[crossfire-announce] Crossfire 1.60.0 released

[Mark Wedel]

Crossfire 1.60.0 has been released.  This builds on the 1.50 release,
addine new features and many bug fixes.

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Lots of bug fixes, but there are not real major changes.  But general
changes:
- New graphics
- Many map updates
- New quests, as well as quest handling.
- Many spell balance adjustments
- Improved sound handling.
- New character creation method.
- Default layout changed in gtk2 client for one more user friendly to new
   users
- Inclusion of both the java client (jxclient) and java map editor (gridarta)
   as released files.

A more complete list can be found at:
/export/home/crossfire/Crossfire/1.60.0

Files released for this version:

Sums (md5)
36dbbb5ac9a4b82be2aff9ac803f73bd  crossfire-1.60.0.arch.tar.gz
2f5ea3b06e8781af6aa980f579cce805  crossfire-1.60.0.maps.tar.bz2
51fdfc97447d93ece7bde0578713824c  crossfire-1.60.0.maps.tar.gz
036b9a7bc935c0ccc9b699dae1543cb5  crossfire-1.60.0.tar.gz
7b22bf93ebb581a5bfd5682df107af76  crossfire-client-1.60.0.tar.gz
e68b6f32c4d15e65af8535a346efe51a  crossfire-client-images-1.60.0.tar.gz
1985fc187a7624f48a4c4e9d609208ba  crossfire-client-sounds-1.60.0.tar.gz
3223bdd7feb706b4ce0416d0d5cd24ef  CrossfireEditor-0.9.jar
1af9475f6bbc26c230b14bd5608d2b16  gridarta-0.9.tar.gz
9760063ab39199303729531a3d54ac38  jxclient-1.60.0.tar.gz
7db2f7781d558024bf24c389d5465c9f  jxclient-1.60.jar

(Note - only the maps have a bzip2 compressed archives.  For the other
files, there isn't a big enough difference in size to make it worth
while)

crossfire-client-1.60.0.tar.gz contains the client code - if you only
want to play, this is the only piece you need.  If you don't want to compile,
may want to grab RPMS.

crossfire-client-images-1.60.0.tar.gz contains prebuilt images - this removes
    the need to download most of them when playing with cached images.

crossfire-client-sounds-1.60.0.tar.gz contains sounds - if you don't want
    sounds, you don't need this. There is no change in this file from the
    1.50.0 release, so if you already have the 1.50.0 sound files, no
    reason to download these.

crossfire-1.60.0.tar.gz contains the server code with prebuilt
   archetype and image files.

crossfire-1.60.0.arch.tar.gz contains the unpacked archetype changes.
   This is not needed if you only want to compile the server and play the
   game.

crossfire-1.60.0.maps.tar.{bz2|gz} contains the map distribution -
   this is the bigworld map.

gridarta/CrossfireEditor is the java based editor for crossfire.  Both
   source and a jar file is available for download.  The difference in
   name is that CrossfireEditor is one part of the gridarta project.
   These files are located in the crossfire-editor folder on sourceforge.

jxclient is the java client.  One can download the source (tar.gz
   file) or download the .jar file and run that directly.

FOR FIRST TIME USERS:  You will only need the server, map, and a client.
You do not need the arch archive.

If you just want to play the game at some remote server, you need a client,
and if using the gtk client, the image file will save time from downloading
images from the server.

Crossfire is available on the following site (note that sourceforge has
various mirrors)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/

Mark Wedel
mwedel at sonic.net
January 30, 2011

I am not including a complete changelog in this release, because it would be
very long.  You can use the URL's below to view the changelogs.

http://crossfire.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/crossfire/client/tags/1.60.0/ChangeLog?view=markup
http://crossfire.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/crossfire/server/tags/1.60.0/ChangeLog?view=markup
http://crossfire.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/crossfire/maps/tags/1.60.0/ChangeLog?view=markup
http://crossfire.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/crossfire/arch/tags/1.60.0/CHANGES?view=markup