NEWS-2.1.0-beta3

WARNING: This is a tentative list, by no means exhaustive. See the full ChangeLog contained with the source for a comprehensive list of all changes.

For a tentative feature list in Freeciv 2.1, please see the NEWS-2.1.0 page.

Fix many client crashes.
Do not allow setting endyear earlier than current year.
Prevent server from selecting the same nation more than once.
Fix a problem with destroyed cities not disappearing from global observer screen.
When land city is disbanded and sea units are moved out, don't move units further and never disband units that were actually saved.
Fix bribe cost.
Bribed units retain their current fuel amount, foul status and whether they are already paradropped.

Added handicap to Novice difficulty level. Now a Novice AI always considers its cities to be in grave danger, so it invests more to (unnecessary) defenses and less to expansion and offensive.
Fix a bug that prevented sea barbarians from moving their boats.
Fix situation where plr1 thinks he is in peace with plr2 and plr2 thinks he is still in armistice with plr1.
Prevent an AI player from requesting you to declare war on a dead player.

A brand new GUI theme for the SDL client "Human" by Hogne Håskjold is now shipped with the game.
Added a set of technology icons that show up in the GTK2 client's help dialog and the SDL client's research dialog. Icon set created by Frederic Rodrigo and Daniel Markstedt.
Improvements to Amplio tileset, including new user attention, fog, rivers and tweaked units.
Improved building and wonder icons by Eleazar.
New diplomacy icons.
New government icon for Fundamentalism.