This is a list of bigger changes between Boson 0.10 and Boson 0.11.

General

• Port to libufo
• Added a network sync protocol, now it is possible to check if the clients are in sync. Additionally most sync errors can now be fixed.
• Improvements to effects system (load/save, species independent, delaying)
• Improvements to weapons
• Very simple and experimental dedicated server

Rendering

• Basic support for animated water (lakes and oceans are possible), not included in editor yet
• Simple terrain LOD (level of detail) system
• Light effect (dynamic lights)
• Daylight effect, realistically simulating Sun's movement
• Wind effect
• Bullet trail effect
• Environmental effects (can be used to create snow, rain, etc)
• Improved and much better-looking fog-of-war rendering for terrain
• Support for anisotropic filtering for textures (better quality)
• Support for water rendering using shaders

Game

• Support for winning conditions
• Forbid placing refineries too close to resource mines
• Skip rendering some frames when the game becomes overloaded. This reserves more CPU power for the actual game tasks and keeps it playable
• Descriptions for produceable facilities are now displayed in the game
• Flying units have their own moving quirks
• New Pathfinder
• Bomb-dropping is more realistic
• Description widget, showing info about highlighted unit type when a factory is selected

Scripts / AI

• Events support for scripts
• Loading/saving for scripts
• Many new script functions

Editor

• Basic widget to edit conditions
• Improvements to unit placing
• Support for undo/redo of unit placement/deletion

Data

• Added textured fonts from plib (not functional right now, due to the libufo port)
• Many new neutral models (trees, houses, etc)
• Few new maps (Cross)
• Scripts are now in data module
• Some new effects
• Sight and weapon ranges of units are much bigger now
• Some new cursor themes

Internal

• New texture class and texture manager
• Canvas coordinates are now same as cell coordinates (except that they're floats, not ints)
• Use new bofixed (fixed-precision number) data type in logic code to prevent errors caused by rounding of floats
• Unit speeds are now saved as cells/second in confg files. This makes editing the files much easier
• Weapon types are now saved as strings instead of ints in config files, making them more readable
• New profiling architecture
• Adding a cache file format for model files (decreases startup times)
• Adding an internal math library
• Load libGL.so dynamically on startup using dlopen()
• Compress map data before sending it over network
• Game Event subsystem
• Making game starting more modular
• bosonwidget.cpp has been removed. It has seen 218 HEAD revisions and some more from branches. bosonwidget.cpp, 2001/11/09 - 2004/12/10, may it rest in peace.
• Complete game logic and game view separation
• New upgrade architecture