# DDNet DDNet 20.0 released

- Product: DDNet (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet)
- Vendor: DDNet Team
- Date: 2026-08-27
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/412220/view/685263456405815554
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ddnet/releases/2026-08-27-ddnet-20.0-released

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- **added** — Support for 128 players
- **added** — Web version
- **added** — Tabs to open multiple maps at the same time
- **added** — Android aim-relative joystick and relative direct input
- **added** — Dynamic antiping player prediction with cl_antiping_players 2/3
- **added** — Show skin names in scoreboard tooltips
- **added** — Show directory button to automapper rule selection popup
- **added** — Quick action for Goto position
- **added** — SSL support for MySQL database connections
- **added** — Shortened git revision hash in server version
- **changed** — Stop rendering off-screen entities, players, hooks, ghosts and spectator chars for improved FPS
- **changed** — Cache scoreboard text containers for improved FPS
- **changed** — Replace invisible assets with default sprites
- **changed** — Reuse the text container buffer in CCachedText
- **changed** — Improve hook collision line render check
- **changed** — Improve player settings country filter with highlight matches and reset button
- **changed** — Bind W to +jump by default
- **changed** — Rewrite envelope editor as editor component with separate state per map
- **changed** — Change 0.6.4 game version prefix to 0.6
- **fixed** — Old telehooks not being detected for the telehook check
- **fixed** — Projectile clipping being applied to start position instead of actual position

DDNet 20.0 has been released with the following changes:

-   **128 player support**

-   **Web version**

-   **Tabs to open multiple maps at the same time**

-   **Android: Add aim-relative joystick and relative direct input**

-   More FPS: Stop rendering off-screen entities, players, hooks, ghosts and spectator chars

-   Dynamic antiping player prediction (cl_antiping_players 2/3)

-   Replace invisible assets with default sprites

-   More FPS: Cache scoreboard text containers

-   Reuse the text container buffer in CCachedText

-   Clip hook collision line on maps without telehooks

-   Improve hook collision line render check

-   Fix old telehooks not being detected for the telehook check

-   Fix projectile clipping being applied to start position instead of actual position

-   Show skin names in scoreboard tooltips [0xpixty]

-   Improve player settings country filter, highlight matches and show reset button

-   Also bind W to +jump by default

-   Add "Show directory" button to automapper rule selection popup

-   Minor cleanup of settings menus

-   Fix potential thread-safety issue in community icon loading

-   Validate and initialize demo player data

-   Get server info by const reference instead of copying

-   Rewrite envelope editor as editor component with separate state per map

-   Keep map settings, layer/image/sound lists, history UI, font typer and HD/zoom preview state separate for each map

-   Properly clip envelope editor timebar and inactive region background

-   Fix points of unused channels being selected by envelope box selection

-   Properly slow mouse in envelope editor

-   Add quick action for "Goto position"

-   Fix quad flipping for multiple quads

-   Reimplement action to delete selected quads

-   Attach brushes to a separate internal map, fix invalid texture used for tile layer brush with quad image

-   Fix incorrect item size for info map item when loading map

-   Improve validation of map version item and other map data

-   Avoid marking datafile data as unloaded when it failed to be loaded

-   Fix dummy_map tool creating invalid map for sv_vanilla_antispoof feature

-  [Client&Server] Ensure snapshot item offsets and sizes are aligned with int32_t

-  [Client&Server] Reject oversized uncompressed packets in UnpackPacket

-  [Client&Server] Validate tune zone of DDNetProjectile snapshot object and tick of sv_preinput messages

-   Add SSL support for MySQL database connections

-   Fix rescue blocking team from finishing when used before start line

-   Don't unfreeze player on skipped rescue

-   Allow /cancelswap while using super, clarify that /swap is not allowed

-   Purge acked snapshots from snapshot storage, search starting from the newest snapshot

-   Include shortened git revision hash in server version, change 0.6.4 game version prefix to 0.6

-   Assert non-reserved server gametype instead of checking pure tuning

-  [Infra.] Split settings menus into separate source files, move UI popup menus to ui_popups.cpp

-  [Infra.] Improve macOS packaging and MACOS_CODESIGN [GlimmeR-6]