1.8.8 Release

Highlights

• UI improvements like gradient fill, shimmer effects, and more place for suggestions
• Enhanced media player stability and performance; now seeks are smoother and faster
• Enhanced native logging and error handling
• Fix Fabric 1.21.1 display rendering
• Fixed some minor issues and edge cases

Client

Features

• Added gradient fill and shimmer effects for thumbnails and loading states

Improvements

• Pausing now keeps the decoder warm on every pipeline, so resume is instant instead of restarting the stream
• Seeking no longer tears the whole session down before reconnecting: the picture holds its last frame while the target position warms up in the background, then jumps — including the loop wrap-around in synced / broadcast modes
• The first decoded frame is now shown immediately on start and seek instead of waiting for the playback cushion to fill
• Stream startup got faster: FFmpeg no longer probes the container with its default 5 MB / 5 s window
• Stall recovery now reconnects in the background while the picture holds its last frame instead of blanking
• Reduced render overhead on 26.x versions
• Removed unreachable frame-resize handling from the video reader loop
• Updated the in-process YouTube resolver NewPipeExtractor
• Enhanced LAV decoder with cached packets
• Enhanced natives logging and error handling
• Enhanced thumbnail's quality

Fixes

• Fixed Fabric 1.21.1 display rendering
• Fixed two different videos sharing the same thumbnail when their IDs differed only by letter case
• Fixed a failed thumbnail registration being able to crash the game
• Fixed a rare race during quality switches that could destroy the live display textures and leave the screen rendering
  through dead handles
• Fixed display teardown leaving already-freed textures reachable, which could lead to rendering through dead handles
• Fixed player initialization callbacks getting lost when registered right as initialization finished
• Fixed the reappearance audio bridge potentially starting mid-sample, which could produce noise
• Fixed several retrying displays being able to block every other display's initialization
• Fixed leaked yt-dlp subprocesses when the fast in-process resolver crashed mid-race

Server

Fixes

• Fixed displays with long URLs on MySQL
• Fixed display deletion logic and enhanced Multiverse-like projects compatibility
• Fixed legacy sync packets being able to store an arbitrarily large video duration on the server

1.8.7 Release

Highlights

• Hotfix for 1.21.1 servers
• Fixed video freezing / losing audio after seeking
• Fixed default volume protocol
• Better shaders compatibility

Client

Improvements

• Enhanced compatibility with specific shaders

Fixes

• Fixed default volume protocol that was not working
• Fixed video freezing / losing audio after seeking or pausing when the selected quality isn't actually available (#121)
• Fixed video restarting right at the end of a video when the audio track finished a moment before the video did
• Fixed z-fighting when player is very far away from the display

Server

Fixes

• Fixed Java 25 conflict in 1.21.1
• Fixed default volume protocol that was not working
• Fixed doubled message about plugin's startup

1.8.6 Release

Highlights

• Hotfix for Fabric 1.21.11 & 26.1.2

Client

Improvements

• Enhanced versionizing for Modrinth and GitHub releases

Fixes

• Fix critical crash for Fabric 1.21.11 & 26.1.2 (#118)

Server

No changes.

1.8.5 Release

Highlights

• 1.21.1 support
• All displays now default to 50% volume
• Fix critical crash on Fabric
• Some fixes and codebase improvements

Client

Features

• Added support for Minecraft 1.21.1

Improvements

• All displays now default to 50% volume
• Previews have replaced snapshots
• Now versions have pretty style format
• Discord publisher integration
• Replaced GSON library with kotlinx.serialization for better maintainability and performance
• Enhanced safety comments in unsafe blocks in Rust natives
• Changed author's name arsmotorin to arnodoelinger
• Some dependecies updates

Fixes

• Fixed Picture-in-Picture playing ahead of the in-world display; it now stays in sync
• Fixed critical crash when trying to delete an invalid display in single-player on Fabric

Server

Features

• Added support for Minecraft 1.21.1
• Added default_volume option in config.toml, so server owners can now set the default volume for all players

Improvements

• Previews have replaced snapshots
• Now versions have pretty style format
• Replaced GSON library with kotlinx.serialization for better maintainability and performance

Fixes

• Fixed critical crash when trying to delete an invalid display on Fabric servers

1.8.4 Release

Client

Improvements

• Improved experimental API
• Readded 26.2 version to Paper building system
• Improved media playback smoothness, especially around frame pacing and short playback stalls
• Improved pause and resume behavior, including warm resume for supported sessions
• Improved video loading, thumbnails, search suggestions, and replay caches for faster repeated loads
• Improved media links, network requests, and JSON handling for more consistent video resolving
• Improved local display settings saving so settings survive crashes and future updates better
• Reduced extra background threads in media tasks
• Synced and broadcast displays now default to 50% volume instead of 100%
• Improved Dream Displays security

Fixes

• Fixed incompatibilities with high-quality shaders (#108)
• Fixed unnecessary sync corrections while media is paused or parked
• Fixed a rare internal service lookup issue that could affect features with multiple service implementations

Server

Improvements

• Improved experimental API
• Improved report cooldown handling under repeated report attempts
• Improved media links, network requests, and JSON handling for server-side media features
• Improved saved display storage so display data is safer across restarts and crashes
• The mod update notification is now shown once per server session
• Improved Dream Displays security

Fixes

• Fixed several report cooldown edge cases
• Fixed the mod update notification formatting on Fabric servers
• Fixed several packet protocol v2 validation edge cases during connection and packet decoding
• Fixed audio-language validation before saving and rebroadcasting it
• Fixed a rare internal service lookup issue that could affect features with multiple service implementations

1.8.3 Release

Client

Improvements

• Improved experimental API
• Hardened background maintenance tasks against hanging the game on exit
• Reworked background networking, thumbnail, and cache work onto a unified coroutine scheduler for cleaner shutdown and
  fewer idle threads
• Display targeting now only triggers on the screen's own block face instead of the whole block
• Enhanced documentation in codebase
• Updated version dependencies
• Improved Dream Displays security

Fixes

• Fixed 360p quality lock in some cases
• Fixed the display menu preview blitting a just-released texture during a quality switch, causing repeated "Missing
  resource" warnings and a GL error

Server

Improvements

• Improved experimental API
• Improved display data saving
• Improved version parsing
• Moved webhook reports and Fabric database saves off the main server thread
• Enhanced documentation in codebase
• Updated version dependencies
• Improved Dream Displays security

Fixes

• Fixed periodic display / player update ticks running on an async scheduler on Paper servers
• Fixed unsafe async Bukkit / Paper API usage
• Fixed displays not being saved until the server shuts down cleanly, so a crash could lose newly created or edited
  displays
• Fixed display owners on Paper servers needing extra permission to delete their own display, unlike Fabric
• Fixed a malformed legacy network packet being able to crash decoding instead of being safely rejected
• Fixed broadcast displays briefly losing their quality clamp right after reconnecting until the server resent it
• Fixed the display cache file being able to get corrupted if the game / server crashed mid-save
• Fixed a race that let concurrent reports slip past the report cooldown
• Fixed default permissions; (local), synced and broadcast are for all players, no only for OPs

1.8.2 Release

Client

Improvements

• YouTube videos now load a bit faster
• Smoothed out a brief stutter that could happen right when a video changed
• Tightened how video links are handled, with length limits and network-only access to keep them from being abused
• Enhanced error screen when video loading fails
• Enhanced video loading animation
• Added 26.2 version to Paper building system
• Improved Dream Display security

Fixes

• Fixed audio cutting out after about 10 seconds (#107)
• Fixed repeating video playback in local playback mode

Server

Improvements

• Players can no longer spam the report system
• Improved Dream Display security

1.8.1 Release

Client

Features

• Added experimental support of native optimizations for 1.21.11

Improvements

• Improved translations for Russian and Ukrainian languages
• Improved FFmpeg download logging and unpacking flow
• Adopted Rust 2024 edition for natives and enhanced log handling

Fixes

• Fixed vertex format crash on Fabric 1.21.11
• Reduced log spam

Server

Improvements

• Improved translations for Russian and Ukrainian languages

Fixes

• Single-player displays are now stored per-world instead of the global database
• Replaced hardcoded max dimensions with placeholders

1.8.0 Release

Client

Features

• Added support for Minecraft 26.2
• Brought back Minecraft 1.21.11 support (#91)
• Added a new packet protocol v2
• Added fallback support for protocol v1, but v1 is now deprecated and will be removed in the future
• Introduced an unstable client-side API that will be scaled in the future
• Switched the multiversion system to Stonecutter, so old versions will be supported too
• Added stable Vulkan support for display rendering (OpenGL rendering is still supported)
• Replaced the old synchronization mode with new playback modes (server 1.8.0+ required)
• Added local, synced, broadcast playback modes (server 1.8.0+ required)
• Support vertical displays (server 1.8.0+ required)
• Added a native Rust media pipeline
• Integrated FFmpeg into the native media pipeline
• Added in-process LAV backend for video decoding
• Added GPU YUV / NV12 rendering path
• Added planar display textures for native video frames
• Added dynamic frame format support for native video frames
• Added improved cursor handling in the display menu
• Increased the default render distance to 96 blocks
• Switched display visibility logic from block-based checks to chunk-based checks
• Increased the effective display rendering range from 2 chunks to 12 chunks
• Reduced CPU usage by up to 50× on tested mid-range hardware scenarios (Java 25 required)
• Reduced CPU usage by up to 70× on tested low-end hardware scenarios (Java 25 required)
• Improved video stream resolving speed by up to 10–12× in supported cases
• Added seamless and faster video quality changes
• Improved shader compatibility
• Added more anonymous telemetry data to improve development, compatibility, and stability
• Added a fresher mod icon
• Improved several menu icons

Improvements

• Improved media player performance thanks to the native media pipeline
• Improved video frame processing stability
• Improved brightness handling in the video frame pipeline
• Added a more efficient native video frame path
• Reduced expensive CPU-side frame conversion work
• Improved GPU upload behavior for video frames
• Improved realtime-safe stream selection
• 60 FPS stream selection is now opt-in
• Improved yt-dlp quality fallback logic
• Improved yt-dlp resolver failure handling
• Improved video startup behavior when stream resolving fails
• Improved detection of DRM-protected videos
• DRM-protected videos now fail faster and more gracefully
• Improved cookie handling
• Improved process management for external media tools
• Improved display rendering stability on larger displays
• Improved display rendering stability at longer distances
• Improved compatibility with shader mods
• Improved compatibility with VulkanMod
• Improved Picture-in-Picture display sizing logic
• Improved display menu behavior on different GUI scales
• Improved display menu icon behavior
• Improved locked display handling
• Improved temporary focus mute behavior
• Improved unsafe filename handling for server display cache files
• Improved client texture creation validation
• Replaced the old AbstractConfig usage with the default config implementation
• Replaced custom logging usage with LoggerFactory
• Reorganized the project structure
• Improved Gradle configuration
• Improved workflows
• Improved the publishing system
• Removed old Gradle cache configuration
• Removed INotSleep's utils
• Simplified multiple internal code paths
• Cleaned up old compatibility code
• Updated dependencies
• Added many small internal cleanups, simplifications, and stability improvements

Fixes

• Fixed a critical crash on Fabric 1.21.11
• Fixed a critical Quilt entry point crash
• Fixed an ancient NeoForge and IntelliJ IDEA compatibility issue
• Fixed NeoForge client shutdown on normal server disconnect
• Fixed FFmpeg extraction on Linux (#93)
• Fixed incompatibility between the popout window and Vivecraft
• Fixed GUI scale handling in the display menu
• Fixed several shader compatibility issues
• Fixed VulkanMod compatibility issues
• Fixed strange red and green screen blinking while loading videos
• Fixed quality fallback to 360p when yt-dlp fails
• Fixed incorrect waiting behavior for DRM-protected videos
• Fixed Picture-in-Picture mode display size calculation
• Fixed render distance localization
• Fixed locked display abuses
• Fixed the false locked display icon in the display menu
• Fixed temporary focus mute overwriting the user's mute setting
• Fixed unsafe server display cache filenames breaking on some systems
• Fixed invalid display sizes creating broken client textures
• Fixed several display menu edge cases
• Fixed several native frame pipeline edge cases
• Fixed several video resolver edge cases
• Fixed several display rendering edge cases
• Fixed multiple small stability issues

Server

Features

• Added support for Minecraft 26.2 Fabric servers
• Implemented Minecraft 1.21.11 support for Fabric servers
• Added support for the new playback modes
• Added Java 21 support for Minecraft 1.21.11 servers
• Added a new packet protocol v2
• Added fallback support for protocol v1, but v1 is now deprecated and will be removed in the future
• Added dreamdisplays.local, dreamdisplays.synced, dreamdisplays.broadcast, dreamdisplays.lock, dreamdisplays.delete.others, and dreamdisplays.create.bypass permissions
• Added more anonymous telemetry data to improve development, compatibility, and stability

Improvements

• Simplified server-side display storage updates
• Removed the old display validator flow
• Improved server-side handling of display-enabled state updates
• Removed the useless report button in single-player
• Improved Gradle configuration
• Improved server module structure
• Updated dependencies
• Added multiple small server-side cleanups and simplifications

Fixes

• Fixed MariaDB compatibility issue (#88)
• Fixed sending display enabled packets to clients
• Fixed several Fabric server compatibility issues
• Fixed several small server-side stability issues

1.7.1 Release

Client

Feature

• A bit fresher mod icon

Improvements

• Better version publishing on Modrinth
• Reduce JAR size by ~50%

Fixes

• Fabric config parsing error
• NeoForge set_locked packet error

Server

Improvements

• Some code refactoring
• Reduce JAR size by ~50%

Fixes

• FabricDisplayData error when server shutdowns