The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new bugfix release for 0.22.

Download

http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/

Main Changelog:

Bugfixes

• Bugfix: Fix mercs’ opinions and relations not extracting from prof.dat (#2239)

The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new release showcasing about a year and a half of work. It includes several new features, plenty of bugfixes compared to previous versions and the original game, clean-ups of the old code base. Most notable is the JSON patch support, which you should read more about here. It avoids stale files problems when upgrading, massively eases modding the externalized JSON files and thus reduces mod size and enables several mods to patch the same file.

Through 440 commits at least 38 bugs were fixed, 19 of which are known to affect vanilla.

New Features:

• JSON patching for easier user configuration maintenance (e.g. your changes to game.json)
• More diagonal interactions with doors and more options for double doors
• Modding Improvements
  • JSON patching: no need to replace a whole file in your mod any more, just provide a JSON patch to change the values you want
  • More hardcoded values and assumptions are now externalized to additional or improved json files for easy editing in JSON: explosives, armors, NPC script records, smoke effects

IMPORTANT: If you are switching between the nightly and release versions of JA2 Stracciatella on Android before you might need to uninstall the old APK before installing the new release. Make sure to backup your data before doing this as it might erase your save games.

We are shipping pre-built packages for Linux, Windows, macOS and Android. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download

http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/

Main Changelog:

Enhancements

• Enhancement: Add internalName property to TownModel and other fixes (#2081)
• Enhancement: Enable diagonal interaction with wall-oriented structures (#2166)
• Enhancement: Increase the displayed character limit, so that the full lines in AIM and MERC Bios is usable. (#1986)
• Enhancement: Assigning doctor or repair tasks should put the content of the primary hand in the secondary instead of an inventory pocket (#1989)
• Enhancement: Provide a Flatpak version (#1700)
• Enhancement: Enable linking against musl libc (#1968)

Modding Improvements

• Enhancement: Add JSON Patch functionality for modding (#2052)
• Enhancement: Externalize armours (#2201)
• Enhancement: Externalize explosives (#2053)
• Enhancement: Externalize NPC script records (#2029)
• Enhancement: Extract smoke effects (#2063)
• Enhancement: Lift the MAX_WEAPONS restriction; weapons no longer must have an index < 70 (#2051)
• Enhancement: Fixing vanilla binaries without breaking mods (#2167)
• Enhancement: Replace merging with overwriting for inventory (#2225)
• Bugfix: Fix moddability of Walter’s bribe amount (#2030)

Bugfixes (vanilla)

• Bugfix: Crash if Skyrider tries to swim (#2191)
• Bugfix: Game crashes after the turn (#2124)
• Bugfix: Some prone enemies force the game to freeze and become untouchable (#1822)
• Bugfix: Creatures lair is empty (#1228)
• Bugfix: Doreen Harrows still in Drassen C13 after quest completion (#750)
• Bugfix: Infinite UI lock on item-giving action (#2194)
• Bugfix: Walking diagonally through large doors - impossible? (#83)
• Bugfix: Fix jump location validation (#2006)
• Bugfix: Fix prone positioning (#2116)
• Bugfix: Not all militia appearing and incorrect training level at SAM site. (#292)
• Bugfix: PickBurstLocation never called in real-time mode. (#2072)
• Bugfix: Skyrider placed randomly (?) in Drassen Airport (#478)
• Bugfix: When you give a weight above 25,6 kg to the item, then the game starts counting its weight again from zero. (#1973)
• Bugfix: You can’t rehire Larry from M.E.R.C when he is drunk (#1956)
• Bugfix: Add travelcost values for sliding doors to prevent walking through frame posts (#1991)
• Bugfix: Tiny graphic issue in strategic map sector name display (#1491)
• Bugfix: Icecream Truck follows squad without driving it (#2037)
• Bugfix: Fix tile path-blocking on roofs due to nearby explosion (#1999)
• Bugfix: Fix Realtime mode spread burst. (#2073)

Bugfixes

• Bugfix: Crash while depositing money (#2040)
• Bugfix: Crash with error when autoresolving in sectors attacked by sodiers and defended by militias and mercs (27 august nightly build) (#2068)
• Bugfix: Fix hang while displaying FOV debug info (#2001)
• Bugfix: ALT+ENTER doesn’t work anymore in the cheat mode (#1977)
• Bugfix: Broken JSON file load order (#2159)
• Bugfix: Fix mercs refusing to join/renew contract (#2059)
• Bugfix: If you dismiss from your squad NPC like Skyrider, John and Mary or runaway kid Joey, when you are escorting them, then the game freezes (#1980)
• Bugfix: Joey can be escorted again after delivering him to Martha (#1370)
• Bugfix: Lockpicking bug on doors (regression) (#2192)
• Bugfix: Mercs can’t open boxes (#2187)
• Bugfix: Null pointer crash in ExplosiveModel::getDamage (#2083)
• Bugfix: Opening doors sometimes causes spinbug (#2198)
• Bugfix: Sending Skyrider to Drassen before his dialogue ends crashes. (#2005)
• Bugfix: Two blitters are probably buggy? (#2146)
• Bugfix: Underground levels don’t show on the strategic screen (#2018)
• Bugfix: When exiting the game with keyboard shortcut from the strategic screen, some graphics are missing (#2119)
• Bugfix: When you enter load game screen while clock is spinning, then you can’t return to the game (#1972)
• Bugfix: Throwing a rock crashes the game (#2154)
• Bugfix: Russian translation bugs (#2196)

Editor

• Editor: In map editor if you press space key when you are in civilian “merc att” tab, then the game crashes (#1981)
• Editor: In map editor, in character inventory, the bottom boxes are almost inactive. (#1946)
• Editor: The button for creating radar maps seems missing from map editor (#1959)

Maintenance Work

• Maintenance: Address TODO0009: possible endless loop (#2065)
• Maintenance: Depend on a minimum Rust feature level, not a specific version (#2173)
• Maintenance: Is it possible to make the Github runners do less work? (#2099)
• Maintenance: Our GitHub actions require some attention (#1994)
• Maintenance: Remove workaround for an old SDL bug in ScrollJA2Background (#2085)
• Maintenance: Use smart pointers to manage ZStripInfo structs (#1921)
• Maintenance: Remove getOptionalInt and co as they’ve become redundant (#1542)
• Maintenance: Cannot compile with GCC 15.1.1 (#2168)
• Maintenance: MinGW unit test errors with FILENAME in Logger_unittest.cc (#1916)
• Maintenance: MSYS2/MinGW standard build fails (#1917)
• Maintenance: Build fails with LTO due to ODR violations (#1963)
• Maintenance: Ja2-resource-pack doesn’t comply with RelWithDebInfo (#1623)

The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new release showcasing about a year of work. It includes several new features, plenty of bugfixes compared to previous versions and the original game, clean-ups of the old code base and a notable speedup.

Through 340 commits at least 44 bugs were fixed, 23 of which are known to affect vanilla.

New Features:

• Improvements to the Android port
• Middle-click mouse scrolling support
• Modding Improvements
  • More hardcoded values and assumptions are now externalized to additional or improved json files for easy editing in JSON: translations
  • More extension points for LUA scripting: strategic-level content

IMPORTANT: We changed the default directory where configuration and save games are located on Windows machines, in order to interfere less with Windows folder protection mechanisms. For now the old directory inside the Documents\JA2 folder still works, but a warning is printed in the logs, instructing you to move the files into the AppData\Roaming\JA2 directory. This will be changed in one of the next versions to only consider the new folder.

IMPORTANT: If you are switching between the nightly and release versions of JA2 Stracciatella on Android before you might need to uninstall the old APK before installing the new release. Make sure to backup your data before doing this as it might erase your save games.

We are shipping pre-built packages for Linux, Windows, macOS and Android. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download

http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/

Main Changelog:

Enhancements

• Enhancement: Do not update the entire screen texture every frame (#1755)
• Enhancement: [Windows] Change Stracciatella config dir location to AppData (#1864)
• Enhancement: Implement tab to view logs in Android launcher (#1782)
• Enhancement: Tactical: scroll by middle-mouse dragging (#1490)
• Enhancement: Warn if 1.13 is installed (#1693)
• Enhancement: Replace rapidjson with rust based implementation (#1773)
• Enhancement: Remove remove_dir_all rust dependency (#1905)
• Enhancement: Reduce CPU usage of the main menu screen #1927
• Enhancement: Add an option to use precompiled headers (#1836)
• Enhancement: Proposal: Revamp calling of the game loop (#1807)
• Enhancement: Refactor timer control (#1818)
• Enhancement: Remove a check for profile ID 53 in HandleSuppressionFire (#1753)
• Enhancement: Remove HandleSight NOWHERE error logging (#1801)
• Enhancement: Upgrade rust-version to 1.63.0 (#1904)
• Enhancement: Upgrade string_theory to 3.8 (#1907)

Modding Improvements

• Enhancement: Externalize Flo’s weapon deals bonus (#1734)
• Enhancement: Externalize translations (#1833)
• Enhancement: Strategic-level modding support (Event, Quests and Facts) (#1832)
• Enhancement: Setting blades like knife or machete below 3AP is causing a crash, when enemies or militia is trying to use it. (#1840)

Bugfixes (vanilla)

• Bugfix: Unfair bloodcat fight - stats farming (#1780)
• Bugfix: Fix memory leak in DrawMercsFaceToScreen (#1912)
• Bugfix: Tried to create item with Invalid ID while scrolling through items cheat (#1925)
• Bugfix: HandleTownLoyaltyForNPCRecruitment: no loyalty to increase if we’re n… (#1798)
• Bugfix: Blood type possible inconsistency (#1808)
• Bugfix: Error: “Strategic_Movement.cc: Failed to add movement event.” in tactical screen (#1703)
• Bugfix: Fix assertion failure in GetSelectedAssignSoldier (#1775)
• Bugfix: Fix bug in two FindGridNoFromSweetSpot* functions (#1876)
• Bugfix: Game reliably crashes in this particular situation. (#1856)
• Bugfix: Incorrect random number (#1810)
• Bugfix: Minor visual AP bug when firing burst fire + talon (#1765)
• Bugfix: Properly restore two Path AI variables upon return from function (#1698)
• Bugfix: Right ALT key doesn’t work the same as left ALT key (#539)
• Bugfix: Segfault on killing any next enemy, even if you leave and re-enter sector (#1664)
• Bugfix: Use correct gridno to calculate cost of a swipe attack (#1708)

Bugfixes

• Bugfix: Attempt to remove dead merc from list results in CTD (#1788)
• Bugfix: Bug report for simplified-chinese (#1784)
• Bugfix: Cannot shoot soldiers. Only mouth icons appears. (#1723)
• Bugfix: CAWS some burst fire weapon sounds are missing/not playing. (#1764)
• Bugfix: Crash when loading original 1.02 savegames (#1861)
• Bugfix: Crash when right-clicking on item’s attachement (#1863)
• Bugfix: Crosshair doesn’t change back to movement after hovering an enemy (#1778)
• Bugfix: IsThereASoldierInThisSector uses wrong SGPSector to index method (#1799)
• Bugfix: LMB doubleclicks on Android version after introducing touch controls (#1710)
• Bugfix: Mercs “bored/resigned - low morale” quotes are not beign played when selecting merc (#1757)
• Bugfix: Missing sound of RPK-74 in burst mode (#1714)
• Bugfix: Mouse cursor “jumps around” when double-clicking on mercs (#1369)
• Bugfix: Nordic keyboard layout. equal key to select all mercs does not work (#1844)
• Bugfix: Ordering more than one merc to repair vehicle causes them to repair items instead (#1813)
• Bugfix: Prevent overly long IMP nickname (#1827)
• Bugfix: Properly test if a group’s only member is a vehicle (#1705)
• Bugfix: Random crashes when opening emails on the in-game laptop (#1591)
• Bugfix: Strange input handling on follow-up shots. (#1735)
• Bugfix: Strategic map view of D15 Drassen SAM lacks information (#1745)
• Bugfix: Weapon choice vectors are incorrect (#1794)
• Bugfix: Enemy item status minimized when killed with cheats (#1924)
• Bugfix: Fix bug in InternalTacticalRemoveSoldier panel logic (#1920)
• Bugfix: Compiling with clang on mingw64 (#1816)

Editor

• Editor: When you add a regular rebel army to a sector using the map editor, then after won fight with enemies, any attempt to leave this sector causes a crash. (#1886)
• Editor: When you mark at least two items in terrain tabs in map editor, then when you click on X (closing current window), then map editor crashes. (#1896)
• Editor: When you want to add a key to a door in map editor, then after this you can’t close the window with editing lock attributes. (#1892)
• Editor: When you scroll types of characters in map editor, it sometimes crashes. (#1890)

Maintenance Work

• Maintenance: Changes required for C++20 compatibility (#1823)
• Maintenance: Clean up SGPStrings and remove many uses of C string functions (#1713)
• Maintenance: Remove some unused files and one function (#1706)
• Maintenance: Remove three unnecessary functions handling video refresh (#1837)
• Maintenance: Should we bump the cmake_minimum_required value? (#1828)

Jazbina, a reborn Slovenian gaming magazine, recently featured a retrospective of the Jagged Alliance series in its issue 15. JA1 and JA2 had their own article full of praise, noting the community is what kept the game alive. At the end JA2 Stracciatella got a quick mention:

Translation: “Garage upgrades like Deidranna Lives and JA2-Stracciatella provide fun to thousands of hardcore fans to this day.”

As one of the project goals is to make this great piece of software available for different devices, the Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team has now added an armhf-AppImage for Raspberry Pi’s. You can download it from the download page.

libfuse2 needs to be installed if missing.

The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new release showcasing about half a year of work. It includes several new features, plenty of bugfixes compared to previous versions and the original game, clean-ups of the old code base, and most notably the first official release of the Android version and support for touch controls.

Through 490 commits at least 76 bugs were fixed, 20 of which are known to affect vanilla.

New Features:

• Touch Controls: Control your mercenaries with the touch of a finger on touch-devices
• First Official Android Release: Play Jagged Alliance on the go on your Android device
• Modding Improvements
  • More hardcoded values and assumptions are now externalized to additional or improved json files for easy editing in JSON: item names, item descriptions, aim and range bonuses
  • More extension points for LUA scripting: change shop inventory and prices, react to merc hiring, create message boxes
• Stability Improvements: Fixes in memory management should lead to improved stability and less crashes

IMPORTANT: If you used older versions of JA2 Stracciatella on Android before you might need to uninstall them before installing the new release. Make sure to backup your data before doing this as it might erase your saves.

We are shipping pre-built packages for Linux, Windows, macOS and finally Android. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download

http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/

Main Changelog:

Enhancements

• Enhancement: Add CMake option to compile with ASAN enabled (#1689)
• Enhancement: Add read/write functionality for STCI to rust (#1527)
• Enhancement: Allow to choose vanilla version in Android launcher (#1684)
• Enhancement: Allow using system magic_enum (#1599)
• Enhancement: Android Asset VFS layer improvements (#1248)
• Enhancement: Android launcher settings tab (#1685)
• Enhancement: Autosaving / SavegameScreen Layout (#302) (#1669)
• Enhancement: Bump string theory to fix warnings (#1486)
• Enhancement: Deprecate C-style SLOG (#1487)
• Enhancement: Does MemMan still have a purpose? (#1574)
• Enhancement: Fails to build with miniaudio-0.11.9 (#1567)
• Enhancement: Gentoo ebuilds impossible if code gets downloaded at compile time. (v.0.18.0 and later) (#1377)
• Enhancement: Instructions and credits for the simplified chinese mod (#1514)
• Enhancement: Let FindNearestEdgePoint try harder to find a suitable gridno (#1632)
• Enhancement: LUA and SOL2 may be taken from system now (#1526)
• Enhancement: Make OppList.cc more robust (#1643)
• Enhancement: Make system miniaudio use possible (#1533)
• Enhancement: README.md: improve wording (#1598)
• Enhancement: Run game without blocking the launcher and add logs as a launcher tab (#1532)
• Enhancement: Tooltips to explain about resolution and scaling modes (#1663)
• Enhancement: Touch controls (#1552)

Modding Improvements

• Modding: Add integration points to change shop inventories and prices (#1609)
• Modding: Script extension points on new merc hired (#1672)
• Modding: Externalize item names and descriptions (#1575)
• Modding: Externalize more hardcoded values (#1541)
• Modding: Functions to make message boxes in Lua (#1614)
• Modding: Generate Lua enums from C++ codebase (#1286)

Bugfixes (vanilla)

• Bugfix (vanilla): Can’t steal weapon from enemy on roof (#1676)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Combatant counting in autoresolved combat is wrong (#1625)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Do not kill EPC twice in Auto Resolve (#1628)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Firing mode is not updated when stealing a gun (#196)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix FindNumTurnsBetweenDirs (#1566)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix helicopter run not using sound effects volume modifier (#1570)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix memory leak in tactical placement (#1644)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix rare vanilla vehicle bugs (#1522)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix several unrelated issues discovered by Coverity (#1608)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix stealing from enemies on roof (#1677)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix Structure not defined warnings (#1579)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix the Helicopter Sound Effect at the start of the game (#1562)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix two more world data OOB accesses (#1638)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix two out of range array accesses (#1640)
• Bugfix (vanilla): If Cambria recaptured by hostiles, you will get full amount of money like it is 100% yours every day (#1670)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Keep hand item and weapon mode in sync (#1577)
• Bugfix (vanilla): MineAMine: return amount mined only if mine is controlled by player (#1673)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Possible INT8 overflow in bLockDamage (#1538)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Segfault in DistanceVisible() (#1635)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Yet another segfault in DistanceVisible() (#1634)

Bugfixes

• Bugfix: 2 coverity fixes (#1543)
• Bugfix: Adressing some of the CIDs in NPC.cc (#1617)
• Bugfix: AIMHistory: fix not being able to move past AIM founder via Next (#1578)
• Bugfix: AI Path crash? Unable to progress. (#1569)
• Bugfix: Another crash while trying to go to Drassen Airport (#1589)
• Bugfix: Another round of Coverity fixes (#1652)
• Bugfix: Assertion failed FPS drop with display cover key (#1548)
• Bugfix: Crash when switching places with NPC (#1607)
• Bugfix: Discord link is invalid (#1597)
• Bugfix: Do not call NPCReachedDestination() for soldiers without a MercProfile (#1658)
• Bugfix: Fix #1538 Possible INT8 overflow in bLockDamage (#1554)
• Bugfix: Fix Android CI build for external contributors (#1534)
• Bugfix: Fix display of the debug pages (#1633)
• Bugfix: Fix error messages when commiting read pointer in sound system (#1546)
• Bugfix: Fix fast help active checks (#1582)
• Bugfix: Fix OOB array access in UpdatePublic (#1645)
• Bugfix: Fix seven more Coverity issues (#1637)
• Bugfix: Fix several problems detected by Memcheck (#1572)
• Bugfix: Fix the newly detected Coverity issues (#1647)
• Bugfix: Let Auto Resolve free the soldiers created for it (#1619)
• Bugfix: More coverity fixes (#1613)
• Bugfix: More Coverity fixes (#1649)
• Bugfix: More Coverity fixes (#1654)
• Bugfix: Newer Android release cant be installed over older Android release (#1503)
• Bugfix: Build signed release APKs instead of debug APKs for Android (#1518)
• Bugfix: Cannot save game anymore since v0.19.1 (#1550)
• Bugfix: Crash in Omerta when Fatima talks to Dmitri (#1581)
• Bugfix: Crash while defending Drassen Airport (#1584)
• Bugfix: Deposit/withdraw button just doesn’t work (#1666)
• Bugfix: Display correct location of militia training in Finances (#1641)
• Bugfix: Do not use the c_str() result of an already destroyed ST::string (#1603)
• Bugfix: Don’t try to move soldiers that are not in the sector in EndTurn() (#1585)
• Bugfix: Ensure RegisterBackgroundRect properly initializes BACKGROUND_SAVE structs (#1665)
• Bugfix: Fix Android package name (#1656)
• Bugfix: Fix bPercentCoverForGridno values going out of 0-100 bound (#1549)
• Bugfix: Fix crashes #1537 and #1559 (#1560)
• Bugfix: Fix ERROR_NOT_SAME_DEVICE for Windows (#1553)
• Bugfix: Fix incorrect schemas for weapons and item replacements (#1590)
• Bugfix: Fix indexing into m_sectorLandTypes (#1596)
• Bugfix: Fix memory leak in EmptyDialogueQueue() (#1655)
• Bugfix: Fix OOB in AIMHistory (#1605)
• Bugfix: Fix some remaining invalid format strings for sectors (#1573)
• Bugfix: Fix SwapMercPositions logic (#1611)
• Bugfix: Graphical corruption (#1661)
• Bugfix: Handle the EXDEV error on all OS’s where it can happen (#1530)
• Bugfix: Ice Cream truck out of fuel crash? (#1537)
• Bugfix: Let enemy soldiers climb onto roofs again (#1615)
• Bugfix: Rapidly right clicking stacked items exits with code -1073741819 (#1679)
• Bugfix: Restore the save game validity condition from before sector refactoring (#1563)
• Bugfix: Touch control fixes (#1682)
• Bugfix: Repeatable crash when opening tactical view in sector after game load (#1657)
• Bugfix: RUNTIME ERROR in Drassen Airport (#1588)
• Bugfix: Several more coverity fixes (#1544)
• Bugfix: Silence rapidjson build warnings (#1540)
• Bugfix: Skyrider crashes the game on my current progress (#1559)
• Bugfix: Store state for whom assignment menu is shown separately (#1692)

Maintenance Work

• Maintenance: 0.20 release checklist (#1680)
• Maintenance: Remove Debug.cc (#1488)
• Maintenance: Add bugfix release branch filter for appveyor (#1529)
• Maintenance: Cleanup clang compiler warnings (#1688)
• Maintenance: Cleanup KEY_ON_RING related code (#1561)
• Maintenance: Cmake: pass -Wno-deprecated-declarations to silence rapidjson #1540 (#1555)
• Maintenance: Cmake: rewrite the contributor tracking target (#1520)
• Maintenance: Coverity: enable asserts (#1621)
• Maintenance: Coverity_model: remove redundant model [ci skip] (#1636)
• Maintenance: Coverity: properly pass a cmake define [ci skip] (#1629)
• Maintenance: Debug: another attempt at avoiding asserting coverity reports (#1616)
• Maintenance: DefaultContentManager::loadTranslationTable: remove unused variable (#1528)
• Maintenance: Do not use abs() before hypot() (#1630)
• Maintenance: Do no update sight values in DecaySmokeEffects and DecayLightEffects (#1583)
• Maintenance: Encapsulate sectors v2 (#1479)
• Maintenance: Fix several incorrect gridno comparisons (#1622)
• Maintenance: Get rid of ndk fork in rust dependencies (#1519)
• Maintenance: New implementation of atan8 (#1565)
• Maintenance: New release? (#1660)
• Maintenance: Options to build with or without magic_enum (#1667)
• Maintenance: Overhaul Animation_Cache (#1571)
• Maintenance: Rapidjson: silence -Wclass-memaccess warnings #1486 (#1525)
• Maintenance: Remove Debug.cc #1488 (#1523)
• Maintenance: Remove Logger.cc (#1564)
• Maintenance: Remove MemMan.h and MemMan.cc (#1576)
• Maintenance: Remove the MouseRegion::Base hack (#1683)
• Maintenance: Small cleanups (#1551)
• Maintenance: Store BACKGROUND_SAVE structs in a forward_list (#1586)
• Maintenance: Try to avoid false positives from coverity scans (#1610)
• Maintenance: Unify SLOG (#1524)
• Maintenance: Upgrade Android dependencies and clean up deprecations (#1642)
• Maintenance: Upgrade Android NDK to r25 (#1639)
• Maintenance: Upgrade included miniaudio to 0.11.9 (#1568)
• Maintenance: Upgrade included SDL to 2.0.20 (#1515)
• Maintenance: Upgrade miniaudio dependency to latest version in 0.10.x branch (#1531)
• Maintenance: Upgrading googletest to v1.11 (#1668)
• Maintenance: Use standard functions instead of macros and reimplementations (#1502)

The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new minor bugfix release following 0.19.0. Most notably a crash related to assigning merc roles is fixed.

IMPORTANT: If you had several save game folders from using different mods, you will have to manually (arbitrarily) rename the files and move them into the main SavedGames folder.

NOTE: Automatic brightness correction has been disabled, so pass eg. -brightness 1.3 on the command line if you need to increase brightness/gamma to 130%.

We are shipping pre-built packages for Linux, Windows and macOS. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download

http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/ Make sure to uninstall any previous versions before installing.

Main Changelog:

Bugfix (vanilla)

• Most of the “sleep” button for 18th merc acts like start/stop time (#1517)

Bugfix

• Small issues with the new Save Game screen (#1508)
• Fix save load screen issues (#1509)
• Crash in Chitzena / Do not check for empty squad if none is selected (#1476)

The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new release showcasing a year of work. It includes several new features, plenty of bugfixes compared to previous versions and the original game, clean-ups of the old code base, and most notably a new saving&loading screen. Our Chinese fans will now be able to play the game in their own language (zh_CN).

Through 275 commits at least 41 bugs were fixed, 15 of which are known to affect vanilla.

New Features:

• (Simplified) Chinese language support
• Support for arbitrary amounts of saved games which are all displayed in the same list whether with or without mods
• Modding improvements
  • More hardcoded values and assumptions are now externalized to additional or improved json files for easy editing (item graphics, vehicles, starting sector, squad size, weapon shooting sounds)
  • Mods can provide manifest files with important metadata — to be displayed in the launcher and stored in saved games
• Configurable website loading time, maximum squad size game speed and an option to refill totally defeated patrol groups (set in game.json)
• The optional chance-to-hit now accounts for aiming and is not tied to F, but show_hit_chance in game.json
• Improvements to the android work-in-progress port and support for the Apple M1 chips

IMPORTANT: If you had several save game folders from using different mods, you will have to manually (arbitrarily) rename the files and move them into the main SavedGames folder.

NOTE: Automatic brightness correction has been disabled, so pass eg. -brightness 1.3 on the command line if you need to increase brightness/gamma to 130%.

We are shipping pre-built packages for Linux, Windows and macOS. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download

http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/ Make sure to uninstall any previous versions before installing.

Main Changelog:

Bugfix (vanilla)

• AI Order/Attitude incorrect comparison (#1385)
• Fix graphical glitching during scrolling when merc lights are enabled (#1437)
• GuiBaseJA2Clock signed/unsigned inconsistency (#1386)
• Incorrect adjacent teammates search (#1388)
• Incorrect AI function call (#1391)
• Incorrect armour type comparison when searching for better items on the ground (#1392)
• Incorrect condition, || instead of && (#1463)
• Incorrect target level when calculating throw params (#1397)
• Smoke on the floor level affects vision on the roof. (#1394)
• Throw search ends if one the checked spots was too far (#1384)
• When setting special movement cost for fences, check that tile after the fence is not blocked (#1389)
• Wrong amount shown on items pop-up (#1336)
• Zero calculated CTH can result in 1% actual bullet hit (#1393)
• Crash when handing Fatima the letter while another merc discovers an item (#1378)
• Fix camera focus when clicking on overhead map (#1438)
• Stuck at automatic first aid screen (#1407)

Bugfix

• Artifacts when entering a map (#95)
• Build on mingw64 - Error with copying file stracciatella_c_api.lib (#1296)
• Crash when opening “Continue Saved Game” screen (#1452)
• Error when building on MSYS2 system on windows (#1398)
• Game crash in P3 basement (#1443)
• ‘No such file or directory’ when attempting to save under some circumstances as of e202b45 (#1379)
• Replying to Mike crashes the game (#1444)
• Allow more than 1 dead mercs on squad (#1410)
• Chat boxes sometimes don’t fit the text (#1477)
• Crash when doing aimed burst to certain NPCs (#1365)
• Failed assertion (debug build) or segfault (RelWithDebugInfo) when picking up a delivery, or collecting a bounty with all inventory slots full (#1387)
• Fix chance-to-hit preview for rooftop targets (#1427)
• Fixing signedness errors in Strategic AI (#1420)
• Fix UI overlay glitches in tactical UI (#1424)
• Game temporarily hangs (stopwatch) when spotting an item mid movement (#1367)
• Minor regression of VFS case-insensitivity (#1465)
• Refund the correct amount of medical deposit (#1412)
• Can’t save games on Android since JA2S 0.19 20210920 build (#1447)
• Do not adjust screen brightness unless requested (#1383)
• Error saving game (#1472)
• Fix #1379: Read and reset sector flags when removing temp files (#1381)
• Truncated error message when failing to build virtual file system (VFS) (#1433)
• Passing bad command-line flags doesn’t show the whole -help (#1494)
• Update fltk library to version 1.3.8 (#1500)
• Remove explicit architecture in macOS toolchain file (#1506)
• Update SDL2 to 2.0.20 for macOS (#1505)
• Slf archive and folder confusion (#667)

Enhancement

• Supporting chinese localization (#810)
• Added option for mouse cursor to always be visible in tactical view (#1372)
• Add OpenBSD toolchain file and update build instructions (#1396)
• Add the possibility to provide a mod manifest (#1432)
• Appending extra game states at the end of Saves (#1282)
• Change the squad save format (#1411)
• Config var for scaling website loading time on laptop (#1376)
• Dynamic tactical bottom bar (#1409)
• Excessive temp file usage in .ja2/tmp/temp (#1255)
• Externalize item graphics (#1459)
• Externalize squad size (#1415)
• Externalize all weapon shooting sounds properly (#1456)
• Externalize vehicles (#1400)
• Externalizing starting sector (#1359)
• Feature Request: Chance-to-hit feature improvements (#1368)
• Highlight compatible items in sector inventory (#1439)
• Launcher: preload all mods (#1352)
• Make save game location configurable on Android (#1337)
• Move the tactical screen bottom panel to the center (#1404)
• Option to refill totally defeated patrol groups (#1421)
• Refactor operations with temporary files (#135)
• Support an arbitrary amount of saved games (#823)
• Support arbitrary save game filenames (#822)
• Reduce direct references to item ids (#1462)
• File open speedup (#1402)
• Read and write to a proper temporary directory (#1374)
• Add JSON schema for all externalized files (#1422)
• Better editor save load dialog (#1362)

Maintenance

• 0.19 release checklist (#1356)
• AppImage does not start in Debian 10 => libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.26’ not found (#1360)
• CI-build with gcc-8 (#1361)
• Compiling JA2S 0.18 with Raspberry Pi failed (#1436)
• Fix C4099 warning on MSVC (#1403)
• Replace references to profileID in externalized JSON with profile name (#1453)
• VfsFile_open performance (#1268)
• Add editorconfig (#1460)
• Install CMake 3.21 for MinGW builds (#1455)
• DefaultContentManager::loadTranslationTable skipping some languages (#1475)
• Fix translation tables (#1454)
• Read tilecache names from VFS (#1363)
• Refactor the rest of file accesses to go through GCM where applicable (#1401)
• Remove explicit paths from DefaultContentManager startup (#1358)

The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new release. It includes several new features, plenty of bugfixes compared to previous versions and the original game, clean-ups of the old code base, and most notably much more work in externalizing hardcoded game data.

Through 479 commits at least 30 bugs were fixed, 5 of which are known to affect vanilla.

New Features:

• Modding improvements
  • Several hardcoded values and assumptions are now externalized to additional json files for easy editing (SAM sites, merchants, game items, M.E.R.C. soldiers, sector info, weapon cache location, strategic AI policy, NPC placement)
  • Initial scripting support via lua scripts
  • Supporting Unfinished Business tilesets
  • Support for ogg and mp3 audio formats
• Configurable game speed (set ms_per_time_slice in game.json)
• Self-contained AppImage Linux builds
• Preliminary Android build (beware: not adapted for touch input)
• A chance-to-hit F hotkey

We are shipping pre-built packages for Linux, Windows and OS X. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download: http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/ Make sure to uninstall any previous versions before installing.

Build changes:

• a C++17 compatible compiler is now required

Warning: SDL2 2.0.6 on Linux has a fatal bug in the audio conversion code. As a workaround, the game automatically disables all sounds if it detects this version during startup. Please downgrade to version 2.0.5 or use version 2.0.7 or later.

Main Changelog:

• Bugfix (vanilla): Game freezes for about 4 seconds when a fight starts or a round is finished. (#1219)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Game hanging after an attack (#1318)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Player can compress time or move the squad while being ambushed by Bloodcats (#412)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Small bug-fixes from Unfinished Business (#1199
• Bugfix: Arrows in IMP attribute allocation screen not exact (#683)
• Bugfix: Correcting unsigned int comparison in NPC.cc (#1208)
• Bugfix: Fix the Tileset defaulting logic (#1218)
• Bugfix: Fredo refuses to repair extended ears (#1309)
• Bugfix: Game hangs when loading a new music track (#1249)
• Bugfix: Ja2.exe: exited with status code -1073741819 (#1196)
• Bugfix: Segfault at G1 map inventory (#1234)
• Bugfix: Fixing game stuck after halting soldier (#1325)
• Bugfix: Fixing illegal array access flagged by Coverity (#1203)
• Bugfix: Fixing incorrect item flags checks (#1310)
• Bugfix: Fix MovementNoise() (#1307)
• Bugfix: No strategic movements during bloodcat ambush (#1174)
• Bugfix: Replacing invalid attached objects in preplaced world items (#1313)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Correcting dealers.json data error (#1195)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Fix: Buttons stay disabled after leaving the shop keeper interface (#1312)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Fix punching and throwing rocks (#1194)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Fix warp exit from mine (#1186)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Game crashed after helicopter landed. It deleted my save. (#1216)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Moddable music error - not enough memory (#664)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Rock cannot be thrown as a weapon (#1192)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Screenshots don’t show path APs and sometimes don’t show path either (#376)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Unused items slots should be IC_NONE (#1191)
• Bugfix (non-vanilla): Fix Dead-is-dead failure on fresh install (#1217)
• Enhancement: Adding the monster spit effect to weapons.json (#1179)
• Enhancement: Address #1292 item 1: support Urban Chaos quasi-empty smacker files (#1326)
• Enhancement: Android build (#228)
• Enhancement: Auto-switch attached goggles (#1176)
• Enhancement: Configurable BASETIMESLICE duration (#1173)
• Enhancement: Create packages for Linux (#138)
• Enhancement: Dependency inversion with Observable and notify (#1223)
• Enhancement: Disable quick edit mode when Launcher starts (Windows only) (#1171)
• Enhancement: Display a message if player choose an inaccessible dropoff sector (#1204)
• Enhancement: Externalize (arms) dealer info (#1185)
• Enhancement: Externalize SAM air control table (#1181)
• Enhancement: Externalize sector Loading Screens (#1182)
• Enhancement: Externalizing RPC small faces (#1242)
• Enhancement: Feature: Add chance-to-hit hotkey (#1188)
• Enhancement: Game speed / walking speed (#148)
• Enhancement: Generalizing hard-coded dealer logic (#1189)
• Enhancement: Improve Pixel-Perfect scaling usability (#1175)
• Enhancement: Ja2.log should go to temp (#1257)
• Enhancement: Lua scripting engine (#1209)
• Enhancement: Attached goggles can’t be auto-switched (#649)
• Enhancement: Notify the player of important NPC in sector (#1200)
• Enhancement: OGG audio files support (#64)
• Enhancement: Proposal: Build distro-agnostic packages for Linux releases instead of Debian Package (#1213)
• Enhancement: Scaling usability improvements (#1169)
• Enhancement: Screenshot folder (#639)
• Enhancement: Supplementary data to Merc Profiles (#1247)
• Enhancement: Support Unfinished Business (“JA 2.5”) tilesets (#1210)
• Enhancement: Tactical AI patches from Unfinished Business (#1281)
• Enhancement: Unfinished Business weapons mod (#1128)
• Enhancement: Use caching on build bots / speed up builds (#1102)
• Enhancement: Externalization and generalization of M.E.R.C. (#1244)
• Enhancement: Patches from Unfinished Business (#1198)
• Enhancement: Android build (#1240)
• Enhancement: Better lua debugging functionality (#1214)
• Enhancement: Build AppImage for linux (#1215)
• Enhancement: Observable listeners from Lua scripts (#1238)
• Maintenance: 0.18 checklist (#1331)
• Maintenance: Adding game policy options to customize when M.E.R.C. goes online (#1245)
• Maintenance: Better error messages on JSON parse errors (#1167)
• Maintenance: Externalize cache sectors (#1267)
• Maintenance: Externalize game items (#1295)
• Maintenance: Externalize sector land types (#1264)
• Maintenance: Externalize Strategic AI policy (#1306)
• Maintenance: Externalizing I.M.P. activation code (#1280)
• Maintenance: Externalizing I.M.P. initial level (#1260)
• Maintenance: Externalizing initial NPC placements (#1263)
• Maintenance: Externalizing M.E.R.C. profile bio index (#1251)
• Maintenance: Externalizing strategic map secrets (#1262)
• Maintenance: Fixing compiler and coverity warnings (#1190)
• Maintenance: Print unhandled exception message on Windows (#1168)
• Maintenance: Rework SoundMan.cc to stream audio if necessary (#1274)
• Maintenance: TravisCI Mac builds no longer free (#1276)
• Maintenance: Turn off console Quick Edit mode (Windows only) (#1166)
• Maintenance: Upgrade AppVeyor builds to VC++ 2019 (#1197)
• Maintenance: Another try at fixing travis build (#1225)
• Maintenance: Array-bounds checks and clean up (#1207)
• Maintenance: Build caching on AppVeyor (#1227)
• Maintenance: Change signature of GetMapTempFileName() (#1324)
• Maintenance: Clean up dead code (#1222)
• Maintenance: Clean up Map Screen code (#1202)
• Maintenance: Docs/Release-checklist.md: converted to github checklist (#1170)
• Maintenance: More flexible NPC faces handling (#1239)
• Maintenance: More TileEngine refactoring (#1236)
• Maintenance: Proposal: Remove the screenshot and video capture functionality (#1327)
• Maintenance: Reduce noise in logs (#1180)
• Maintenance: Refactor SAM sites logic (#1232)
• Maintenance: Refactor TileEngine (#1211)
• Maintenance: Remove animation view screen (#1299)
• Maintenance: Remove reinterpret_casts in LoadSaveData.cc (#1297)
• Maintenance: Sccache all the things (#1235)
• Maintenance: SetGroupArrivalTime to be a member of GROUP (#1241)
• Maintenance: Try to fix Mac build (#1226)
• Maintenance: Try to fix travis ci build (#1224)
• Maintenance: Updating cargo deps (#1221)
• Maintenance: Use fixed Windows SDK version on appveyor (#1212)
• Maintenance: Upgrading to C++ 17 (#1284)

The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new release. Over two years in the making, it includes several new features, plenty of bugfixes compared to previous versions and the original game, more work in externalizing data and innumerable clean-ups of the old code base. Also notable is the better launcher experience and easier tweaking of settings for power users and modders.

Through over 1520 commits at least 61 bugs were fixed, 28 of which affect vanilla.

New Features:

• A redesigned graphical launcher with more toggles, multiple mod support and the location of the main settings file (game.json)
• Data files are now searched for in several places and more easily overriden
• Several hardcoded values and assumptions are now externalized to json files for easy editing
• Basic Wildfire and Night Ops support
• Several new standalone optional mini-mods
• The map editor now works out of the box, using bundled dummy graphics
• Several smaller features like IMP import and better screen scaling options

We are shipping pre-built packages for Ubuntu, Windows and OS X. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download: http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/ Make sure to uninstall any previous versions before installing.

Build changes:

• a C++11 compatible compiler is now required
• Dependency on boost has been removed
• New dependency: string theory, a string library (also bundled in the repo)

Warning: SDL2 2.0.6 on Linux has a fatal bug in the audio conversion code. As a workaround, the game automatically disables all sounds if it detects this version during startup. Please downgrade to version 2.0.5 or use version 2.0.7 or later.

Main Changelog:

• Bugfix (vanilla): Civilians dying causes crash (#1068)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix “Travel to Surface?” prompt not working in Cambria/Alma mine (#1087)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix Doreen’s under attack animations not playing properly (#157)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix Drassen mine doubling production before depletion (#1144)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix HandleMilitiaPromotions resetting kill count if it wasn’t used (#674)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix a crash when a factioned civilian bleeds out (#1138)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix assert on sector entry: militia promotion elsewhere (#671)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix cleaning blood from knives (#769)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix collapsing merc falling through a closed door (#476)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix crash from a panic trigger when there are no soldiers (#851)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix enemy being trapped on a border of the tactical map (#125)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix enemy in the northmost map cells not being targetable in the head (#195)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix extra crows when a game is loaded (#812)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix fighting a battle in F10 breaking the hillbilly quest (#688)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix flag checking (#793)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix freeze when accessing options by pressing o during a cutscene (#752)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix game crashe on helicopter coming back to Drassen (#1107)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix giving items to civilians in Drassen causing endless stopwatch (#694)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix glitchy opening of locked doors (#475)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix incorrect tactical path calculation (#375)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix life insurance making player’s balance negative (#93)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix possible division by zero / SIGFPE (#720)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix reproducible crash in Alma H14 when using explosives on building. (#294)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix runtime error in sector I2 (#492)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix south-east-north U-turn in TraceCharAnimatedRoute and TracePathRoute (#885)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fixed bug when picking up items during combat doesn’t deduct APs (#802)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Prevent displaying the door popup if dialog is running (#1062)
• Bugfix (vanilla): TODO0008: Attitude generation is broken (#756)
• Bugfix: Avoid hit chance beyond 100% (#1140)
• Bugfix: Avoid interrupted dialogue - endless stopwatch (#427)
• Bugfix: Change release builds to link against debug and release runtime on MSVC (#641)
• Bugfix: Close master bug for viewport/placement related bugs (#225)
• Bugfix: Fix “ERROR saving the game” after Ivan has arrived (#487)
• Bugfix: Fix -nosound failing an assert (#1084)
• Bugfix: Fix IMP quiz honest answers mod directory case sensitivity (#751)
• Bugfix: Fix Mac OS Sierra Russian font bug (#485)
• Bugfix: Fix Mac Sierra mouse pointer being restricted when starting with -fullscreen (#459)
• Bugfix: Fix RU game crashing when hiring when browsing M.E.R.C. (#65)
• Bugfix: Fix Skyrider claiming to not have a chopper after landing in Estoni (#723)
• Bugfix: Fix attacking the legs doing no damage (#778)
• Bugfix: Fix being unable to scroll the screen when entering turn mode (#1122)
• Bugfix: Fix clipping issue with radarmaps (#73)
• Bugfix: Fix crash after scene about capturing northeast sam site (#721)
• Bugfix: Fix encoding issue with some Quest Texts crashing the game hard (#927)
• Bugfix: Fix format string issue: “Hire for ${} per day” (#1073)
• Bugfix: Fix graphical glitch when doing a RMB click on level preview (#366)
• Bugfix: Fix inaccessible area in tactical view (#171)
• Bugfix: Fix incorrect body positions on high resolution (#119)
• Bugfix: Fix main menu music not restarting (#87)
• Bugfix: Fix militia training not being available in H8 - Cambria Mine (#1103)
• Bugfix: Fix segmentation fault on soldier death (#753)
• Bugfix: Fix sliders in IMP creation with altered game.json being messed up (#644)
• Bugfix: Fix tactical interface rendering on strategic interface. (#834)
• Bugfix: Fix time consuming logging (#1137)
• Bugfix: Fix unduly aborted steal (#789)
• Bugfix: Fixed crash due to assertion in Strategic_AI::MoveSAIGroupToSector() (#735)
• Bugfix: Fixed delay after stealing items from another merc. (#737)
• Bugfix: Fixed sound clipping in SoundMan (#807)
• Bugfix: Set the directory of the file chooser (#818)
• Bugfix: Support json with comments in rust (#838)
• Bugfix: Vvx’s bugfixes and more robust game.json handling (#1133)
• Editor: Add latest free editor.slf in the build system (#859)
• Editor: Fix inability change merc colors in Map Editor (#1113)
• Enhancement: Add a free Editor.slf (#30)
• Enhancement: Add a warning about min_attribute_points < 15 to game.json (#681)
• Enhancement: Add basic Night Ops support
• Enhancement: Add brightness/gamma support (#709)
• Enhancement: Added GroupAutoReload hotkey Ctrl-Shift-R (#1085)
• Enhancement: Alternate IMP creation mod (#37)
• Enhancement: Autodetect version of the game resource (#42)
• Enhancement: Externalize mines (#1098)
• Enhancement: Externalize several hardcoded map features
• Enhancement: Improve pathfinding on long distances (#678)
• Enhancement: Improve the error message when data_dir is not valid. (#692)
• Enhancement: Increase C++ standard to C++11 (#619)
• Enhancement: Modularize rust code (#748)
• Enhancement: Skip autosave confirmation sound in DiD mode (#646)
• Enhancement: Support for Wildfire maps (#1011)
• Enhancement: Support game.json in user directory (possibly ~/.ja2) (#707)
• Enhancement: Support integer scaling for pixel perfect image (#715)
• Enhancement: Support merging of stacked items (#690)
• Enhancement: Support multiple data paths (#290)
• Enhancement: Vvx’s externalizations and mods (#1133)
• Launcher: Avoid “Unable to create directory” errors (#719)
• Launcher: Display installed game.json location (#630)
• Launcher: Launcher autodetects version (#820)
• Launcher: Multiple mods support (#840)
• Launcher: Redesign the launcher (#833)
• Launcher: Use more readable labels (#731)
• Maintenance: Add panic=abort to rust library (#813)
• Maintenance: Add rust requirement notes and lockfile (#759)
• Maintenance: Add unit test to parse every JSON in externalized dir (#1116)
• Maintenance: Build MinGW on travis (#729)
• Maintenance: Build VS2017 on appveyor (#730)
• Maintenance: CMake: External project all the things (#711)
• Maintenance: CMake: do not add the directories to the sources list (#697)
• Maintenance: Catch and ignore exception with bad map data (#1143)
• Maintenance: Change all missnamed data dirs to game dirs (#839)
• Maintenance: Cleanup realtime (#662)
• Maintenance: Cleanup turnbased (#636)
• Maintenance: Correctly set toolchain and local gtest in toolchain files (#739)
• Maintenance: Document slog license (#458)
• Maintenance: Fix -Wpointer-bool-conversion warnings (#792)
• Maintenance: Fix TODO0006 (#767)
• Maintenance: Fix Visual Studio Build errors (#725)
• Maintenance: Fix a few more warnings and enable most of -Wall and -Wextra (#828)
• Maintenance: Fix clang warnings (#826)
• Maintenance: Fix missing libpng12.so.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 (#747)
• Maintenance: Log level adjustments (#1057)
• Maintenance: Nightlies are not built anymore (#873)
• Maintenance: Publish AppVeyor-built packages as artifacts (#669)
• Maintenance: Refactor external dependency handling (#362)
• Maintenance: Remove boost (#999)
• Maintenance: Remove boost foreach (#655)
• Maintenance: Remove build boxes (#728)
• Maintenance: Remove redundant screen coordinate variables (#736)
• Maintenance: Removed silly camo kit addition (#768)
• Maintenance: Replace boost::shared_ptr with std::shared_ptr (#658)
• Maintenance: Rework random number generation (#846)
• Maintenance: Rustify LibraryDB (#835)
• Maintenance: Ubuntu 19.10 installation issues (#886)
• Maintenance: Update contributors.txt (#1151)
• Maintenance: Various memory fixes (#743)
• Maintenance: Wrote CONTRIBUTING.md / contributor guidelines (#841)

This is a bugfix release with two crash fixes and a launcher clarification.

Download: http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/

Full Changelog:

• Bugfix: Fix crash during AI turn in Meduna (#495)
• Bugfix: Prevent saving during stopwatch (#661)
• Bugfix: Fix crash during load screen with RUSSIAN data files (#695)
• Launcher: Change label “JA2 Data Directory” to “JA2 Game Directory” (#693)

The Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present a new release. A long time in the making, it includes several new features, plenty of bugfixes compared to previous versions and the original game, and more work in externalizing and cleaning up the old code base.

Through 874 commits 59 bugs were fixed. 15 of the fixed bugs affect vanilla.

New Features:

• A graphical launcher
• “Dead is Dead” mode: documentation
• 4 new bunbled optional mini-mods: Honest IMP Questions, Generous Rebels, O Fortuna, From Russia With Love
• The game window is now resizable, which enables software pixel scaling.
• Some fixes and tweaks cherry-picked from 1.13.
• Configuration is now stored in a JSON file.
• Comments have been added to the configuration file making it easier to tweak.

We are shipping pre-built packages for Ubuntu, Windows and OS X. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella. For users willing to take a risk we also started to provide automatically created nightly builds.

Download: http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/

Build changes:

• The build system has been updated and is now based on cmake.
• SDL has been replaced with SDL2.
• Several other dependencies have been updated.
• The optional graphical launcher requires FLTK.
• Rust has been added as a new dependency. It is recommended to use the latest version provided by rustup. Rust libraries needed to build the project are automatically downloaded by cmake/cargo.

Warning: SDL2 2.0.6 has a fatal bug in the audio conversion code. As a workaround, the game automatically disables all sounds if it detects this version during startup. Please downgrade to version 2.0.5 or use version 2.0.7 or later.

From the next release onward, the project will start using C++11 features. Please let us know if you’re stuck with an ancient compiler that doesn’t support this standard.

Full Changelog:

• Bugfix (vanilla): Do not increase shots fired statistic without a live target (#622)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix Bobby Ray’s popup ‘Out of Stock’ appearing again when trying to leave the website (#534)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix gas on a roof can damage the merc underneath the roof (#477)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix open doors can block grenades (#94)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix smoke/gas spreads over roof edge (#600)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix climbing makes mercs visible at night (#402)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix throwing knife flying animation messed up (#395)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix helicopter is ignored by pathfinding (#317)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix area select rectangle not removed if interrupted (#550)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix replace non-existing corpse animation (#526)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix replace reference to non-existing flame animation (#525)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix doorcr_b.wav sound file exception (#520)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix game crash when inserting ceramic plates (#516)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix unconscious merc gains exp for bullet avoidance (#163)
• Bugfix (vanilla): Fix free disk space is calculated wrong (#413)
• Bugfix: Fix game speed is generally slow (#99)
• Bugfix: Don’t crash if we don’t have a target for punching (#627)
• Bugfix: Don’t crash in SoundLoadDisk() on Arch Linux with SDL2 2.0.6 (#608)
• Bugfix: Fix sound memory limit hit after upgrading to SDL 2.0.7 (#609)
• Bugfix: Fix the rust cli parser does not accept relative paths (#559)
• Bugfix: Fix getting “Reading from file failed” when fast forwarding time after savegame load (#528)
• Bugfix: Fix crash in laptop AND huge memory footprint (#68)
• Bugfix: Fix adding money with ‘+’ key cheat not working (#426)
• Bugfix: Fix hit by grenade issues (#247)
• Bugfix: Fix MERCS can punch through open doors (#595)
• Bugfix: Fix attack for 0 AP (#192)
• Bugfix: Alt+o cheat damages bloodcats now (#583)
• Bugfix: Passive bloodcat ambush fix (#584)
• Bugfix: Fix when enemy is noticed, no AP for action may be taken (#188)
• Bugfix: Fix attacking teammate(dialogue) on roof puts him through the roof (#567)
• Bugfix: Fix mysteriously disappearing APs when stealing (#191)
• Bugfix: Fix position of Mercenary task orders in Tactical screen (#537)
• Bugfix: Fix and enhance cli switch parsing (#515)
• Bugfix: Fix maximum militia Message at the wrong position (#540)
• Bugfix: Fix build fails if there is a space in the directory name (#529)
• Bugfix: Shrink gfKeyState (alternative) (#523)
• Bugfix: Teach (Estimate)ActionPoints about KID_SKIPPING (#502)
• Bugfix: Fix segfault in Blt8BPPDataTo16BPPBufferTransZTranslucent when rendering smoke (#468)
• Bugfix: Remove AI deadlocks (#466)
• Bugfix: Fix experience gain not acknowledged properly (#398)
• Bugfix: Fix minimap flickering on selected merc (#202)
• Bugfix: Fix current merc in minimap flickering (#452)
• Bugfix: Check for time accelleration properly when checking for end of turn (#451)
• Bugfix: Fix accelerated bleeding when returning to realtime (#160)
• Bugfix: Fix graphical glitch in main menu after quitting a game (#106)
• Bugfix: Fix menu bug when ending a game (#72)
• Bugfix: Fix can’t type IMP code after saving via Save screen (#419)
• Bugfix: Fix issues with text inputs (#429)
• Bugfix: Fix game crashes during enemy turn (#415)
• Bugfix: Fix description box missing when opening “Deposit/Withdraw money” widget in Tactical screen (#379)
• Bugfix: Fix shipping cost BR not redrawn properly (#394)
• Bugfix: Fix bad Performance in OS X (#319)
• Bugfix: Fix autoresolve crash (#381)
• Bugfix: Only check retreat conditions for valid sectors (#374)
• Bugfix: Enable assertive asserts only on debug builds (#373)
• Bugfix: Show version number in main menu (#359)
• Bugfix: Fix minor debug page fault (#337)
• Bugfix: Fix undefined behaviour in LOS.cc (#342)
• Bugfix: Leave running stance if not moving (#194)
• Enhancement (vanilla): Fix merc forgets his stance after jumping on a roof (#84)
• Enhancement (vanilla): Fix selling attachments to Tony - strange prices (#423)
• Enhancement (vanilla): Add yellow or green star for attached Talon (#424)
• Enhancement: Add extra item combinations (#623)
• Enhancement: Unify hotkeys (#626)
• Enhancement: Integrate vxx’s work (#307)
• Enhancement: Initial Launcher Implementation (#548)
• Enhancement: Allow resizing of game window (#555)
• Enhancement: Move ja2.ini to json (#291)
• Enhancement: Set options in ja2.ini (#298)
• Enhancement: Change name of the user folder (#164)
• Enhancement: Implement automated nightly builds (#442)
• Enhancement: Add Appveyor CI (#440)
• Enhancement: Add comments explaining game.json variables (#401)
• Enhancement: Add new Game Mode: Dead is Dead (#308)
• Enhancement: Make music modable to increase music variety (#386)
• Enhancement: Update to SDL2 (#216)
• Enhancement: Support Tribsoft’s Linux port (#365)
• Enhancement: Introduce cmake build system (#354)
• Enhancement: Integrate gui_extras (#339)
• Enhancement: Implement uninplemented stuff (#264)
• Enhancement: Add “IMP Quiz Honest Answers” mini mod (#303)
• Enhancement: Simplify moving to the next sector in tactical view (windowed mode) (#314)
• Enhancement: Add “Generous Rebels” mini mod (#305)
• Maintenance: Explicitly initialize MovementMode (#635)
• Maintenance: Fix “Release mode” linking and deb file permissions (#634)
• Maintenance: Make CIs automatically build release packages (#632)
• Maintenance: Refactor build system and update documentation (#629)
• Maintenance: Misc cleanup (#625)
• Maintenance: Normalize whitespace (#556)
• Maintenance: CMake cleanup (minimal version) (#482)
• Maintenance: Remove #ifdef JA2 code (#471)
• Maintenance: Remove #ifdef JA2TESTVERSION code (#472)
• Maintenance: Remove #ifdef JA2BETAVERSION code (#470)
• Maintenance: Reorganize source tree (#455)
• Maintenance: Update rapidjson to 1.1.0 and add comments to game.json (#411)
• Maintenance: Externalize lib boost (#229)
• Maintenance: Update boost to 1.61 (#326)
• Maintenance: Rework debug logging (#60)
• Maintenance: Update smacker.c (#310)
• Maintenance: Remove WITH_MODS ifdef (#322)
• Maintenance: Rework logging (#250)

This is a bugfix release aimed at people who have issues with people spinning after loading savegames.

Download: http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/

Full Changelog:

• Bugfix: Fix people spinning on the spot when loading save games

The new Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella team is proud to present you with their first release. This is mainly a bugfix release and to reestablish the development. Therefore it does not bring a ton of new features but straightens a lot of stuff out. Larger changes have been postponed to the next version, so expect a more interesting changelog in the months to come.

New Features:

• Our new logo is now used as the application icon
• Using the brothels, ehm, services is now possible
• Improvements to the OpenBSD/FreeBSD builds

Additionally we are now shipping pre-built packages for Ubuntu, Windows and OS X. This should help users to easily get started with Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella.

Download: http://ja2-stracciatella.github.io/download/

Full Changelog:

• Feature: New logo is used as application icon
• Feature: Using the brothel in san mona is now possible (#76)
• Feature: Allow stacked item popup to have multiple lines.
• Feature: FreeBSD and OpenBSD build system improvements
• Bugfix: Fix water not being taken into account for movement noise
• Bugfix: Fix random crashes after AI-vs-AI autoresolve battles (#253)
• Bugfix: Talon cannot be loaded with two grenades anymore (#130)
• Bugfix: Mercs that end a turn without moving while running now leave running stance (#194)
• Bugfix: Helicopter shadow is now rendered all the way to the screen border on high resolutions (#261)
• Bugfix: Some interface elements were not rendered correctly in editor on high resolutions (#152)
• Bugfix: Repair can now be used in underground sectors (#152)
• Bugfix: Credit screen rendering was fixed for higher resolutions (#222)
• Bugfix: Some sounds sounded different from vanilla (#78)
• Bugfix: Broken contract button in strategic view (#80)
• Bugfix: Clipping issue with militia map (#88)
• Bugfix: Vertically center time compress text in its box
• Bugfix: Armor label position in strategy merc inventory
• Bugfix: Ammo label position in weapon detail view
• Bugfix: Only heal up Elliot if he is not already dead (#153)
• Bugfix: Patch from Thomas Moore to fix contract renewal interface freeze
• Bugfix: Position cash splitting interface correctly in strategic mode (#178)
• Bugfix: Cow is not a bloodcat
• Bugfix: Number of bloodcats on medium difficulty was the same as on hard
• Bugfix: Dont end up in a locked ui state when somebody leaves (#200)
• Bugfix: Fix corpses and items appearing in water (#179)
• Bugfix: Rare boxing crash when money is handed over (#199)
• Bugfix: crash when loading map (#143)
• Bugfix: End of meanwhile cutscene crash (#198)

Again there has been a regroup of Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella developers. Development has gained pace and a new release is on the horizon.

After the development in the last repository stalled, because the original owner didn’t have the time to maintain the project anymore the active developers decided to take responsibiliy of that. This introduces some major changes to our infrastructure

• We now have this beautiful website to inform you about the development process and new releases
• Development is now taking place at Github

We hope these changes speed up the development process significantly and we can bring you a new release soon.

Some pull requests were merged.

Version 0.12.352 has been released.

Version 0.12.275 has been released.