date: 2026-05-08

Gameplay

• Added a chance for waste burning to catch the building on fire.
• Increased fire probability for hospitals.
• Changed the crash site calculation for rockets.

User Interface

• Added partial language switching without restarting the game. (GUI components
  that were already translated are not (yet) re-translated into the new
  language. A restart is still required for that.) Notably, the pop-up dialog
  suggesting to the user to restart the game now uses the new language.

Internal

• Migrated from SDL2 to SDL3; requires SDL >= 3.2.0.
• Fixed Ninja build generation.
• Added gettext/libintl optional library dependency.
• Removed the tinygettext gettext implementation.
• Changed the installation of locale files to binary (.mo) format.
• Combined the source and GUI translation PO files into one.
• Migrated GUI module from libxml2 to libxml++.
• Added locale-independent formatting and parsing for XML.
• Added environment variables LINCITYNG_CONFIG_FILE, LINCITYNG_APP_DATA_DIR,
  and LINCITYNG_USER_DATA_DIR for setting the config file, app data, and user
  data locations respectively.

Documentation / Translation

• Reformatted the --help output, and added a brief command-line template.
• Added documentation on build configuration options.
• Added documentation on runtime config options.
• Moved dependencies list from README.md to a separate file.