for his MacOSX ambitions & supplying us a buildbot client for it.

Download links:

• Windows installer
• Windows portable
• Source (tar.lzma)
• Source (tar.gz)
• MacOSX

It's also the first release with a (experimental) MacOSX build.
For the time being you can either use an experimental SpringLobby build here or weblobby.

Major changes:

• ASSIMP support (not 100% finished yet)
• EFX/EAX support (sound reverb)
• AI Interface pure-ification
• Many speedups (and twice as many slowdowns)

Full changelog here.

After unpredictable issues, we decided to drop 83.0 and release 84.0 soon.

Yeah, it was long ago that Spring 0.82 was released. 1 year, 2 months & 23 days to be precise or just 449 days. Much water ran down the rivers. Tunisia, Egypt & Libya freed themselves from their despots. Nuclear power mocked official estimates of risk probability again. Duke Nukem Forever was released. Pigs learned to fly.

And today: Spring 83.0 finally gets released!

Again, thanks everyone for your contributions!
This time, special thanks go to SpliFF for his ASSIMP implementation and daftalx for his MacOSX ambitions & supplying us a buildbot client for it.

Download links:

• Windows installer
• Windows portable
• Source (tar.lzma)
• Source (tar.gz)
• MacOSX

It's also the first release with a MacOSX build.
For the time being you can either use an experimental SpringLobby build here or weblobby.

Major changes:

• ASSIMP support (not 100% finished yet)
• EFX/EAX support (sound reverb)
• AI Interface pure-ification
• Many speedups (and twice as many slowdowns)

Full changelog here.