= 0 A.D. Alpha 24 =
Go to the [wiki:Changelogs changelog overview], if you are looking for a different release.[[BR]]
Check the [wiki:Alpha24?action=history history overview] to only read updates of this site.[[BR]]
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Development started by Wildfire Games on December 26^th^ 2018 (r21948).[[BR]]
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Tickets: https://trac.wildfiregames.com/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=Alpha+24 [[BR]]
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An overview of all tickets handled is found at the respective [http://trac.wildfiregames.com/query?milestone=Alpha+24&max=50 milestone] on trac.[[BR]]
To download and install the developmental release of 0 A.D., have a look at the [wiki:BuildInstructions build instructions].[[BR]]
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The following list presents all changes noticeable to the end user up to r22000, more important ones first.[[BR]]
Many small bugfixes, typo fixes and code cleanups are not mentioned here.[[BR]]

== Art ==

=== Models and Animations ===
r21968 New red fox[[BR]]
r21970 New helmets and Battersea shield for Gauls and Britons[[BR]]
r21984 New helmets for Sparta and Athenians[[BR]]

=== Textures ===
r21948 Red deer, freckles [[BR]]
r21991 Celtic unit clothing[[BR]]
r21995 Celtic elite units[[BR]]
r21993 Hellenistic military settlers (available to Ptolemians and Seleucids)[[BR]]
r21997 Ptolemaic champion units[[BR]]

=== Portraits ===
==== Heroes ====
r21950 Amanirenas (Kushites)[[BR]]
r21956 Boudicca (Britons)[[BR]]

=== Backgrounds ===
r21953 Kushite Background[[BR]]

== Sound ==
=== Voices ===
r21965 Persian Farsi voices[[BR]]

== GUI ==
=== Ingame ===
r22226 Unit experience bar[[BR]]

=== Performance Improvements ===
r21957 Gamesetup performance[[BR]]

== Pathfinder ==
=== Performance improvements ===
r22279 Hierarchical pathfinder: only update dirty tiles[[BR]]

=== Cleanups ===
r22253 !VertexPathfinder class[[BR]]
r22278 Decouple long and hierarchical pathfinder[[BR]]

== Balancing ==

=== Buildings ===
r21949 Reduce roman barracks footprint[[BR]]

=== Animals ===
r21954 Increase deer speed (#5338)[[BR]]

== Template editing ==

r22197 Run speed as a relative multiplier[[BR]]
r22379 Damage type wrapper[[BR]]
r21999 Donkey template[[BR]]

== Builds ==
r21955 Drop premake4 support (#3729)[[BR]]
r21964 Fix build without precompiled headers on windows[[BR]]