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Odamex 0.6.1 has a number of new features that should offer something for all of Odamex's users.

One of the star additions to Odamex 0.6.1 are the new spectator options. You will now be able to see a player's status info and weapon when spectating, as well as their vertical mouse look pitch in servers that allow it. This is a significant change that really helps to improve the experience when watching others. There are also a number of other new related commands that can allow you to easily spy a specific player or a flag in CTF.

Robust announcer support has been added as well. This mostly applies to CTF games. Players will also be able to choose their announcer style (possessive or team based). Other often requested additions that affect this type of player are player color forcing and the addition of a turnspeed variable.

All players will be able to enjoy a number of renderer improvements which help prevent line "tearing". Players can also now resize their windows independent of the pre-set resolutions. This means that players who have asked for the option to maximize their windows to their desktop will now be able to do so.

Server administrators now have the option of utilizing the sv_maxplayersperteam variable as well as the co_blockmapfix compatibility flag, which fixes hit-scan collision on actors that overlap more than one blockmap. This is useful due to vanilla Doom having a bug that had some shots appear to hit but do not do the damage they are intended to.

There are a number of other additions and fixes which are covered more in-depth in the change log. To see more specific changes that arrive with Odamex 0.6.1, check out the more extensive list on the release page or the complete listing using our svn changelog.

As usual, you can grab the proper download for your system at the top of the main page.

I'll mention it, but remember that we can always use valuable contributions from volunteers :)

Fantastic, can't wait to give this a good run when I can!

I went to watch a movie tonight, and when I got back to my computer, full fledge DM game going on.  Everything works, and it was a great time!

Though, I did get a few "type kills", so if I may suggest, why not put a symbol or something when someone types in future versions.  Just something, since if I see someone in Quake III Arena with a "speech bubble" icon over their head, I usually don't shoot them.

Keep it up guys!

Noted, HyperEye.

why would you change the build process and not put it in the changelog or even update your wiki?

We have actually been keeping a wiki page on this very subject:

http://odamex.net/wiki/Compiling_using_CMake

You are completely correct that it should have been communicated better in the release advertisement.