What is new in WinBoard / XBoard 4.6.2?
This version fixes some bugs found in 4.6.0. Here is a quick list of the changes:
- Fix memory corruption bug on second-engine loading (through menu or in tournament), which could destroy -firstInitString
- Fix bug loading a new engine through the menu (not loading it with the full game, but just upto the current move)
- Prefix engine command with "./" when a pathname is split up during install, so the engine actually runs (XB)
- Fix fall-back to -ncp mode when engine does not start (cutting short the feature timeout)
- Fix bug in position search for FRC castlings (where a King could 'fall off' the board)
- Fix bug in deriving castling rights for games with holdings after Edit Position (where Qq were never granted)
- Display a message informing the user how to clear the board, in sweep-select edit-position mode
- Fix a bug that could stop the clock when the board window was dragged (XB)
- Fix switching off highlighting during game (so last highlights do not remain for the rest of the game)
- Allow user to enter the name of a non-existing file when browsing for a save file (WB)
- Make sure rarely used engine-related options (such as -firstNPS) are also correctly loaded during session
- Correctly handle parsing of Crazyhouse promotions with legality-testing off
- Fix click-click detour under-promotions, which were not working for non-captures
- Don't strip path from engine command if directory is explicitly given in Load Engine dialog
- Consistently make auxiliary windows top level-shells or not, with new -topLevel option (XB)
- No longer fatal if second engine does not support current variant (just refuse Two Machines mode)
- Scroll XBoard game list to keep selected item in view (XB)
- Suppress spurious error popup when starting observing of bughouse games
- Fix vertical axis ticks in eval graph with drop games
- Put title on same line as menu bar only for -size 72 and larger (with -titleInWindow, XB)
- Properly open and close debug file when switching debug mode through key binding Ctrl-D (XB)
