OpenTTD is back with a quick release. This time no new features only bugfixes. But at least this one is hot on the heels of 0.4.5 and should work more pleasantly. You can safely upgrade from 0.4.5 to this version as hopefully nothing has gotten broken, only fixed. Have fun.

As usual, you can find the release on SourceForge. The files are in the process of being uploaded and distributed so have a little patience when some releases are not found on SF.

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Currently, we are in the process of making electric rail available in OpenTTD! Because this involves a lot of big changes, we are creating it outside of the main development. Therefore, it isn't included in the nightlies. But, no need to be sad, you can download the latest version of elrail here:

Warning: using 'elrail' can unrecoverable damage your savegame, which can't be loaded by any version of OpenTTD. Do not report bugs related to this. You have been warned!

Electric Rail - Binaries

If you find problems in it, please don't report them via the webpage, but send a mail to {mailto:celestar@openttd.org} or post them at the forum-topic. Please read the BUGS file before doing so.

Also, don't be shy to tell Celestar what a great job he did!

A long time in the making, more than 8 months, OpenTTD 0.4.5 has finally been released. Improved multi-player, newgrf, autoreplace and countless other fixes/features have been added. Also the downloads are quite bigger than the last one as you can see because we have included 16 scenarios with the release; a result of a semi-contest on the forums. We hope you enjoy them.

As usual, you can find the release on SourceForge.

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As experiment, we set up 2 official OpenTTD servers. You can find them under 'Official OpenTTD Server #', or via server1.openttd.org / server2.openttd.org.

When this experiment is a success, more Official Servers will be launched over time, all with different settings. Feel free to join the servers and play around.

For any questions and/or comments, contact me, TrueLight (see contact for contact information).
Enjoy!

We are happy to announce our first received award in a hopefully long list to come. OpenTTD has won first prize of the HUP community (HUP = Hungarian Unix Portal) reader's choice contest in category 'Favourite Free Game'. You can read the official announcement here (Hungarian).
The accompanying logo will be put up shortly in its own honourable space as soon as I figure out where to put it exactly ;). Until then...