Known issues

• The win level message never appears. Instead the game pauses, and setting another game speed causes the level to continue playing. Will be fixed for the next pre-release version.

New Features/Enhancements

• On MacOS DMG files are now supported as disk images for Theme Hospital data
• Hospital policies will now carry over to your next level in the campaign
• You can now remove destroyed rooms for a fee (config option)
• The information dialogs that appear when a room is first built can be disabled in the configuration file
• Fire extinguishers in rooms now have a chance to save a smoking machine
• More adviser messages added
• New trophy added
• Windows and room size now impact staff happiness
• Roujin's challenge cheat is back

Changes

• Emergencies with unknown diseases will no longer occur
• The VIP system has been overhauled to provide more balanced ratings
• Overpriced/Underpriced treatments now scale with difficulty
• Placing a receptionist on a desk will now call her to the desk
• Boiler breakdowns now depend on handymen
• Faxes can no longer be opened while paused (unless editing while paused is enabled)
• Improvements to receptionist announcement frequency and behaviour
• The game will now check common locations for Theme Hospital on startup if it has not been configured
• Games compiled without movie/audio can no longer access these settings
• Update check now occurs over TLS for better security
• English names are now shown in a tool tip when hovering over a language selection.

Translations

• Greek language added! (thanks to dimitrios-iliadis!)
• Updates to Brazilian-Portuguese language
• Updates to English language
• Fixes to Chinese unicode encoding

Bug Fixes

• Issues scheduling emergencies have been resolved
• Games will no longer crash on load if the jukebox was open
• Games will no longer crash because of an empty music folder
• Fixed a chance of Doctors getting stuck in a queue after editing a room
• Fixed an issue where the game could continue scrolling on load
• Psychiatrists in the Operating Theatre are now properly counted when checking for Psychiatrists
• Losing a game now gives the reason if the movie is skipped
• Exiting the game will no longer hang when using the Wayland backend
• The mouse will now be freed on game crash

Packager Notes

• Support added for Lua 5.4.x. (5.4.0 and 5.4.1 are not supported)
• CMake minimum version has been increased to 3.5
• The CMake option to enable AnimView is now BUILD_ANIMVIEW=ON