The title of this page should be "Release Notes for 1.3.0" . It has been renamed for technical reasons.

Major

• New creature: The Cyber Behemoth
• New map: Behemoth Path
• Ironfist can now play the CD-quality MP3 music, designed to work with the GOG.com version. It will play .ogg files from the "MUSIC" folder
• Can now undo many steps in the map editor
• Massive overhaul of scripting system part 1: Use of triggers instead of callbacks
• Massive overhaul of scripting system part 2: Deep binding of HoMM 2 objects
• Massive overhaul of scripting system part 3: Libraries

Medium

• New registry option to disable analytics
• Substantially improved loading time

New scripting functions

• CountEmptyArtifactSlots
• CountEmptyCreatureSlots
• MapPutArmy
• ToggleAiArmySharing
• The AdvMessageBox module, allowing you to display different kinds of dialog boxes (e.g.: Yes/No dialogs), with images.

Bugfixes

• Hero trade no longer re-triggers "move to square" events
• Fixed bug with spell shrine message
• Fixed character encodings for map editor on non-English machines
• Fixed disappearing mouse cursor bugs in editor
• Fixed bug where hero would keep benefit of artifact upon calling "TakeArtifact"
• Spell scrolls now works properly across savegames
• "ShareVision" now works properly across savegames
• Fixed miscellaneous editor and game crashes