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GemRB 0.9.2 released! (Dragon's horde edition)
The GemRB team is proud to announce a new major release.
It brings in many improvements for Planescape: Torment, configurable AI speed, improved performance and others. Notably GemRB now also supports PVR(Z) based formats, making content creation easier, most new opcodes/actions/triggers and together with some infrastructural changes, BG2EE games can now be loaded (still not playable though!).
Sources and packages are available. You can get them from here.
Full changelog digest:
GemRB v0.9.2 (2023-07-08):
New features:
- PVR(Z), BAM2, MOS2 and TIS2 support
- support for higher AI speeds ("FPS") and VSync
- support for EE-style saves, TLK locations and many more tables
- PST's floating text and personalized pc comments
- optional smooth fog of war on SDL >= 2.0.18
- 3e-style sneak attack and crippling strike from HoW/iwdee
- Anbernic device support
Improved features:
- PST effect durations
- performance, pathfinding, formations
- combat, opcodes, EE compat, hp handling, demo
- bugfixes
Thanks to everyone that contributed their time, including: Brad Allred, Bubb, burner1024, desecaw13, dikau, fizzet, FrElvire, Jaka Kranjc, kloptops, Konrad Klimaszewski, majcosta, MarcelHB, Mingun, Rod Batten, Rodrigo Santellan, Tomsod, Zoltan Gyokeres.
Notes to packagers:
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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: 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