Changelog

https://docs.luanti.org/about/changelog/#5120--5130

5.12.0 → 5.13.0 #

Released on 1 August 2025.

Deprecations and compatibility notes #

Vectors passed to C++ API functions may no longer have nil components.

This change can reveal logic issues within mods.

Client / Audiovisuals #

9-slice formspec image buttons now display correctly with gui_scaling_filter (Krock)

Fixed an issue where main menu dialogs could overlap upon start (grorp)

Tabs in formspecs can now be changed using Ctrl(+Shift)+Tab (siliconsniffer)

The formspec element model[] now supports floating-point frames (appgurueu)

The minimap now correctly displays drawtype = “air” nodes (Xeno333)

Main menu ContentDB usability improvements (grorp)

Meshgen (i.e. visible mapblocks) code cleanups and improvements (sfan5)

Add keybinding for world close key (keymap_close_world) (DragonWrangler1)

Relaxed path checks in the main menu to allow downloading mods to symlinked directories (sfan5)

World / Server / Environment #

The Luanti version is now printed after the ASCII logo (sfan5)

Fix main menu hang caused by dropped DNS packets (sfan5)

Fix newline conversion in formspecs on Windows (copy & paste) (PtiLuky)

Fix crash caused by empty particle spawner texture (Krock)

Script API / Modding #

Various lua_api.md improvements (grorp, jordan4ibanez, Xeno333, TheEt1234)

Empty Voxel Manipulators can be created using VoxelManip:initialize() (sfan5)

Fixed an issue where sizeless text input formspecs would incorrectly send ExitButton as text (Krock)

core.show_formspec now allows showing a player inventory (Krock)

core.get_node_raw is now a public API (sfan5)

New API function core.get_mapgen_chunksize() (sfan5)

Newly spawned entities now have a persistent GUID, see ObjectRef:get_guid() (sfence)

Misc / Maintenance #

Many various code improvements and cleanups (sfan5, PtiLuky)

Improved unit tests (sfan5, lhofhansl)

Model skeleton animation cleanups, test and documentation (appgurueu)

Header files are now added as CMake sources (useful for Visual Studio (Code)) (PtiLuky)

I moved to virt manager from boxes as I it let me down too many times with bugs. VMs would not restart and snapshots would fail to launch.

This is similar using nix: https://devenv.sh/

It has a few more features like git hooks and spinning up long-running processes like web servers

Maybe Strudel:

https://strudel.cc/workshop/getting-started/

Can help with composingyour own tunes and I think its dev friendly being javascript based.

I like you can set custom exif tags like artist with open camera.

Paolo Nutini’s song ‘Iron Sky’ samples this same speech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky_(song)?wprov=sfla1

I like ‘Removable Drive Menu’: a status menu for accessing and unmounting removable devices.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7/removable-drive-menu/

Thanks, did you move your worlds/settings etc by hand then?

UPDATE: migrating the flatpak by simply updating now works for me. End up with the minetest dir symlinked to the new luanti dir. No idea what fixed it.

Looks like 5.12.0 is only available as a flatpak under a new ID: org.luanti.luanti. The old net.minetest.Minetest has stopped at 5.11.0

https://github.com/flathub/net.minetest.Minetest/issues/103

Flatpak should prompt you to migrate to the new ID when you update, however this didn’t happen for me.

https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/maintenance#end-of-life-rebase

Could be some version of this bug:

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5819

Has anyone else managed to migrate to org.luanti.luanti ok?

Your IRQ ‘permission denied’ log lines could be caused by this: https://github.com/Irqbalance/irqbalance/issues/336

…to which the answer is currently to wait for kernel fix. Whether this is the cause of the suspend issue as well I couldn’t say.

Is this all the logs, from very start of you hitting suspend to when the machine comes back? I ask because I expected to see more things stopping and then restarting…

The logs should indicate the device/app that prevents suspend, run ‘journalctl -r’ after it happens.There are ways to disable devices from preventing suspend but we need to know what’s causing it first.

https://codeberg.org/mineclonia/mineclonia/issues/2456

Marked as outdated however still useful I think

100% use shellcheck! Saves so much time. Even better: https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server

GNOME for one

https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-initial-setup

Not on Firefox, some site functionality is disabled: https://medium.com/@leonardodna/the-ultimate-newbie-guide-for-self-signed-certificates-d81aa3b9987b

I know what you mean but using real self-signed certificates (i.e. no CA at all) with modern browsers causes so many issues I find them unusable.

I’ll mention this as no one has yet but you can be your own CA. Tools like mkcert make it easy

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

This is potentially more hassle (than using public DNS) as you have to get your CA certs onto every device. However it may be suitable depending on the situation.

Take a look at https://fedi.tips/ also

It’s a bit like using directories/folders to organise your work - you don’t have to have separate projects in separate folders but it really helps the more projects you have going on. Also once you have two Python projects that require different versions of the same dependency things will get messy.

Are you using a virtual env to isolate the environment of the game from the rest ofyour system? There are a few ways/tools to do it but maybe start here:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html