0.9.23 tries to catch files that might crash the game early. A few bad HWPs have been floating around that could cause this.

• Any that have an old version of the Beach theme - beach is now an official theme and they are likely to mismatch.

• Hedgecraft - unfortunately the Hedgecraft HWP was badly packaged and overrides rubber globally, instead of just in the mod.

Any lua script that modifies key images that could change the map like girder, rubber or theme objects needs to be packaged like this:
MAIN.HWP → script.lua, script.hwp

With the override graphics of the script.hwp kept safely tucked away.

That way script.hwp will only be loaded when script.lua is launched.

It's party time for Hedgewars!
Version 0.9.23 has been finally released!

(It was about time, wasn't it? )

Download

Find the download links on the Download page. There's no Mac OS version this time, but we hope to release one soon.

Changes

This release is very big this time. We hope it was worth the very long wait.

Here's the official change log (warning: very big!).

The wiki will soon be updated for version 0.9.23.

Highlights

• Battalion style
• Fort mode is now a map type
• Fort mode now works with more than 2 teams
• Rubber duck weapon
• New theme, map, 3 forts, 3 missions, some hats and graves
• WxW allows you to select one of many wall sets
• Complete HedgeEditor overhaul
• Greatly improved script parameter support in styles
• Improved stats screens
• Various improvements for almost all styles
• AI hedgehogs can now use Homing Bee, Vampirism and Time Box
• Campaign page now shows your progress
• Countdown sounds
• Improved randomization options in team and multiplayer pages
• Improved theme customization support
• Various Lua API additions
• Fix cursor often jumping around after clicking
• A huge amount of bugfixes for both campaigns, the missions and styles
• Video recording functionality is restored

Click here to read more about the awesome new features in version 0.9.23!

Release Candidate 2 for 0.9.23 is here!

It's like Release Candidate 1 (see the previous post), but with a few more bugfixes.

We also added a new music for the Jungle theme, made by community member alfadur (thanks!).

Updated preliminary changelog with summary

For Windows users
Download 0.9.23 Release Candidate 2: Hedgewars-0.9.23-RC2.zip

GNU/Linux users:
As always, see Building on GNU/Linux, which should still apply. But it is strongly recommended to run:

cd ~/hg/hedgewars/trunk;hg pull -u;hg up 255c2978b366;cmake .;make install

To make sure you are in sync with the Windows version. Note you need SDL version 2 now.

We're moving closer and closer to the release. It's about time, isn't it?

Also, we kindly ask contributors to help with translations.

We announce Release Candidate 1 for 0.9.23.

We ask all translators to send us translations. We promise not to change any strings before the next release (the so-called string freeze).
See Translations for details and/or talk to us in our chatroom.

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Release Candidate 1

Here's the first release candidate (=preview) version of what will (hopefully) become version 0.9.23.

Look! A wild change log appeared! It's gigantic!

As always, bug reports are highly appreciated. If you want to help us, please test the major game features and post your findings here here.

For Windows users
Download 0.9.23 Release Candidate 1: Hedgewars-0.9.23-RC1.zip

GNU/Linux users:
As always, see Building on GNU/Linux, which should still apply. But it is strongly recommended to run:

cd ~/hg/hedgewars/trunk;hg pull -u;hg up 54300512e742;cmake .;make install

To make sure you are in sync with the Windows version. Note you need SDL version 2 now.

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Translations

If you want to help with translations, click here for the full post.

Here's the second alpha (=preview) version of what will (hopefully) become version 0.9.23.

This is only an early preview version and subject to change!

Like for the first Alpha, we like to hear feedback, especially about any critical bugs (crashes, game doesn't work, etc.) and if the Downloadable Content works. If you want to help us, please test the major game features and post here if anything is broken.
Thanks for the feedback on the first Alpha! It turned out to be completely broken for most players, especially on Windows.

These bugs (and countless others) should be fixed by now. We hope in the second Alpha you'll be able to actually see the new features.

For Windows users
Download 0.9.23 Windows alpha 2: Hedgewars-0.9.23-alpha2.zip

GNU/Linux users:
As always, see Building on GNU/Linux, which should still apply. But it is strongly recommended to run:

cd ~/hg/hedgewars/trunk;hg pull -u;hg up 89423b1db329;cmake .;make install

To make sure you are in sync with the Windows Alpha 2. Note you need SDL version 2 now.

Giving feedback
Please report your feedback here: https://hedgewars.org/node/6837