Changes in UltraStar 0.8.4 stable since beta version:

• Party mode exit confirmation popup
• Fixed microphone echo
• Fully updated German language
• Lots of minor fixes

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.4 beta:

• Party for for 2-3 microphones and up to 6 players
• Most game settings are translated
• Fixed loading UTF-8 encoded songs
• Fixed slide lyrics effect

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.4 alpha:

• Restored random song function under TAB and Ctrl+R keys
• Added microphone/player count setting after selecting game mode
• Fixed displaying top-left icon on medium and high quality setting when using ATI/AMD graphics card
• Fixed fitting artist and title name on wide screens
• Fixed loading song files with uppercase extension
• Fixed displaying no background in editor found in UltraStar 0.8.4 pre-alpha

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.4 pre-alpha:

• Fully rebuilt game core
• Up to 100% performance boost
• Better quality on medium video quality setting
• Covers up to 2048x2048 can be loaded

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.3 stable since beta version:

• New skin
• Three quality settings: low (default), medium and high
• Pixel shader on medium and high quality setting profile
• Very heavy pixel shader usage on highest quality setting profile
• Improved voice pitch detection technology
• New high resolution fonts
• Shift + up/down keys change sorting in the chessboard mode
• A lot of minor fixes

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.3 beta:

• Improved chessboard mode display
• Page up, page down, home and end keys are working on the chessboard song display mode
• Plus and minus keys zooms in and out chessboard song display mode
• Song can be quit with mouse
• Improved video playback
• Improved colors
• Fixed crashing when retrying network connection

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.3 alpha:

• Roulette and Chessboard song display mode can be selected in the game options
• Music is playing after end of singing
• Movies with over 50 and up to 100 FPS can be played
• Song sorting speed improved by +100%

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.3 pre-alpha:

• Game Mode selection screen
• Experimental chess song display mode available with -chess parameter
• Experimental and very buggy Direct3D mode available with -direct3d parameter
• FPS limiter can be turned off with -nolimit parameter
• A lot of game engine optimizations

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.2 stable since beta version:

• Added game loading bar
• New screen slide transition effect
• Improved game engine resulting in more stable and a little faster work
• Improved star effects display engine resulting in up to +200% FPS boost
• Mouse now works in the Jukebox
• Mouse now works in the 2 screens mode
• Fixed period in password not working
• Fixed selected soundcard not changing in the options when using mouse
• Fixed problems with logging when using mouse and keyboard
• Fixed font and graphics streching in 2 screens mode
• Fixed selecting songs with mouse

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.2 beta:

• New main menu icons
• New sing and time bar
• Some graphics now in Full HD resolution
• Game options can be changed with mouse
• Editor hidden in the main menu, available with the ctrl-E key
• Fixed player changing on the song selection screen

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.2 alpha:

• Animated score bars
• Game can be started without microphone connected
• Fixed random game exits in 0.8.2 pre-alpha when using mouse
• Fixed random crashes when singing if exiting game with close button in window mode

Changes in UltraStar 0.8.2 pre-alpha:

• Basic mouse support
• New graphic effects if the line was perfectly sung

Changes in 0.8.1 since beta version:

• Fixed game crashing if no themes not found
• Fixed game crashing when loading incompatible skin
• Fixed memory leaks when can't load some graphic files
• Fixed automatically setting sound buffer size boundary check
• Fixed boundary check error when creating cache mipmaps
• Fixed not loaded official songs to be improperly put into tabs when sorting by folders
• Fixed downloading online songs if songs directory is on different disk

UltraStar 0.8.1 beta:

• Free song have to be bought for 0 points in order to use them
• Fixed hanging connection bug in the 0.8.1 alpha
• Fixed wrong golden notes display
• Fixed badly encoded skin file which caused random crashes on some machines
• Fixed spaces in the login and password not working
• Fixed memory leak when changing sorting method
• Fixed reading files with unicode characters in the game
• Fixed reading files less than 4 bytes long
• Game tries to find mp3 file in the song path when can't find one from the tag

UltraStar 0.8.1 alpha:

• More detailed online profile screen
• Online and local profile creation option
• Local and online profiles can be linked together
• Runs in screen resolution by default
• Better font rendering
• Fixed microphones not working in the 0.8.1 pre-alpha

UltraStar 0.8.1 pre-alpha:

• Online profile selection screen with only offline mode option
• Vignette effect
• Changed some theme colors for better contrast
• Fixed crashing when opening jukebox song category on some machines
• Fixed displaying song year in jukebox
• Speed optimization when singing, especially for large number of players

Changes in 0.8.0 since beta version:

• Game waits no more than 10 seconds to estabilish network connection
• Proper loading large songs collections
• Fixed scoring lines with mixed normal and freestyle notes
• Faster song sorting
• Less memory usage

UltraStar 0.8.0 beta:

• Jukebox mode
• New glass note graphics with more vivid colors
• New glass score and avatar background graphics when singing
• Up to 3 times faster drawing of the song selection screen
• Song preview doesn't play when moving between songs
• Better note scaling on different aspect screens
• Network download stops when hitting escape
• A lot of minor fixes

UltraStar 0.8.0 alpha:

• New note graphics

UltraStar 0.8.0 pre-alpha:

• Songs can be downloaded in the game
• New popup menu when selecting song
• Fixed reporting proper ID as wrong
• Hard disk icon for downloaded songs

Changes in 0.7.2 since RC version:

• Fixed displaying artist and title when filtering
• Fixed displaying bars in editor

Chanes in 0.7.2 RC:

• Few times video playback speed up when rendering in sofware mode
• Changable movie texture format from config file (RGB, BGR, RGBA and BGRA)
• Movie texture format can be changed by pressing CTRL+F when selecting song
• More contrast notes with larger spacing
• New lyrics and notes icons for future use
• Song selection menu 20% speed up (max 60fps) with 10-12 times faster cover sorting when drawing
• Fixed loading songs with improper #VERSION tag
• Fixed background flashing when no background graphics or video
• Fixed background graphics scaling

Changes in 0.7.2 beta:

• Golden notes turns from white to yellow when properly sung
• #ALBUM, #ID and #LENGTH tags are properly cleared when loading songs
• Numeric enter key works as normal enter key
• Sharper, higher resolution font
• Fixed error with parsing simfiles with only 0x0A at the end of line
• Higher resolution icon

Changes in 0.7.2 alpha:

• New better installer
• New game icon based on the new game logo
• Music in the menu
• Uses encrypted simfiles for official songs
• Star animated menu effects
• Animated golden note effect
• Updated songs from online song database when starting game
• Translate mode
• Fixed freeplay mode crashing after first line

• Game can be paused when singing
• Freeplay mode without scoring
• Protection against improper setting record options
• Buffer setting from the sound options
• Dynamic FPS to decrease and increase computer usage when needed
• Optimized texture management for faster loading and less memory usage
• Theme color change does not require game restart
• Proper sorting of Polish local letters
• More contrast notes in the Blue Sensation theme

Full avi support. Improved graphics with two new skins and over 20 colors for each skin. A lot of reflection effects. Lyrics fade in and out at the beginning and at the end of the song. Improved echo effect. Better resolution handling with switching to the default resolution and widescreen support. Videos are scaled to match the screen size while keeping the proper aspect ratio. A lot more new features.

Supports avi files and avatars. New fonts with new colors, better translations. Better stability with minor bugs fixed. Includes Nine Inch Nails Discipline demo song.

Introduces player profiles and new score saving system. Fixes problems with unsupported video file formats and some minor bugs. Includes updated tags database.