v2.6.0

v2.6.0 (24. Sep 2025)

• Increased bot shadow distance to 2
• Changed behaviour of cascade kill
• Added history viewer to Tk
• Improved stability of the network protocol
• Introduced game_phase attribute to game state
• Maze generation improvements
• Be more strict in what characters bot.say accepts
• Changed distribution of teams in the knock-out round
• Keep square aspect ratio in Tk UI
• Removed compatibility for Python 3.9
• Introduced game_uuid

Пловдив, 24rd September 2025, the Pelita developers

v2.6.0-rc2

v2.6.0-rc2 (23. Sep 2025)

• Increased bot shadow distance to 2
• Changed behaviour of cascade kill
• Added history viewer to Tk
• Improved stability of the network protocol
• Introduced game_phase attribute to game state
• Maze generation improvements
• Be more strict in what characters bot.say accepts
• Changed distribution of teams in the knock-out round
• Keep square aspect ratio in Tk UI
• Removed compatibility for Python 3.9
• Introduced game_uuid

Пловдив, 23rd September 2025, the Pelita developers

v2.6.0-rc1

v2.6.0-rc1 (23. Sep 2025)

• Increased bot shadow distance to 2
• Changed behaviour of cascade kill
• Added history viewer to Tk
• Improved stability of the network protocol
• Introduced game_phase attribute to game state
• Maze generation improvements
• Be more strict in what characters bot.say accepts
• Changed distribution of teams in the knock-out round
• Keep square aspect ratio in Tk UI
• Removed compatibility for Python 3.9
• Introduced game_uuid

Пловдив, 23rd September 2025, the Pelita developers

v2.5.3

• Redesigned status area
• Tkinter buttons and backgrounds are not colourised anymore on macOS

Berlin, 28th May 2025, the Pelita developers

v2.5.2

• On-the-fly layout generation
• On-the-fly food distribution with --food
• Removal of built-in layouts
• Making illegal moves a fatal error
• Added Bot.has_exact_position attribute
• Improved Bot.repr
• New --store-layout option
• New --stop-after-kill option
• Grid labels
• New --standalone-mode in tk viewer, enabling user-configured overlays on the maze
• Improved internals

Berlin, 5th May 2025, the Pelita developers

v2.5.2-rc1

• v2.5.2-rc1 (30. Apr 2025)

  • On-the-fly layout generation
  • On-the-fly food distribution with --food
  • Removal of built-in layouts
  • Making illegal moves a fatal error
  • Added Bot.has_exact_position attribute
  • Improved Bot.repr
  • New --store-layout option
  • New --stop-after-kill option
  • Grid labels
  • New --standalone-mode in tk viewer, enabling user-configured overlays on the maze
  • Improved internals

v2.5.1

• 1000 new layouts with dead ends
• Matches will be played on a maze with dead ends/chambers with 25% chance
• Reduced the radius of the food shadow
• Streamlined handling of random numbers and seeding

Berlin, 09. Oct 2024, the Pelita developers

v2.5.0

• Food ageing and relocation to discourage camping strategies
• New attribute bot.shaded_food
• Fullscreen mode added to UI
• Enhanced CI engine
• New and enlarged collection of layouts
• New attribute bot.team_time in bot
• Add send queue to server to avoid stalling
• Fewer failures in Github CI

Berlin, 08. Aug 2024, the Pelita developers

v2.4.0

• Greatly improved server mode
• Bot.legal_positions becomes a static attribute
• Bot has a new cached attribute graph
• Small timeout improvements

Berlin, 23rd May 2024, the Pelita developers

v2.4.0-rc1

• Greatly improved server mode
• Bot.legal_positions becomes a static attribute
• Bot has a new cached attribute graph
• Small timeout improvements