# DDNet DDNet 19.4 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2025-09-09
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/502835327731238885
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2025-09-09-ddnet-19.4-released

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- **added** — Touch controls editor
- **added** — Support live playback of demos while they are being recorded
- **added** — Add preinputs to improve antiping player prediction
- **added** — Keyboard support for fonts
- **added** — Automatic quad clipping
- **added** — Add tex coords lookup table to improve map loading times
- **added** — Add debug render option
- **added** — Add cl_chat_background_color
- **added** — Add message to explain how to disable debug graphs
- **added** — Add button to lock mouse to a single axis in editor
- **added** — Add preview of selected game tile in editor tile popup
- **added** — Add support for Websockets with IPv6
- **added** — Add support for MSVC Edit & Continue (Hot Reload)
- **added** — Add broadcast_pl rcon command
- **added** — Add practice command 'back'
- **changed** — Render 0.7 skins in server browser
- **changed** — Optimize quad rendering by grouping quads
- **changed** — Improve skin handling performance
- **changed** — Improve debug graphs
- **changed** — Make binds command prints the original bind command

DDNet 19.4 has been released with the following changes:

-  **Touch controls editor**

-  **Support live playback of demos while they are being recorded**

-  **Add preinputs - improve antiping player prediction**

-  **Keyboard support for fonts**

-  Automatic quad clipping

-  Add tex coords lookup table in order to improve map loading times

-  Render 0.7 skins in server browser

-  Add debug render option

-  Optimize quad rendering by grouping quads

-  Improve skin handling performance

-  Improve debug graphs

-  Make binds prints the original bind command

-  Fix initial server browser refresh being delayed

-  Add cl_chat_background_color

-  Fix and improve demo tuning handling

-  Enable FrozenLastTick only if prediction supported [0xfaulty]

-  Add message to explain how to disable debug graphs

-  Fix StrongWeak indicator for spec char

-  Refactor swapchain sync object handling

-  Show error message in server browser when no master server found

-  Predict freeze skin only for local player

-  Fix hook collision line when a player is next to a tele

-  Fix community icon pixel border rendering

-  Fix invalid stopper prediction

-  Fix overlays using wrong visual on borders

-  Make demo recorder always record local camera setting

-  Delay g_Config.m_UiMousesens update until scrollbar release

-  Fix rescue resets switches

-  Fallback to 127.0.0.1 or [::1] when resolving localhost

-  Show more details in popup when graphics failed to be initialized

-  Prevent loading server maps and recording demos with invalid names

-  Fix laser bounce delay affecting other laser types beside rifle

- [Client&Server] Add support for Websockets with IPv6, network cleanup

- [Client&Server] Add support for MSVC Edit & Continue (Hot Reload)

- [Client&Server] Fix handling of empty commands separated by semicolons

-  Add button to lock mouse to a single axis in editor

-  Add preview of selected game tile in editor tile popup

-  Fix incomplete editor grid

-  Fix non-destructive brush with unused tiles

-  Improve envelope editor color bar

-  Fix color being transparent when editing multiple layers

-  Only allow editor undo/redo when there is no active item

- [Editor&Client] Implement more precise group clipping

-  Record brush draw action when releasing mouse outside of editor

-  Allow switching teams after finish

-  Use words instead of numbers for access level commands

-  Add ability to disable sv_practice_by_default without server restart

-  Adjust high bandwidth mode for individual clients

-  Fix connection-oriented 0.7 packets being unpacked twice

-  Add broadcast_pl rcon command

-  Fix afk state being reset on death

-  Fix r/w sql server parameters

-  Make killer of protected kill get strong hook on respawn

-  Add practice command 'back'