# DDNet DDNet 19.8 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2026-03-12
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/528748148995129500
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2026-03-12-ddnet-19.8-released

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- **added** — Predict envelopes
- **added** — Predict all sounds and particles
- **added** — Show centiseconds in scoreboard and HUD
- **added** — Sample loop point support for Opus
- **added** — Add real HSL values to color scrollbars
- **added** — Hook line tip
- **added** — Scoreboard popup with map info
- **changed** — Show friends regardless of filter in server browser
- **changed** — Render current number of players in community filter and sort by player count
- **changed** — Update unpredicted shadow with alpha and customization
- **changed** — Improve demo menu mouse seek
- **changed** — Replace line breaks with spaces when pasting multiple lines in chat
- **changed** — Improve user experience when joining Tutorial server
- **changed** — Use racefinish message to stop demo and ghost recording
- **changed** — Update map best time if a player joins with a better time
- **changed** — Make descriptions of refresh rate settings more clear
- **fixed** — Fix unlimited zoom crashing when zooming out really far
- **fixed** — Fix changing spectator in demo player when paused
- **fixed** — Fix dead players being duplicated
- **fixed** — Fix prediction with collision tunes

DDNet 19.8 has been released with the following changes:

-   **Predict envelopes**

-   **Predict all sounds and particles**

-   **Show centiseconds in scoreboard and HUD**

-   **Sample loop point support (Opus)**

-   **Add real HSL values to color scrollbars**

-   **Hook line tip** [fushi-gg]

-   Add scoreboard popup with map info

-   Show friends regardless of filter in server browser

-   Render current number of players in community filter, sort by player count

-   Update unpredicted shadow, add alpha and customization

-   Demo menu mouse seek improvements

-   Replace line breaks with spaces when pasting multiple lines in chat

-   Improve user experience when joining Tutorial server

-   Use racefinish message to stop demo/ghost recording

-   Update map best time if a player joins with a better time

-   Make descriptions of refresh rate settings more clear

-   Fix unlimited zoom crashing when zooming out really far

-   Fix changing spectator in demo player when paused

-   Fix dead players being duplicated

-   Fix prediction with collision tunes

-   Fix prediction when player has no current weapon

-   Stop forcing predicted events onto older DDrace servers

-   Prevent game from being unpaused during gameover

-   Fix scrollbar behavior when combining multiple flags

-   Add easter mapres from teeworlds

-   Fix editor map not being saved if editor is quit before job is done

-   Fix editor can't find tele out

-   Add quick action to show help, fix holding down F1 key

-   Fix "Collapse all" button collapsing empty groups

-   Add error message when launching local server

-   Fix redo of envelope edit actions

-   Fix BrushDraw for tile layers

-   Add rcon/practice command setswitch

-   Make cmdlist list only commands without practice flag

-  [Infra.] Split system.cpp/h into smaller modules [Robyt3, heinrich5991]

-  [Infra.] Improve Emscripten support and error handling