# DDNet DDNet 18.1 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2024-03-18
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/6501581293022827555
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2024-03-18-ddnet-18.1-released

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- **added** — Add tabs for favorite communities with separate country and type filters
- **added** — Add flag search in settings
- **added** — Add team-lock indicator to HUD
- **added** — Use icons for Internet, LAN and Favorites server browser tabs, use star icon for favorite servers
- **added** — Add time scale to debug graphs for constant scrolling speed
- **added** — Show extra Reset Filter button when no servers match filter
- **added** — Add placeholder country and type for servers without community
- **added** — Add View button to tele and switch drop down
- **added** — Add parallax to layer selector
- **added** — Add plus and minus buttons to numeric value selectors
- **added** — Add /tpxy to teleport to specific position
- **added** — Add /solo and /deep as practice commands
- **changed** — Better map settings input with autocompletion and validation
- **changed** — Render loading message and indicator for vote options and rcon commands
- **changed** — More efficient HTTP usage
- **changed** — Improve Windows logger and add virtual terminal support
- **changed** — Random skin improvements
- **changed** — Improve voting HUD
- **changed** — Keep console scrolling position during text selection
- **changed** — Only write files when changed
- **changed** — Show warnings after client close instead of preventing quitting
- **changed** — Ensure client window is maximized and active after restarting
- **changed** — Increase WASD pan speed while holding shift
- **changed** — Make chat command arguments case-insensitive
- **changed** — Improve save_replay functionality
- **changed** — Improve /practice command
- **changed** — Show kill messages also for 0.7 clients
- **changed** — Search most fitting allocation, not first fitting
- **fixed** — Fix switch screen and blackscreen OpenGL and window borderless
- **fixed** — Don't show FPS during demo rendering
- **fixed** — Fix quads
- **fixed** — Fix FPS drop when editing tiles layer properties
- **fixed** — Fix 0.7 armor being snapped as health
- **fixed** — Validate skin names when loading
- **removed** — Allow background jobs to be aborted
- **changed** — Make Clean up game tiles undoable
- **changed** — Allow finer grid
- **changed** — Pick background entities map without file extension
- **changed** — Expire team invites on player disconnect
- **changed** — Respond to vital pings with vital pongs

DDNet 18.1 has been released with the following changes:

-   **Add tabs for favorite communities, separate country/type filters**

-   **Better map settings input (autocompletion, validation)**

-   Render loading message/indicator for vote options and rcon commands

-   Add flag search in settings

-   Add team-lock indicator to HUD

-   Use icons for Internet, LAN and Favorites server browser tabs, use star icon for favorite servers

-   More efficient HTTP usage

-   Add time scale to debug graphs for constant scrolling speed

-  [Client/Server] Improve Windows logger, add virtual terminal support

-   Show extra "Reset Filter" button when no servers match filter

-   Ensure client window is maximized and active after restarting

-   Random skin improvements

-   Improve voting HUD

-   Keep console scrolling position during text selection

-   Only write files when changed

-   Show warnings after client close instead of preventing quitting

-   Fix switch screen and blackscreen OpenGL + Window borderless

-   Add placeholder country/type for servers without community

-   Don't show FPS during demo rendering

-   Validate skin names when loading

-   Allow background jobs to be aborted

-   save_replay improvements

-   Pick bg entities map without file extension

-  [Client/Server] Search most fitting allocation, not first fitting

-   Increase WASD pan speed while holding shift

-   Add "View" button to tele/switch drop down

-   Make "Clean up game tiles" undoable

-   Allow finer grid

-   Add parallax to layer selector

-   Add plus/minus buttons to numeric value selectors

-   Fix quads

-   Fix FPS drop when editing tiles layer properties

-   Make chat command arguments case-insensitive

-   Add /tpxy to teleport to specific position [gerdoe-jr]

-   Fix 0.7 armor being snapped as health

-   Small /practice improvements

-   Show kill messages also for 0.7 clients

-   Add /solo and /deep as practice commands

-   Expire team invites on player disconnect

-   Respond to vital pings with vital pongs