This release made it possible to explore the map with a ship and a free colonist.

The server was written in C++ and the client in Java.

This was the first release completely written in Java. Aside from that a first implementation of 'Europe', some GUI improvements and more performant screen drawing were added.

The code had been redesigned and restructed in order to make the ongoing development easier. Prior to this, the codebase bore clear markings of originally having been seperated in client and server implementations programmed in Java and C++ respectively. New features were added more frequently after the restructuring, as evident by the Lines of Code graph displayed on this page.

It was also the first release of FreeCol in which it was possible to play and win a multiplayer game. Several new features were added - such as colonies, founding fathers, immigration, combat, trade, terrain improvements, save/load, sound and many GUI improvements.

• Compatability with J2SE 5.0
• AI for indian players
• Visiting indian villages (colonist, missionary and scout)
• Trade with indians.
• Graphical updates and Colopedia framework

In this release we added Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the computer players, and thereby enabled singleplayer games. The framework for the AI-code was added, but the computer players were not very advanced.

• Tax.
• The custom house.
• Capturing of goods.
• Lost city rumours.
• AI for the european players and the royal expeditionary force.
• Fight the war of independence.
• Separate graphics for each type of forest.
• Get a list of public game servers on the Internet.
• Join a running multiplayer game.
• A user friendly installer.

• The installer now adds a shortcut for starting the game in windowed mode.
• New graphics for displaying unit paths.
• Borders for the main menu.
• Some of the panels have been improved.
• Lots of bugfixes.

• The time and memory required for loading/saving a game have been reduced.
• More efficient transmissions of large network messages.
• Savegame sizes have been reduced.
• Many other savegame related bugs have been fixed.
• Autosaving has been added as an optional feature.
• A new menubar border has been added.

FreeCol finally reached a level of stability enabling lasting games with this release. This was also the release when people really started playing the game and when we were chosen for SourceForge.net's:

Project Of The Month, February 2007

• The map size can now be chosen when starting a new game.
• It is now possible to give units goto orders when it is not your turn (multiplayer).
• The non-admin players are now able to view the current options (multiplayer).
• Chatting is now working properly.
• Lots of other bugfixes.

• Improve the user interface.
• Add reports for simplifying the gameplay.
• Enable moving and resizing of dialogs.
• Lots of other new features and bugfixes

• Clicking a colony name on the Turn Report will now display that Colony.
• A panel for displaying the requirements of the colonies has now been added.
• The bug causing the game to deadlock after displaying the emigration panel has been fixed.
• Multiplayer games should now be stable after fixing two critical bugs.

• Trade and negotiations between human players.
• A simple map editor has been created.
• The in-game user documentation has been improved.
• Map of the Americas added.
• Automated trade routes.
• Lots of other new features and bugfixes.

We migrated from CVS to Subversion immediately after making this release.

Complete lists of: new features and bugfixes.