Updated Sep 18, 2009 by bobbens

News

Old NAEV News.

2009

2008

2009

18-9-09

NAEV 0.4.0 has been released.

This release is statically linked against libvorbis so there should be no old libvorbis issues. It contains some new features like options menu to configure most of the important ingame options and a bunch of bug fixes. We are aware that used RAM has increased a lot since 0.3.9, but so have features and niceness. However we will try to bring back down the RAM usage especially since we will be doing a port for the

openpandora. Enjoy!

06-9-09

NAEV 0.4.0-beta1 has been released.

As per the roadmap, almost all the pieces are in place, and we feel it's time for a beta test. It's a monumental release: Balance has been completely retooled, the outfit system has been rewritten, there are several new ships, the tutorial is more helpful, and there are many niceties that make the game a much smoother experience.

With so many moving parts, there are inevitably small things that have been overlooked, that you might pick up on. If you're interested in helping polish 0.4.0 before its final release, please contact us via IRC, using the link at the top of the page if you lack a standalone IRC client.

As always, we appreciate feedback, and the best venue for it is IRC.

To reiterate the last news post: If you run any major distribution aside from Gentoo or Arch Linux, your version of libvorbis is likely out of date. If you run a Debian or Ubuntu-based distro, see the below post.

24-8-09

NAEV 0.4.0 is nearing its release. An issue however was found, the version of libvorbis on many distros is horribly out of date and NAEV 0.4.0 will need libvorbis 1.2.1 or later. This can be solved multiple ways, if you're on ubuntu (or probably debian), you may want to look at https://launchpad.net/~thir/+archive/ppa?field.name_filter=vorbis&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=any which gives you more up to date versions of the package. Another way would be to compile with "make USE_OPENAL=0" which will give you worse sounding sound (no environmental effects). Please complain to your distro and file bug reports if this affects you to try to make it so by the time NAEV 0.4.0 releases everyone has libvorbis 1.2.1 or later.

24-5-09

NAEV 0.3.9 is in Arch AUR. Meaning if it gets enough votes it might get into community! More information at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26684 . In other news, bobbens is completely swamped in work and can't work on NAEV until mid-july. There are a lot of cool things in git master already, but there's a lot more to do for 0.4.0. It'll take a while, but it'll be good, I promise!

29-4-09

NAEV 0.3.9 is in FreeBSD ports! More information at: http://www.freshports.org/games/naev/ . First package system to have NAEV officially. Let's hope there are more to come.

24-4-09

NAEV 0.3.9 the bugfx released. 0.4.0 will feature a big overhaul of many things and will take a while to release, so sit back and enjoy the last of the 0.3 series. Enjoy!

21-4-09

Will most likely release 0.3.9 this Friday which will hopefully be the last of the 0.3.x series of releases. It is mainly a bug fix release, fixing numerous issues that popped un in 0.3.8.

11-4-09

Issues with dlls in the windows installer should finally be fixed. First time windows porting and not enough testing don't mix well.

10-4-09

0.3.8 is released! Only linux and windows binaries for now until my mac porter not missing in action anymore. This is a good one! Enjoy!

29-3-09

0.3.8 should be out the door in 1-2 weeks if all goes well. TODO list for the release is quite short, mainly pending on a possible windows port. It will have quite a bit of cool features, let's hope it's a good one.

20-2-09

And so bug fix release 0.3.7 is finished. There's also a much needed feature: being able to ask ships to refuel. Let's hope that'll keep less pilots stranded out there. This upgrade is SERIOUSLY RECOMMENDED for everyone, as it fixes quite a few major issues that cropped up in 0.3.6. Last but not least, there's a Mac OS X binary now. Enjoy!

15-2-09

We have now moved to git see UsingGit for help if you need it. On a side note, some major issues were found with the latest version 0.3.6. Specifically you can't gain combat rating and thus can't do over half of the missions. There will be a bug fix release on Friday the 20th. Please find bugs so we don't have to repeat a bug release. Thanks and sorry for the issues this can cause.

13-2-09

0.3.6 is released. It's a good release if I do say so myself. Going to try to have a roadmap for 0.3.7. Thanks to all involved in the making of 0.3.6.

23-1-09

Exams are over. Going to try to release 0.3.6 in under 3 weeks. Idea is to have many more missions incorporated (with a new small campaign). There are many more idea missions but those will probably wait until 0.3.7 when the new developer mode will be designed (would include a Lua console). Expect updates soon!

2008

26-12-08

Sorry big oversight on my part. The ndata-0.3.5 was missing some files. The new version should be fixed.

25-12-08

0.3.5 released. It includes bug fixes and many new features. See the Changelog for more information. Next release will take a while since some real life business needs attending to for the next month or so.

8-12-08

Working to add a bit more content before releasing 0.3.5. Expect it in 1-2 weeks. Lots of changes already though.

29-11-08

Created mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/naev . It's primary intended usage is development but for now anything (other then spam) is pretty much welcome and if it ever gets busy another one will be created for a more specific task.

21-11-08

Lots of bugs found and fixed with even enough time to add a couple new features. Thus is born 0.3.4! Next release will try to focus more on content.

16-11-08

Thanks to all those finding bugs. This Friday (21st) I'll probably release 0.3.4 binary only (data hasn't changed) with all the bug fixes found this week and fixed. Keep those bug reports coming.

14-11-08

Released 0.3.3. Time to make some noise!

29-10-08

Got the quota increase. Preparing for 0.3.3 and then going to do a more proper release. Things left until release: intro sequence and rudimentary tutorial. Will start doing propaganda around the web. Until then I won't have any official downloads.

13-10-08

Still no increased quota, version is already 0.3.2 which should be memory-issue free.

27-9-08

Trying to increase quota so I can actually upload version 0.3.0 here.