2.5.3 is a bugfix release mainly aimed at Linux distribution maintainers and other repackagers. There have only been a few minor user-visible fixes since 2.5.2. * Build fixes: * Re-generating the configure script could fail on recent OS distributions due to a clash with the system supplied glib-gettext.m4. This did not affect most users, who would build with the configure script supplied in the tarball. GNA#24379 * configure could spuriously output "-lncurses: not found" and fail to find readline on some systems (seen on OpenBSD). GNA#24372 * Qt client fixes: * The menu options and keyboard shortcuts to save games were disabled when there were no active units. GNA#24371 * The Qt client could create a directory called literally '$HOME'. GNA#24359 * A few strings