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FreeCol 0.12.0 has been released. Here are the release notes.

Yeah, that took a while.

Sunday, 2020-07-05:
This is a repost from the FreeCol forum to preserve this guide. It includes
a few additional improvements.
Many thanks to Blake for initially having me write this, trying everything out
causing the improvements and encouraging me now to post the news!

Stay tuned for the follow-up: The Hidden Story Of The Website Update!**

How To Use Jekyll For The FreeCol Website

Please, follow these steps! If you don't try it can never work.... read more

FreeCol 0.11.6 and subsequent development versions up to 2019-12-26 are subject to an XML External Entity parsing bug, due to use of a vulnerable Java library, as detailed in CVE-2018-1000825.
Older, unsupported versions since at least 0.10.0 may also be affected.

According to the CVE the bug can lead to disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, or port scanning, albeit with limited attacker control.... read more

Exciting news!!!
FreeCol Nightly Releases are ready!

Download an installer here:
https://github.com/FreeCol/freecol/releases

Please let us know if it works or does not work. This is experimental and I'm running on Mac, so have only tested the Mac installer thus far.
If you find bugs or annoyances, please report them to our bug tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freecol/bugs/

Nitty Gritty Technobabble stuff:
Nightly releases are initiated automatically whenever a merge is performed to the "slim" branch on Github. I'll change this later to a "prerelease" branch once we confirm everything works.
The slim branch excludes srcdata and the website, so clones work much faster on this branch. I'll probably change the initiation of a nightly release cron to run once a day only if there are new commits, so that merges can be performed multiple times a day without triggering a release every time.... read more

FreeCol 0.11.6 has been released. Here are the release notes.

FreeCol 0.11.5 has been released. Here are the release notes.

FreeCol 0.11.4 has been withdrawn due to a map generation bug. 0.11.5 will be available shortly.

FreeCol 0.11.3 has been released. Here are the release notes.

FreeCol 0.11.2 has been released. The release notes are here.

FreeCol 0.11.1 has been released. The release notes are here.

FreeCol 0.11.0 has been released. Full release notes here.

FreeCol 0.10.7 has been released. This is a bug fix release to correct some serious gameplay problems in 0.10.6. The release summary is here: http://www.freecol.org/news/releases.html

FreeCol 0.10.6 has been released, to coincide with the end of the world. The release summary is here: http://www.freecol.org/news/releases.html

FreeCol 0.10.5 has been released, mainly to fix serious save game
corruption bugs with 0.10.4. A few other bugs have been fixed, and
the amount of lumber delivered when a forest tile is cleared is now
more Col1 compatible.

We have released FreeCol 0.10.4, which fixes several issues reported
with previous versions, and should be able to load all games saved
with versions 0.9.x and 0.10.x. Enjoy!

We have just released FreeCol 0.10.1. It is a stable release that fixes many of the bugs reported after the first release of the 0.10.x series. Furthermore, the layout of some reports has been improved, and an alternative Colony Report has been added. FreeCol 0.10.1 should be able to load all savegames from the 0.9.x and 0.10.x series.

FreeCol 0.9.5 has been released.

This is a maintenance release with no notable new features. More
memory leaks that caused the game to slow down have been found and
fixed, as have a number of annoying bugs.

Several serious bugs, including a memory or reference leak that caused 0.9.3 to slow to a crawl, have been fixed. A graphical modification (mod) by misiulo adds new graphics for goods and resources. Translations for several languages have been considerably improved.

We have just released FreeCol 0.9.3. This release fixes several bugs,
including a combat bug that made it possible to capture colonies that
still had armed defenders. The handling of keyboard accelerators was
improved in several ways. Keyboard accelerators are now available for
virtually all mapboard actions, including movement, a feature that was
requested by several users who use keyboards without a key pad. And
keyboard accelerators are now (optionally) localized.... read more

FreeCol 0.9.2 has been released. This is a bug/feature-fix release,
the main changes being:

- The increased native land claims in 0.9.1 have been reverted to the
more moderate 0.9.0 behaviour, following comment that this made the
game too difficult. This feature will be back in a later release,
but only after implementing the feature that at least exempts your
*first* colony from having to buy its land (as was the case with the
original Colonization).... read more

This is purely a bug-fixing release that does not add any new features. The most notable bug squashed is one that prevented the REF from landing in the New World after you declare independence.

After several months of development, we are proud to announce the release of FreeCol 0.9.0. And we wish you all all the best for the year 2010.

During the development of FreeCol 0.9.0., we focused on three areas in particular: incrementally improving the AI, improving stability and updating the GUI. In addition to numerous bugfixes, FreeCol 0.9.0 introduces the following improvements:
AI

* AI breeds horses more effectively
* AI uses pioneers more effectively
* AI distributes workers more effectively
* AI creates and assigns soldiers more effectively
* AI constructs more advanced buildings... read more

We have now released version 0.8.2 of FreeCol - a turn based strategy game similar to Civilization. This release fixes several bugs and includes new or updated translations for 36 languages.

FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game in which the player has to conquer the new world. FreeCol 0.8.1 is a bugfix release. Here's a list of the bugs we have fixed as a part of this release:

http://www.freecol.org/bugtracker/0.8.1

FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game in which the player has to conquer the new world.

Version 0.8.0 of FreeCol, a turnbased strategy game, has now been released. The largest change introduced by this release is the ability to define gameplay mechanics using XML-files. You can easily change the rules you don't like or create a different game similar to FreeCol. Take a look at chapter 10 "Changing the Rules" in our manual if you would like to know more.... read more