[SirKnightly]

Should be the last RC!  Fixed a couple things that we would like to make sure did not adversely affect anything else.

Important!!
As always, you need OpenAL installed.  Linux and OS X come with it but Windows users will need to get Creative's OpenAL installer. Alternatively, if Creative's OpenAL doesn't work with your hardware, you can use OpenAL Soft.

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Important!!
An external DLL is required for FSO to use TrackIR functions.  The following DLL is simply unpacked in to your main FreeSpace2 root dir.
TrackIR is only supported on Windows.
TrackIR SCP DLL (Mirror) (Mirror)

Launchers, if you don't have one already:
All platforms:  wxLauncher (ongoing project for a unified launcher)

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Windows:  Launcher 5.5g (Mirror) (Mirror) Not compatible with Windows 8+, use wxLauncher above
OS X:  Soulstorm's OS X Launcher 3.0
Linux:  YAL or by hand or whatever you can figure out.

Known issues:

• Github issues and pending pull requests
• Open non-feature issues in Mantis: 123
• See the list of Fix for next release bugs - mark a bug as an elevated priority (high, urgent, immediate) to get it included in that filter.
• Here is the filter for Target 3.7.4 bugs.

Windows
Compiled on Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, MSVC Community 2015 Update 2

fs2_open_3.7.4_RC3.7z (Mirror) (MD5)
This one is based on the SSE2 Optimizations from the MSVC Compiler.

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If you don't know which one to get, get the third one (no SSE).  If you don't know what SSE means, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions
You can use freely available tools like CPU-Z to check which SSE capabilities your CPU has.

fs2_open_3.7.4_RC3_AVX.7z (Mirror) (MD5)
This one is based on the AVX Optimizations from the MSVC Compiler (fastest build if your CPU supports AVX instructions).

fs2_open_3.7.4_RC3_SSE.7z (Mirror) (MD5)
This one is based on the SSE Optimizations from the MSVC Compiler.

fs2_open_3.7.4_RC3_NO-SSE.7z (Mirror) (MD5)

What are those SSE and SSE2 builds I keep seeing everywhere?
Your answer is in this topic.

OS X Universal (32/64-bit Intel)
Compiled on OS X 10.11.5, Xcode 7.3.1 (Apple LLVM version cross-reference)

fs2_open_3.7.4_RC3.dmg (Mirror) (MD5)

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Ubuntu Linux 32-bit
Compiled on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS 32-bit, GCC 4.8.4, glibc 2.19
The Ubuntu builds are built and provided as a reference, and also because Ubuntu is a very common Desktop Linux distribution.  We usually recommend Linux users compile their own builds, but if you happen to be running 32-bit Ubuntu, or 64-bit Ubuntu with 32-bit libraries installed, these may work fine for you.  There have been reports of package managers maintaining FSO packages in various Linux distributions, if you plan to package an FSO release for a distribution please let use know and we will include a reference to it in our release posts.

fs2_open_3.7.4_RC3.tar.bz2 (Mirror) (MD5)


FreeBSD 64-bit (experimental, limited support)
Compiled on PCBSD 10.2 64-bit, clang 3.4.1
As FreeBSD is still a small player in the desktop space, but PC-BSD is becoming a much more user-friendly platform, we were able to get it reliably working with our build system.  The limited user base for these builds will likely keep them in the experimental realm, so if you do have any issues or successes with them, please report your experiences here.

fs2_open_3.7.4_RC3.tar.bz2 (Mirror) (MD5)

Source Code Export (MD5)
fs2_open_3_7_4_RC3_src.tgz (Mirror)

[Trivial Psychic]

Someone ought to stickify this in place of the RC2 thread.

[chief1983]

Give me a minute, it just posted, jeez

[Trivial Psychic]

Eh... you had more than an hour between the thread being launched and my post.  Get with the program. 

[chief1983]

Installer and Mantis have been updated to be RC3-aware.  Installer was tested; all builds should download successfully.

[chief1983]

No complaints so I take it this build is perfect!

[LaineyBugsDaddy]

No issues for me, chief. My problems while using this have been specific to some mistakes Blaise Russel made while FREDding some of the missions of Homesick. I'm working on correcting how he used break-warp, never-warp, fix-warp, and allow-warp on as many missions in Homesick as misused them. Oddly enough, some missions he made for Homesick did used the best practice method while others did not. It's strange.

[Buff Skeleton]

No issues for me, chief. My problems while using this have been specific to some mistakes Blaise Russel made while FREDding some of the missions of Homesick. I'm working on correcting how he used break-warp, never-warp, fix-warp, and allow-warp on as many missions in Homesick as misused them. Oddly enough, some missions he made for Homesick did used the best practice method while others did not. It's strange.

Glad I'm not the only one! Been playing through this for the first time over the past couple days, and have hit a brick wall in the nebula mission after you first run from the Mammon. Can't warp out, even after I get the Depart directive. I'm guessing it's due to some buggeration with the campaign itself rather than any FSO stuff, since I had no trouble with anything else.

Also, new here but have been enjoying FS2 / FSOpen for years and recently reinstalled for a run through the campaign. Replayed Transcend and Sync, then moved on to new stuff: Ancient Shivan War, Derelict, and now Homesick. All fantastic stuff -- so much great work has been put into this game. And it seems like you all have a really friendly community to boot.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Replayed Transcend and Sync, then moved on to new stuff: Ancient Shivan War, Derelict, and now Homesick.

Heh; "new"...

(FYI, Derelict released in 2000 and Homesick in 2003, while Sync was 2004 and Transcend came out in 2005.)

[LaineyBugsDaddy]

I'm guessing he meant new to him.

Glad I'm not the only one! Been playing through this for the first time over the past couple days, and have hit a brick wall in the nebula mission after you first run from the Mammon. Can't warp out, even after I get the Depart directive. I'm guessing it's due to some buggeration with the campaign itself rather than any FSO stuff, since I had no trouble with anything else.

As soon as I'm done fixing the misFREDding of these missions, I'll release them as a patch VP to just drop in and go, then maybe a repack of Homesick entire for the FSO installer, if nobody minds.

[tomimaki]

Things look ok for me on 3.7.4 RC3 on linux and windows.
My only complain is wrong checksum for source code archive.

[Buff Skeleton]

Yup, new to me. I recognize most of this stuff is old, old, old... but old games have often been the most enjoyable in my experience.  Like ~fine wines~ etc. etc. (more like aged cheese)

As soon as I'm done fixing the misFREDding of these missions, I'll release them as a patch VP to just drop in and go, then maybe a repack of Homesick entire for the FSO installer, if nobody minds.

Sweet, looking forward to this. I might even bust out FRED myself eventually if I need a break from UEd over in my Unreal Tournament modding lands. I do remember making a total hellstorm of a mission once long ago, basically throwing as many capital ships into a fray as I could without crashing the game. Playing actual effort-based campaigns inspires me to do something at least small-scale but more interesting than a sandbox brawlfest.

[chief1983]

Things look ok for me on 3.7.4 RC3 on linux and windows.
My only complain is wrong checksum for source code archive.

Whoops, there was an uploading kink being worked out during the release process that might have left the wrong checksums uploaded, I have the correct checksum files for all these archives and will ensure they are correct on all the mirrors as soon as I have a minute.

Edit:  Ok all the MD5 sums on all the mirrors should be correct now.  Not sure why the rsync script that deployed them initially didn't update them with new data, unless it's because the sizes matched.  I'll need to modify my rsync command to do a better comparison if that was the case.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Edit:  Ok all the MD5 sums on all the mirrors should be correct now.  Not sure why the rsync script that deployed them initially didn't update them with new data, unless it's because the sizes matched.  I'll need to modify my rsync command to do a better comparison if that was the case.

Clearly, it should calculate the MD5 sums of the MD5 sums.

[maurossi]

Hi, 3.7.4RC3 is still affected by normal maps not rendered (checked on Ubuntu 16.04 with mesa-dev/stable gallium radeon and nouveau)
Mauro