2012-04-10: Hammer of Thyrion version 1.5.3 is released:

Version 1.5.3 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion (uHexen2) is released. This is a maintainence-only release, mainly fixing an opengl issue on old graphics hardware.

Uploaded the full sources, as well as win32, win64, dos, linux-x86 and linux-x86_64 binary packages. The Mac OS X packages should follow shortly. We´d also like to have linux-ppc rpms or tarballs if anyone can prepare them for us.

The changes since the previous release are as follows:

• OpenGL: Made non-power-of-two textures support configurable by a cvar, gl_texture_NPOT, disabled by default: Fixes serious slowdown on some old graphics hardware, such as R300 to R500 class Radeons on Mac OS X, which the driver is lying about its capability. Added a menu entry to enable/disable the feature (OpenGL features -> NPOT textures.)
  
• Sound: The client no longer tries updating the ambient sounds when not connected, ie. when no map is active.
  
• Several updates to the documentation.

Enjoy.

2012-04-04: Hammer of Thyrion version 1.5.2 is released:

Version 1.5.2 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion (uHexen2) is released. This is a maintainence release fixing several small bugs found in the previous v1.5.1. It also adds new features such as support for FOV adjustment, anisotropic texture filtering, non-power-of-two textures, and so on.

Uploaded the full sources, as well as win32, win64, dos, linux-x86 and linux-x86_64 binary packages. The Mac OS X packages will hopefully follow shortly. We´d also like to have linux-ppc rpms or tarballs if anyone can prepare them for us.

The changes since the previous release are as follows:

• All platforms: Incremented versions for the hexen2 engine to 1.25, hexenworld engine to 0.25, gamecode to 1.25 and the gtk-launcher to 1.0.7.
  
• Verified correct compilation by clang (using v3.0) and by the new gcc version 4.7.x.
  
• All platforms, gamecode: Fixed occasional crashes in the original hexen2 game with the Paladin´s axe.
  
• All platforms, hexen2 net play: fixed connection getting stuck sometimes after displaying the "Connection accepted" message.
  
• All platforms: Ported server model code optimizations and cleanups from h2ded to hwsv (hexenworld server).
  
• All platforms: Added support for transparent console in the software renderer, controlled by new cvar "contrans". Valid values for contrans are 0 (solid), 1 (transparent) and 2 (very transparent).
  
• All platforms, software renderer: Fixed wrong transparency issue with certain models when not using the x86 assembler drawing routines.
  
• All platforms: Added on-screen fps counter to hexen2 (do "showfps 1" from the console). Updated existing showfps code of hexenworld.
  
• All platforms, OpenGL: Added anisotropic texture filtering support (gl_texture_anisotropy). Revised existing texture filters. Texture filtering options now saved to the config.
  
• All platforms, OpenGL: Added support for non-power-of-two-textures extension.
  
• All platforms: Implemented fov in opengl hexen2, useful for widescreen resolutions. Revised the implementations in hexenworld, as well as the software renderer.
  
• All platforms, OpenGL: Fixed shadows spot which was broken back in 2007 during v1.4.2 development.
  
• All platforms, input: Discard mouse/joystick motion when in cameramode. Discard the accumulated mouse motion when starting a game or when loading a saved game to prevent any unintended viewangle changes.
  
• Windows input: Disabled GDI mouse acceleration flags for better behavior on XP and newer versions.
  
• SDL / Unix: Revised SDL unicode and dead keys support.
  
• SDL / Mac OS X: Fixed console and message mode backspace key (bug #2688151.)
  
• Unix / SVGAlib mouse: Fixed missing camera mode and ideal roll handling.
  
• Unix / SVGAlib video: Fixed planar modes when using the svgalib_helper kernel module. Removed the need for x86 assembly for compilation and the linux-only limitation.
  
• Unix / SVGAlib video: Fixed messed up colors upon coming back from a vt switching.
  
• Unix: Fixed compilation on GNU/kFreeBSD (Debian, #657793)
  
• Unix, MIDI: Several updates to the Timidity backend.
  
• Timidity, Windows MIDI: Support for Microsoft RMID format.
  
• Windows MIDI: Fixed broken tempo with certain midi files (problem was introduced in version 1.5.1)
  
• Windows software renderer: Fixed restoring of the saved video mode on startup (problem was introduced in v1.4.4.)
  
• Windows software renderer: Disabled MGL DirectDraw support by default (causes more trouble than it´s actually worth.) Can be enabled by -useddraw or -usedirectdraw command line switches, if required.
  
• All platforms: Revised the cross-episode demo recording and playback behavior, allowing the intermission screens to be displayed.
  
• All platforms: Removed code that prevented deathmatch and coop cvars to be set at the same time, which was reported for possibility of causing compatibility issues with mods.
  
• All platforms: Majorly revised the support mechanism for different versions of progs. Added old v1.03 progs support to hexen2, added old v0.11 and v0.14 progs support to hw.
  
• All platforms, h2ded: Removed error when neither coop nor deathmatch is set and rely on server admin.
  
• All platforms, hexenworld client: Fixed a crash in the credits display when one waited long enough to see all the text to be printed.
  
• Unix / gtk-launcher: Added support for gtk3. Several bug fixes and code cleanups.
  
• Mac OS X: Fixed compilation failure due to a typo in MIDI code introduced in v1.5.1.
  
• DOS: Added WatTCP (WATT-32) networking support for hexen2 internet play.
  
• DOS: Added experimental DOS support for hexenworld using WatTCP library. (doesn´t work yet due to WatTCP bugs.)
  
• DOS: Added "-nogus" command line option so that UltraSound initialization can be skipped by the user if necessary.
  
• Miscellaneous source code cleanups.

Enjoy.