Development version 6.9 is available for download

This is the last development release of the 7.0 version. The main feature of the version is again more updates to the game UI: ability to show the player's ship's crew members skills on the crew list, option to resize information sections on the combat screen, keyboard shortcuts for them and many small changes. Also, it brings fixes for many bugs. Binaries are available for Linux and Windows (both 64-bit). Below, you can find major changes since the last development release:

Added

• Showing the highest skill or the level of the selected skill on the
  player's ship's crew member list
• Option to sort the player's ship's crew members list by their skills
• Tooltips to the map manipulation buttons, to move to button and to setting
  ship speed box
• Option to minimize or maximize information in the ship to ship and boarding
  combat
• Keyboard shortcuts to minimize or maximize information sections in the ship
  info screen, the knowledge info screen, the ship to ship combat screen and
  the boarding combat screen

Changed

• Redesigned menu and back to map buttons
• Updated modding guide
• Updated README.md
• Look of map manipulation, the player's ship movement and the move to buttons
• Always show the player's ship damage info in the combat

Fixed

• Showing some buttons have keyboard focus
• Showing which combo box (like select faction, items type, etc.) has keyboard
  focus
• Crash when canceling moving items from the player's ship crew member
  inventory to the cargo
• Some typos and grammar in modding guide
• Color of message about successfully finished destroy enemy ship mission
• Crash when trying to repair the ship in bases
• Crash when trying to heal wounded crew members in bases
• Crash when trying to sell items which are not available in bases
• Crash in melee combat when the enemy has shield
• Crash on showing the player's ship's crew member menu when more than one the
  ship's module needs repairs
• Showing proper combat screen when the player is in boarding party after back
  from the ship info screen
• Look of an empty progress bar (for example, for destroyed ship modules)