# DDNet DDNet 19.9 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2026-07-09
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/689761349249538600
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2026-07-09-ddnet-19.9-released

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- **added** — Sort server browser by favorites
- **added** — Show actual map in Discord activity
- **added** — Add tooltips to demo browser buttons
- **added** — Add floating back button for touch inputs
- **added** — Add time bar to envelope editor
- **added** — More hotkeys to adjust brush physics tile properties (ctrl+shift+wheel, ctrl+shift+alt+mouse)
- **added** — FindPlayerByName() helper
- **changed** — Quad clipping for unbuffered backends
- **changed** — Disable predict events by default, add checkbox in settings
- **changed** — Keep selected player highlighted while scoreboard popup is open
- **changed** — Color tune regions by tune zone number
- **changed** — Improve fatal error popups for graphics errors
- **changed** — Improve changing animation speed
- **changed** — Show flying laser projectiles to dead players
- **changed** — Update server browser pings after own location is changed
- **changed** — Separate prediction margin graphs for main and dummy connection
- **changed** — Lower memory usage
- **changed** — Optimize ingame entities, render entities in switch layer
- **changed** — Implement more precise millisecond time function
- **removed** — Prevent binding to escape and hide it as completion option
- **fixed** — Fix visual hook delay
- **fixed** — Fix hook collision line of unpredicted players having wrong tunings
- **fixed** — Fix input data not being stored with cl_dummy_control 1
- **fixed** — Fix airjump being detected if you only have 1 jump
- **fixed** — Fix warmup timer positioning
- **fixed** — Fix default graphics blend mode with OpenGL 1
- **fixed** — Fix client crash connecting to same websockets port after shutdown
- **fixed** — Fix console argument handling for strings ending in backslash
- **fixed** — Fix sending wrong camera info
- **fixed** — Fix projectile glitches
- **fixed** — Fix tele/switch/tune/XY tile finder centering
- **fixed** — Fix "Project onto" button
- **fixed** — Fix layer/group dragging stuck when loading/clearing map
- **fixed** — Fix brush selection rectangle being rendered multiple times
- **fixed** — Fix envelope point clamping when multiple points selected
- **fixed** — Fix speedup angle 0 not reachable with tile adjust hotkey
- **fixed** — Fix speedups not working at 0/0 and top left map border
- **fixed** — Fix set_team_ddr and uninvite applying to empty player slots
- **security** — Lots of assertions and improved error handling to improve security
- **security** — Close console by clicking outside of it
- **security** — Disable semicolons being interpreted in ExecuteLine

DDNet 19.9 has been released with the following changes:

-   **Sort server browser by favorites**

-   **Quad clipping for unbuffered backends**

-   **Show actual map in Discord activity**

-   **Color tune regions by tune zone number** [12944qwerty]

-   Disable predict events by default, add checkbox in settings

-   Keep selected player highlighted while scoreboard popup is open

-   Add tooltips to demo browser buttons

-   Improve fatal error popups for graphics errors

-   Prevent binding to escape and hide it as completion option

-   Fix visual hook delay

-   Fix hook collision line of unpredicted players having wrong tunings

-   Fix input data not being stored with cl_dummy_control 1

-   Fix airjump being detected if you only have 1 jump

-   Fix warmup timer positioning

-   Fix default graphics blend mode with OpenGL 1

-   Fix client crash connecting to same websockets port after shutdown

-   Close console by clicking outside of it

-   Disable semicolons being interpreted in ExecuteLine

-   Fix console argument handling for strings ending in \\

-   Overhaul crash log parsing

-   Separate prediction margin graphs for main and dummy connection

-   Fix sending wrong camera info

-   Fix projectile glitches

-   Add floating back button for touch inputs

-   Show flying laser projectiles to dead players

-   Update server browser pings after own location is changed

-  [Client&Server] Lots of assertions and improved error handling to improve security

-   Auto-updater fixes

-   Add time bar to envelope editor

-   Improve changing animation speed

-   More hotkeys to adjust brush physics tile properties (ctrl+shift+wheel, ctr+shift+alt+mouse)

-   Fix tele/switch/tune/XY tile finder centering

-   Fix "Project onto" button

-   Lower memory usage

-   Allow instantly switching team after server reload

-   Optimize ingame entities, render entities in switch layer

-   Use resize-H/V cursors while using axis lock

-   Preserve quad art group for undo/redo

-   Fix layer/group dragging stuck when loading/clearing map

-   Fix brush selection rectangle being rendered multiple times

-   Fix envelope point clamping when multiple points selected

-   Fix speedup angle 0 not reachable with tile adjust hotkey

-  [Client&Server] Fix speedups not working at 0/0 and top left map border

-  [Client&Server] Implement more precise millisecond time function

-  [Client&Server] Enable STL debug mode

-   Give unpractice caller strong hook on respawn

-   Fix set_team_ddr and uninvite applying to empty player slots

-   Make start and end round virtual

-   Add FindPlayerByName() helper

-   Don't assert if weapon = -1