**** Freeciv 1.13.0 patchlevel 4 ****

This is an experimental Freeciv release made by Davide Pagnin.

The purpose of this release is to resolve a set of known bugs in 1.13.0
by using a minimal set of bugfixes.

Two kinds of patches were applied to the 1.13.0 source code:

  + a selection of patches that are already in current CVS
  + an additional set of hotfix patches.

The release consists of the following files, all in this directory:

  freeciv-1.13.0-pl4.README.txt        this file
  freeciv-1.13.0-pl4.changes.txt       list of patches against freeciv-1.13.0
  freeciv-1.13.0-pl4.tar.bz2           the source code with all patches applied
  freeciv-1.13.0-pl4.hotfixes.tar.bz2  the set of hotfixes (patches not in CVS)

To use this release, you need to fetch freeciv-1.13.0-pl4.tar.bz2,
unpack it (with bzip2), compile, install and run it, just like the
CVS snapshot tarballs in this directory.  There is no need to fetch
and apply the hotfixes, they are only here for your information.

Binary distributions of this release are not available.

This patched Freeciv version is fully compatible with 1.13.0:
1.13.0-pl4 clients can join 1.13.0 servers,
and 1.13.0 clients can join 1.13.0-pl4 servers.

Obviously, to get the benefits of all the bugfixes, you need both
a 1.13.0-pl4 client and a 1.13.0-pl4 server.

The bugfixes are mostly on the client side and mainly apply to the
GTK+ client for Unix variants - other clients have not been tested!

The bug ids that this patched version claims to resolve:

1665 : 'TURN DONE' button problem
(When playing multiplayer games, the turn done button don't became grayed, 
when you first press it)

1883 : 'DONT GET MAP AT END GAME' problem
(When the game is over you don't get the full world map)

1952 : 'CHAT DON'T WORK' problem
(During nation selection chat is frozen and you can't issue commands)

1961 : 'TURN DONE DONT BLINK' problem
(When you are the last player that need to press the turn done button,
you're turn done button doesn't blink)

NOTE:
A patch qualifies as an hotfix if it solves the reported bug without
reworking the stable code in a major way. This also means that hotfixes
are not the proper way to solve a problem and thus it is usually better
not to include them into CVS.