# DDNet DDNet 16.9 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2023-04-01
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/6580362571635232022
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2023-04-01-ddnet-16.9-released

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- **added** — Add random skin button
- **added** — Select language on first start based on user locale
- **added** — Drag layers to reorder
- **added** — Sort by name and modified time in file dialog
- **added** — Show popups in editor when loading/saving file fails
- **added** — Support scrolling when mouse at edge
- **added** — Support holding shift for slow mouse with color pickers
- **added** — Add "Show Directory" button in file dialog
- **added** — Add "Delete" button to editor file browser
- **added** — Allow choosing envelopes by typing their ID
- **changed** — Improved MOTD rendering
- **changed** — Save screenshot in separate thread to avoid lags
- **changed** — Reveal selection when scrolling layer list with up/down arrow keys
- **changed** — Always enable editor panning and zooming when GUI is hidden
- **changed** — Round time in scoreboard by millisecond, not centisecond
- **changed** — Improve ping command accuracy
- **fixed** — Don't add duplicate consecutive commands to console history
- **fixed** — Fix incorrect tee blood color being shown in settings
- **fixed** — Fix inp_controller_guid
- **fixed** — Fix dummy tee being able to ping main tee in chat

DDNet 16.9 has been released with the following changes:

-  **Add random skin button**

-  **Select language on first start based on user locale**

-  **Save screenshot in separate thread to avoid lags**

-  **Drag layers to reorder**

-  **Sort by name and modified time in file dialog**

-  **Show popups in editor when loading/saving file fails**

-  Improved MOTD rendering

-  Don't add duplicate consecutive commands to console history

-  Support scrolling when mouse at edge

-  Support holding shift for slow mouse with color pickers

-  Fix incorrect tee blood color being shown in settings

-  Reveal selection when scrolling layer list with up/down arrow keys

-  Fix inp_controller_guid

-  Fix dummy tee being able to ping main tee in chat

-  Check if HTTP request task is aborted in completion callback

-  Save console_output_level and console_enable_colors variables

-  Fix rcon login when disconnecting dummy and when username used

-  Fix client crash when cl_chat_old config is used

-  Fix erratic smooth scrolling when scroll time is changed

-  Allow choosing envelopes by typing their ID

-  Ignore some tiles in free slot finder

-  Always enable editor panning and zooming when GUI is hidden

-  Handle loading invalid files

-  Add "Show Directory" button in file dialog

-  Add "Delete" button to editor file browser

-  Disable editor file browser hotkeys while another popup is open

-  Add missing default value for custom parallax zoom property

-  Optimizations in preparation for 128 player support [0xfaulty]

-  Fix incorrect sixup detection when snapping pickups

-  Round time in scoreboard by millisecond, not centisecond

-  Improve ping command accuracy

-  Fix server logfile error message

-  Fix and improve twping

-  Allow to pass in the git shortrev in git_revision.py

-  Improve crash parsing in parse_drmingw.sh

-  Set uniform client/server names in cmake, easier modding