# DDNet DDNet 16.8 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2023-03-05
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/3694678490416900104
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2023-03-05-ddnet-16.8-released

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- **added** — Add skin to serverbrowser's scoreboard
- **added** — Add ingame and browser buttons to copy server info to clipboard
- **added** — Add tooltip to demo seekbar showing the currently hovered time
- **added** — Support 4 and 8 digit RGBA color values in console
- **added** — Show error message when downloaded map cannot be saved
- **added** — Add error message when saving screenshot fails
- **added** — Add buttons to move envelopes left and right, improve envelope UI layout, add tooltips for editboxes
- **added** — Add a refresh button to the file browser
- **added** — Add reset command to server
- **changed** — Better lists with smooth scrolling (ui_smooth_scroll_time)
- **changed** — Implement FIFO on Windows using Named Pipes
- **changed** — Make color pickers not change selected color as much
- **changed** — Merge entity textures to reduce memory usage
- **changed** — Increase relative joystick movement based on input update time, disable relative joystick when console is open or window not focused
- **changed** — For integrated and discrete GPUs always prefer what comes first in the list
- **changed** — Use OpenGL 3.3 on macOS by default
- **changed** — Save prediction margin
- **changed** — Align color picker buttons on right side
- **changed** — Support longer file/folder names
- **fixed** — Fix client crash when echoing client message to chat, use em dash for client messages in chat

DDNet 16.8 has been released with the following changes:

-  **Add skin to serverbrowser's scoreboard**

-  **Add ingame and browser buttons to copy server info to clipboard**

-  **Better lists with smooth scrolling (ui_smooth_scroll_time)**

- [Client+Server] **Implement FIFO on Windows using Named Pipes**

-  Add tooltip to demo seekbar showing the currently hovered time

-  Fix client crash when echoing client message to chat, use em dash for client messages in chat

-  Make color pickers not change selected color as much

-  Support 4 and 8 digit RGBA color values in console

-  Merge entity textures to reduce memory usage

-  Increase relative joystick movement based on input update time, disable relative joystick when console is open or window not focused

-  For integrated and discrete GPUs always prefer what comes first in the list

-  Show error message when downloaded map cannot be saved

-  Use OpenGL 3.3 on macOS by default

-  Add error message when saving screenshot fails

-  Save prediction margin

-  Fix text rendering over maximum line width with newline

-  Align color picker buttons on right side

-  Support longer file/folder names

-  Clear file browser search term when entering folder

-  Add buttons to move envelopes left and right, improve envelope UI layout, add tooltips for editboxes

-  Add a refresh button to the file browser

-  Add reset command to server

-  Fix sv_vanilla_antispoof for vanilla 0.6.5 clients

-  Remove projectiles on save and load

-  Remove projectiles on team change

-  Hand the client IP addresses to the antibot module

-  Fix announcement feature

-  Don't count (connecting) players for voting

-  Fix crash in team save/load