Gameplay
General

• When using docking clearance, player now gets an extra few seconds when very close to the dock. (Bug #17997)
  
• Enhanced missile logic for missiles approaching head-on to a target.
  
• Enhanced damage calculations for collision and missile damage; damage is no longer dependent on target size.
  
• Changed the manifest screen to better handle situations when too much cargo, passengers, or contracts were being displayed.
  
• All mission screen choices should now also be selectable by mouse.
  
• The game now ignores all keys except ‘Space’ on the Arrival Reports screen.
  
• Enhanced mouse controls to allow maximum pitch.
  
• It’s now possible to pause the game when the autopilot is running.
  
• Improved AI for ships scooping cargo.
  
• Improved sun-skimming NPCs.
  

Bug fixes

• Non-tonnage commodities are now cleared correctly after a game reset.
  
• Avoid negative cargo capacity under certain conditions, especially in conjunction with passenger cabins.
  
• Various additional checks to ensure ship equipment is not lost when it was already installed (eg, damaged during a fight, loading a Commander).
  
• Fuel price is now displayed correctly for ships which have a fuel charge rate other than 1.0.
  
• Large ships no longer block the launch queue in stations.
  
• Fix NPCs getting far-away holding positions while waiting to dock.
  
• Docking Clearance: Player is no longer given clearance while ships are in the launch queue.
  
• Aft-firing weapons on an NPC no longer trigger forward-facing weapons.
  
• No unnecessary auto-save immediately after a manual save.
  
• Various bug-fixes to better handle entities when the Universe is full which could lead to crashing.
  
• No more double spaces in the randomly generated planet descriptions.
  
• The short range chart no longer shows pre-nova system data for nova systems.
  
• Regression fix: The autopilot disengages when pressing ‘fast-dock’.
  
• Escape pods should no longer disappear immediately after they launched.
  
• A damaged Galactic Hyperdrive now correctly aborts the jump.
  
• Fixed the first witchjump after a galactic jump.
  
• Improved handling of ships exiting wormholes; various values are properly reset now and NPCs following the player should no longer crash into the NavBuoy.
  
• It’s no longer possible to pause the game in invalid situations (such as the witchspace tunnel).
  
• Fix docking music either ending before docking was complete, or continuing to play after a hyperspace jump.
  
• Sounds no longer continue to play after player death or resetting the game. (Bug #18108)
  
• Various fixes for large escort groups; especially Thargoid/Thargons.
  
• Fix Thargoid message overflow. (Bug #18055)
  
• NPCs now have the same inactive cloaking behaviour as players.
  
• Ignore passengers and contracts in hacked strict mode gamesaves.
  
• Fixed various memory leaks.
  

Mac-specific

• Fix for incorrect playlist selected in iTunes after startup.
  
• Switching iTunes integration off now pauses iTunes.
  
• iTunes is muted while the Oolite theme music is played.
  

Expansion pack development changes

Equipment

• The plasma cannon now uses the ‘weapon_position_’ keys from shipdata.plist.
  
• Weapon names are now always displayed as “ laser”, irrespective of what is defined in equipment.plist and descriptions.plist.
  

Other Configuration Files

• Script names are no longer expanded unless enclosed by [] in mission text or mission info.
  
• Resizing message_gui & comms_log_gui via hud.plists now retains the comms log and the last 2 message lines.
  
• Added the key to turn the HUD on and off to keyconfig.plist (default: ‘o’).
  
• A wrongly defined ‘titleKey’ for missionScreens now logs a warning instead of an internal error.
  

Javascript

• Fixed rounding errors for the angleTo method which sometimes returned a NaN for identical vectors instead of zero.
  
• Fixed the rotationTo method which sometimes returned an illegal quaternion for some anti-parallel vectors.
  
• Fixed isValid for entities which were destroyed during the current game tick; always returns ‘false’ now.
  
• system.addShip() and system.addGroup() now only returns the ships actually added to the Universe, instead of the whole group.
  
• viewDirectionChanged() now fires correctly when switching between gui screens.
  
• The startUp event should now fire properly after the Universe is fully initialised.
  
• Fixed reliability of the Javascript engine when resetting itself.
  
• Improved logging when loading a commander fails due to JS issues.
  
• The frame callback is now only called when the game is actually running.
  
• When the player aborts a jump countdown, the type of the jump is now reported.
  

Scripting bug fixes

• Regression fix: the legacy_spawnShip function should work again.
  
• system.name, system.population, etc. should now report the correct values when in interstellar space.
  
• Changes to system.name, system.techLevel, etc. are now shown correctly on the short range map.
  
• ships should now always have the correct orientation after being spawned.
  
• restoring sub-entities on the player ship now adjusts the trade-in factor correctly.
  
• The AI commands becomeExplosion and becomeEnergyBlast now also trigger the shipDied event handler.
  
• The game no longer freezes when a script tries to resurrect a ship after it dies; the ship just dies now. (Bug #18054)
  
• Specifying 0 Cr mandatory equipments no longer freezes the game.
  
• Specifying illegal flasher declaration no longer causes an exception.
  

New AI properties and methods

• checkHeatInsulation - returns either INSULATION_OK or INSULATION_POOR.
  

OXP Verifier

• Fixed bug in the oxp verifyer not recognizing ‘escorts’ in shipdata.
  
• Added CLASS_MINE to the oxp verifier.