OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 “Swamp Castle” released!

I know you were thinking we missed this month release, but it took us just a little longer as we had to traverse a treacherous terrain to get to this landmark. Without further ado, I present you OpenRCT2 Release v0.5.1, “Swamp Castle”. 

Here’s the changelog:

• Feature: [#24242] [Plugin] Add ride-breakdown hooktype.
• Feature: [#24879] [Plugin] Add methods for showing and hiding gridlines.
• Feature: [#26327] Add ‘guests entertained’ statistic to entertainers.
• Improved: [#26374] Add higher resolution app icons for Android.
• Improved: [#26386] Initial window scale and toolbar options on fresh Android installations.
• Change: [#26476] Limit creation of new station styles to prepare for more flexibility with ride stations and entrances.
• Fix: [#25581] Chart drawing issue on some platforms due to compiler optimisation.
• Fix: [#26019] Inverted and Inverted Flying Roller Coaster large half loops glitch with the train and don‘t draw in tunnels at some angles (original bug).
• Fix: [#26183] The ride stat graph placeholder text is not drawn in the expected position.
• Fix: [#26287] Game crashes upon connect/disconnect of physical keyboard.
• Fix: [#26299] Single Rail S-Bend sprites don’t fully connect to the next track piece at certain angles.
• Fix: [#26352] Large scenery items are incorrectly labelled as ‘banners’ in the tile inspector.
• Fix: [#26352] The label for path additions is using the wrong text colour in the tile inspector.
• Fix: [#26360] Inverted Lay-down Roller Coaster helices are invisible when loading old saves.
• Fix: [#26396] [Plugin] Socket interfaces were not closing properly and firing up correctly in parallel.
• Fix: [#26410] Tiles with water can draw incorrectly when there is something underwater and nothing above water.
• Fix: [#26418] Game crashes when a stack overflow occurs in plugin code.
• Fix: [#26419] Drop count & negative g’s stat requirements for Flying Roller Coaster don’t get nullified by having an inversion.
• Fix: [#26421] Wrong scenery tab highlighted when more than 64 scenery groups are selected.
• Fix: [#26425] Benches don’t reduce watching spots from 4 to 2 while other path additions do (should be reversed).
• Fix: [#26432] Guests choose to head for rides they have already ridden if they don’t have a map.
• Fix: [#26492] Drag tool shows per-tile error instead of total cost when running out of money midway through placement.
• Fix: [#26510] Displayed air time overflows after 655.35 seconds instead of the internal maximum of 1966.05 seconds.

Upcoming Breaking Change

Due to GitHub upcoming lack of support to Windows7/8 action runners, this will be our last release officially supporting those platforms. As they have been unsupported for years by Microsoft, we recommend you upgrade to play OpenRCT2 for security reasons!

Overview Video

Our trusted partner, Deurklink, has again helped on promoting the new release with a video mentioning this release notable changes:

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank everyone who contributed with code, testing, translations, bug reports and everything else. We would also like to thank our sponsors:

• Digital Ocean, for hosting the multiplayer master server and our infrastructure
• Backtrace, for handling our automated crash reports
• JetBrains, for providing us with development software
• Github, for handling our development and issue tracker
• SignPath, for providing a free certificate to sign our builds

If you’re interested in contributing to OpenRCT2, feel free to join us on Discord.

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On behalf of the OpenRCT2 team: happy building!

~Tupaschoal