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                           NEWS for Extreme Tux Racer
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Version 0.8.4                                                 10th of May, 2024
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- A, D, W, and S keys work as alternative to cursor keys
- Prevent configuration values from going below minimum by mouse clicks
- Fixed drawing with some older Intel GPU drivers
- Fixed unicode text display issues
- Updated VS Platform Toolset to v143
- New translations
  - Portuguese
- Updated translations
  - Spanish


Version 0.8.3                                                 19th of Jun, 2023
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- Windows build with Visual Studio (2022) fixed
- Respect XDG_CONFIG_HOME at systems other than Windows
- Metainfo and desktop files have now reverse domain-name
- Other metainfo format updates
- Course files converted to UTF-8
- Autotools build now have year 2038 support, if at least
  version 2.73 of autoconf is used in bootstrapping.
- Updated translations
  - French


Version 0.8.2                                                 16th of Jun, 2022
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- Fixed a crash when entering an event with the course group changed earlier.
  Now the course group is always resetted to the default one before entering
  an event.
- Appdata/Metainfo file is now installed to <prefix>/share/metainfo, like
  current specification requires
- Also the project license, not only license of the metadata, is defined
  in the appdata file
- Fixed Windows build when UNICODE not defined
- etr.png icon regenerated from the etr.svg in 64x64 size for better quality
- New translations
  - Italian
- Updated translations
  - Swedish
  - Finnish
  - Romanian


Version 0.8.1                                                 25th of Jun, 2021
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- Autotools build now prefers linking against libOpenGL over libGL
- New translations
  - Esperanto
  - Dutch
  - Romanian
- Updated translations
  - French
  - Swedish


Version 0.8                                                    7th of Mar, 2020
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Besides several small improvements and bugfixes, the new Extreme Tux Racer
version 0.8 features the following changes:

- Extreme Tux Racer now compiles with clang++
- Minimum SFML version is now 2.4
- Autotools based build method can use opengl32 & glu32 instead of libGL & libGLU
- New translations
  - Swedish


Version 0.7.5                                               27th of April, 2018
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Bugfix release

- Fixed a crash when score is not good enough to enter high score list
- Extreme Tux Racer comes with AppStream metadata


Version 0.7.4                                             27th of October, 2016
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Bugfix release

- Fixed infinite loop when window resize event has been received to size
  different from what's in settings


Version 0.7.3                                                22th of July, 2016
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Bugfix release

- Corrected dimensions of Wild West Chute Out track
- Renamed 'options' file as 'options.txt' on systems where the former name
  was used
- Configure check for SFML-System
- Minor corrections to in-game texts


Version 0.7.2                                               14th of April, 2016
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Bugfix release

- Fixed Joystick handling
- Removed unused fonts


Version 0.7.1                                             5th of February, 2016
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Bugfix release

- Fixed use of user provided CPPFLAGS
- "I Like Spike" course installed to correct location
- Added preview images for all courses that were missing one
- Added keywords to the desktop file
- Do not try to save screenshots to read-only location but to user
  home directory


Version 0.7                                               23th of January, 2016
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Besides several small improvements and bugfixes, the new Extreme Tux Racer
version 0.7 features the following changes:

- SFML 2 replaced SDL 1 as multimedia library:
   -> significant code cleanup,
   -> allows changing screen resolution and fullscreen/windowed mode at runtime,
   -> performance improvements, especially in menus.
- Rewritten GUI, providing similar look, but more features, such as keyboard
  navigation.
- New performance level '4' has been added, providing high resolution textures
  for the skybox.
- Courses are now be organized in groups
- Courses from the extremetuxracer-extras package were added to the project
- Course names and descriptions are now translatable
- Code cleanup and modernization towards C++11 continued


Version 0.6                                                13th of August, 2013
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Entire project has been rebooted with new team. Extreme Tux Racer version 0.6
is to be considered as first version of the new beginning. There's no
meaningful way to compare it to old versions.
