# DDNet DDNet 18.4 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2024-07-23
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/4349998067117054690
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2024-07-23-ddnet-18.4-released

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- **added** — Team size indicator
- **added** — Show skin name as tooltip in ingame player list
- **added** — Show help text when chaining multiple commands
- **added** — Button and F1 hotkey to open Wiki page
- **added** — Add /setjumps practice command and setjumps rcon command
- **added** — Add sv_dnsbl_ban_reason and increase maximum ban reason length
- **changed** — Remove Spectate label from HUD and show Following {player} instead
- **changed** — Consistent value selector behavior
- **changed** — Server browser friend list sorts case insensitively
- **changed** — Android improvements
- **changed** — Various improvements to scoreboard rendering
- **changed** — Trim Strings on Search/Exclude Filter and add Tooltip
- **changed** — Use libloc instead of our own CSV format for GeoIP
- **changed** — Rewrite and fix line reader
- **changed** — Don't check sv_max_team_size for teams in practice
- **changed** — Faster antibot API calls
- **changed** — Improve map_extract tool
- **fixed** — Various fixes with sound disabled
- **fixed** — Fix incorrect scoreboard size if blue team used without teams flag
- **fixed** — Fix integer overflow when computing tilemap size
- **fixed** — Correct player name in copied server info

DDNet 18.4 has been released with the following changes:

-  **Add team size indicator**

-  **Show skin name as tooltip in ingame player list**

-  Remove Spectate label from HUD, show Following {player} instead

-  Various fixes with sound disabled

-  Various improvements to scoreboard rendering

-  Show help text when chaining multiple commands

-  Consistent value selector behavior

-  Server browser friend list: sort case insensitively

-  Android improvements

-  Fix incorrect scoreboard size if blue team used without teams flag

-  Fix integer overflow when computing tilemap size

-  Correct player name in copied server info

-  Fix UI issues when switching between menus and editor

-  Trim Strings on Search/Exclude Filter & add Tooltip

-  Fix ingame menu buttons overlapping on team based gametypes

-  Correct arguments highlighting after removing entry

-  Fix browser not refreshing if ui_page is changed in start menu, refresh LAN tab after starting/stopping local server

-  Loading screen fixes

-  Add button and F1 hotkey to open Wiki page

-  Fix various automapper issues

-  Improve map_extract tool

-  Use libloc instead of our own CSV format for GeoIP

- [Client&Server] Rewrite and fix line reader

-  Add "/setjumps" practice command and "setjumps" rcon command

-  Don't check sv_max_team_size for teams in practice

-  Fix multiple redirected clients not dropped in the same tick

-  Faster antibot API calls

-  Fix crashes with dbg_dummies and sv_max_clients

-  Fix server crash when starting with random(_unfinished)_map

-  Add sv_dnsbl_ban_reason, increase maximum ban reason length