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Pentobi Changelog

What's new in Pentobi 12.0

Apr 12, 2016
  • General:
  • New game variant Callisto.
  • Thinking time of level 7 (the highest level supported on Android) was increased in most game variants to better match the CPU speed of typical mobile hardware.
  • Starting points are no longer shown after color played its first piece.
  • Desktop version:
  • The compilation now requires at least Qt 5.2.
  • High-DPI scaling is now automatically used if compiled with Qt 5.6.
  • Setting Move Marking to Last now only marks the last move even if the computer played several moves in a row.
  • Bug fixes Desktop version:
  • Icon for undo did not have a high-DPI version.
  • Option --verbose was broken on Windows.
  • Android version:
  • The compilation now requires Qt 5.6.
  • Support for game variant Nexos.
  • New menu items Edit/Delete All Variations, Edit/Next Color, View/Animate Pieces, Help/About.
  • Actions with buttons in action bar are no longer shown in menu.
  • Forward/backward buttons now support autorepeat.
  • Bug fixes Android version:
  • Fixed crash that could occur when switching game variants while a piece was selected.
  • Level set for game variant Classic3 was ignored, instead the level set for Classic was used.
  • Move generation was not properly aborted if some Edit menu items were selected while the computer was thinking.

New in Pentobi 11.0 (Jan 7, 2016)

  • General:
  • Slightly increased playing strength, mainly in Trigon.
  • The compilation requires now at least Qt 5.1 and GCC 4.9 or MSVC 2015.
  • The score display now shows stars at scores that contain bonuses.
  • Desktop version:
  • New game variant Nexos (2 or 4 players).
  • If a piece is removed from the board in setup mode, it will now become the selected piece.
  • The command line option --memory was replaced by --maxlevel, which reduces the needed memory and removes higher levels from the menu.
  • The memory requirements are now 1 GB minimum, 4 GB recommended for playing level 9.
  • Added an application metadata file on Linux according to the AppStream specification from freedesktop.org. Added a 64x64 app icon but no longer an xpm icon (Debian AppStream Guidelines).
  • Bug fixes desktop version:
  • Message dialog about discarding unsaved current game was not shown if a file was loaded by clicking on a game in the rating dialog.
  • Last move marking did not work anymore after after interrupting a computer move generation and then using Undo Move.
  • Autosaving unfinished games did not work if game was finished first but then made unfinished again with Undo Move.
  • Selecting pieces in setup mode did no longer work if no legal moves were left, even if setup mode is also intended to be used for setting up illegal positions (e.g. for Blokus art).
  • Android version:
  • Initial support for loading/saving, variations and game tree navigation.
  • The piece area now has enough room for all pieces of one color. It also removes rows that become empty and orders the colors such that the color to play is always on top.
  • Action buttons and menu items are now only shown if the action is enabled in the current position.

New in Pentobi 3.1 (Aug 2, 2012)

  • Fixed a severe bug in version 3.0 in the replacement of obsolete move properties in old files that corrupted files in game variants with 3 or 4 colors.