NEWS-2.6.9

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= WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE 2.6.8 =
2.6.9 is a generic bugfix release on freeciv-2.6 series.
Experimental msys2 based build for Windows: When it comes time to uninstall this version, it does so cleanly. Former versions failed to remove some of the Registry Keys they had written. Those keys are harmless, but this failed the expectation that uninstall removes such things from user's machine.
== Server / General ==
* Fixed server file descriptor leak when loading lua command files 
* Fixed memory handling issues when number of continents change on a map with no lakes at all 
=== Changes affecting other rulesets / modders ===
* Clients now receive updated information when player gold reserves have been changed by a lua script 
=== AI ===
* Fixed an issue in how AI evaluates whether building a new building would enable or disable unit actions. Notable consequences of this bug was how AI was afraid to build Coinage, and went for idle Caravans instead 
== Clients ==
* Show Irrigation option fixed - Irrigation was being drawn regardless of the value 
* Fixed client crash after failure to load some tileset files 
* Fixed clipping of the draw area on gui independent part of client code. Notably this made gtk-clients to give warnings like Invalid rectangle passed 
* gtk3 / gtk3.22
** Area of the Battle Animation is now set correctly on screen 
* qt
** Added About Current Tileset entry to Help menu 
* sdl / sdl2
** Diplomacy dialog now provides button to propose Alliance 
** Fix help crash when a building has only negated requirements 
** Orders menus for present and supported units now correctly opens from the city dialog 
** Fix tech help crash 
** sdl2 only Theme font size is actually used. This initial implementation is just a start, but better than nothing 
== Translations ==
* Updated translations:
** Complete translations: Catalan, French, Russian
** Incomplete translations: Finnish (100% core, 91% nations, 100% ruledit)
== Build/portability ==
* Made Windows builds to live a bit better together when co-installed 
* Experimental msys2 based Windows Uninstaller of this version properly removes Registry Keys the installation has written 
* Autotools: Add large files support 
* Preparations for upcoming autoconf-2.72 
* Fixed potential problem in detecting pthreads availability 
* Fixed xaw-client compile warnings with modern libxaw 
* Fixed gtk2-client build with gtk+ versions older than 2.20 
See NEWS for older lists of changes.
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