Release of Minetest 5.3.0, an open clone of the game MineCraft

Introduced release Minetest 5.3.0, an open-source cross-platform version of the game MineCraft, allowing groups of players to collaboratively create various structures from standard blocks, forming a semblance of a virtual world (genre sandbox). The game is written in C++ using the 3D engine irrlicht. Extensions are created using Lua. The Minetest code is distributed is licensed under LGPL, while the game resources are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Pre-built Minetest have been created packages are available for various distributions of Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Windows, and macOS.

Among the improvements include is the restoration of support for the Android platform. The Android build includes support for OpenGL ES 2, adds support for Android Studio, and resolves issues with inputting Cyrillic characters. Expanded GUI capabilities (Formspec) and a scrolling element (scroll_container) have been added. Buttons have been incorporated into the main menu game selection bar and the world configuration menu for content search in the Content DB. Server performance and API optimizations have been implemented. More precise player control has been ensured. New textures have been added. The server
has implemented a backend for authentication in PostgreSQL and the chat command ‘/revokeme (priv)’.

Source: opennet.ru