fluXis news & patch notes

Gameplay

• Playing an uploaded map now sends the replay frames to the server, so that spectating is possible. (You can't spectate anyone as of now, but this will soon be added to the spasmodic branch)
• The active mods display now gets hidden with LayerFades.

Editor

• Input textboxes now support mathematical expressions.
• Added a very basic autosaving system.
• Added a new shader: Glitch2. (amazing name i know)
• Added a toggle to enable snapping the note placement to the next line if close enough.
• Improved editor selection by making hitboxes rectangles instead of points. (You can now select an object as soon as the box overlaps it)

Storyboards

• Storyboards now no longer fully reload when edited, increasing loading speeds.

Scripting

• Various lua fixes.
• Added skin:sprratio to get the aspect ratio of skin elements. (Only works with default skins for now)
• Errors in lua now get properly displayed in the log overlay. (Ctrl-F10)

User Interface

• Shaders can now be displayed in the background of menus. (Toggle in Settings > UI)
• Some links posted in chat (like mapsets, users and clubs) now open in-game when clicked.
• Offline club members are now sorted by their last login date.
• All the icons in the game have been replaced with phosphor icons. (The old icons were "kind of" behind a paywall)
• Closing the browse overlay no longer starts playing the music from the main menu if it was paused before.
• Added loading indicators to all dashboard tabs that needed it.

Main Menu

• New main menu theme by .
• Menu music can now be switched in Settings > UI > Main Menu.

Settings

• The settings overlay got a bit of a revamp, which now allows searching for specific items.

Internal

• Refactored gameplay to support "capabilities" making it easier to mix and match different modes of gameplay together.

Other

• Maps now support multiple mappers for one difficulty. (Separated by comma)
• Updated translations. (ru, kr, de, es, pl)
• Added support for mpris/MediaPlayer2 on Linux.

!! A quick note !!

• This update comes with an almost full rewrite of the backend. Please report any issues you encounter with online-related stuff to the discord server or GitHub repo.

Gameplay

• Added landmines that require the player to not hit them and instead let them pass the judgement line.

Song Select

• The keycount text now turns bright when on a dark background.
• Changed the exit easing of the modmenu.

Editor

• Add a check for overlapping notes.
• Added groups to events and added a new "loop" event to repeat events in that group.
• Resizing long notes now shows the right cursor.
• Holding alt on the setup tab now shows alternative keycounts.

User Interface

• Fixed map overlay's modding tab always showing, even if there aren't any actions.
• Updated the lobby creation panel and added the ability to edit clubs in-game.
• Fixed some stuff with closing panels eating up clicks even when they are almost gone.
• Task notifications can now show an "unknown" progress.

Other

• Importing a split-dual map now properly sets the keycount.
• Removed sentry error-reporting because it was never actually running server-side. (It takes up 20GB or ram... I LOVEEE PYTHON)
• Implemented a Visualization System. (I'm gonna be real I do not really know what this does, check https://github.com/InventiveRhythm/fluXis/pull/257 to figure it out)

Gameplay

• Completely refactored how shaders work internally, potentially increasing performance.
• Fixed score not being counted up from 0 anymore.

Editor

• Fixed HitObjects unloading too early when zoomed out really far.

Storyboard

• Updated animations to use relative time instead of being absolute, fixing stuff like animations not moving with the elements and more.
• Add OutlineBox to scripting definitions.
• Added a 'missing' texture when the provided one can't be found.

User Interface

• Settings keybinds can now be focused with a controller.
• Added 'Fullscreen Resolution' to graphics settings.
• Changed the dashboard icon to a globe.
• Clicking on a score in the user overlay now opens the corresponding map.
• Friends can now be messaged from their profile.
• Multiplayer Results leaderboard entires can now be clicked to switch between the scores.
• When failing to fetch the server info, there is now an option to retry instead of having to restart the game.
• Dashboard now has a 'Mapping' tab showing the upload limits and currently queued maps.

Other

• Updated Translations.
• Fixed sub-directories not being properly imported on linux.
• .m4a and .aac are now allowed audio file extensions.

This changelog is a mix of the January 1st 2026 and Febuary 18th 2026 update.

Editor

• Seeking using the bottom bar is now debounced to lag the game less.
• Maps can now force a 16:9 ratio to keep some effects the same across different screens.
• Timeline now shows timing points and notes/bookmarks better.
• Fixed dropdowns moving content around when they first get added.
• Fixed the editor crashing because of timing lines not sorting properly.
• Clicking on certain tags (e.g. SV) now switches to the right tab.
• Fixed long note resizing spamming a lot of sounds when the distance is tiny.
• The editor now uses the system cursor so that certain actions like inputting text or moving elements now shows the appropriate cursor.
• LayerFade now allows setting Player and Subfield index on more layers.
• Fixed verify tab not properly when checking storyboard file usage.
• Selecting HitObjects off-screen should hopefully work way better and no longer skip over some.

Storyboarding

• The storyboard editor is now available to everyone and should be functional.
• Storyboards can now create skin sprites like HitObjects that automatically match the players selected skin.
• Storyboard layers no longer get cut off on different aspect ratios.
• Added OutlineBox as a new element type.
• Added support for different blend modes.

Scripting

• Scripts can now access skin properties like column width, hit position and more.
• DefineParameter now accepts a fallback parameter.
• Scripts can now fetch the map's HitObjects, TimingPoints, ScrollVelocities and all events.
• Parameters can now have boolean as a type.

Song Select

• Added samples to sort/group filter controls.
• Fixed animation issues when map info is changing the background.
• The options in the footer now have hotkeys to quickly select them.
• Added items from context menus to footer options. (View Online, Export)
• Filtering now also applies to difficulties inside mapsets.

Gameplay

• Fixed progressbar seeking and attempt to make seeking a lot faster in longer maps.

Dashboard

• Chat has been moved from it's own overlay to the dashboard.
• Chat now has direct messages to other users. (You can only DM mutuals right now, right-click on someone in the "Friends" tab to start a new channel)
• Clubs also have their own chat channels now.
• Offline friend list is now sorted by last login.

User Interface

• Club statistics now actually show proper numbers instead of placeholders.
• Added "About Me" and "Socials" to user profiles.
• Music Player now first exits full screen before closing.
• The skin selector now has a button to open the steam workshop.

Other

• Numpad binding names have been shortened to just "Num".
• Updated translations.
• Quaver import now supports all keycounts.
• Fixed discord RPC text still being too long sometimes.
• Fix edge-cases with osu! importing.
• Autoplay hopefully handles tick notes inside long notes way better.
• The server now allows uploading maps with a keycount of 1 to 10. (But you can't submit them to the queue.)

Gamepad Support

This does sound weird to implement, but I want the game to be fully playable on a steam deck.

• Focusing a textbox while in steam big picture now opens the on-screen-keyboard.
• Added default bindings for a lot of actions. (Can't be changed right now)
• Input tab now only shows gamepad-related things when connected.
• Added a focusing system for settings so that they are navigable. (Also works with keyboard arrow keys)

Editor

• Added hot reloading for scripts.
• The point list filters now show the proper color.
• Tags on the right side now stack properly.
• Added a tooltip when hovering the time info (bottom left).
• Added a hint text to the design tab sidebar when it is collapsed.
• Changed the hitbox of the PlaybackSpeed/Zoom controls from the icons to the entire square.
• Notes without a hitsound now display the :normal text by default.
• Storyboard timeline can now be scrolled vertically by holding Shift.
• Script fields now have a button to edit them externally (Or create them if the file does not exist).

Music Player

• Completely revamped the design and added the ability to fullscreen it.

Song Select

• Moving the practice range handles now pitches the sound accordingly.
• Header images now get loaded asynchronously and no longer cause a lagspike.

Gameplay

• Result hitgraph now has labels.
• Fixed Fisheye not being fully disabled even if the strength is 0.

Storyboards

• Improved how Z-ordering works and fixed layering issues with osu! storyboards.
• Storyboards can now access user settings like scroll speed and upscroll.

User Interface

• Hovering over the avatar and banner in account settings now has an indicator for editing.
• Fixed the screen transition from Loading to Intro not fading properly.
• Added more variation to the Intro/Exit bar movement.
• Hovering a settings item now shows a small indicator on the right side of it.
• Scrollbars now get hidden after not moving for a bit.

Other

• Added the option to change the middle-mouse scrolling mode to relative.
• Sped up initial map loading by a bit by not looping over them twice.
• "Maintenance" and "Debug" settings tabs are now merged into the "Advanced" tab.
• Fixed a possible exception when unbinding map list items.
• Improved performance a bit by not rendering the map background behind videos.

Gameplay

• New Events: Color Change , Camera Move, Camera Scale, Camera Rotate.
• Scroll Speed can no longer be changed while in gameplay. (for future scripting related reasons)

Song Select

• Added a stagger for left side entrance animation.
• Improved the practice range selection by adding sliders and an indicator for the current position.
• Multiple keymodes can now be selected at once when filtering.
• The last leaderboard entry no longer gets covered by the footer.
• JudgementDisplay is now always visible regardless of HUD opacity.
• Lane Covers can now be moved to 150% up from 100%.
• Added support for skinable Combo Bursts.
• Fixed the indicator for replays being gone for over 5 months.

Editor

• Zoom now affects the design tab too.
• Right sidebars can now be compacted to fit more stuff.
• Selections can now be moved using the arrow keys.
• Number inputs can now be dragged (on their name) to change their value.
• Right-clicking on the time info now pastes the current time from the clipboard.

Skinning

• Added "non-tint" layers for tintable textures.
• Long Note heads are now skinnable separately. (HitObject/LongNoteStart)

User Interface

• User tooltips now show more activities than "online" and "offline".
• File select now shows result counts and "streams" entries if there are too many items.
• Updated the main menu enter animation.

Other

• Removed the version number from the window title and make it display the current song when playing.
• Skipping login now properly puts the game in offline mode.

Song Select

• Added collections.

Collections are still work in progress, but the "Favorite" collection is working. You can favorite maps by right-clicking them, clicking "View Online" and then pressing the heart button.

• Added more highlighting to the current difficulty.
• Fix backgrounds not being blurred when they were loaded from the main menu.

Storyboarding

• Added missing parameter entries for Circle and OutlineCircle.

Other

• Refreshing skins now pulls new workshop skins.
• Auto-Imported maps now load their custom hitsounds properly.
• Dashboard Account settings now has a logout button.

Gameplay

• Fixed receptor offset not being applied with lane switches.
• Download notifications now get hidden when entering gameplay.
• Added a HUD element that displays the current kps. (Keys per second)
• Entering the gameplay loading screen now shows the standard static background.

Song Select

• Right-clicking the rate slider now resets it back to 1.
• Clicking the empty space between mods no longer closes the menu.
• Fixed context menu being below buttons in song select.
• Fixed playback rate not being reset when exiting a replay.
• Added a inverse sorting toggle.
• Entering song select now automatically scrolls to the currently selected map.

Editor

• Optimized seeking the editor timeline.
• Scroll Multipliers now get shown next to the charting playfield.
• Multiple entries in the point list can now be selected with Shift-Click.
• Editor now supports upscroll.
• Editor textboxes now have better highlighting when selected.
• Add a loading indicator when the storyboard tab is rebuilding.
• Storyboard tab now shows a message when the script couldn't be loaded.
• Assets used by scripts no longer get flagged as "never used".

Storyboards

• Fixed lua scripts not encoding certain characters properly.
• Added a bunch of functions to lua mathf.
• Lua definitions now get generated from the game's code directly.
• Added Circle and CircleOutline element types.

Map Browser

• Map Browser search bar is now always anchored to the top of the overlay and gets hidden when scrolling down.
• Map Browser now has a "scroll to top" button.
• Added buttons to filter search results.

User Interface

• Added supporter badges to profiles.
• Clicking on the toolbar clock not switches between 24h and 12h clocks.
• Updated dashboard account settings to use the same textboxes as the editor.
• Main Menu now takes less time go back to the initial state. (60 -> 20 seconds.)
• Background dim now gets set to 0% when main menu buttons are hidden.
• Update some settings to have visual icons instead of a bunch of text.

Other

• Fixed the layout editor not working at all anymore.
• Fixed BeatSync not properly handling other time signatures than 4/4.
• Authentication and logging in now happens during startup and the game will now try reconnecting to the server indefinitely.

Storyboarding

• Scripts now have access to the maps metadata.

User Interface

• Reworked how background videos/storyboards work.
• Background videos can now play in the main menu and multiplayer lobbies. (REQUIRES supporter)

Other

• Fixed the file selector on linux.
• Server config (Assets url, website url, etc) now gets pulled on startup.
• Implement an "offline" mode when config fetch fails.
• Entering offset setup or disconnecting in a multi match slows the music down instead of suddenly stopping.
• Storyboard elements now get sorted when saving.

Editor

• Fixed timing point decimals getting automatically reformatted when typing.

Song Select

• Updating a mapset now hides it until the update is finished.

Multiplayer

• Exiting song select in a lobby no longer forces the song to restart when it didn't change.

User Interface

• Fixed a crash related to the toolbar profile picture.

Internal

• Updated the theme colors for all framework related stuff.
• Made animated images use shared texture atlases and increased the maximum atlas size to 2048x2048.
• Added tests for ModsOverlay.

Gameplay

• Keybinds now show for longer. (Even longer at the start of the chart)
• Fixed mirror mod not mirroring lane switches anymore.

Editor

• Fixed flashes not triggering a rebuild, even though they need it.
• Fixed a freeze in the editor when it tries to snap a 17-digit number.
• Fixed long notes disappearing visually when seeking.
• Moved all keybinding stuff to a separate system in the editor. (All keybinds have been reset as a result)
• Added keybindings for: Cloning a selection, Adding a timing point, Adding a note/bookmark.
• Implemented note painting by holding shift.

Other

• Added support for animated avatars and banners.
• Importing and downloading now use the same temp folder.

Internal

• MapEvents.Sort now uses reflection.

> forgot to push some stuff before release

• Fixed submit overlay keeping the screen blurred.
• Show fallback rating if the actual rating is 0.
• Fix paragraph spacing with textflows.
• Increase the tag length limit from 256 to 2048.
• Fix map list scrolling breaking at the bottom.

Gameplay

• New shaders: `Split Screen`, `Fish Eye` and `Reflections`.
• Fixed off-screen playfields not updating their notes.

Song Select

• Updated the bottom right side.
  • Redesigned the score tooltips.
  • Added per-map settings for offset and more.
  • Rating now gets updated when refreshing the leaderboard.
• Small optimization by hiding difficulty entries when they are hidden behind the header.

Editor

• Optimized blueprints and hitobjects.
  • Makes selecting the map a lot faster.
  • The selection outline is a little broken though.

Other

• Fixed osu! importing on linux.
• Online maps now show their Accuracy and Health values.
• Updated the text sizes and spacing for settings items.

Internal

• Moved Steamworks dependency to the desktop project.

We did it. 2 years of beta testing and we've got this far. Unrelated, the changelog!

Editor

• Pressing the "back" bind while having something selected now deselects first.
• Toolbox titles no longer make stuff move around.
• The editor now checks for issues on all difficulties when uploading.
• "Submit to Queue" button.
• Assets can now be set by drag-dropping into the textboxes.

Multiplayer

• Added name and password settings when creating a room.
• Added a countdown when everyone is ready.

Dashboard

• Added the notifications tab and support for club invites.

Other

• Languages now show a completion percentage and languages with no progress are hidden.
• All rating values now actually use rating instead of nps.
• Updated how scores get uploaded to the server.

# Gameplay - Added sounds for Full Combo, All Flawless and reaching 0 HP with "No Fail". - Fixed pause menu background being visible when zooming out with beat pulse. # Song Select - Redesigned the Mod Selector. # Editor - Fixed long notes sometimes not showing up in the timeline. - Charting and Design now show the custom map colors. # Multiplayer - Added sounds for joining, leaving, transferring host and un-/readying up. # User Interface - Reworked Click, Back, Overlays, Toggle, Notification and Fail sounds. - Scrolling on the volume overlay circles now works without holding alt. - Removed cyrillic characters from the "MOBO" font because they have a weird spacing. # Other - Added default circle skin. - "Open Skin Folder" is now available when having default skins selected. - Added a flow for forced username changes.