Freecell Solver version 3.24.0, has been released. Freecell Solver 3.24.0 is available in the form of a source archive, from the download page. Freecell Solver is an open source framework (library and some command line applications), for automatically solving several variants of card Solitaire / Patience games, including Freecell.
This release is dedicated to the memory of Adrian Ettlinger who passed away on 23 October 2013, who was a good Internet friend of the primary maintainer of Freecell Solver (= Shlomi Fish), and who contributed a great deal to Freecell Solver and to Freecell research and programming in general (among other major life achievements, and contributions to man kind). You can read an obituary of Mr. Ettlinger by Shlomi Fish as it was posted to the Freecell Solver Discussions mailing list, and also read an an interview that Fish conducted with him back in 2003.
The new video-editing preset was named in honor of Ettlinger’s
previous work in pioneering non-linear video editing back when he worked as
an Electrical Engineer (and later as a software developer) for
CBS corporation.
In any case, the main highlights of this release are:
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New Feature: the
-l video-editing(or-l vefor short) flare-based preset that tends to yield shorter solutions on average. See a post with some performance analysis. -
A bug was fixed when providing input without a trailing newline character (“\n”). This was reported against the online JavaScript version was Olaf and was fixed globally. Thanks, Olaf!
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The distribution now contains the sources for the Split FCC (= Fully Connected Component) Solver which was an unsuccessful attempt to solve Windows Freecell deal No. 384,243 with two freecells. It may prove of general utility in the future, though.
Hope you enjoy this release and we extend our sadness to the other family members and friends of the late Mr. Ettlinger.
