Re: Widelands 1.3 Release Information

[Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost>]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 10:54:36AM +0100, Benedikt Straub wrote:
> Dear package maintainers,
> 
> the Widelands Development Team is proud to announce that a new version of
> Widelands, 1.3, has been released.
> 
> Widelands is a free, cross-platform economy strategy game in which players
> control the fate of a small tribe that can grow into a big empire, in a
> style of play that is unique in the open source world. Please visit our
> homepage at https://www.widelands.org to learn more.
> 
> The source code for release 1.3 as well as the full release statement can be
> found under the following link:
> https://github.com/widelands/widelands/releases/tag/v1.3
> Source downloads:
> https://github.com/widelands/widelands/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.tar.gz
> https://github.com/widelands/widelands/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.zip
> 
> We would greatly appreciate it if the new version was picked up into the
> repositories of the various operating systems and distributions.

I've cloned & updated to wip/widelands. Plays fine on amd64 NetBSD-10.1,
also builds fine on aarch64 NetBSD-10.1. Should be good to go.

Nice to see there's now no code patches - there was a few required when
I got 1.2 running.

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Ripke
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