====== Version history ======

===== 0.5 (1 November 2026) =====

  * Fog of war for the computer houses: they now choose what to attack and where to settle only from what their worlds and fleets have seen, as a player does. Attacks need a sighting from the last turn; an older sighting only tells them whether a system was unclaimed then. Their scouts revisit the systems seen longest ago, and they keep three.

===== 0.4 (1 November 2026) =====

  * New settings ''PeaceDays'' (10) and ''Difficulty'' (Easy/Normal/Hard) for the computer houses: they leave a new player alone for PeaceDays days, and play more or less boldly. See [[emberreach:computer_houses|Computer houses]].
  * Computer houses now build troops and land on worlds they blockade, instead of blockading for ever.
  * Fleets that had arrived were treated as still moving: blockades never cut production, and arriving patrols didn't join the guard fleet.
  * Settler fleets stopped at a guarded system now look for another world.
  * Research moves on to another track when one is finished, instead of wasting the points; the header shows "Research all done" at the end.
  * ''ermaint status'' keeps big numbers apart.
  * Ember Reach is now under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later; the source is released as ''REACHS05.ZIP''. ''REACHB05.ZIP'' has the Lua bot.

===== 0.3 (1 November 2026) =====

  * Saving a game is safe against a crash or power cut at any point: REACH.DAT is put back from REACH.NEW or REACH.OLD if it goes missing, and the nightly run no longer takes a missing REACH.DAT for "no game".
  * Houses on autopilot now get orders from the computer each night. They still leave the game after DissolveAfter days.
  * The game lock records when it was taken and how long it may be held, so a working program's lock is never broken by mistake. A MAINT.RUN left by a crashed maintenance run no longer keeps players out.
  * Splitting a fleet can no longer leave troops behind without enough Haulers to carry them.

===== 0.2 (31 October 2026) =====

  * First test release: the door, nightly maintenance, reachcfg, news and the Hall of Fame.