Naev 0.6.0 Release

BY DEIZ, ON MARCH 17TH, 2015

The Naev development team is proud to announce the release of Naev 0.6.0, our first stable release in nearly three years.

This release features over 1600 commits from some 38 contributors, as well as small fixes from many more. Its main features are the core slots system, which allows ships to be more heavily customized, as well as full SDL2 support, which greatly improves Naev’s fullscreen behaviour among other things.

Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/naev/files/naev-0.6.0/

Blog: https://naev.org/

Forums: http://forum.naev.org/ (Forums are lost.)

Changes since 0.5.3:

Features:

• Core slots system.
  • Ships must have a core system, engine, and hull equipped to take off
  • Ships’ attributes are mostly defined by their cores
  • Total of 95 core outfits
• Naev’s data is now stored in a zip file, making contributing easier than ever.
• Greatly improved SDL2 support (now default)
  • Support for window resizing and toggling fullscreen without restarting
  • Drag-and-drop ndata loading when ndata can’t be found
  • Fake fullscreen is used by default to avoid turning off other monitors
  • Fullscreen toggling via keybind (F11 by default)
• Improved keyboard-and-mouse gameplay, with an optional WASD layout
• Autonav improvements
  • Autonav resets time accel instead of aborting (onpon4)
  • Improved autonav behaviour when pushed off of jump points
• Activated outfits get hotkeys by default
• Fuel is now provided for free at spaceports
• Auto-braking (Ctrl-S by default) in lieu of a dedicated Active Cooldown key
• Ships only need to be spaceworthy when taking off (Avihay)
• Added on-screen “PAUSED” indicator (can be disabled in conf.lua)
• Local system maps can be bought from the landing screen

Content:

• Greatly expanded galaxy
  • 150+ new systems and 500+ new planets
  • Za’lek faction added (Viruk and Lineth)
  • Expanded pirate space (Lukc)
• New missions
  • Added 6 repeatable missions
  • Added 10 scripted missions
  • Greater mission availability in Soromid space (BSoD-naev)
  • New Sirius mission string, “Heretic” (l0k1) Several repeatable pirate missions (Lukc)
  • New FLF mission and two neutral missions by brognam
• 3 new songs by Askyel and saturn6
• Innumerable typo and content fixes by PhoenixRiver, perey, m1foley, ids1024, and others
• Cargo missions are longer-range (up to 6 jumps)
• Added hidden jumps, currently only discoverable via special maps

Technical:

• Error logs are now stored to help with issue reporting
  • Windows: %APPDATA\naev\logs\
  • OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/naev/logs/
  • Linux: ~/.local/share/naev/logs/
• Fixed save corruption issues on Windows
• Dynamic news support for missions and events BariumBlue
• See the news Lua API module for more information