Spring 95.0 released!

[abma]

i'm proud to announce spring 95.0: many hours and nights were spent by many people,
thanks to all of them who helped making this release possible!

Please test spring 95.0 as it will be set as default version on lobbyserver in two days if no blocking bug is found. (more specific: planed is Thursday, 7. Nov ~23:00 gmt+1 )

Update: set it as default version on the lobby server!


Download Links

• Windows installer
• Windows portable
• Linux32 static
• Linux64 static
• Source (tar.lzma)
• Source (tar.gz)
• sorry no osx-build, the buildslave is broken, we need help / maintainers

Major changes

• customizeable loadscreen
• map border rendering (/mapborder command)
• new datadir structure
• bugfixes & speedups

The changelog contains more details

Changes in numbers: 1485 commits, 865 files changed, 42044 insertions(+), 70942 deletions(-)

Also many other things happened in spring community since the release of 94.1:

• Imperial Winter was released
• a new TrueSkill based balancing system for SPADS autohosts
• springrts.com moved to a new server (still in progress for zero-k.info)
• Most games got an new endgame screen
• ...and much, much more, so stay tuned!

Happy gaming!

Note: Please report bugs in our bug-tracker, thanks!

[Silentwings]

Great job!

[dansan]

Yeah - it's here!!
Thank you very much for so much work!!

[FLOZi]

The middle-click scrolling stutter is still here, despite not being introduced until after spring-94.1.1-1367-g598b9ec Makes Spring basically unplayable for me.

[Jools]

Thanks for the great work!

[xXx]

I just got here, and already I'm having to download an update, geeze, LoL. Good job guys, can't wait to see the next update.

[pnöpel]

Any pathfinding improvements?

edit: Not just changes

[CarRepairer]

You forgot the picture.

http://www.abload.de/img/spring95_400jnodt.jpg

[Floris]

[02:01:05] <Floris> its hard to record this effect, but camera movement ist as smooth, even at 250+ fps
[02:01:24] <Floris> on 60hz screen tho ofc
[02:02:12] <Floris> http://www.twitch.tv/ruwetuin/b/477040440
[02:02:45] <Floris> if you do your best, you'll notice its smoother to move on the flat part
[02:03:44] <Floris> but even the flat part isnt as smooth as 94 would do it
[02:06:25] <raaar> i notice it
[02:06:33] <raaar> the scrolling speed isn't constant
[02:07:08] <Floris> spring always had this jitterry camera movement
[02:07:23] <Floris> before i upgraded my pc it was annoying with low fps
[02:08:02] <Floris> but the very ver yweird thing is that this effect doesnt occur when i stream anythign with the same pc via twitch

Camera movement always was jittery at low-fps (but no issue because of new pc) but 95 made it worse. The really weird thing is that when i tried to record this effect via game-capture and even via the webcam the effect didn't show up anymore. (so i captured the effect with a webcam via my laptop)
Btw: I always use ctrl+f2 camera mode

[raaar]

Good Work!

tried it a bit on single player and it seems to work nicely. The issue i still have is flickering on unit movement, projectiles, etc. sometimes. It comes and goes....

Looks particularly odd on units with shields.

May be related to this.

[The Yak]

No mention of threadpool in the changelog, what happened to that?

[smoth]

The middle-click scrolling stutter is still here, despite not being introduced until after spring-94.1.1-1367-g598b9ec Makes Spring basically unplayable for me.

^This sucks. Can it be fixed with a 95.1?

[zoggop]

advmapshading=1 fails with an intel hd 4000 in windows 8, whether forceenableintelshadersupport is 1 or 0.

http://pastebin.com/LSq4eDHX

EDIT: intriguingly, advanced map shading works great under linux on the same machine

[Google_Frog]

The middle-click scrolling stutter is still here, despite not being introduced until after spring-94.1.1-1367-g598b9ec Makes Spring basically unplayable for me.

^This sucks. Can it be fixed with a 95.1?

I agree that this is quite major. The bug was known for months but eventually the devs decided not to fix it.

I'm also a little sad that this http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=4104 did not make it but it can be worked around.

[FabriceFABS]

i'm proud to announce spring 95.0
[...]!

Thx !!

[Google_Frog]

I'm also a little sad that this http://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=4104 did not make it but it can be worked around.

I now have a workaround.

[jamerlan]

Respect to devs! Esp thanks to Kloot! Good Job!!!

[FLOZi]

The middle-click scrolling stutter is still here, despite not being introduced until after spring-94.1.1-1367-g598b9ec Makes Spring basically unplayable for me.

^This sucks. Can it be fixed with a 95.1?

I agree that this is quite major. The bug was known for months but eventually the devs decided not to fix it.

If it is the same bug then something has changed as I was unaffected previously to spring-94.1.1-1436

[Silentwings]

If you mean the bug that was on that massive mantis - for me it existed briefly (I forget which version numbers now) and went away after I posted the /debug infologs and some change was made.

[Funkencool]

Same here. I noticed it for awhile (at least until around build 1100) and now all is good as far as I can tell.