# DDNet DDNet 16.6 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2022-12-11
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/3606850755240690940
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2022-12-11-ddnet-16.6-released

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- **added** — Support for Rust code in DDNet
- **added** — Friend counter in server browser
- **added** — Buttons and increased length on demo viewbar
- **changed** — Improve UI
- **added** — Smooth zoom
- **added** — 4 minutes of logs for moderators
- **fixed** — Crash when cutting a demo opened from command line
- **fixed** — Heap-buffer-overflow in DDNetLaser prediction code
- **fixed** — Incorrect cursor position after exiting pause/spec
- **added** — More confirmation menus
- **fixed** — Client crash when launching with screenshot command
- **fixed** — Key reader text flashing for one frame
- **removed** — // in ddnet:// url handler
- **fixed** — Client crash when unpacking a sixup packet
- **fixed** — Invalid demo cutting and add slice highlighting
- **fixed** — Choppy demo seeking when start/end ticks are very large
- **added** — Allow both shift keys to be used for all hotkeys
- **changed** — Switch to Vulkan 1.1
- **fixed** — Correct color for Gores gametype in serverbrowser
- **fixed** — Ctrl+F hotkey not checking for Ctrl key and improve tile details popup layout

DDNet 16.6 has been released with the following changes:

-   **Add support for Rust code in DDNet**

-   **Add friend counter in server browser**

-   **Add buttons+increased length on demo viewbar**

-   **Improve UI**

-   **Smooth zoom**

-   **Add 4 minutes of logs for moderators**

-   Fix crash when cutting a demo opened from command line

-   Fix heap-buffer-overflow in DDNetLaser prediction code

-   Fix incorrect cursor position after exiting pause/spec

-   More confirmation menus

-   Fix client crash when launching with screenshot command

-   Fix key reader text flashing for one frame

-   Remove // in ddnet:// url handler

-   Fix client crash when unpacking a sixup packet

-   Fix invalid demo cutting, Add slice highlighting

-   Fix choppy demo seeking when start/end ticks are very large

-   Allow both shift keys to be used for all hotkeys

-   Switch to Vulkan 1.1

-   Correct color for Gores gametype in serverbrowser

-   Fix Ctrl+F hotkey not checking for Ctrl key, minor improvement to tile details popup layout

-   Add "Tools > Remove unused envelopes"

-   Fix large popups being outside of screen, add margin

-   Fix incorrect minimum values for tele, speedup and switch layers

-   Change hotkey Ctrl+A to Ctrl+T for layer/tile details

-   Also append sounds when appending a map to another map

-   Fix height and margin of sound and image popups

-   Search for images/sounds in subfolders when readding in editor, show selection dialog if multiple files with the same are found, show error popup when file cannot be found

-   Add Shift+G editor hotkey to toggle visibility of game layers

-   Fix editor crash when shifting left/right, fix wrong up/down shifting

-   Adjust quad point position and texture U/V relatively

-   Hex values in info feature

-   Fix crashes when scrolling with up/down keys on empty sounds/images lists

-   Fix text input not working when entering editor with bind, fix IME not being deactivated when editor is closed

-   Fix physics change by weak hook fix

-   Write log and sqlite files to storage unless given as absolute path

-   Add reason to vote mute, fix vote mute

-   Reset teams when restarting round

-   Report extra player info to master http

-   Fix CGun::Fire server crash

-   Add an optional vscode workspace

-   Add vim syntax files for config files

-   Add tests for int packer, huffman compression

-   Add more tests for hashing, CSemaphore and utf8 confusables