DDNet News

DDNet 15.1 has been released with the following highlights:

• [Client] Add menu background maps [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Add changeable assets in settings [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Sharper graphics ingame (gfx_opengl_texture_lod_bias) [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Add directory buttons in settings [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Set IME window position & prevent input from fighting with IME [TsFreddie]
  
• [Client] Join identical chat lines to prevent spam [Ryozuki]
  
• [Client] HUD: Show days and hours in game time, don't show wrong deciseconds
  
• [Client] Fix score/time alignment in scoreboard [Learath2]
  
• [Client] Server browser: Remove pure server filter, add space for countries
  
• [Client] Server browser: Add clear button to server address field
  
• [Client] Print errors when writing files failed
  
• [Client] Grab focus more agressively when starting client
  
• [Client] Handle rcon command completion properly with dummy
  
• [Client] Add hover for demo browser [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Add background music volume slider
  
• [Client] Add explicit button for current map as background
  
• [Client] Fix ctrl+shift+d so that it doesn't move tee again
  
• [Client] Fix finding server for running it inside of start menu
  
• [Client] Remove failed downloaded files more consistently
  
• [Client] Don't log skin downloading progress
  
• [Client] Handle PNG read errors
  
• [Client] Fix entities for some modifications [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Make sure turning dynamic camera off in settings works
  
• [Client] Print out modifiers when unbinding a bind [plsplsplslol]
  
• [Client] Fix empty lines in chat
  
• [Editor] Add new renderer, looks more consistent with ingame [Jupeyy]
  
• [Editor] Improve dilate and auto apply dilate on embedded texture in editor [Jupeyy]
  
• [Editor] Properly set sound envelope offsets for sound sources [Patiga]
  
• [Editor] Add scrollbar to auto rules list [Ryozuki]
  
• [Editor] Fix multiple layer selection for groups [Learath2]
  
• [Editor] Fix Texture UV coordinates [Learath2]
  
• [Editor] Save maps more deterministically [Patiga]
  
• [Network] Create ALLOW_X_SKINS game info flag (for mods)
  
• [Server] Implement /showothers 2 to show own team members only
  
• [Server] Ship more default maps: LearnToPlay, Sunny Side Up, Tsunami
  
• [Server] Inform players that they are in team already when trying to join team
  
• [Server] Fix spectating so that you can't spectate yourself [Fireball]
  
• [Server] Fix laser_damage tune with 0.7 client [pure-luck-999]
  
• [Server] Fix 0.7 player vote creator id [pure-luck-999]
  
• [Server] Fix last character when showing IPs in rcon [Zwelf]
  
• [Server] Fix show_ips on non-SQL servers
  

On short notice I’m happy to present you another DDNet Tournament, the Moderate (★★✰✰✰) map “UpNDown Coop” by Vasten100:

The Tournament will be played on Sunday, October 11 at 20:00 CEST on special Tournament servers in every DDNet location. No one has seen the map yet and the best time after 90 minutes will win!

Thanks to Welf & Cøke for testing the map! The results will later be available on the tournament page.

DDNet 15.0 has been released with the following highlights:

• [Client] On-demand skin downloader to see all skins from Skin Database
• [Client] New start menu adapted from Teeworlds 0.7
• [Client] Optimize loading glyphs from font file
• [Client] Scale graphics textures more nicely [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Support hovering in many menus [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Refresh server browser immediately when updated info arrives
  
• [Client] Refresh server browser faster (br_max_requests 100)
  
• [Client] Sort spectator view by team, then name (not score)
  
• [Client] Show entities on all server types [BannZay & Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix mapres for new graphics renderer [mind]
  
• [Client] Fix some 5:4/4:3 rendering in demo & recorder menus
  
• [Client] Fix entity text [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Don't close the client on error in video recorder
  
• [Client] Add some more space for Countries & Types in DDNet/KoG tabs
  
• [Client] Remove borderfix/add/rem tools we don't need anymore
  
• [Server & Client] Update libwebsockets and make client able to use websockets [QingGo]
  
• [Server] Don't use server name when storing saves in database [heinrich5991]
  
• [Server] Print SQlite statements [Zwelf]
  
• [Server] Allow to use config_retrieve on whole directory [BannZay]
  
• [Server] map_convert_07: Check for width/height 0
  
• [Server] Optimization: Only receive new packets when we know they are waiting
  
• [Server] Remove sv_team_lock command [BannZay]
  

DDNet 14.7 has been released with the following highlights:

• [Client] Allow joining and inviting others via Steam friend list [heinrich5991]
• [Client] Update mapres for the new graphics renderer [mind]
• [Client] Add demo video recorder
• [Client] Fix some broken unicode strings [TsFreddie]
  
• [Client] Fix game hanging on spectating person change [BannZay, Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix front.png [Soreu]
  
• [Client] Don't time out so often when using HTTP downloads
  
• [Editor] Fix proof circle position
  
• [Server] Fix duplicate teamranks
  
• [Server] Improve database performance
  

DDNet 14.6 has been released with the following highlights:

• [Client] OpenGL graphics improvements & fixes [Jupeyy]
• [Client] Updated entities [Soreu]
• [Client] Add buttons for Kill (k) and Pause (p)
• [Client] Only send valid UTF-8 over the network, fixes joining server [heinrich5991]
• [Client] Use the correct name for determining ranks in server browser [heinrich5991]
• [Client] Load server browser more fairly
  
• [Client] Fix word wrapping for unicode strings [TsFreddie]
  
• [Client] Add cl_nameplates_friendmark to see your friends more easily [BannZay]
  
• [Client] Fix mouse interaction when game console is open [BannZay]
  
• [Client] Don't show wrong servers in server browser [BannZay]
  
• [Client] Allow changing entities text size on-the-fly [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Warn about textures with sizes not divisible by 16 [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Fix texture destroying [Jupeyy]
  
• [Client] Add platform and arch in console output
  
• [Client] Remove some confusing settings from graphics menu
  
• [Client] Fix rendering of menu background with dark background [BannZay]
  
• [Client] Allow empty max ping filter in server browser [BannZay]
  
• [Client] Remove fallback for Teeworlds' settings.cfg
  
• [Client] Upgrade SDL2 for Linux Steam release, fixing Unicode input
  
• [Editor] Set search field to active when opening file dialog
  
• [Editor] Fix map details layout [BannZay]
  
• [Editor] Fix right click on items [BannZay]
  
• [Server] Fix voting for 0.7 clients [Learath2]
  
• [Server] Allow loading from any server independent of server it was saved on
  
• [Server] Fix port in error messages & teehistorian [BannZay, heinrich5991]
  
• [Server] Ignore duplicate records when inserting