Development version 8.9 arrived

This is the last development release of the 9.0 series of the game. As the previous ones, it also brings mostly upgrades to the user interface: more information in the player's ship's modules' list, redesigned the dialog to assign crew members to boarding or defending party in combat, plus several smaller changes. And some fixes for bugs as usual. Binaries are available for Linux and Windows (both 64-bit). Below, you can find major changes since the last major release:

Added

• Various information about some modules types to the list of the player's
  ship's modules
• Remembering the last entered value of custom wait time in the wait menu
• Info about the game's factions, player's careers and available bases types
  to the help
• Ability to select or unselect all crew members during setting boarding or
  defending parties in combat
• Remembering the size of the messages' window

Changed

• Redesigned assigning crew members to boarding and defending parties in
  combat

Fixed

• Showing information about finished stories
• Typo in changelog
• Look of the base's info's dialog when the player is unknown in the base
• Updating the map after move the player's ship
• Saving the player's ship's modules' upgrade action
• Crash during docking or undocking from bases
• Saving the player's ship's module's upgrade progress