Assistive Programs Maintenance Release (0.4.9019.1)

In the year and several months since the last release of the assistive programs, which coincided with the official acknowledgement of the end of the 2009-2022 campaign, most of the thought that has gone into Strategic Primer has been devoted to considerations of the changes to the game design and mechanics for the next campaign. Recently, however, I did some maintenance of the code of the assistive programs, and made a new release.

The only really notable change is that all dependencies were updated, including one that had an announced security vulnerability—though not one that could only affect these applications with the user’s active and deliberate involvement (if then). The minimum Java version required to run the code has also been bumped to 21 (the latest “LTS” release).

There will most likely be another long wait for a next release, which will probably be version 0.5.0 and be completely incompatible with existing map files—in preparation for the next campaign, whenever I’m ready for it.

Assistive Programs Release (0.4.9019)

In the more than a year (eep!) since the last “release candidate”, a very great deal of development has gone on in the suite of assistive programs for players and Judges of Strategic Primer. There are a number of new features, mostly having to do with automating details of running a turn, but the biggest change is the port back to Java. Because of a change in development direction I’ve given the new release the number 0.4.9019 even though the amount of change from the last “release candidate” is immense; more about all of that below.