We are proud to announce the release of OpenFracas 0.5. The most notable changes in the 0.5 release are:

• Sounds and Music
  
• OpenFracas now supports up to 8 players
  
• New troop count drawing algorithm
  • Better placement of troop counts
    
  • Scales troop counts to fit within smaller country
• Options to restart a game or reuse the current map
  
• Streamlined User Interface
  
• Map Editor improvements
  
• More player colours to choose from
  
• Help documentation, revised from Fracas help, now available
  

Perhaps most significantly of all: Since the last release, OpenFracas has undergone major changes in its internal organization and structure. This means that OpenFracas is in a better position to begin adding more advanced and complex features in future releases.

A new developer, Eric, has joined the OpenFracas team since the last release, and has produced the new troop count drawing algorithm.

OpenFracas 0.5 is available on the downloads page; please feel free to contact us with any questions, concerns, or bugs on our forums.

Ubuntu users who have added our repository to their package manager will find the new version automatically available as an update.

Upgrading Ubuntu to Hardy Heron causes the map drawing algorithm to behave in an unexpected and inappropriate manner. OpenFracas 0.4.3 for Ubuntu fixes this display issue.

By using the original Fracas help documentation as a basis for our own, we have been able to create new help documentation, and place it online.

While there is still work to be done on it, it does provide a good overview of the game, and how to play it.

You can access it by clicking the "Game Help" link from the main navigation menu of openfracas.org