The version is not yet released. You can find the preview here. On the other hand it might already be released by the time you are reading this.

I am gonna quickly interduce new features:

• Client warns if you try to close it while FA is running
  

• Hide the chat user list
  

• See description of game featured mods
  

• Client can cache multiple versions of featured mods, so you don't need to redownload everything after you watched an old replay. Needs to be activated in the settings for now
  

• Client shows why games are not rated:
  

• The m&m map picks are rotated

• Admins can broadcast messages via the client

• Client short cut is called FAF Client

• Maps added to the map folder are automatically detected during runtime and added.

• Lots of bug fixes

• Client adds support to broadcast rating limits via server:
  
  You can add min/max rating and also enforce it. If enforced the game is only shown to players that match the rating boundaries. If not enforced only a warning is shown to players that do not match the boundaries.
  
  See the video how to use it.

Read the changelog for more information.

1. You can finally see what maps/mods you have installed directly
   
2. You can open the website to report a player from the context menu in chat.
   
3. Client writes separate log file for every game.
   
4. Hosting a game straight from the map vault with the map you are viewing finally works.
   
5. Country names are not only code but the full name:
   
   
6. Now shows the years in the graph that shows the rating.
   
7. Copy local replay info to clipboard:
   
8. A button to join discord:
   
9. Map icons are shown in chat of the map that is currently played:
   
10. You can delete and install maps/mods easily from the preview.
    
11. Online replays can we started from the preview:
    

A lot of bugs were fixed if you want a more detailed version of what else changed have a look in the release notes:
https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/releases/tag/v1.2.1

FAF tanks all contributors that contribute to FAF software. Be the next one and help us. See the project on Github.

Now the map generator has an option to set the map size and player count, would that not be a reason to try it in a tournament again? Now you can also make 2v2 1v1 or whatever you like. I would be interested. Also reclaim and a lot of other stuff was improved.

Hi guys, if you have got any questions concerning contributing to the FAF client fell free to ask here. Make sure you check out the wiki https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/wiki

Till now there was not really I way to update mods. There has always been a system to upload new versions but no way to update them. The update process only happened when u joined a game with a newer version. To make sure that players do not play old outdated versions the client will beginning from the next update pull the newest version when hosting. Updated is only what is currently selected for the game being hosted.

The corresponding change: https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/pull/2255

It can be turned off but is on by default.

For modders that means:

• Be aware that if you push new version that should be working because now ppl acctually get to play them.
• If you have a mod that has a huge download size, you should consider bundling changes so you maybe update at most once a month to avoid traffic for users(there is almost no mod that this applies to)

Btw guys if we merge @Downlord's PR then the new release would need java 14

Puh that will be really hard to code. But it is open source if anybody feels like it go ahead

He would like to manage ppl yes you got that right. But that usually ends up with ppl getting upset

It is like a sports club dude. It is not that complicated. We all vote a head/board he decides. But in reality he gives most of his power away. But such things are not found in the rules because that makes it inflexible.

Alternative is a private person own everything and he decides(right now the case).

Done that a thousand times. We had documents explaining it. Conferences explaining it we have the rules of the association which are public

I was not at the preliminary(no time at the date) meeting of the association but there members voted on the rules. It was publically announced and everybody was invited.

https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/releases/tag/v1.2.0-RC1 should be there ib´n a few minutes

Since it is in game it is 99% not the client's fault. Probably hard to tell what the error is? Did you log in the game.log?

@ETFreeman
Just so you know your are being an ******** here. What the **** is wrong with you. Askaholic is somebody that spends a lot of time and effort in FAF which is if you have not a project run by volunteers. While Askaholic could suely use his programming skills to actually make money(given the time he spends on FAF would be quite some money I guess). Rather he likes donates his time to FAF to deal with people like you.

Tem match maker maybe

Gonna release 1.2.0 as soon as I get the motivation to get out of bed XD

Hi guys,
I am gonna try write a little about what is new in new client versions. We also have change notes on the client releases but they are often no complete description and hard to read for outsiders. So maybe I'll try to write some text about new interesting changes. When I merge them in the corresponding topic of the upcoming release.

You can try the new features by either installing a Release candidate at the end of the development period or any time with a development set up. Read more here.

You can not do that without the manual help of a moderator

Do you even remember the time before ICE?

Installing windows fixed my issues XD