News
Latest news
- an optional ScaleQuality key has been added to the sample configs,
- the Fullscreen key has been removed (the in-game setting is preferred)
- the build system is now even more modular, so you can tweak more of it
GemRB 0.9.3 released! (Dragon's hoard edition)
The GemRB team is proud to announce a new release.
As a year’s worth of work this release brings a bunch of improvements. Players will notice pathfinder speed optimizations, better sound logic, chunking and plenty of polishing. Non-English player woes have been fully laid to rest, with any combination of game, system and filesystem encoding properly taken into account.
Sources and packages are available. You can get them from here.
Full changelog digest:
GemRB v0.9.3 (2024-07-10):
New features:
- full i18n (language) support, custom journal entries
- chunking approximation
- BMP v3 and v5 support
- small test suite, tracy support
- iwd2 identification variants and speed data
- nwn-for-bg2 compatibility
Improved features:
- area music, creature & area sounds
- colored logging, pathfinding, drawing
- ee compat, effects, modals, projectiles, familiars
- iwd2 & pst worldmap
- switched to c++14, build system
- bugfixes
Thanks to everyone that contributed their time, including: 11jo, akdjka, alvv-z, Andrea Cardaci, Andrea Palmatè, anijatsu, ArtemS2, blender-girl, Brad Allred, Bubb, burner1024, DarkMalex, davidagnome, DDQW, Domagoj Stolfa, Dreamkins, Fernside2, i30817, Jaka Kranjc, K1ngst0m, Rod Batten, Rodrigo Santellan, MarcelHB, mariomartinezm, Mateusz Hercuń, Matthieu Volat, Mingun, orcutt989, Piotr Kubaj, PowaBanga, SilentMRG, skellytz, Solène Rapenne, Stefan Schlosser, tomasz89, Tom Kidd, traveler-gemrb, ynorsa, zebez.
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News in the making
If you want a curt overview of what to expect in the next release, check the changelog in the making, which we update approximately every 100 changesets. If you want to know almost everything, follow the commit log instead.
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Older news
- 2023: GemRB 0.9.2 released! (Dragon's horde edition)
- 2023: M1 mac builds now available
- 2023: GemRB ported to PortMaster and Anbernic portable handhelds
- 2022: GemRB 0.9.1 released! (Life is strength edition)
- 2022: Upcoming dependency changes
- 2021: GemRB 0.9.0 released! (A view to the future edition)
- 2021: IRC channel moved to Libera Chat
- 2021: GemRB 0.8.8 released! (The calm before the storm edition)
- 2020: Recording of the MiniDebConf GemRB talk now available
- 2020: MiniDebConf Gaming Edition: GemRB talk and Q&A on 23rd November
- 2020: PlayStation Vita port included in sources
- 2020: Interview with Jaka "lynx" Kranjc on the 20 year anniversary of GemRB
- 2020: Interview with László "Avenger" Tóth on the 20 year anniversary of GemRB
- 2020: GemRB at 20: a look into the next big thing with Brad Allred
- 2020: Interview with Jarda "Edheldil" Benkovský on the 20 year anniversary of GemRB
- 2020: Interview with project founder Daniele Collantoni on the 20 year anniversary of GemRB
- 2020: The GemRB project celebrates 20 year anniversary with a new release
- 2020: GemRB 0.8.7 released! (Updated my journal edition)
- 2020: New pathfinder: smarter movement
- 2020: Unexpected new use case of GemRB: music video
- 2020: No more discord between IRC and Discord
- 2020: New homepage! (Minimal Mistakes edition)
- 2019: GemRB 0.8.6 released! (Revenge of the squirrels edition)
- 2019: Discord channel opened on the Gibberlings3 server
- 2017: GemRB 0.8.5 released! (Lynxiversary edition)
- 2016: Windows builds are back, through AppVeyor
- 2016: GemRB 0.8.4 released! (Icy bone box edition)
- 2015: Looking for Planescape: Torment testers
- 2015: GemRB 0.8.3 released! (Party hard edition)
- 2015: All the GemRB mods are now available in WeiDU form
- 2015: 10 player party mod released
- 2015: GemRB 0.8.2 released! (Deepwinter edition)
- 2014: GemRB 0.8.1 released! (Fork Me edition)
- 2014: Video overview of development in 2013
- 2013: SDL2 released!
- 2013: Yet another compilation script (especially for Debian and progeny)
- 2013: GemRB 0.8.0 released! (Fork Me edition)
- 2013: GIT repository fully moved to GitHub
- 2013: Video overview of 2012 (forum is back!)
- 2012: GemRB 0.7.2 released! (Paradox of choice edition)
- 2012: GemRB 0.7.1 released! (Feat of feats edition)
- 2011: GemRB 0.7.0 released! (Life of a Bhaalspawn edition)
- 2011: GemRB 0.6.6 released!
- 2011: GemRB 0.6.5 released!
- 2011: Breaking News
- 2011: GemRB 0.6.4 released!
- 2010: GemRB 0.6.3 released!
- 2010: 10th anniversary of GemRB and the 0.6.2 release!
- 2010: GemRB 0.6.1 released!
- 2009: GemRB V0.6.0 is out
- 2009: GemRB V0.5.1 is out
- 2009: GemRB V0.5.0 is out
- 2009: GemRB V0.4.0 is out
- 2009: GemRB V0.3.2 is out
- 2008: GemRB V0.3.1 is out
- 2008: GemRB V0.3.0 is out
- 2007: GemRB source repository migrated to SVN
- 2007: GemRB V0.2.8 for Windows is out
- 2006: GemRB V0.2.8 is out (and .7)
- 2005: GemRB V0.2.6 is out
- 2005: GemRB 0.2.5 released
- 2005: GemRB 0.2.4 released
- 2005: GemRB 0.2.3 released
- 2004: GemRB 0.2.2.8 Released
- 2003: GemRB v0.2.2.6 is Out
- 2003: GemRB v0.2.2.0 is out
- 2003: GemRB v0.2.1.6b for Windows
- 2003: New Linux Source Code Released
- 2003: New Demo Available
- 2003: New Source Code Available
- 2003: New CVS Repository Structure
- 2003: New Linux Source Code Release
- 2003: Linux Source Code Availabe
- 2003: First Demo Available
- 2003: IRC Channel
- 2003: Project Homepage is On-line
- 2003: GemRB Project is starting again