# DDNet DDNet 17.4 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2023-11-19
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/6579257788612769247
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2023-11-19-ddnet-17.4-released

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- **changed** — Graphics zoom out without lags
- **added** — Streamer mode to avoid leaks
- **added** — AFK status indication in friends list and info tab
- **changed** — Overhaul demo browser UI
- **changed** — Ghost improvements with 256 simultaneous ghosts
- **added** — demo_extract_chat tool
- **changed** — Don't disable practice mode on death
- **added** — Prediction for laser doors
- **added** — cl_show_direction 3 to show local keypresses only
- **added** — cl_sub_tick_aiming implementation
- **changed** — Improve IME window position on multi-line text
- **changed** — Delay server race demo ending by 1 second
- **added** — Mode selection to color picker popups
- **changed** — Increase freeview radius to kill tile border
- **added** — Detect server no longer running when started from client
- **changed** — Resize screen when changing resolution in console
- **changed** — Improve winter theme
- **fixed** — Fix 1-tick delay of values in HUD
- **fixed** — Fix doubleclick handling with old renderer
- **fixed** — Correctly update auth keys when using auth_remove

DDNet 17.4 has been released with the following changes:

-   **Graphics: Zoom out without lags**

-   **Add streamer mode to avoid leaks**

-   **Indicate AFK status in friends list and info tab**

-   **Overhaul demo browser UI**

-   **Ghost improvements (256 simultaneous ghosts!)**

-   **Add demo_extract_chat tool**

-   Don't disable practice mode on death

-   Prediction for laser doors

-   cl_show_direction 3 to show local keypresses only

-   Implement cl_sub_tick_aiming (not enabled on official servers)

-   Improve IME window position on multi-line text

-   Delay server race demo ending by 1 second

-   Add mode selection to color picker popups

-   Increase freeview radius to kill tile border

-   Detect server no longer running when started from client

-   Resize screen when changing resolution in console

-   Improve winter theme

-   Update server browser when adding friend ingame

-   Fix 1-tick delay of values in HUD

-   Fix doubleclick handling with old renderer

-   Correctly update auth keys when using auth_remove

-   Ensure strings in demo header are zero-terminated and valid UTF-8

-   Fix large FPS drop rendering server details of favorite server

-  [Client+Server] Old file handling on Windows again

-   Make Gamemode get enabled when playing DDNet in macOS

-   Show player's latency if menu is open

-   Improve performance of menus checker background, improve server browser performance

-   Don't use mouse position for angle if paused

-   Support easter, halloween, xmas theme maps (no maps yet)

-   Remove parallax zoom from map files

-   Save unknown commands from settings_ddnet.cfg

-   Stop/pause sound previews when leaving editor

-   Add export image/sound buttons

-   Add project-onto operation for envelopes

-   Add numpad shortcuts for zooming in envelope editor

-   Support writing maps with more items/data

-   Add votes command

-   Swap without a name when team only has 2 players

-   Move X amounts of tiles with left, right, up, down

-   Add /lasttp to teleport to last position you did /tp to

-   Fix dead reckoning

-   tele unfreeze and reset speed

-   Quoted names in chat for team joins

-   Save/load ninja

-   Add sv_regional_rankings 0

-   Add freeze/unfreeze testing commands