New version out, now with fighters and carriers. http://freeorion.org/index.php/Main_Page The game is totally playable nowadays and I read it works fine for multi-player too.
Someone should get this version into Ubuntu's repository to replace the version in there from 2013 (0.4.3)

Version 0.4.7.1 is out. This fixes some problems with 0.4.7. Works on Linux, Windows and OSX.

Release candidate builds of FreeOrion 0.4.8 are available now. Some help in play testing would be appreciated, pretty please.

There are files ready for download for Mac and Windows. For Linux there is at least for Ubuntu, so will work in Mint too, a PPA that has the stable versions, if you trust that. Just search for it. Building yourself is always an option. I never did try that myself.

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No, I am not part of the team working on the game.

Release candidates of FreeOrion 0.4.9 are now available!

And now version 0.4.9 has been properly released.

Freeorion 0.4.9 gameplay video (skips non freeorion stuff):

https://youtu.be/MasjHeKorl4?t=215

Changelog:

https://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11515

FreeOrion v0.4.10 has been released:

https://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=11730

The main new thing is the move to a newer version of Python.

WARNING! If you need/want to compile yourself* there are problems with that on a lot of setups. A fix is on its way.


* Why you would want to compile yourself? Maybe there is no version for your particular OS, or other reason.

And the fix mentioned in my previous post has finally arrived together with some more bug fixes:
FreeOrion 0.4.10.1 has been released

Next is v0.5 where they plan to uhmm decide what to do next. A more advanced diplomacy system is at least one thing that is missing but it is not up to me but to those who are actively developing the game to decide.