So after the past two release candidates we're now proud te present the next real release:
Spring 0.81.1.3

Changes since the last release candidate:

Engine:

• Fixed automatically assigning start position if none is chosen
• Fixed bug in DXT5 loading (caused artifacts with teamcolors)
• Fixed F1 heightmap view
• Fixed playing of demos created in a game in which Spring crashed
• Made spectator drawings white instead of random team color
• Disable recording demos from demos (default, DemoFromDemo in springrc to enable)
• Added a mechanism to register/unregister for messages that are normally not broadcasted to game server

AIs:

• E323AI 3.14.5:
  
  • support for: partial watermaps (plays land only), group merging, auto kbot/vehicle lab selection, template configs
  • XTA & BA config improvements
  • Better lab assisting
• KAIK: do not build MExes on spots used by allies

For changes since 0.80.5.2, easiest is to look here.


Thanks everyone for their contributions!


Download links:

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

To game developers: do not forget to adapt your game to the next version of Spring.
See the threads for details.


Have fun!

just though thanks are in order.

so thanks :) well done to all the hard workers

well done!

thanks to all who contributed :D works great

Working smoothly for me. Nice job guys.

Thanks for all your work!

A few things:
Seems like smoothmesh is strangely affecting the behaivior or bladewings, they hover up and down before attacking when close to hills.
Some people say minimap is darker, Im not sure of this myself.

Been playing on my laptop for years and today this:

Missing minimal required OpenGL. Version is 1.4

Never had this problem before, updated drivers and it didnt fix it. Card is ATI MOBILITY/RADEON 9000

gunships can behave weirdly, they need further tuning wrt smoothmesh. mod can opt out on per-unit basis.

I saw an unsynced guy on dsd and we kicked him, unsynced people should be automaticaly kicked maybe?

You can't debug that if you get autokicked.

There seems to be something strange with 0.81.1.3, the AIs, and BA Chickens under Linux. This is with a single threaded build because an MT build was deadlocking after about 5 mins of game play.

I get this stack strace when trying to start chickens locally (the trace is the same without or with the STABS option set, the binary isn't getting stripped so I don't know why it's fubar).

Using mod BA Chicken Defense V2.02 (BA7.04)
spring: /home/dull/jhoblitt/tmp/spring_0.81.1.3/rts/ExternalAI/SkirmishAIHandler.cpp:261: const SkirmishAIKey* CSkirmishAIHandler::GetLocalSkirmishAILibraryKey(size_t): Assertion `!resKey.IsUnspecified()' failed.
Aborted (SIGABRT) in spring 0.81.1.3
Stacktrace:
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xd4346e]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x32100) [0x7f9a82b5d100]
/lib/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x35) [0x7f9a82b5d085]
/lib/libc.so.6(abort+0x17f) [0x7f9a82b5e32f]
/lib/libc.so.6(__assert_fail+0xf1) [0x7f9a82b56251]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xe1eb32]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xe1edbf]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xe1f11b]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xe1dcc1]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0x79cab4]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0x79d344]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0x79ab97]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0x79a5e7]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xd1cf97]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xd1d320]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xd41b00]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0xd41e09]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f9a82b49bbd]
/usr/local/bin/spring() [0x6e9369]
Translated Stacktrace:

$ file /usr/local/bin/spring
/usr/local/bin/spring: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped

When trying to join a network chicken game via the lobby, I get a similar error accept I think consistently at SkirmishAIHandler.cpp:250. I tried commenting out the assertion and then it still fails at the assertion on line 261 (which I don't think would be wise to comment out).

Any idea what's going on?

would be great if somebody could update these installers too: http://springrts.com/wiki/GamesDownloads

Is there any way to see which version the installer has before download? there is no version included in filename and nothing on the page shows it.

I'll eventually update KP installer, but new Spring also breaks stuff in the mod, so I have to fix the mod, and if I do a new version of the mod it needs to to also include a couple updates I'm not done coding. Plus I have to do extensive testing to avoid rushing something broken.

The KP installer mention the engine version in its filename. The KP installer detect Spring version and do not reinstall the engine if you have a newer one, so you can just install it ontop of a new install done with the "official" installer. And last time I tried, if you a install a slightly outdated Spring version, the first time you connect to lobby it offers you to upgrade your Spring.

Are you really using those installers, or complaining for the sake of it? If there's really a need, I could rush a Spring 0.81.1.3 + Kernel Panic 3.8, but tbh I doubt there is such urgency.

dogma, i am working on it.
it is a problem of initialization order.. rather ugly to fix (moving one thing to an earlier stage of the startup phase, breaks something else, ...).

I think teamcolor.lua is broken. Units often appeared with the wrong teamcolor in a 1v1. The other player did not use teamcolor.lua and had no problems.

dogma:
AI stuff is fixed in master and will be in the next release; there will probably be a bug-fix release in the next few weeks.
until then, if you want to play against AIs, use this:

windows:
http://buildbot.eat-peet.net/spring/ins ... cb5ef1.exe
i recommend installing it in a separate folder.

linux (have to compile yourself):
bcb5ef185c405103a3053b0d629f57013cd613b2

These are the best installers at all, they are easy to use for unexperienced and new players because of the included module updater. Thats the reason why i only put these on spring-portal.

so yea i would be really happy if someone would update them :)

not working for me, had to upgrade from ubuntu 9.04 to 910 to get it due to it not being in the repos.
link to thread.

I have created a Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) build of this version (sorry no bundled lobby client yet - hopefully soon). See this thread.

So you think you can stop me from using TASClient, huh?

Never gonna happen, TASClient 4 life