# DDNet DDNet 18.8 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2024-12-08
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/508440279880041159
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2024-12-08-ddnet-18.8-released

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- **added** — Android support
- **added** — Add cl_hook_coll_size_other and +hookcoll button in UI
- **changed** — Overhaul console design: replace background and improve contrast
- **fixed** — Fix cursor drifting when using smooth dyncam and zoom
- **changed** — Remove self from spectator menu unless in demo
- **changed** — Visual changes to friends and server tab
- **changed** — Auto rcon auth both main and dummy
- **changed** — Send password on reconnect
- **changed** — Change default q bind to /spec
- **fixed** — Fix alignment of dropdown popup menu
- **fixed** — Fix player info being resent too fast/slow depending on FPS
- **changed** — More efficient glyph uploading and fix crash with very large glyphs and font sizes
- **changed** — Improve map sound and image validation and performance
- **fixed** — Fix incorrect rendering of menu and entities background maps
- **changed** — Use quad container for race flag in finish infomessages
- **changed** — Make the client able to have tees without weapons
- **changed** — Echo colors persist
- **fixed** — Fix client hanging when rendering text with small maximum width
- **fixed** — Fix damage indicators being stuck after connecting dummy
- **fixed** — Fix gametime debug graph when dummy is connected

DDNet 18.8 has been released with the following changes:

-  **Android support**

-  **Add cl_hook_coll_size_other & +hookcoll button in UI**

-  **Overhaul console design: replace background, improve contrast**

-  Fix cursor drifting when using smooth dyncam and zoom

-  Remove self from spectator menu unless in demo

-  Visual changes to friends and server tab

-  Auto rcon auth both main and dummy

-  Send password on reconnect

-  Change default q bind to /spec

-  Fix alignment of dropdown popup menu

-  Fix player info being resent too fast/slow depending on FPS

-  More efficient glyph uploading, fix crash with very large glyphs and font sizes

-  Improve map sound/image validation and performance

-  Fix incorrect rendering of menu and entities background maps

-  Use quad container for race flag in finish infomessages

-  Make the client able to have tee's without weapons

-  Echo colors persist

-  Fix client hanging when rendering text with small maximum width

-  Fix damage indicators being stuck after connecting dummy

-  Fix gametime debug graph when dummy is connected

-  Allow decimal value for demo_speed command

-  Allow float zoom levels

-  Fix clipboard not being sanitized when pasting multiple lines

-  Replace background texture with noise texture

-  Show size of images in editor images list and file browser

-  Fix Save As confirmation, prevent opening empty filename

-  Fix envelope point popup

-  Implement bans_find command [Rei-Tw]

-  Fix crashes with whisper command

-  Fix incomplete Teehistorian chunks being written

-  Add dbg_sql config to hide non-error SQL logs

-  Fix jetpack strength always being set to 0

-  Allow empty map settings

-  Allow 128 players [0xfaulty]

-  Fix FindMySQL not finding mysql under NixOS