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Recent News
Mana client 0.7 released
The Manasource organisation is pleased to announce the release of Mana 0.7. This is a major update, bringing back the Mana client as a viable client for playing both The Mana World and its spin-off Source of Tales.
Highlights
Mana 0.7 has been ported to SDL 2, ships with two additional UI themes and packs a tremendous list of new features to support the current versions of tmwAthena and Manaserv.
Graphical updates have been made as well, featuring Windowed Fullscreen support, V-Sync and variable-time logic updates to play smooth on displays with high framerates. There is also automatic scaling to support HiDPI displays and improved quality of outlined text rendering.
The full changelog can be found in the repository.
Getting the Release
The release is available as Windows installer, macOS app bundle and Linux snap, Flatpak or AppImage. Check out the download page for all the links!
Contribute / Feedback
As the first major release in 13 years, it is of course not perfect. Any feedback is welcome! Maybe you’d like to join the development of this open source classic?
With the update to SDL 2, modern CMake and C++17, contributing to this client couldn’t be easier regardless of your operating system. Care has been taken to simplify the code, leading to a net reduction by over 2000 lines of C++ code even with all the features added in this release.
Join us on IRC or Discord or open issues in the appropriate repository. Thanks to all contributors and community members who helped test and refine this release!
Thorbjørn Lindeijer - 21 Aug 2025
The Mana World Organization rebranded to Manasource
To avoid confusion and to make each of our games feel at home within the
shared organization, The Mana World Organization is now rebranding to Manasource
and uses the previously dorment manasource.org domain as its new home!
Back in 2009 the Mana project split off from The Mana World in the hopes of encouraging collaboration and to shield developers from community politics.
Unfortunately, with many developers moving on, the Mana project became dormant sometime after the Mana 0.6.1 release. Some games that relied on this client became inactive as well, but The Mana World instead relied on the ManaPlus fork and is still alive today.
The Mana World is not only alive, but evolved from a single game into an organization that develops and maintains multiple closely related games. It now develops Moubootaur Legends, Source of Tales and Source of Mana as well, each based on different servers and the latter also based on a new client.
Thorbjørn Lindeijer - 12 Aug 2024
Mana client 0.6.1 released
This release fixes a few annoyances and other small bugs. It is now easier to click beings that are close to other beings, NPC trading has been removed from chat (again), the last emote can now be used and ring and necklace slots were unswapped. Also, the Finnish, Brazilian Portuguese and Polish translations were updated.
Thanks to all contributers to this release! The shortlog provides the detailed list of changes.
Thorbjørn Lindeijer - 08 Apr 2012