Warfork Release Notes

Covers changes from the previous release through the current master.

Highlights

New Vulkan renderer. Warfork now ships a Vulkan-based renderer (NRI backend) alongside the existing OpenGL one. You can pick which to use from the video options menu. The new backend brings modern descriptor management, GLSL→SPIR-V shader compilation via glslang, and a foundation for future graphics work.
Steam integration. Steam avatars, friends, server browser, server info, and ticket-based authentication are now wired through a dedicated Steam shim. Includes groundwork for peer-to-peer connections and voice chat (both currently opt-in / disabled by default while we soak-test them).
Warmonger master server. New first-party master server with up-to-date server lists, in-band browser updates, and richer server info (including Steam ID).
Crash reporting. Crashes are now captured via Crashpad and uploaded to Sentry with debug symbols, so we can actually fix what's hitting players in the wild.
Q1 / Q2 BSP support (preview). Map loading code from upstream qfusion has been merged. Q2 is functional in this build; Q1 is present but disabled pending more work.

Scoreboard no longer waits for a server response before showing — opens instantly.
Scoreboard scaling, team colors, and text padding fixed and now scale with font size.
Crosshair: more options and customizable right-click behavior.
Damage numbers: size handling fixed; riotgun damage numbers behave correctly again.
Player outlines: new black option, default updated.
Voices HUD added; push-to-talk binds; in-game voice blocklist now respected for both effects and chatter.
Chat / console: ANSI and RGB color codes supported, with background color rendering.
New cvars for dash and wall-jump cooldowns, additional g_pmove_* tuning cvars, g_callvote_usercooldowntime, and a strafe HUD toggle.
Right-click on most cvars now shows a console description.
Callvote: instagib mode added.
Loading screen: pressing Esc now triggers disconnect after a 3-second delay (prevents accidental drops).
Updated Russian translation.

Reworked resource uploader, batching, and dynamic mesh streaming.
Lightmaps now use texture arrays.
Added pogo buffers for FXAA and color correction.
Health model shader: deformvertexes wave move and bulge restored.
Increased max animmap frames from 8 to 32 (used for weapon textures).
Repaired model smoothing for better lighting; ammobox UVs corrected; backface added to playerspawn model; projectile model triangle counts increased.
Mip-map rendering restored.
KTX loader fixes; cubemap rendering fixed; reflection rendering fixed; LUT post-effect binding fixed.
Numerous Vulkan validation fixes and memory-leak fixes (fences, scratch allocator, pipeline layouts).
Optional debug callback for OpenGL.

Migrated CI from CircleCI to GitHub Actions.
Linux builds now run inside a Steam Runtime (SLR) container for better compatibility.
Visual Studio 2019 → 2022; Windows runner 2019 → 2022; macOS runner 13 → 14.
Dedicated server deployment via GitHub Actions + SSH.
Steam depot deployment workflow.
Improved Dockerfile build process; macOS packaging fixes.
Removed vcpkg in favor of in-tree dependencies under source/extern/.
Removed legacy auto-update code (Steam handles updates).

New qcore shared library: qstr, qhash, scratch allocator, frame ring allocator, segment allocator, command and cvar modules.
Renderer split into ref_base (shared) and backend-specific ref_gl / ref_nri.
New ref_import interface centralizes the renderer's exposed API.
Tracy profiler support.
Dropped legacy OpenGL state and unused code paths (r_framebuffer, BGRA handling, myhalf indirection, SPIRV-Reflect, several unused cvars/uniforms).
Removed duplicate string implementation (q_sds).

Steam P2P routing and voice chat are disabled by default while we continue testing.
Q1 BSP loading is present but disabled.