# DDNet DDNet 18.7 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2024-11-08
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/4452464935110181026
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2024-11-08-ddnet-18.7-released

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

---

- **added** — Apply exponential easing to smooth camera
- **added** — Hook collisions preview
- **added** — Nameplate preview
- **changed** — Improved skin downloading
- **added** — Add clear_chat command
- **changed** — Improved ghost file validation
- **added** — Arrow left/right keys in server browser
- **changed** — Disable Vulkan backend for buggy AMD drivers
- **fixed** — Use correct audio channels for map sounds
- **fixed** — Fix 0.7 server favorites and store them correctly
- **added** — Add Antarctica flag, update existing flags
- **fixed** — Fix chat command preview overlap
- **fixed** — Fix vanilla demo tuning
- **added** — Scroll to selected screen in settings
- **fixed** — Fix toggle argument validation
- **changed** — Adjust console search behavior
- **fixed** — Fix color validation in some commands
- **fixed** — Ensure file rename succeeded on Windows
- **fixed** — Fix switch overlay text order
- **added** — Show UI debug info

DDNet 18.7 has been released with the following changes:

-  **Apply exponential easing to smooth camera**

-  **Hook collisions preview** [KebsCS & furo321]

-  **Nameplate preview**

-  Improved skin downloading

-  Add clear_chat command

-  Improved ghost file validation

-  Arrow left/right keys in server browser

-  Disable Vulkan backend for buggy AMD drivers

-  Use correct audio channels for map sounds

-  Fix 0.7 server favorites and store them correctly

-  Add Antarctica flag, update existing flags

-  Fix chat command preview overlap

-  Fix vanilla demo tuning

-  Scroll to selected screen in settings

-  Fix toggle argument validation []

-  Adjust console search behavior

-  Fix color validation in some commands

-  Ensure file rename succeded on Windows

-  Fix switch overlay text order

-  Show UI debug info

-  Fix server settings command help text overwriting other tooltips

-  Separate tele numbers

-  Popup to select envelope curve type

-  Regional rankings for /top5team

-  Practrice: Add /invincible mode

-  Practice: Add /totele(cp), /(un)livefreeze, /(un)endless

-  Practice: Add /(un)infjump

-  Fix /help printing chat commands

-  Allow 2048 bans

-  No rescue delay in practice

-  Fix demos with maps in folders

-  Fix show_ips output

-  Add DDPer support