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