Today, we're excited to share a brand-new gameplay preview from our upcoming South Dakota DLC for American Truck Simulator! Get a closer look at some of the beautiful roads, landmarks, and industries our map team has been recreating.
In the gameplay preview below, you'll follow a journey that begins in the Black Hills before passing by the scenic Pactola Lake and crossing the Spring Creek Memorial Bridge. Along the way, we'll drive through several settlements, including the beautiful city of Hot Springs and part of the historic town of Deadwood, before completing our delivery at a wood processing depot.
This route is just a small preview of what South Dakota has to offer, featuring winding mountain roads, charming communities, and diverse scenery. Whether you're taking in the views or making deliveries across the state, there's plenty to discover behind the wheel.
We hope you enjoy this gameplay preview and the stunning scenery South Dakota has to offer. As always, please keep in mind that everything you see is still a work in progress and subject to change during development.
This new alpha build introduces 8 new effects, fixes some crashes and other glitches, fixes compatibility with some old plugins, and adds some debugging options to assist with the WINE effort.
The new effects will be discussed more in the final release notes for 5.2, when the time comes, but here are some previews for now. Each new effect is also available for plugins to use in their Direct2D effect graphs.
Original Image
Linocut
Mosaic
Pointillism
Stained Glass
Ordered Dither
Spherize (This isn’t actually a very good image to use for showcasing this effect. I’ll have a better example for the final release notes.)
Waves
Here are several examples for this one, which has many different modes you can experiment with:
Fixed a crash when trying to use horizontal scrolling in the Unsaved Changes dialog
Fixed image tabs rendering with a black background
Fixed compatibility with the legacy plugins “ImPDF Open/Save”, “Chop Up And Save,” and “TR’s Paste Frame”
Fixed the UI setting “Auto-select nearest visible layer after hiding a layer” (it was doing nothing)
Optimized performance of render target buffer clearing when Advanced Color is not enabled
Fixed some RNG in the Frosted Glass effect
Added extension methods on IFileTypesServiceFactory for plugin developers: LoadFileAsDocument, TryLoadFileAsDocument, LoadFileAsBitmap, and TryLoadFileAsBitmap.
Fixed the input assignments of the Direct2D DisplacementMapEffect wrapper (it was assigning “input” to “displacement”)
Removed the /disableCompositionSwapChain command-line parameter
Added the following command-line parameters to assist with the WINE effort: /disableUIAnimation, /disableComposition, /disableWin11DisplayInformation, and /wine (which is equivalent to the previous 3 together)
AddedControlInfoPropertyNames.AutoPopulateFileTypes, which when set to true on a FileChooser-typed property will cause it to be auto-populated with all FileTypes (built-ins and plugins) (thanks @toe_head2001!)
Download and Install
This build is available via the built-in updater as long as you have opted-in to pre-release updates. From within Settings -> Updates, enable “Also check for pre-release (beta) versions of paint.net” and then click on the Check Now button. You can also use the links below to download an offline installer or portable ZIP.
You can also download the installer here (for any supported CPU and OS), which is also where you can find downloads for offline installers, portable ZIPs, and deployable MSIs.
We are pleased to announce the fifth release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 12.0!
This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 12.0 before it's final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!
A note about versioning
Starting with this release, we are dropping the preceding 10. from our versioning. Thus, 10.11.x -> [10.]12.x = 12.x. The reason is simple: at this point in the project, we don't envision a hard break in the API like we planned way back in the early days, and this version scheme was causing a lot of confusion amongst users about what a "major" release was. For more information, please see the RC1 release notes.
What's new?
The main goal of this release has been performance. 10.11.0 dropped a major backend rewrite, and while it was broadly functional, it had a lot of rough edges. This release seeks to polish out most of those rough edges and bring better performance to all users.
Note: You must be on Jellyfin 10.10.7+ or 10.11.x (ideally, 10.11.11) before upgrading! If you are not, the upgrade will fail. Ensure you upgrade to one of these versions first!
Note: The initial load of Jellyfin 12.x will run a few migrations and will take several minutes. Please be patient and do not interrupt the process. You can leverage the (newly improved!) startup UI on your local network to see specific progress, or off-network to see general progress, by visiting the server URL in your web browser during startup.
Note: If you install the RC, you should disable all external plugins and reinstall using the unstable plugin repository, or plugins may fail to load and cause unintended side effects.
Installing
This preview release is distributed in all our traditional forms, though not automatically via our Apt repository or latest tag.
For all non-Docker environments, you can find the files for manual download in our repository by selecting "Stable Preview" for your OS.
For Docker, you can pull the 12.0-rc5 or preview tags.
We are pleased to announce the fifth release candidate preview release of Jellyfin 12.0!
This is a preview release, intended for those interested in testing 12.0 before its final public release. We welcome testers to help find as many bugs as we can before the final release.
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!
A note about versioning
Starting with this release, we are dropping the preceding 10. from our versioning. Thus, 10.11.x -> [10.]12.x = 12.x. The reason is simple: at this point in the project, we don't envision a hard break in the API like we planned way back in the early days, and this version scheme was causing a lot of confusion amongst users about what a "major" release was. For more information, please see the RC1 release notes.
What's new?
The main goal of this release has been performance. 10.11.0 dropped a major backend rewrite, and while it was broadly functional, it had a lot of rough edges. This release seeks to polish out most of those rough edges and bring better performance to all users.
Note: You must be on Jellyfin 10.10.7+ or 10.11.x (ideally, 10.11.11) before upgrading! If you are not, the upgrade will fail. Ensure you upgrade to one of these versions first!
Note: The initial load of Jellyfin 12.x will run a few migrations and will take several minutes. Please be patient and do not interrupt the process. You can leverage the (newly improved!) startup UI on your local network to see specific progress, or off-network to see general progress, by visiting the server URL in your web browser during startup.
Note: If you install the RC, you should disable all external plugins and reinstall using the unstable plugin repository, or plugins may fail to load and cause unintended side effects.
Installing
This preview release is distributed in all our traditional forms, though not automatically via our Apt repository or latest tag.
For all non-Docker environments, you can find the files for manual download in our repository by selecting "Stable Preview" for your OS.
For Docker, you can pull the 12.0-rc5 or preview tags.
After upgrade, you need to run php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate (or equivalent) as webserver user after upgrade.. If you are running a docker container, use sudo docker exec --user=www-data partdb php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate, or sudo -E inside the docker container, to ensure that the migrations are applied to the correct database.
Important
Since this version Part-DB can enable foreign key checks for SQLite: it is recommend to do this, but it requires some manual intervention. See this announcement on how to do it: #1486
Note
If you are using Part-DB it would be helpful if you fill out this short survey on your usage of Part-DB (Google Forms): https://forms.gle/Q15twx3YYq3qCNfe8
New Features
Added OAuth server capability, for easy and automatic API access to Part-DB without the need to generate an API token by hand. An application can redirect to an Part-DB page, where an user can authorise the access of the external application. This feauture is opt-in and requires some setup by hand.
With the OAuth server capability, Part-DB can now be used as an remote MCP connector for AI applications like claude.ai. Just add a custom connector with your Part-DB url, and you can authorize the access via one click. No need for fiddeling with API tokens or config files
Allow to enable foreign key checking for sqlite via an env variable. It is recommended to do this, however it requires some manual intervention.
Add Docker based development environment by @swdee in #1441
Link to update manager from homepage banner update notification
Bug fixes
Fixed that orphaned BOMEntries, APITokens and Orderdetails were possible
Fix TypeError when tree expand/collapse/search is used before the tree finished loading by @Sebbeben in #1482
Require full user authentication, when changing users or groups
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Settings of SaneAR/VMR-9/EVR-CP/EVR-Sync have been moved and can now be accessed through the button behind the renderer on the Output settings page.
Cleaned up the Output settings page and updated the tooltips of the video renderers.
It is now possible to provide default settings through HKLM, which are read whenever creating fresh settings profile in HKCU section of Registry.
When storing settings in INI file, the history is now split off in a separate file. When the application folder is not writable, the history file is placed in %appdata%\MPC-HC. Also added an advanced option to always use appdata folder.
Please note that the Registry is still the preferred location for storing the settings. That has better performance than INI file. Settings backup is as easy as pressing a button here: Options > Miscellaneous > Export
Added an advanced option HistoryExcludeFilter to exclude certain content from getting added to recent file history. It is a simple semi-colon separated list of substrings that is matched against the full path or URL.
There also is a HistoryExcludeFilterPrivate setting with exact same purpose, which is not exposed through the user interface.
Added advanced option to automatically prune history entries older than X days. Defaults to 365, and can be disabled by setting to 0.
Added a new Show History entry to recent file menu. This opens a dialog for managing history entries. Allows you to search. Manually remove entries. Clean invalid entries. Clean old entries. Reset position, etc.
When opening a selection of files from Explorer, they are now added to playlist in correct alphabetical order.
Added "sort by date" option in playlist context menu. Note that all sort actions apply once to current list and do not have effect on future playlist changes.
Added advanced option to sort files by date when skipping to next/previous file in folder.
Color controls have been moved from options dialog into a new popup dialog. Accessible through the Play menu or hotkey.
Advanced settings have now been re-ordered and grouped into categories.
Improved performance when using libass for rendering subtitles.
Added stack trace to internal (fallback) exception handler.
Fixes:
Fixed an issue where subtitle styles changes were not dynamically applied during segment change in segmented Matroska files with ordered chapters.
Fixed an issue where seekbar preview could show wrong edition with playing a Matroska file with multiple video editions.
Fixed an issue where video preview was up-side-down in web interface when renderer provided a topdown bitmap.
Fixed an issue with EVR-CP that caused still images to not render immediately.
Improved long path support in a few file dialogs, such as "Load subtitles".
If you are upgrading from v0.16.x, replace the binary (or run docker pull). If you are upgrading from v0.15.x and below, please read the upgrading documentation for more information on how to upgrade from previous versions.
WebDAV: Range and If-Range header support on file downloads (RFC 7233) (#2377).
Spam filter: url_original expression variable for Url rules.
Changed
Memory allocator: Replaced the unmaintained jemallocator crate with tikv-jemallocator (contributed by @checkraisefold).
ACME registry: Use description as label property.
Fixed
MTA:
Certificates for domains publishing an enforcing MTA-STS policy are always validated, even in the fallback TLS strategy.
DSN delivery date uses wrong timestamp.
FUTURERELEASE HOLDUNTIL uses Unix timestamps instead of RFC 3339 date-times.
JMAP:
EmailSubmission/query filtering on undoStatus contradicts EmailSubmission/get, reporting held FUTURERELEASE submissions as final instead of pending.
EmailSubmission/get requests without an ids argument iterates the wrong index.
CardDAV: Accept: text/vcard version negotiation is ignored whenever another parameter such as q or charset follows version=.
Calendar: Server-side scheduling messages place the text/calendar part outside the multipart/alternative and disposed as an attachment.
Sharing: Accounts holding the impersonate permission never have their ACL grants collected, so shared items are never listed in JMAP sessions, CalDAV/CardDAV discovery or IMAP.
IMAP:
COPY/MOVE into a shared folder fails with NO [ALREADYEXISTS] when the destination account already holds the message, leaving the message in the source mailbox and clients in a retry loop.
BODYSTRUCTURE and ENVELOPE return MIME parameters, Content-Description, subjects and display names as raw UTF-8 even to sessions that never enabled UTF8=ACCEPT.
This release addresses medium-impact problems that need to be fixed as some enable remote DOS or policy bypass.
The fixes below, and more, are also released in the unstable version postfix-3.12-20260809.
In addition to updated releases for the supported Postfix versions 3.8-3.11, releases will also be available for the out-of-support Postfix versions 3.5-3.7. NOTE: these do not include the patches for out-of-support Postfix versions that have been issued for "large SMTP inputs (June 2026)", "TLSA parsing (June 2026)", and "SMTP smuggling fixes". Those patches still need to be applied.
These defects were found by Qualys assisted by Claude Mythos Preview, and by OpenAI Security; more than half date from 20 or more years ago. When I implemented Postfix, I knew that there were going to be mistakes. That is the reason why Postfix has its architecture and safety nets. The number of defects may seem large, but considering that they were found in a code base of over 150 thousand lines, the error rate is still lower than what I designed for.
Policy bypass:
Bug (introduced: Postfix 2.2, date: 20041102): missing SMTP server resets of MAIL FROM and RCPT TO command state after smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions rejected a message. This resulted in SMTP protocol state desynchronization between the remote SMTP client and the Postfix SMTP server.
A crafted remote SMTP client could then send RCPT TO and DATA without MAIL FROM, and deliver a second message. Then, smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions skipped check_recipient_access constraints, because a recipient counter was > 1. Reported by OpenAI Security. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
As reported by OpenAI Security, the failure to reset MAIL FROM and RCPT TO state also affected Milter support (added in Postfix 2.3). Here, after a Milter replied with "accept this message" based on the message envelope, and smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions rejected the message, the Postfix SMTP server as before accepted RCPT TO and DATA without MAIL FROM, and smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions as before skipped check_recipient_access constraints for the second message. Under these conditions, the Postfix Milter client remained in the "accept this message" state, skipping Milter policy enforcement for the second message.
Denial of service:
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 3.4, date: 20180805): SMTP server command history memory exhaustion with a large number of very small BDAT requests. Reported by OpenAI security. File: smtpd.c.
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 1.1, date: 20021116): address verification cache poisoning. A local user could use the postdrop command to submit an address verification probe with envelope or message content that Postfix rejected later, resulting in a negative address verification cache entry for that address. On systems that enable address verification, the negative address verification cache entry would force the Postfix SMTP server to reject a message that it should accept (denial of service). Problem reported by OpenAI Security. File: postdrop.c.
Server crashes and panic()s:
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 3.4, date: 20180805): missing SMTP server reset of RCPT TO state, after a BDAT command error. A crafted remote SMTP client could then send a DATA command without MAIL FROM or RCPT TO, and crash a Postfix SMTP daemon process with a null pointer read error. Reported by OpenAI Security. File: smtpd/smtpd.c.
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 2.4, date: 20051222): null pointer read crash while parsing a malformed Dovecot AUTH server response. Reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: xsasl_dovecot_server.c.
Read after free, uninitialized read, under/over read:
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 2.8, date: 20100914): read-after-free in the PSC_CALL_BACK_NOTIFY() macro. This had no effect on program execution, because myfree() wiped memory, and that memory was not yet reused. Problem reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: postscreen_dnsbl.c.
Read after free (no privilege escalation) in debug logging (defect introduced: Postfix 2.2, date: 20050117). Reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: util/inet_connect.c.
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 2.10, date: 20120617): uninitialized memory read in postscreen HaProxy client after remote I/O exception, causing garbage to be logged. Reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: postscreen_haproxy.c.
Latent bug (defect introduced: Postfix 2.7, date: 20090618): uninitialized memory read after dnsblog(8) returns a string that is not an IPv4 address. Reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: postscreen_dnsbl.c.
Bug (defect introduced: before Postfix alpha, date 19970424): the DNS client could read up to two bytes past the end of an MX record, before discovering that the record was too short. This behavior was later copied with SRV records, potentially over-reading up to six bytes. Problem reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: dns_lookup.c.
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 1,1, date: 20010524): the postsuper command under-read or over-read a very short queue filename. No crash, information leak, or privilege escalation. Reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. Files: postsuper.c, mail_queue.h.
Other code hygiene:
Bug (defect introduced: before Postfix alpha, date: 19971106): 'int' over-shift, in the queue file record-length parser. Postfix programs do not generate such records, but an attacker could cause postdrop to reject input or panic(). Reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: record.c.
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 2.2, date: 20050117): non-transitive comparison of IPv4 addresses. Reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: sock_addr.c.
Bug (defect introduced: Postfix 1.0, date: 20000928): the fast flush server, used by the SMTP command "ETRN", and by the commands "postqueue -s site" and "postqueue -i queue_id" (and their sendmail(1) equivalents), used the wrong duplicate suppression API, resulting in unnecessary queue scans by the queue manager. Reported by Qualys, assisted by Claude Mythos Preview. File: flush.c.
Queue hygiene: the postdrop command accepted the null record type which the rest of Postfix ignores. Reported by OpenAI Security. File: postdrop.c.
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What's the best way to capture the spirit of Ireland? Hit the road, of course! In June, members of our Euro Truck Simulator 2 map team travelled across the Emerald Isle on a research trip for our upcoming Isle of Ireland DLC. With cameras in hand and thousands of kilometres ahead, they explored everything from lively cities and picturesque villages to rugged coastlines and breathtaking scenery, collecting the references that will help shape this exciting expansion. Here are some of their highlights from their journey.
Five members of the SCS Software team took part on this trip, including Ivan, our World Map Design QA Lead, Josef from the Road Department, Kristian and Libor, Map Designers, and Honza, the Project Lead for the Isle of Ireland DLC.
However, that isn't all, as Alex, one of our Community Managers, and Cenda, one of our talented Videomakers, also joined the research trip to document the journey and give you a closer look behind the scenes. We can't wait to share more from this incredible adventure in a special future episode of SCS On The Road.
Their journey began in Dublin, where the team came together before setting off on an ambitious road trip around much of Ireland. Their route took them from Dublin to Rosslare Harbour, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Limerick, Galway, Westport, Sligo, Benbulbin, Londonderry, Bushmills, Giants Causway, Belfast, before finally returning to Dublin. So as you can imagine, the team got to see quite a lot!
This trip wouldn't have been possible without the fantastic support of our friends at Škoda Ireland. A huge thank you to Raymond Leddy and the team for supplying us with two Škoda Octavias, which comfortably carried our crew across thousands of kilometres of Ireland's roads and became the perfect companions for this unforgettable research trip.
We'd also like to extend our sincere thanks to JUDr. Pavel Vošalík and his team of the Czech Embassy in Ireland for helping arrange several special visits for our team, including a tour of a cement plant in Limerick. This provided invaluable first-hand insight into the industry's day-to-day operations, helping our team better understand how the facility functions and the vital role truck drivers play in loading, unloading, and transporting materials every day.
So what did the team get up to during their trip? We spoke with several members of the team to hear about their favourite moments, the places that left the biggest impression, and the valuable references they have gathered to help bring Ireland to life in ETS2.
Honza:
"We recently went on our research trip to Ireland, and I have to say for me personally, it was a great experience. It always feels different to actually be at a place rather than to see it through references on your computer. No amount of photos or Street View can fully replicate the feeling of being there. Having walked and driven through the real landscape, I now have a much clearer picture of what the outcome should be, what the map should look like and, more importantly, what the general vibe should feel like.
One thing we already knew going in was that vegetation would need special attention, but being there made us absolutely sure we need to give it great importance. And yes grass really is very green in Ireland. It's striking, and it has to come through in the map.
We also discovered there are a lot of details we might have missed before. For example, once you're on the ground, you realise just how much art is on public display everywhere murals on walls, electrical boxes used as canvases for local artwork. These small touches add a lot of character and are exactly the kind of details that can make the map feel alive and authentic.
As for personal highlights my favourite places were on the West Coast, the Caha Mountains, Killarney National Park, and Connemara. The Antrim coast was equally stunning. And from the cities, I really liked Galway."
Kristián:
"Ireland is the first DLC I am working on. I am so grateful to have been a part of this journey, to see everything with my own eyes and really soak up the atmosphere. I have visited almost all the places and roads I am working on designing from Waterford to Rosslare Harbour. They have undergone extensive renovations over the past two years, so I am happy to see their latest appearance, which you will not find even on Google Maps. I also visited the Custom Depot of the film studio in Belfast.
This journey helped me to perceive important details and the specific atmospheres of the places there. My personal experience showed me huge differences compared to static online maps. I believe that this will help us take the realism of the environment to a higher level and create a truly immersive world for players. I managed to collect a lot of reference material, of which our entire team can then use to build a virtual Ireland in a much more believable way and depict even places that are completely missing from Street View."
Libor:
"I fell in love with Ireland right from the start of our work on the DLC, when I began exploring it through photos. So when I got the chance to visit Ireland in person, I was thrilled and started looking forward to it. My main goal for the trip was to explore the N71 running through Killarney National Park and its surroundings. The photos we had available before the trip were taken in overcast, rainy weather, but for a map designer’s work, it’s important to see the landscape in sunny weather to capture the correct colours.
Fortunately, the weather turned out perfect, and I was able to gather the right references for my work. In addition to the colors, my visit helped me greatly in grasping the character of the landscape, the scale of the mountains, and the variety of vegetation. All of this is difficult to capture from photographs alone. Being in Ireland in person helped me a great deal not only in mapping the landscape and landmarks, but also in noting the small details regarding road traffic and the road network.
These are the aspects that we pay close attention to at our company. Ireland is rich in diverse landscapes and numerous landmarks, and we’re working hard to deliver the best possible Irish experience."
Josef:
"I joined this trip as a representative of the road department. At SCS, I’m responsible for all right-hand drive prefabs for the Isle of Ireland DLC and the UK rework. These are essentially functional 3D models of all road intersections from simple crossroads to complex roundabouts.
Both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom have unique features in their road networks compared to the rest of Europe. Cats’ eyes (road studs) and box junctions were originally designed in the UK. Roundabouts are more common, sometimes even with traffic lights, of which there are plenty. And in case you didn’t know, people drive on the left side of the road. There are other specifics, but I won’t bore you with them.
That’s why I’m glad I had the opportunity to travel around Ireland and see the road networks of both countries, because I’m now tasked with finalizing and implementing these features into our road network. We’ve gathered a lot of references that will help us greatly with this.
Since my work involves roads and intersections, I’m used to looking down at them. But that was a bit harder in Ireland, where there were breathtaking views and beautiful nature. And just when you’re admiring the view, you suddenly hear a sheep. It’s that feeling of perfection and peace. That’s what I love about Ireland.
At the same time, during my four years at SCS, I had the opportunity for the first time to visit the landmark intersection I’d been working on, rather than just seeing it on a screen. It’s a strange feeling when you arrive at a place and, after a moment, realise that you actually know it a little bit there. Classic déjà vu."
Ivan:
"Getting to visit Ireland in person was hugely valuable for me. In QA, we work with reference photos, videos and Street View all day, but actually seeing the country with my own eyes was a different thing
entirely. Honestly, the island won me over on day one. The atmosphere, how varied the landscapes are, the way each region has its own
character.
We covered a big part of Ireland on the trip, from busy cities to countryside roads where you barely meet another car. That's when the real scale of things sinks in. The road network, the vegetation, the architecture, all the small details you just can't pick up from online references. Some places felt nothing like they look on a static map, and experiencing that first-hand taught me a lot about what makes Ireland special. The trip is already paying off in my daily work.
When I'm reviewing parts of the map now, I recognise places we visited, and they come with actual memories attached, the town we stayed in, a road we drove, the spot where we stopped for food. That kind of familiarity makes it much easier to judge whether the environment feels authentic and to catch details that would otherwise slip by. I really believe these impressions will help us fine-tune the Ireland DLC and make it a more immersive,
believable experience for our players."
We hope you enjoyed reading this insight of our team's research trip across Ireland. If you're excited about the upcoming Isle of Ireland DLC, don't forget to add it to your Steam Wishlist! You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss our upcoming SCS On The Road: Isle of Ireland Research Trip episode, where we'll take you even deeper into the journey. Until next time, keep on truckin'!
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This past May, we shared our vision for the future of Firefox. Starting today, you can try out the next design evolution of Firefox in Nightly.
It’s still Firefox, now with a more cohesive look and feel across tabs, menus, panels, and other browser surfaces. You’ll notice softer tab shapes, a warmer color palette, updated icons, and – after hearing from many of you – the return of Compact Mode and new theme options to make Firefox your own.
Many of you have already spotted pieces of the new design in Nightly over the past few months. Now they’re coming together into one complete experience.
You’ll continue to see updates over the coming weeks as we polish the new Firefox design before it reaches Firefox users more broadly later this year. As you browse, we’re especially interested in any visual or functional issues you encounter.
Keep an eye out for things like:
Icons, spacing, and alignment
Themes and personalization
Different window sizes and display scaling
Keyboard navigation
Screen readers and other accessibility features
Different languages and layouts
Found a bug?
If something doesn’t look or behave as expected, please file a bug in Bugzilla.
When possible, include:
Steps to reproduce the issue
Screenshots or screen recordings
Your operating system and Nightly version
If you have broader thoughts or questions about your experience, join the discussion on Mozilla Connect.
Thanks for using Nightly and helping us improve Firefox. Every bug report helps us identify issues and continue refining the new Firefox design before it reaches Firefox users more broadly later this year.
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Add-ons / Web Extensions
Addon Manager & about:addons
Migrated addon-page-header and addon-card action buttons to the reusable moz-button web component as part of the ongoing Nova restyling of about:addons – Bug 2042200 / Bug 2042204
Extended moz-page-nav-button with a forwarded title property to fix an accessibility issue where the component lacked a label in collapsed state; Landed in Firefox 153, and uplifted to Firefox 152 for about:settings which was already riding the 152 release train – Bug 2040971
Fixed a shutdown-timing bug where a pending GMP update-check timer could fire after XPCOMShutdownThreads started, causing a pref write assertion; Fixed in Firefox 153 – Bug 2043803
WebExtensions Framework
Fixed MV2 content scripts incorrectly injecting into guarded hosts because MozDocumentMatcher::MatchesURI was not consulting CheckGuarded when mCheckPermissions was false; Fixed in Firefox 153 – Bug 2041393
Added support for accessing ObservableArray attributes (such as adoptedStyleSheets) from XrayWrappers and extension content scripts, unblocking extensions that rely on this Web API; Fixed in Firefox 153 – Bug 1751346
Wired runtime_blocked_hosts and runtime_allowed_hosts enterprise policy settings through ExtensionSettings to allow administrators to restrict extension host permissions on managed devices, starting in Firefox 153 – Bug 1805205
Thanks to Mike Kaply for implementing this enterprise policy enhancement.
WebExtension APIs
Fixed promiseTabWhenReady blocking indefinitely on discarded tabs, preventing cleanup of associated resources and potentially causing memory leaks; Fixed in Firefox 153 – Bug 1653876
Fixed webNavigation.onCommitted being dispatched twice for cross-origin iframes loaded under Fission, caused by a redundant OnStateChange trigger firing in addition to OnLocationChange; Fixed in Firefox 153 – Bug 1750196
Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] migrated the markup view to HTML (from XHTML) to fix an issue when editing the markup (CodeMirror 6 does not support XHTML) (#2028058)
Harshit enabled video overlay detection in Nightly 153, allowing you to use the context menu to control videos on more pages! We plan on letting this ride out in Firefox 153.
As part of the work for the Project Nova about:addons page restyling, the about:addons sidebar has been migrated to the moz-page-nav and moz-page-nav-button reusable components, improving accessibility and visual consistency with the Firefox Desktop about:settings page – Bug 1881767
WebExtensions Framework
Implemented WebExtensions negative permissions infrastructure, providing the foundations for enterprise policy “blocked host permissions” features – Bug 1745823
Restricted host permission changes for MV3 extensions force-installed via enterprise policy (matching similar behaviors provided by Chrome enterprise policy behaviors) – Bug 1904054
Thanks to Mike Kaply for the implementation of this enterprise policy enforcement feature.
WebExtension APIs
Fixed handling of <all_urls> as an API permission in Manifest V3, ensuring the permission is correctly initialized on extension install – Bug 1758306
Sameem updated the “Take Element Screenshot” command from WebDriver Classic to crop screenshots of elements which exceed the viewport. This aligns with the specification and avoids errors when attempting to capture huge elements.
Much has happened in the last 2 weeks! Here’s a full bug list, and here are some highlights.
Dre fixed the List widget that was creating a new list too eagerly on the New Tab Page (2033592) — prevents accidental list creation and improves the Lists UI reliability.
Reem Hamoui added key dates state to the Sports widget, enabling the Sports card to surface event deadlines/key-date highlights on New Tab so sports users see timely date info.
Scott Downe added a reusable Newtab widget base component to centralize lifecycle, focus/keyboard handling, DOM templates, and telemetry hooks, reducing duplication and making widget behavior more consistent; see Newtab widget base component.
Dre converted per-widget expansion handling to a shared widget expansion handler to unify expand/collapse state management and prevent widgets from incorrectly retaining or losing expanded state; see Convert widget expansion handling to shared widget expansion.
Scott Downe moved widget menu items within New Tab widgets to standardize menu ordering and action grouping, so users find Add/Remove/Configure entries in expected positions across platforms.
Dre fixed a World Clock city search bug for the word clocks widget, restoring expected search filtering/matching so city lookups return correct results.
Scott Downe fixed an issue where the New Tab small weather widget size change didn’t always apply by correcting the widget size update path (JS/CSS layout interactions), improving consistent rendering for small-tile weather across responsive breakpoints and platforms; see Newtab small weather widget size change doesn’t always work.
Nina Pypchenko [:nina-py] added a group stage section to match highlights in the sports widget on New Tab so users now see stage-aware grouping and stage labels on match highlight cards, making tournament context (group vs knockout) visible while browsing highlights.
Maxx Crawford added WCW OMC message strings so World Cup widget messaging flows on New Tab now display the correct copy (localized where available) instead of falling back to missing-text behavior.
Maxx Crawford removed the persistent browser logo when all new-tab features (Top Sites, widgets, content feed) are disabled by adding a conditional render guard in the New Tab component, preventing an orphaned logo (2041033).
Irene Ni shipped multiple visual fixes for the Sports widget Sports widget – various visual fixes (spacing, truncation, icon alignment, clipping) to improve readability and layout on constrained viewports.
Firefox Profiler now has a CLI! We also added a profiler-analysis skill to the Firefox codebase. Once you capture a performance profile, you can ask Claude or an AI to analyze it by providing a link or local path. You can use it to analyze a performance regression or debug an issue if you have a profile at hand.
Drew landed several Suggest improvements: realtime suggestions colors, sports suggestions received World Cup tweaks, and online Suggest via OHTTP was enabled for eligible users in Firefox 153.
James fixed soft-block counting to track autofill dismisses, rather than consecutive backspaces on the same autofill, and added telemetry to measure URLs reintegration after blocking.
Moritz continued refactoring the urlbar code: converted some of the js modules to not be system modules, fixed dynamic results templates, incorrect reuse of result rows, and keyboard shortcuts on the unified search button panel.
Marco removed some unnecessary database transactions, fixed the bookmarks panel folder dropdown on Windows, and resolved several intermittent test failures.
Thanks to Sam Johnson who fixed the bookmark edit panel showing “mobile” instead of “Mobile Bookmarks”.
We’ve disabled the CSS filter implicitly applied to WebExtension pageAction SVG icons across all release channels starting in Firefox 152, completing the deprecation
NOTE: The blog post published at WebExtensions API changes in Firefox 149-152 provides to extensions developers more details about this deprecation and links to the related MDN docs.
Fixed long-standing regression on the autocomplete and datalist popups for extension inline options pages on about:addons (introduced in Firefox 68 by Bug 1532724, fix shipping in Firefox 152) – Bug 1595158
WebExtensions Framework
Fixed access to web-accessible resources declared with <all_urls> from sandboxed documents (null-principal URLs), restoring extension redirects from the context-menu search flow, starting in Firefox 152 – Bug 2033905
WebExtension APIs
Added exhaustive test coverage for tabs.move() against additional edge cases related to split-view tabs – Bug 2029092
DevTools
Andreas Farre improved the Session History tab in the Application panel (still behind devtools.application.sessionHistory.enabled)
made sure that calls to History.replaceState are reflected in the UI (#2037359)
Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] fixed the most frequent DevTools crash we were observing in Telemetry, adding a guard against IDBTransaction errors when retrieving breakpoints in the Debugger (#2030260)
Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] reduced the overhead we had because of network requests monitoring by only decoding response content when the user actually want to see the response (#2026228)
Sylvestre ported some linters (e.g. file-whitespace, test-manifest-toml, license, file-perm, rejected-words & more) to Rust to help improve the runtime of the code review bot.
We did our first region-specific trainhop on May 11th (just 15% of the US), and turned on HNT Nova (and sometimes Widgets) for those clients to get some advance-data of its behaviour in the wild! A note that HNT Nova gets turned on for everybody when Firefox 151 ships on May 19th.
We’ll be launching a similar experiment in the DE, probably on May 12th, also at 15% population.
Most of the team is heads down building out a sports-tracking widget, attempting to get that ready in time to be generally available for the upcoming World Cup event.
Dre landed a new world clock widget, which is currently off by default, but pretty snazzy!
The profile backup mechanism has been enabled by default for all desktop platforms in Nightly, as well as Beta! The current plan is to have this ride out to Firefox 151 for Windows, macOS and Linux on May 18th!
This feature, when enabled, will create a copy of your profile data in the background and store it in a single file on your file system that you can restore from.
You will be able to manage this feature in Settings under Sync (for now)
As followups to the recent addition to the WebExtension tabs API to support the new SplitView tabs feature, tabs.group() and tabs.ungroup() have been fixed to work correctly with split view tabs, and fixed split views being prepended instead of appended to tab groups when adopted into a new window – Bug 2029099 / Bug 2029534
Adaptive autofill has been enabled on Nightly.
Previously, autofill only completed domains (e.g. typing red autofilled reddit.com). Now it can also complete full URLs for pages you visit often (e.g. red → reddit.com/r/firefox), learning from what you actually click in the address bar. If a suggestion isn’t helpful, you can now dismiss it so autofill learns what not to show you too.
Markus Stange [:mstange] implemented dynamic toolbar on top in RDM (#1978145), but also implemented some static skeleton UI so it’s closer to what we actually have in Firefox for Android
dynamic toolbar is behind a pref: devtools.responsive.dynamicToolbar.enabled
it can be put on top by setting devtools.responsive.dynamicToolbar.onTop, otherwise it’s at the bottom
In preparation for the Project Nova restyling of the about:addons page, we have refactored about:addons into separate per-component ES modules, splitting the monolithic aboutaddons.js and aboutaddons.html into 16 dedicated component files under components/ (with no behavior or UI changes) – Bug 2032014
NOTE: if you have working on patches with changes to about:addons internals it is very likely you’ll need to rebase and solve merge conflicts hit on top of this refactoring, the internals are still largely the same as before but don’t hesitate to reach out to the Addons team if you have doubts / questions or need help to figure out how to adapt your patch of top of these changes
WebExtensions Framework
Fixed exportFunction to preserve the constructibility of the wrapped function instead of unconditionally making all exported functions implicitly as constructors – Bug 2033173
Thanks to Gregory Pappas for contributing this improvement to the Content Scripts’ Xray Wrappers helpers!
Fixed a Firefox 151 regression where extension content scripts accessing location.ancestorOrigins caused subsequent page script reads of the same property to fail with “Permission denied”, breaking sites like Gmail – Bug 2034329
Thanks to Simon Farre for promptly investigating and fixing this recent regression!
WebExtension APIs
Updated sessions.getRecentlyClosed() to remove the hardcoded cap when maxResults is omitted – Bug 1392125
Shoutout to Amine Zroual for contributing this enhancement to the sessions WebExtensions API!
DevTools
Artem Manushenkov fixed an issue where autosuggestion popup was removing overridden indicators from properties in the Inspector (#1983408)
Andrea Marchesini [:baku] fix DevTools cookie header serialization for long cookies, which could lead to cookies not being visible in Netmonitor (#2031299)
Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] fixed a toolbox crash that was happening we couldn’t find a localization file (e.g. when using a language pack on Nightly) (#2028930)
Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe] improved @container tooltip so it show the value of variables used in style()(#2030239), has enough contrast in dark mode (#2033782) and contains a link to select the container (#2031688)
Thanks to volunteer contributor Anthony Mclamb for his patch that disables the legacy EdgeHTML Edge migrator! Once that finishes rolling out, presuming no surprises, we’ll go ahead and remove the migrator entirely.
New Tab Page
Nova for New Tab has ridden the trains to Beta! It will be enabled by default, globally, when Firefox 151 goes out to release on May 19th
It’s possible that we’ll do a train-hop coupled with an experiment to enable HNT Nova for a few clients a bit earlier.
Maxx Crawford enabled Nova designs for New Tab, rolling out the updated layout, widgets, and customization panel behind HNT Nova flags.
Marco has fixed a couple of issues with the places databases to try and improve stability. This should help with avoiding users losing bookmarks or favicons.
Work continues on the new separate search bar to improve the functionality, e.g. allowing middle click to perform a search in a new tab, avoiding performing a search when adding a search engine.
Work also continues on the new Nova layouts.
Smart Window
uplifted 10 bugs to 150.0.1 dot release addressing initial user feedback from diary study and Connect
The error pages shown when a server sends back an invalid response header or an unsupported content encoding now display accurate, context-specific messages. The invalid response header page also gained a helpful list of next steps. – 2027209
In progress: The error page illustrations are being replaced with new artwork, and the system now supports per-illustration size configuration, giving each image the ability to define its own appropriate dimensions. – 2031837
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