0.5.3 (2026-07-05)

• Feature: [#26308] Add all new track pieces to the inverted roller coaster.
• Feature: [#26442] Add cheat to disable grass growing.
• Improved: [#7921] On Linux, RCT2 and RCT1 installs in Wine are now automatically detected.
• Improved: [#26325] Changing the train type, length, or direction no longer resets the number of laps if there is just one train.
• Improved: [objects#437] Re-order St. Basil’s Cathedral pieces to be more consistent.
• Change: [#26689] A clear scenario editor can now be opened directly from the command line.
• Change: [objects#439] Drop numbers from Wacky Worlds scenery descriptions.
• Fix: [#24613] Incorrect sprites drawn for path elements without a valid object.
• Fix: [#26323] Ride stats do not reset when changing the number of trains changes the number of laps.
• Fix: [#26494] The limits for where walls on the path side of the first tile block the view of rides/scenery are wrong (original bug).
• Fix: [#26504] The boosts/penalties to excitement and nausea that air time provides are calculated wrong.
• Fix: [#26545] Game crashes when plugin API function generateGuest fails to generate a guest.
• Fix: [#26578] Crash when drawing path elements without a valid object.
• Fix: [#26605] Desync when placing a track design in multiplayer.
• Fix: [#26654] Fix Alton Towers stall and Rock’n’Roll Revival toilet being closed on scenario start.
• Fix: [#26722] Missing construction rights owned on UCES Sand Dune scenario.
• Fix: [objects#411] Some colours in green, acid green, pink and red water are inconsistent with natural water.
• Fix: [objects#436] St. Basil’s Cathedral building pieces are incorrectly labelled as “Kremlin” pieces.
• Fix: [objects#438] Some walls are not marked as see-through while they don’t fully block the view.
• Fix: [objects#440] Inconsistencies in scenario/park name capitalisation.

Release created in https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/actions/runs/28747294389

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Docker Images

Docker images have been built and pushed:

Docker Hub:

• alexta69/metube:latest
• alexta69/metube:2026.07.05

GitHub Container Registry:

• ghcr.io/alexta69/metube:latest
• ghcr.io/alexta69/metube:2026.07.05

Changes

• fix: fsync parent dir after direct-write fallback for durability parity (54463ba)
• fix: serialize state before truncating in the direct-write fallback (b00d478)
• fix: force 0600 on fallback state rewrites, not just creation (96e88a3)
• fix: create fallback state file with owner-only 0600 permissions (49a46a7)
• fix: make fsync best-effort so only mkstemp/replace failures fall back (961b54a)
• fix: surface real storage errors from direct-write fsync fallback (e0549d6)
• fix: limit atomic-write fallback to atomic-unsupported errnos (f315b75)
• fix: fall back to direct write when atomic state save hits EPERM on NFS (c2c129d)