Nightly 2026-11-05 · 66f3981 — release notes

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Nightly 2026-11-05 · 66f3981: main (66f3981), built from nightly/build-2026-11-05-3 (66f3981f522b24c250b21523a70080965b940424).

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New

• Controllers: a settings screen in the graphics style, and one notice per view (#9733)
• Native mods: a cancellable toast_add hook (ToastAddEvent) (#9807, fixes #9710)

Fixed

• Realms: the players tab with invites, operators and removal (#9836)
• Terrain shader: scalar selects so old AMD OpenGL drivers compile it (#9915, fixes #9892)
• Control endpoint: player-release ends a hand-over on the source server (#8709)
• Splitscreen: a pause menu no longer stops its window's ticks (#9722, fixes #9718)
• Villagers waking up stand beside the bed where vanilla puts them, shelves included (#9737, fixes #9502)
• Canonicalize map decoration component type namespaces (#9743, fixes #9727)
• Detach old maps before adopting live frame Item data (#9751, fixes #9721)
• Shader packs: the block atlas blends its two nearest levels (#9765, fixes #9760)
• fix(packs): open physical Windows pack folder paths (#9797, fixes #9524)
• Crafter: the recipe trigger uses the player's box, as vanilla's area does (#9802, fixes #9780)
• Native mods: selectively register reviewed client hooks as APIs 410–411 (#9812, fixes #9806)
• mobs: breeding experience draws from the parent's random inside the m… (#9818, fixes #8038)
• Drop a Loyalty trident whose owner is dead or spectating (#9827, fixes #9786)
• Controllers: X and Y in their places on unmapped Xbox-style Linux pads (#9830, fixes #9813)
• fix: prevent block placement through other players (#9841, fixes #9642)
• Play missing fang, wither, fireball and level-up effects (#9845, fixes #9778)
• Boot screen: paint through a memory bitmap so repainting does not flicker (#9756)
• Shader packs: sunPosition, moonPosition and upPosition are Iris's to the last bit (#9769)
• Shader packs: shadowDistanceRenderMul keeps a cube around the camera, as in Iris (#9772)
• Fix the prepared-data LOD test fixtures (#9821, fixes #8583)

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