Alpha 23 released

[robn]

The Pioneer development team are pleased to announce the release of Pioneer Alpha 23. Its been a quiet month as the team have been busy with jobs, study and summer holidays, but we still found time to continue our cleanup work and fix a few important bugs (most notably a crash with recent Radeon drivers). Full changelog and builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (32 & 64-bit) are available from the download page.Minor changes and tweaks[*:2ysdzus5]Show target indicator on docking waypoints when clearance has been granted to assist with manual docking (#1260)[*:2ysdzus5]Jump to sector by entering sector coordinates in search box (#1274, #1253)[*:2ysdzus5]Optimised earthlike colour fractal when terrain textures enabled (#1277)Fixes[*:2ysdzus5]Work around sector view crash on Radeon (#1062)[*:2ysdzus5]Fix handling of deep folders in zip files (#1270)[*:2ysdzus5]Fix redscreen hang (#1272)[*:2ysdzus5]Fix text metrics code to calculate text height properly (#1273, #1276)Script and model changes[*:2ysdzus5]Lua updated to 5.2.0 (#1246)[*:2ysdzus5]Renamed Matrix and Vec classes to matrix and vector (#1245)[*:2ysdzus5]Renamed CustomSBody to CustomSystemBody (#1245)[*:2ysdzus5]Removed global data from Lua crash dump (#1272)Internal changes[*:2ysdzus5]Fixed configure compiler warning tests for gcc and clang[*:2ysdzus5]Removed OOLua. Replaced uses of it with explicit Lua calls. Various other Lua-related cleanups and consistency fixes (#1245, #1246)[*:2ysdzus5]Move system generation and related classes under galaxy/ (#1245)[*:2ysdzus5]Renamed SBody to SystemBody, CustomSBody to CustomSystemBody (#1245)

[Potsmoke66]

yeah, that will give me a lot of work to do

[Geraldine]

Great news Robn. I will update the Mod DB page over the weekend

[Zephyros]

awesome thanks, kinda expecting more changes but this is okI wanted to ask you robn what anime character is that on your profile pic?

[robn]

Zephyros wrote:
awesome thanks, kinda expecting more changes but this is ok
At the moment everyone is busy on things that aren't Pioneer. The joys of volunteer work!
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I wanted to ask you robn what anime character is that on your profile pic?
Tabitha (Larissa) from the Nintendo DS game Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.

[ollobrain]

Great realise, quite progress on pioneer is a good thing gives me time afte rplaying it to have a go on the new things on dwarf fortress and a few other rapidly progressing open source games that are more open to new ideas and innovation