Alpha 27 Feature Freeze

[Itms]

Hello everyone! We are now in Feature Freeze for A27. With the new git workflow, a few things have changed (improved, we hope).

• The nightly-build tracks the state of A27 and can be used to test the new version. It is generated daily, and you can get it using SVN. Detailed information can be found on the wiki
  • if you try to build the game on Unix, please note that the build process has slightly changed. you need to run first libraries/build-source-libs.sh, then build/workspaces/update-workspaces.sh, then make as usual
• Mock Release Bundles are also generated daily, from the nightly build. They can be downloaded from our Jenkins build system. Future RCs will be taken directly from here.
• For now, we have a few bugs to fix, you can find them on the Alpha 27 Milestone of our bugtracker.
• A higher overview of the release process can be found at [RELEASE PROCESS] Alpha 27

Contrary to previous releases, we are able to use a git branch for preparing the release. Thus, the contribution workflow is not stalled during the process. We are still merging the work of devs and contributors into the repository, for inclusion in the future releases. The preparation of Alpha 27 is made in parallel, and not blocking. That said, most of our energy is dedicated to the release, and you will experience delays in us reviewing contributions.

Please make sure no mods are enabled when testing the game. Note that the "spirv" mod for Vulkan shaders is obsolete. The nightly build and bundles already contain the shaders. You can delete all trace of this spirv mod from your computers. It will not be needed anymore.

What should I test?

Everything

What should I report?

Not everything. We must fix regressions (stuff that used to work, but doesn't work anymore) and critical issues that would prevent the users from playing. We cannot reasonably fix all the existing bugs in the release. Critical issues include crashes and multiplayer OOS. How to report them is detailed in the ReportingErrors wiki page.

With the new daily generation of testable game versions, it is absolutely necessary to check you use the same nightly build (version is displayed in the main menu) without any mods when testing for OOS.

Happy testing!

Edited Saturday at 12:17 by Itms
Remove macOS signature warning

[Itms]

I edited the previous post: the Mock Release Bundles are now signed on macOS, and should not require workarounds to be tested.

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback and reported bugs already! We are steadily progressing towards the first RCs.