What's New?

• 10 December, 2021: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.14.1. This release fixes a number of bugs, including one that causes crashes for some users when opening the select game/cardset/table tile window.

• 19 September, 2021: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.14.0. New in this release:

  • 16 new games

  • Support for Python 3.10 (Minimum requirement is still Python 2.7)

  • A new macOS package.

  • Enhancements to the tree select dialogs for selecting games, cardsets, and table tiles.

  • Further additions/improvements to the documentation.

  • Many bugfixes and cleanups.

• 11 July, 2021: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.12.0. New in this release:

  • 40 new games!

  • Support for using higher resolution cardsets. The high resolution "Neo" cardset has been added to the Windows Installer package and is available in a preview release of PySolFC-Cardsets 2.1

  • Improved organization and categorization of the games list.

  • New display options - added option to center the game layout in the window.

  • New audio options - can now disable music without disabling sound effects.

  • Improved documentation - added rules to a large number of games that were missing them.

  • Bugfixes and cleanup.

• 22 June, 2020: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.10.0. New in this release:

  • Fix moving cards in the Scorpion Tail game.

  • One can optionally load the Freecell Solver and the Black Hole Solver using their DLLs (for better speed).

  • Test Windows Version in the installer:

  • Pause when showing statistics

  • Some cleanups and refactoring.

• 5 March, 2020: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.8.0. New in this release:

  • A new logo thanks to @ghostofiht.

  • Fix for Freezes (pygame upgrade)

  • Fixed Three Peaks scoring.

  • Compatibility with Pillow 6.x (ticket)

  • Restore the "Save games geometry" feature (ticket)

  • Added a NEWS.asciidoc file.

  • Better kivy/Android support

  • Using ttk and configobj as shipped in the python dist (instead of forked versions)

  • Requiring attrs and pysol-cards from PyPI

  • Added tests, bug fixes and refactorings.

  • Add the -g and --deal command line options.

• 4 March, 2019: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.6.2.

  New in this release:

  • Fixes for the Windows and macOS packages.
  • Forbid illegal moves in Spider and some other variants.
• 14 February, 2019: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.6.0.

  New in this release:

  • Support for solving Golf using a solver
  • An untested macOS package (we need testers)
  • A bug fix
  • Ability to run the test suite without python 2.x and/or pygtk
  • Code cleanups.
• 23 June, 2018: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.4.0.

  New in this release:

  • The Windows installer now includes the revitalised PySol-music package. For more info, see this bug.
  • Many improvements to the test suite and the board import functionality.
  • Some bug fixes.
• 16 April, 2018: There is a new stable release PySolFC v2.2.0.

  New in this release:

  • The Microsoft Windows binary installer now contains and supports the solver for Freecell and other games.
  • Many bug fixes.
• 31 March, 2018: There is a new beta release PySolFC v2.1.4.

  New in this release:

  • We now provide a Microsoft Windows binary installer again, thanks to the great work of Roderik Ploszek. Note that the solvers (for FreeCell/etc.) are not installed as part of it yet, but they are available separately.
  • pysol-sound-server was updated to support Python 3.x.
  • Fixes for the board export / solver input, and for redealing upon restart of the "ms*" deals.
  • Various cleanups.
• 5 March, 2018: There is a new beta source release PySolFC v2.1.3.

  New in this release:

  • Support for the kivy toolkit for running under Android-based devices (currently python 2.7-only)
  • Fixed the help system and removed the need for the sgmllib module.
  • Other fixes and cleanups.
  • Currently there is no Microsoft Windows binary package. Help or insights will be appreciated.
• 19 November, 2017: There is a new beta source release PySolFC v2.1.0, the first one in almost 8 years.

  New in this release:

  • The code is now compatible with both Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x
  • One can deal all MS FreeCell/FC-pro deals by specifying e.g: "ms100000" as the seed.
  • Support for Black Hole and All in a Row solver was added.
  • Test suite and CI were added to the repository.
  • The code now passes flake8 validation.
  • Some improvements to the solver dialog.

• 15 November, 2017: Development of the Python sources has recently resumed using a a GitHub project and other resources and Shlomi Fish (@shlomif) has received an admin status on the SourceForge project and this site. A new source release which adds compatibility with Python version 3.x and some other improvements is expected soon.

• 04 December, 2009: PySolFC v.2.0 (1061 games) and PySolFC-Cardsets v.2.0 (153 cardsets)

  • The license was changed to the GPLv3 or newer.
  • 13 new games.
  • Migration to new python-ttk module.
  • Improved the look of the deck (required python-imaging v.1.1.7).
  • Fixed Hanafuda games (ticket).
  • New config-file option: sound_sample_buffer_size (ticket).
  • Portable version for windows (ticket).
  • Many other bugfixes.
• 06 September, 2007: PySolFC v.1.1 (1048 games)

  • 48 new games (one game was removed)
  • Solitaire Wizard
  • improved Mahjongg games
  • human readable config file (options.cfg)
  • stack becomes compact when a card goes off screen
  • Clearlooks theme for Tile widget set
  • a huge number of other improvements

• 30 August, 2007: PySolFC-Cardsets v.1.1 (152 cardsets)

• 21 February, 2007: PySolFC v.1.0 (1001 games)