• Explosions: now don't break crumbly walls under force arrows pointing the wrong way.
  
• Room editor: now tarstuff mothers can have unstable tar under them
  
• Export: optimized memory usage and speed
  
• Added "Startup:QuickPlayerExport" option to the INI.
  
• Path map fix that could potentially affect Halph and Slayer movement paths, but shouldn't break any rooms.
  
• CaravelNet: Fixed room conquer upload hang and key loss when connection is bad.
  
• Checkpoint save bloat when other entities activate a checkpoint. Semantically duplicate saved games are now checked for and deleted during player export.
  
• Halph: door opening replay speed optimization.
  
• NPC scripts: AppearAt sword fix.
  
• Room Editor fixes: couldn't place monster where NPC sword was after deleting the NPC; overlapping Halph & Slayer edge placement issues; error highlights now remain during script command AOE selection. Now can't paste obstacles under serpents. Stair placement now updates minimap. Level entrance now doesn't change orientation on Cancel.
  
• Fixed some memory leaks.
  
• Various stability and cosmetic improvements.
  

2.0.15.1

• Import player speedup.
  
• Room editor: Fixed bug: allowed cut-and-pasting NPCs onto serpents.
  
• Fixed help file error in 2.0.15 full/demo build.
  

2.0.15 (Journey's End)

• Huge player export speedup.
  
• Reduced memory allocation and fragmentation during import significantly.
  
• Made saved game and demo verification during import much faster.
  
• Added command line API for text localization (-exportTexts and -importTexts).
  
• Updated third-party libraries: SDL 1.2.11, SDL_ttf 2.0.8, libpng 1.2.12.
  
• Now "Wait 0" script command halts script execution till next turn.
  
• Seep in the open on room start now immediately die.
  
• Now can make NPCs look like decoys.
  
• In-game: press F7 to toggle move counter; Alt-F7 toggles framerate.
  
• CaravelNet: Now room rankings can be displayed during level exit sequence.
  
• CaravelNet: Now player may view room conquer demos if they are flagged as having conquered the room on the server.
  
• Can now delete SS holds from the hold list.
  
• Added INI options: Startup->ValidateSavesOnImport and LogErrors.
  
• Now stairs ending hold are marked in the room editor.
  
• Optimized database set+query operations.
  
• Reduced delay going to and from editor screens.
  
• Now duplicate NPC script text labels aren't allowed.
  
• Evil eye: now can spot decoys when player is invisible and outside smell range.
  
• Fixed crash when starting a game on stairs that end hold.
  
• Now you can't remove a level's main entrance room to another level.
  
• Now a door can't be made to have multiple associations with one orb, allowing orb lightning to empty tiles.
  
• Room conquer demos weren't recorded when leaving an initially empty room after undoing or restarting.
  
• Script "Wait for Monster stabbed" event didn't catch rock golems breaking.
  
• Player sound preferences not always set correctly on startup.
  
• Fixed game display issues: incorrect persistence of user-clicked tile highlighting, burning fuse non-display, shadow of a wall under an obstacle can be cast onto the obstacle, missing error highlight.
  
• Fixed small text.dat file bloat when playtesting, deleting holds and player profiles.
  
• Removed erroneous saves to disk during demo playback or playtesting.
  
• CaravelNet: sometimes wrong conquer demo lists would show up. Network interface now more robust to errors. Now JtRH users may delete the KDD Smitemaster's Selection hold.
  
• Game more robust to bad data files.
  
• Fixed conquer demo error when saved in empty rooms. Fixed demo display assertions.
  
• Fixed "end on room exit" script bug.
  
• Fixed speech memory leak.
  
• Fixed double-song play.
  
• Editor: Couldn't playtest a room on a level entrance w/ arrow or potion. Now can start playtest w/ sword on a monster. Serpent placing stopped working after tool tip pops up.
  
• Editor: Could make a broken serpent segment.
  
• Settings Screen: Keyboard UI now works on the check boxes.
  

2.0.14.1

• Fixed a speech voice loss bug during hold import in 2.0.14.
  

2.0.14

• Optimized disk saves.
  
• Now serpent type may be changed during placement.
  
• Fixed speech loss/crash after repeated editor playtesting, then undos.
  
• Fixed incorrect decoy/door highlighting.
  
• Fixed faulty 2.0.13 fixes.
  
• Added some alternate instant exit hotkeys: Ctrl-F4 (all OSes), Ctrl-Break (Linux/FreeBSD).
  
• Linux: Don't copy data files before reading DataPath.txt.
  

2.0.13

• NPCs can now move onto tunnels.
  
• Now can't place wraithwings on stairs in the room editor.
  
• Brain pathmaps: should not consider preplaced mimics and Halph as obstacles. Broken rock golems destroyed by bombs should be removed as pathmap obstacles.
  
• Multiple player profiles now don't lose saved games on hold upgrade.
  
• Unstable tar tiles with monsters on them now break.
  
• Fixed crash when the player is recording a multi-room demo and deletes the previous demo in the sequence.
  
• Can't kill Halph and exit the level on same turn.
  
• CaravelNet: more robust to key loss due to connection failure.
  
• NPC script editing fix.
  
• Changing screen mode during playtest is now saved to player settings.
  
• Linux: Fixed memory detection issue.
  
• Linux: Load libX11.so.6 in stead of libX11.so for clipboard, etc
  
• Linux: Installer now works on amd64/x86-64 systems (w/32-bit emul.)
  
• OS X: Change location of data files to ~/Library/Application Support/Caravel
  

2.0.12

• Added AutoLogin INI option.
  
• Restarting room goes to false checkpoints.
  
• Cosmetic fixes and improved UI.
  

2.0.11

• Now demo recording isn't aborted when rewinding to a move inside the recording session.
  
• Lost drod.ini entries are now set to default values on startup.
  
• Reduced slowness caused by unneeded data saves.
  
• Faster in-game rewinding to a checkpoint save.
  
• Halph pathmapping faster with lots of monsters in the room.
  
• Script commands created, then changed to a Label type, couldn't be made Goto destinations.
  
• Victory demo recording wasn't working after restoring to the start of a clean room.
  
• Slayer's wisp couldn't find player on a tunnel; wisp shouldn't intersect decoy swords.
  
• Goblins now avoid decoy's sword when targetting the decoy.
  
• Now orb associations aren't lost when door tiles are deleted in the room editor.
  
• Scripted sounds wouldn't play repeatedly.
  
• Minor cosmetic and UI fixes.
  

2.0.10

• CaravelNet batch score upload: much quicker.
  
• Loads, saves, and data lookups: optimized (especially NPC script initialization and hold imports).
  
• Death restarts: Now pressing R during the death sequence will restart instantly.
  
• NPC: command coords were updated incorrectly when a room is reflected via F7/F8 in the editor.
  
• Room copying bug (in 2.0.9): Room records were duplicated when copying certain rooms from another hold in the level editor.
  
• Fixed several memory leaks.
  
• Minor aesthetic fixes.
  

2.0.9

• Import: now adds imported data faster and requires less RAM to perform.
  
• Movement animation: fixed jerky motion and increased frame rate when moving fast.
  
• CaravelNet beta holds: now can view demo lists for any rooms in beta holds.
  
• Rattlesnake: killing a rattlesnake by placing a mimic/decoy caused a crash
  
• Guards: could accidentally stab each other when next to the player
  
• Copying a hold: could potentially scramble staircase destinations; show demos were not being copied
  
• Copying a room to another hold: Kept a reference to the special floor image in the old hold, resulting in the image floor being lost when the room is deleted.
  
• CaravelNet demos: sometimes couldn't view demos in rooms conquered previously.
  
• Demo playback: fixed incorrect state display
  
• Time: 12PM was shown as 12AM.
  
• NPC: had wrong stab effect displayed for some monster types
  
• Seep: now won't be transparent while a double is being placed for better visibility.
  
• Other minor fixes.
  

2.0.8

• Game texts: weren't changing when only removing characters from the end.
  
• Import: more robust to invalid data.
  
• Hold upgrade: doesn't assume previously clean rooms are automatically conquered.
  
• Room editor: couldn't undo a character script view/edit. Removed confirmation on serpent deletion.
  
• Rattlesnakes: weren't killed by NPC sword stabs.
  
• Characters: subtle script fixes; invisible swords should not be treated as monster barriers; wubba NPC is now invulnerable by default; mimic/decoy NPCs can now light fuses and drop trapdoors.
  
• Export: Now can export hold speech script by enabling ExportSpeech ini parameter.
  
• Explosions: effect is no longer expansion order-dependent.
  
• Seep: kills by door now counted.
  
• Level start position: couldn't place sword on serpent.
  
• Minimap: room state wasn't updating when an NPC turns into a monster.
  
• Brain powerdown: was incorrectly playing on some room entrances.
  
• Stairs: double cast shadow.
  

2.0.7

• CaravelNet holds: augmented displayed hold information on download screen. On hold upgrade, demo scores can be re-uploaded. Beta holds now recognized.
  
• CaravelNet Scores upload: now faster and more friendly -- allows interrupting the process at any time. Cleaned up Internet options on Settings screen.
  
• Room UI: now can click on tunnels to highlight the exit tunnel. Added hold name to stats box. Refined minor handling issues.
  
• Demos screen: reduced delay when selecting a demo.
  
• Memory usage: Slightly optimized. Screen fades now take up 50% less memory.
  
• Modding: can now perform partial tile mods.
  
• Startup: could open more than one instance of the program at the same time, possibly causing data loss
  
• CaravelNet: Marquee crash when not connected; some CaravelNet holds were not matching up with local holds; now not allowed to download non-existent demos; now tracks version and OS.
  
• Room editor: could copy a monster onto a serpent head, causing a crash; placing NPCs wasn't updating where swords are located in the room; copy region highlight not being reset; fixed phantom orb-door associations after a copy-and-paste.
  
• Saved games: now overwrites the saved games at the beginning of a hold any time you start the hold from the beginning (via Play New Game). Now overwrites the saved games made at the start of a level if you enter the level w/o any rooms in it explored yet. Now the saved game made on exiting a hold is always resaved. The turn exiting a hold is now counted.
  
• Multi-room demos: now room featuring stairs exit won't mistake room as conquered; map now updates instantly on room change.
  
• Evil eye: gaze is no longer obstructed by a tunnel.
  
• Brains: now don't direct monsters toward an invisible player when a decoy is next to the brain
  
• Slayer: patched a tactical vulnerability; sometimes could have two wisps
  
• Tar mother: now grows when the player is invisible and a decoy is near it; now does not grow if a monster kills it on the same turn that it would spawn
  
• Character: fixed rapid running with MoveTo conditional; WaitForCleanRoom script command now waits until green doors have dropped.
  
• Serpents: now brained movement won't move them the wrong way off force arrows.
  

2.0.6

• Low-quality graphics: Turning off alpha blending now gives more benefit to lower-end systems (less frame rate drop instead of more complex rendering).
  
• High score submitting: Now demos you have already submitted are not tested again for submission.
  
• Door placement: Sped up placement of large yellow doors in room editor.
  
• CaravelNet key loss: Could invalidate your key on the settings screen after editor playtesting.
  
• Browser: Opening external browser from in-game while full screen might freeze cursor.
  
• Custom speech speaker: Was resetting to None after playing once.
  
• CaravelNet rank: Was not displaying higher scores correctly.
  
• Death animation: Fixed minor rendering problems.
  
• Explosions: Reduced delay when rendering large explosions.
  
• CaravelNet: Fixed problems showing extended ASCII chars.
  

2.0.5

• Import crash: when importing buggy DROD:AE beta holds
  
• Map: fixed incorrect color
  

2.0.4

• CaravelNet high scores: place text now correct for high numbers.
  
• Room editor: could leave while defining a script operation, causing assertions or crashes.
  
• Hold import: fixed player saves sometimes not retained during upgrade/downgrade.
  
• Special floor designation and import: fixed UI problems.
  
• File selection dialogue: fixed UI problems.
  

2.0.3

• Hold Select Screen: now all uninstalled CaravelNet holds appear at the bottom of the list.
  
• News marquee: can now click on hyperlinks. Telltale sound indicates news has been updated.
  
• CaravelNet: fixed crashes on connection failure
  
• Importing saved games: was flagging a hold as completed when no end stairs were in the "end hold" saved game's room
  
• Editor: crash after editing a room, deleting it from main editor screen, then viewing help
  
• Restore screen: wasn't showing levels where player hadn't entered at the main level entrance
  
• Change Location menu: Double-clicking the scroll bar selected the highlighted location.
  
• Title Screen CaravelNet news marquee: long texts were being truncated Decoy highlighting via mouse: compounded highlighting for multiple clicks
  
• Credits: updated screen
  
• Hold export: was incorrectly exporting bad values for special floors that no longer exist in the hold, causing import to think the hold was corrupted.
  
• Added MSVCP60.dll to install.
  
• JtRH L3:1N2W: fixed Halph script bug. Fixed L7 entrance typo.
  

2.0.1

• Full Screen: When a dialog box is active, using Alt-Tab to switch between applications caused the screen around the dialog to be black.
  
• Switching to windowed mode: When in full screen mode, after Alt-Tabbing between applications, switching to windowed mode moves the app window offscreen so it's no longer visible except in full screen mode.
  
• Halph: Couldn't follow Beethro over force arrows, scrolls or potions.
  
• Demo descriptions: Death demos were incorrectly recorded.
  
• Room stats dialog: Now real time elapsed is always current.
  
• Script assertion: StrikeOrbAt, when no orb is at square.
  
• JtRH L3:3N1W: fixed script problem allowing a Slayer kill