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A new version of OpenTTD has been released.

OpenTTD is an open source complete recreation of "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"by Scottish games designer and programmer Chris Sawyer (Microprose). It delivers many bug fixes and general enhancements to the game.

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1.5.0-beta1 (2014-12-24)

  • Feature: Support .txt.gz and -txt.xz changelog, readme and license files in basesets, NewGRFs, etc (r27035, r27034)
  • Feature: More height levels [FS#4126] (r27010)
  • Feature: Latin translation (r26993)
  • Feature: Add option to choose normal, double or quad-size interface (r26990)
  • Feature: [Script] Swap method for script lists (r26894)
  • Feature: [Script] ScriptStationList_Cargo for sorting cargo by from and via (r26893)
  • Feature: [Script] API for retrieving planned flow (r26892)
  • Feature: [CargoDist] Predict links for station-autorefitting vehicles (r26889)
  • Feature: Setting for limiting the height of bridges (r26882)
  • Feature: Make aircraft ascend/descend when they are too close to the ground or too far away (r26866)
  • Feature: Allow hiding of non-interesting engines in the GUI (r26805, r26804)
  • Feature: Vehicle sorting in autoreplace GUI [FS#1640] (r26800)
  • Feature: [NewGRF] Advanced visual effects with multiple effect sprites independent of spawning model (r26988, r26747)
  • Feature: Warn about missing industries after generating a map (r26729)
  • Feature: Upgrade currently active NewGRFs to newest installed version (r26613)
  • Feature: Save and load grfid and md5sum of NewGRFs in config file (r26611)
  • Feature: Select an editable preset name for saving (r26610)
  • Feature: Cancel cargo delivery from industries/houses to stations after about 21 months of not having picked up any of the cargo (r26582)
  • Feature: Give a warning when a planeīs orders tell it to use a runway which is too short for it [FS#6009] (r26566)
  • Feature: [Script] Extended API for CargoDist (r26557)
  • Feature: Show measured order times in timetable GUI also when not timetabled (r26550)
  • Feature: Prompt for confirmation when deleting a vehicle group (r26455)
  • Feature: Hierarchical vehicle subgroups (r26450)
  • Feature: Allow more sound sleep for dedicated servers when thereīs nothing to do and nobody paying attention (r26449)
  • Feature: [NewGRF] Add vehicle modflag 1 (unloading in progress) (r26430)
  • Change: Improvements to the man page (r27091, r27012)
  • Change: Allow to set the granularity of the tooltip hover time in milliseconds instead of seconds. New default value is 250ms (r26815)
  • Change: Follow SI recommendation about spaces between numbers and units [FS#6086] (r26733)
  • Change: [CargoDist] Save locations instead of distances in link graphs to reduce size (r26646)
  • Change: [Squirrel] Make the internal integer for scripts always 64 bits, so scripts behave the same on 32 and 64 bit architectures and money can be represented properly (r26585, r26584)
  • Change: Reshuffle advanced settings tree (r26614, r26536)
  • Change: Add backend-independent config-file setting to disable 8bpp video modes, and disable 8bpp by default (r26522)
  • Fix: [OS/2] Compile again [FS#6186] (r27092)
  • Fix: Compilation with freetype2 version 2.5.4 and newer [FS#6185] (r27079)
  • Fix: Variable 47 used the carge translation table of the wrong GRF in case of callback 1D [FS#6182] (r27075)
  • Fix: Some lists did not use natural string sorting [FS#6172] (r27063)
  • Fix: Mercurial version detection failed if personal presets were configured (r27059)
  • Fix: [OSX] Donīt require double-press from non-dead console hotkeys [FS#5812] (r27046)
  • Fix: Crash when having the vehicle list opened from a buoy or oil rig when the buoy/oil rig is removed (r27030)
  • Fix: Unit number was not always fully shown in depots [FS#6102] (r27014)
  • Fix: [CargoDist] Reserve cargo only after unloading finished or if the vehicle has the desired cargo already [FS#6110] (r26918)
  • Fix: [Squirrel] Loading a value saved as boolean caused it to be of type integer instead of boolean (r26785)
  • Fix: [Squirrel] Harden string handling (r26777)
  • Fix: [OSX] Implement more of the text editing API to prevent crashes and improve IME support [FS#5972] (r26758)
  • Fix: Incorrect saving of order backups [FS#6066] (r26700)
  • Fix: Ordering a vehicle to a competitorīs rail waypoint displayed an error message. Ignore the click as is done for the other order types to competitorīs stuff [FS#6059] (r26692)
  • Fix: [Script] Loading/parsing of info .nuts was done in the same VM, causing e.g. constants to break the loading of info of other scripts [FS#5973] (r26617)
  • Fix: [CargoDist] Improve estimation of link capacitites (r26549)
  • Remove: A bunch of archaic settings from the GUI (r26528, r26526, r26525)