NEWS-2.2.0-RC1

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===WHAT'S CHANGED SINCE 2.2.0-beta3===
*Modified the trade route income formula to generate more revenue. 
*Fixed a bug where it was possible through the editor to put roads on ocean and irrigation on swamps. 
*Avoid a server crash when alternative flags are missing in nations. 
*Fixed a bug where notradesize option was not honored for the capital city. 
*GTK2: Added more options to the View menu. 
*GTK2: Fixed a bug where key shortcuts weren't working upon start of turn. 
*Fixed a bug which caused saving of games to fail on Windows. 
*Improvements to nation data. 
*Allow a worker to continue working while being unloaded from a transporter. 
*Made a unit in a fortress regain 25% of its HP a turn instead of 100%. 
*Avoid a server crash when the response from the metaserver cannot be parsed. 
*Removed a spurious rivers_overlay error message loading scenarios. 
*Fixed a bug where server settings could not be changed after applying once. 
*Fixed a server crash after using the editor as observer. 
*Disallowed ending the turn when the client is attached to an AI player. 
*GTK2: Fixed a bug where the nation name's first letter was corrupted in certain locales. 
*Give an error message when the metaserver connection fails. 
*GTK2: Fixed the Freeciv skin to cover also the toolbar. 
*Defined 32 player colors - formerly 14. 
*Improvements to scenarios. 
*Allowed nuke and paradrop actions to be canceled with . 
*Improvements to help text. 
*Prefer selecting nations defined in scenarios. 
*Add more scenarios: France, Italy, Japan, and North America. 
*Allow the goto command to be used for missile attacks. 
*Fixed a crash bug when border were turned off. 
*Keep the tax rates if they don't exceed the maximal possible rate when switching governement type. 
*Updated documentation. 
*Improved the civ script to accept the --gui option. 
*Do not use the rulesetdir command when loading a scenario. 
*Fixed a bug where the server crashed when unable to pick barbarian nations. 
*Disallowed extreme climate change to transform city tiles to f.e. ocean or glacier. 
*Changes if "Clear unit orders on selection" option unset: allow move keys to cancel activity, changed behavior of command. 
*SDL: Fixed a bug where city report information was not updated. 
*Added more detailed error messages for mistakes in rule data. 
*Disallowed airlifting units between allied cities. 
*Improvements to tutorial. 
*Improved the map generator to pick more fitting terrain. 
*Reworked trade route messages. 
*Made military units cause the expected amount of unhappiness. 
*GTK2: Fixed a crash when attempting to assign a worklist to a city from the city report. 
*XAW: Made the connection dialog appear upon start. 
*Fixed a crash bug that occurred upon end of turn. 
*Updated localizations: Danish, Catalan, Ukrainian, French, and Norwegian.
See NEWS for older lists of changes.
Category:NEWS