This is a list of bigger changes between Boson 0.9 and Boson 0.10.

General

• Resolution changing using Xrandr is supported (XFree 4.3 required)
• Dependency changes:
• Added: OpenAL
• Removed: arts, kdemultimedia, kdegames

Sound

• Sound is played using OpenAL now (if you use arts you need a patched OpenAL, or use "artsshell suspend ; ./boson")
• Dependency on arts and kdemultimedia removed
• Sound is enabled by default again

Rendering

• Use vertex arrays and vertex buffer objects by default if possible, increases speed by a few FPS
• First steps for transparent textures (transparent surfaces support), this not completed
• New effects system which replaces particle systems. At the moment this is an internal change only
• Units are correctly rotated, depending on the slope of the terrain that they're on
• Performance improvements

Game

• OpenGL minimap
• Support for harvesting
• New pathfinding code
• Special pathfinding code for flying units
• The game starts only once all clients have loaded their game data
• Neutral player and species has been added. You cannot play this, it is meant for civilian units or things like trees and so on
• Oil tower is a neutral unit now
• Day/night support, the default AI script now triggers day/night changes
• Flying units can't fly on unpassable cells (slope > 45 degrees)
• Take unit's size into account when calculating unit's distance from explosions

Scripts / AI

• AI now produces units and supports mining, thanks to Carlo (aka alea)
• New ai script functions
• Free mode and no-limits mode for camera (to get used by scripts)

Editor

• Added height icon
• Bugfixes

Data

• Some neutral objects added (mineralmine, trees, stone, house...)
• New explosions
• Two textured fonts added
• Scaled down some textures
• General map changes
• New map: We are under attack
• Documentation updates

Internal

• Very basic support for ac3d models
• Support for textured fonts. They are faster, more powerful and stable. Thanks a lot to plib where this code has been shamelessy stolen
• Texture compression is used, if available which can reduce texture size an therefore improve speed
• The path a unit is using is displayed when it is selected
• The menu is properly removed when a game is ended, fixing menu duplication (see 66715)
• Boson now provides it's own copy of kgame
• Emergency save added, it saves all game data. A developer can now look at a replay of this session
• Gcc 3.4 fixes