Release v0.5.0

- Feature: [#23465] Change plugin JavaScript engine from Duktape to QuickJS-NG, allowing ES6+ features to be used in plugins.
- Feature: [#26178] Port of the Spinning Cars from RollerCoaster Tycoon 1.
- Improved: [#25314] Add unbanked and banked quarter helices to the Alpine, Corkscrew, Giga, Hybrid, Looping, Mine Ride, Mini, Multi-Dimension, Single Rail, Stand Up, Steeplechase and Twister tracks.
- Improved: [#26044] Simplify Android installation by bundling OpenRCT2 assets in APK.
- Improved: [#26293] Objects extracted from saves now have more information in their filenames.
- Improved: [objects#432] Allow saving scenery from RCT1 with track designs.
- Change: [#25962] The station style dropdown now shows entrance icons next to the labels for easier selection.
- Change: [#26175] The ride colour tab is made more compact by collapsing unavailable sections instead of only hiding them.
- Change: [#26178] Symmetric spinning trains and legacy ‘pre-reversed’ trains can no longer be reversed.
- Fix: [#10616] Quarter-tile trees cannot be placed on dry portions of half-water tiles.
- Fix: [#25128] Mute button displayed in wrong state after load.
- Fix: [#25460] Infinite loop when moving track design ghost queue over queue loop with zero clearances.
- Fix: [#25735] Ride synchronisation z-check works incorrectly.
- Fix: [#25919] Path drag tool error sound stacks when placement fails.
- Fix: [#25926] Path drag tool shows cost for single tile instead of total.
- Fix: [#25927] Wall drag tool error sound stacks and shows wrong cost.
- Fix: [#25962] Dropdown triangle glyphs are not optically centred.
- Fix: [#25993] Toggling “allow arbitrary ride type changes” does not resize open ride windows.
- Fix: [#26111] Vehicle colours tab can go out of bounds in certain edge cases.
- Fix: [#26118] Windows installers for releases are not signed properly.
- Fix: [#26128] The loan spinner widget does not appear on the same baseline as the text around it.
- Fix: [#26140] The time a guest has spent in a queue overflows back to 0 after it reaches 65535 (about a year).
- Fix: [#26159] The map generator window is not resized correctly in Enlarged UI mode.
- Fix: [#26196] The sprites of one angle of the Steeplechase left large turn are misaligned (original bug).
- Fix: [#26214] The wrong sprite is used for one angle of the gentle diagonal slope of Alpine, Hybrid and Single Rail tracks.
- Fix: [#26243] Increase max dropdown size from 512 to 1024 to accommodate parks with more than 512 rides.
- Fix: [#26306] Platform::FindApp fails to locate Homebrew-installed tools on macOS.
- Fix: [#26339] Crash when setting up a marketing campaign.
- Fix: [objects#430] The RCT1 Reverse Freefall car can be reversed and show broken sprites when doing so.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ env:
   OPENRCT2_BUILD_SERVER: GitHub
   OPENRCT2_ORG_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.OPENRCT2_ORG_TOKEN }}
   BACKTRACE_IO_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.BACKTRACE_IO_TOKEN }}
-  OPENRCT2_VERSION: 0.4.32
+  OPENRCT2_VERSION: 0.5.0
 
 # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/using-concurrency#example-using-a-fallback-value
 concurrency:

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,35 @@
+openrct2 (0.5.0-develop-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Feature: [#23465] Change plugin JavaScript engine from Duktape to QuickJS-NG, allowing ES6+ features to be used in plugins.
+ * Feature: [#26178] Port of the Spinning Cars from RollerCoaster Tycoon 1.
+ * Improved: [#25314] Add unbanked and banked quarter helices to the Alpine, Corkscrew, Giga, Hybrid, Looping, Mine Ride, Mini, Multi-Dimension, Single Rail, Stand Up, Steeplechase and Twister tracks.
+ * Improved: [#26044] Simplify Android installation by bundling OpenRCT2 assets in APK.
+ * Improved: [#26293] Objects extracted from saves now have more information in their filenames.
+ * Improved: [objects#432] Allow saving scenery from RCT1 with track designs.
+ * Change: [#25962] The station style dropdown now shows entrance icons next to the labels for easier selection.
+ * Change: [#26175] The ride colour tab is made more compact by collapsing unavailable sections instead of only hiding them.
+ * Change: [#26178] Symmetric spinning trains and legacy ‘pre-reversed’ trains can no longer be reversed.
+ * Fix: [#10616] Quarter-tile trees cannot be placed on dry portions of half-water tiles.
+ * Fix: [#25128] Mute button displayed in wrong state after load.
+ * Fix: [#25460] Infinite loop when moving track design ghost queue over queue loop with zero clearances.
+ * Fix: [#25735] Ride synchronisation z-check works incorrectly.
+ * Fix: [#25919] Path drag tool error sound stacks when placement fails.
+ * Fix: [#25926] Path drag tool shows cost for single tile instead of total.
+ * Fix: [#25927] Wall drag tool error sound stacks and shows wrong cost.
+ * Fix: [#25962] Dropdown triangle glyphs are not optically centred.
+ * Fix: [#25993] Toggling “allow arbitrary ride type changes” does not resize open ride windows.
+ * Fix: [#26111] Vehicle colours tab can go out of bounds in certain edge cases.
+ * Fix: [#26118] Windows installers for releases are not signed properly.
+ * Fix: [#26128] The loan spinner widget does not appear on the same baseline as the text around it.
+ * Fix: [#26140] The time a guest has spent in a queue overflows back to 0 after it reaches 65535 (about a year).
+ * Fix: [#26159] The map generator window is not resized correctly in Enlarged UI mode.
+ * Fix: [#26196] The sprites of one angle of the Steeplechase left large turn are misaligned (original bug).
+ * Fix: [#26214] The wrong sprite is used for one angle of the gentle diagonal slope of Alpine, Hybrid and Single Rail tracks.
+ * Fix: [#26243] Increase max dropdown size from 512 to 1024 to accommodate parks with more than 512 rides.
+ * Fix: [#26306] Platform::FindApp fails to locate Homebrew-installed tools on macOS.
+ * Fix: [#26339] Crash when setting up a marketing campaign.
+ * Fix: [objects#430] The RCT1 Reverse Freefall car can be reversed and show broken sprites when doing so.
+
 openrct2 (0.4.32-develop-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
  * Feature: [#22704] Rides can be made invisible more easily.

distribution/changelog.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-0.5.0 (in development)
+0.5.0 (2026-04-12)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 - Feature: [#23465] Change plugin JavaScript engine from Duktape to QuickJS-NG, allowing ES6+ features to be used in plugins.
 - Feature: [#26178] Port of the Spinning Cars from RollerCoaster Tycoon 1.

distribution/linux/io.openrct2.openrct2.appdata.xml

@@ -483,6 +483,9 @@
     <content_attribute id="money-gambling">none</content_attribute>
   </content_rating>
   <releases>
+      <release version="0.5.0" date="2026-04-12">
+          <url>https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/releases/tag/v0.5.0</url>
+      </release>
       <release version="0.4.32" date="2026-03-01">
           <url>https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/releases/tag/v0.4.32</url>
       </release>

distribution/macos/Info.plist

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
 	<string>APPL</string>
 	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
-	<string>0.4.32</string>
+	<string>0.5.0</string>
 	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
 	<string>ORCT</string>
 	<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>

src/openrct2-android/app/build.gradle

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ android {
         minSdkVersion = 24
         targetSdkVersion = 36
 
-        versionCode = 19
+        versionCode = 20
-        versionName = '0.4.32'
+        versionName = '0.5.0'
         if (!project.hasProperty('skipNativeBuild')) {
             externalNativeBuild {
                 cmake {

src/openrct2/Version.h

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #include <string>
 
 #define OPENRCT2_NAME "OpenRCT2"
-#define kOpenRCT2Version "0.4.32"
+#define kOpenRCT2Version "0.5.0"
 
 #if defined(__amd64__) || defined(_M_AMD64)
     #define OPENRCT2_ARCHITECTURE "x86-64"