There is development branch 1.9.*, which contain a lot of new features. http://wiki.wesnoth.org/Download#Development_.281.9_branch.29 http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/files/wesnoth/wesnoth-1.9.9/wesnoth-1.9.9.tar.bz2/download
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207819 ***