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Horizon is numbered from now on: this is Horizon 0.2.0, the release after 2026.10.22.07. Releases used to be named after the day they came out; from now on they count up from 0.2.0, and the launcher's too. The launcher installs it by itself once it has updated itself. A server installed with install.sh that still says it is up to date takes it with horizon-server update --version v0.2.0.
New
- Website: the Blocks look, a blocky Minecraft-like design in Horizon's purple (#1259)
Fixed
- Load saved light faster with uniform-layer and paired-nibble paths (#1231)
- Fix delay between instant survival block breaks in multiplayer (#1245)
- Fix Q drop animation with an empty hand (#1247)
- Fix hand animation for rejected block placements (#1248)
- Fix in-world menu background blur (#1249)
- Fix slash-command argument suggestions after connecting (#1250)
- Fix firework tooltip translations (#1251)
- Skip unchanged End surface traversal for 11–13% faster chunk loading (#1264)
- perf(client): cache weather column direction table (#1234)
- perf(client): retain seeded lightning bolt geometry (#1238)
- perf(client): retain the End sky mesh on the GPU (#1235)
- Reuse End island scans for 10% faster complete generation (#1273)
- Cache rain/snow column parameters and animate atlas UVs in shader (#1237)
- Cache uniform surface biome cells for 10% faster Nether generation (#1268)
- Fix #1222 at the root: boats, minecarts, frames and lightning for a server's players (#1280, fixes #1222)
- Play with Friends on single player's server thread (#1285)
- One menu style, vanilla's: Horizon's settings join vanilla's Options (#1271)
- Telemetry: telemetry.playhorizon.dev by default, a benchmarks summary, the Railway config (#1276)
- Riding animals for a server's players (horses, pigs, striders, camels, llamas, happy ghast) (#1314)
- Mount inventories for a server's players, and llama inventories (#1325)
Thanks to @rdbtCVS.
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