# DDNet DDNet 16.5 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2022-10-25
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/3423324562291552002
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2022-10-25-ddnet-16.5-released

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- **added** — Add favorite skins
- **added** — Support multiple values to search/exclude in serverbrowser using semicolon separator
- **added** — Improved crash reports with more information
- **added** — Add help text at bottom left ingame when menu is open
- **changed** — Tweak running visuals
- **changed** — Laser menu tweaks and changed some default colors
- **changed** — Only announce servers using Steam/Discord integration which are registered
- **changed** — Refresh serverbrowser when disconnecting or abort
- **changed** — Handle non-default Windows directory in os_version_str and print the operating system version on client/server launch
- **changed** — Enable antispoof for vanilla by default
- **changed** — Respect reserved slots in old serverinfo
- **fixed** — Fix config_directory.bat whitespaces in the path
- **fixed** — Fix unknown command handler for filenames containing spaces
- **fixed** — Fix UI elements behind color picker background being selectable
- **fixed** — Fix client crash when server does not send gameinfo
- **fixed** — Fix receiving IPv6 packets after IPv4 ones on Linux
- **fixed** — Fix map file argument not opening editor with absolute paths
- **removed** — Remove cl_http_map_download
- **removed** — Remove support for legacy 64 player info protocol

DDNet 16.5 has been released with the following changes:

-  **Add favorite skins**

-  **Support multiple values to search/exclude in serverbrowser (using ;)**

-  **Improved crash reports with more information**

-  Tweak running visuals

-  Only announce servers using Steam/Discord integration which are registered

-  Add help text at bottom left ingame when menu is open

-  Fix config_directory.bat (whitespaces in the path)

-  Refresh serverbrowser when disconnecting / abort

-  Laser menu tweaks; Changed some default colors

-  Fix unknown command handler for filenames containing spaces

-  Fix UI elements behind color picker background being selectable

-  Remove cl_http_map_download

-  Fix client crash when server does not send gameinfo

- [Client&Server] Fix receiving IPv6 packets after IPv4 ones on Linux

- [Client&Server] Handle non-default Windows directory in os_version_str, print the operating system version on client/server launch

-  Fix map file argument not opening editor with absolute paths

-  Enable antispoof for vanilla by default

-  Remove support for legacy 64 player info protocol

-  Only start registering once the server is fully started

-  Update move_sqlite.py to use sqlite3mysql

-  Respect reserved slots in old serverinfo

-  Code coverage reports on Github

-  Make submodules shallow by default