Wesnoth 1.19.25

Campaigns

• Heir to the Throne
  • S01 "The Elves Besieged": reduced starting gold, but added gold pickups near enemy keeps. Added more swamp hexes.
  • S03 "Blackwater Port": added a secondary, coastal entry point for this scenario, so Konrad can make better use of Merfolk if he has them.
  • S10 "The Siege of Elensefar": rebalanced gold, income, and AI. Maddock's AI is now less likely to defend unthreatened bridges or idle his ships.
  • On the overworld, the waters around Elensefar now better connect to the rest of the passable coast.
  • After completing either Elensefar scenario, Elensefar now provides Konrad with a port on the overworld.
  • Slightly increased Li'sar's hitpoints. Li'sar "march" ability is no longer hidden.

• Eastern Invasion
  • S13 "Spoils of War": removed the map's keep, to prevent player recruitment and stay consistent with the intro and victory dialogue.

• Heir to the Throne
  • Enemy leaders should now behave more intelligently if Konrad tries to assassinate them with skirmisher and the Scepter of Fire.
  • S02 "Flight of the Elves": fixed Konrad gaining the wrong recruit if between 11 and 15 elves had died.
  • Konrad's advancements now deal more ranged damage, but less melee damage.
  • S04 "The Bay of Pearls": villages can no longer be destroyed during the victory cutscene, as that would affect gold carryover.

• The Deceivers Gambit
  • S07 "The Great River": adjusted map, enemies, and starting XP. Patrol paths should now be more obvious, and more strategies should now be viable on Hard/Deadly (Easy/Normal were already very straightforward).
  • S08 "Ruins of Saurgrath", S10 "Houses of the Dead": spell selection is now delayed until Delfador learns what kind of enemies he's fighting.

• Winds of Fate
  • S06 "Landfall": all new map of Elense Island and surrounding river delta by Dalas.

Packaging

• The Mac Compile Stuff repository of dependencies for macOS is no longer supported. The primary supported way to get dependencies on macOS is now to use vcpkg; to check how to do that see the macOS CI job and related scripts
• The migration from SDL2 to SDL3 has been completed. For distros without all the required SDL3 dependencies (probably mixer), these will need to be built and installed manually

Translations

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish

Units

• Forest Lion:
  • 9-2 charge attack changed to 11-2 marksman
  • cost reduced from 30 -> 25

• Redtail Cat:
  • cost reduced from 30 -> 28

• Elvish Hero: added idle animation
• Jumpcat: added attack, defend, and various other animations

WML Engine

• Add a to abilities that use the value attribute with the exception of abilities used as weapons (, , etc... implemented in the tag).
• Because overwrite_specials cannot be applied to other abilities and its design and functionality leave something to be desired, an subtag will be added to eventually replace it.
  • Add to an affect attribute to suppress special abilities affecting a unit applied to a particular side (apply_to=self or opponent) and which discriminates special abilities that affect self/student from special abilities belonging to the opponent, even if apply_to=attacker/defender is used.

• The use of 'overwrite_specials' attribute and subtag in specials are deprecated
• Added new version macros:
  • WESNOTH_VERSION_MAJOR (e.g. "1")
  • WESNOTH_VERSION_MINOR (e.g. "19")
  • WESNOTH_VERSION_REVISION (e.g. "23")
  • WESNOTH_VERSION_SPECIAL (e.g. "dev")

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• The wmllint tool has been updated to handle a several new deprecations and now runs on mainline without outputting warnings or changing any files
• Fixed the manual link not working for non-English languages