Mana client 0.5.0 released
It’s been a while since our two beta releases, and since then a lot additional fixes went in for the release. However, there has also been further development on manaserv, our own server project, which eventually led to incompatibilities that took some major changes to the client. These changes are too large and unfinished to go into a stable client release, hence we’re releasing a 0.5.0 version now. This version is half of what we wanted 1.0 to be. It has everything 1.0 was going to have, except support for manaserv.
The most active developer since 1.0.0-beta2 was Stefan Dombrowski, who literally went on a fixing spree. Several others also contributed fixes and improvements, which is detailed in the shortlog. Apart from fixes, this release also introduces support for an away mode (/away command), an option to disable transparency for slow CPUs, proper support for servers that don’t allow registration from the client and the replacement of the autoconf build system with CMake.
Since the last stable release of The Mana World (0.0.29.1), from which this project continued, the changes are major. A summary of them can be found in the NEWS file.
Thorbjørn Lindeijer - 03 Jan 2011