# DDNet DDNet 18.9 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2025-01-09
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/515198668938150259
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2025-01-09-ddnet-18.9-released

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- **changed** — Rework name plates
- **added** — Run server on Android
- **added** — Support reading demo files larger than 2 GiB
- **added** — Add 'sv_maps_base_url' to support map download https urls
- **fixed** — Fix Tele Commands during Dyncam Zoom and Make Aiming Consistent across Zoom Levels
- **changed** — Use remote tee angle when spectating
- **added** — Send camera type flag to prevent unexpected viewpos and target update
- **fixed** — Fix console behavior when pasting multiple lines of text
- **fixed** — Reset color in RenderLoading
- **added** — Translations for graphics errors
- **changed** — Make client/graphics warnings thread-safe
- **added** — Support double quotes in translations
- **fixed** — Don't merge diffrent colored client msgs
- **changed** — Minor improvement of entities background map settings
- **changed** — Improve entities/menu background map loading
- **fixed** — Make winter_night menu theme background display properly on a wider resolution
- **fixed** — Make Rendering the angle used by the hookcoll be fixed when spectating
- **fixed** — Fix jump effect opacity
- **changed** — Improve key & main menu hotkey handling
- **fixed** — Fix Android crash in release build due to ProGuard

DDNet 18.9 has been released with the following changes:

-  **Rework name plates**

-  **Run server on Android**

-  Support reading demo files larger than 2 GiB

-  Add 'sv_maps_base_url' to support map download https urls

-  Fix Tele Commands during Dyncam Zoom and Make Aiming Consistent across Zoom Levels

-  Use remote tee angle when spectating

-  Send camera type flag to prevent unexpected viewpos and target update

-  Fix console behavior when pasting multiple lines of text

-  Reset color in RenderLoading

-  Translations for graphics errors

-  Make client/graphics warnings thread-safe

-  Support double quotes in translations

-  Don't merge diffrent colored client msgs

-  Minor improvement of entities background map settings

-  Improve entities/menu background map loading

-  Makes winter_night menu theme background can display properly on a wider resolution [ASKLL-STAR]

-  Make Rendering the angle used by the hookcoll be fixed when spectating [ASKLL-STAR]

-  Fix jump effect opacity

-  Improve key & main menu hotkey handling

-  Fix Android crash in release build due to ProGuard

-  Minor improvements to random skin generation

-  Add button to open Touch controls wiki page to controls editor

-  Fix tuning velramp graphs not being updated when tuning changed

-  Improve sound sample thread-safety

-  Fix current server's community information not being set

-  Don't count fire if spec menu is opened

-  Fix incorrect loading progress due to 0.7 images

- [Client&Server] Set a recursion limit for config files

-  Revert Tele popup

-  Allow invalid commands too if unknown commands are allowed

-  Ignore case when map voting with full match

-  Fix server handling when vote creator leaves

-  Add death sounds/particles on spike in practice

-  Spikes freeze instead of kill in practice

-  Disable auto rescue in spike in practice

-  Support building Android version on Windows with MSYS2

-  Fix stack-overflow in demo_extract_chat tool