New UltraStar 0.8.1 beta karaoke is ready. Free songs have to be bought for 0 points, but they are still free. New beta is really much more stable when compared to the pre-alpha and alpha thanks to fixed random crashes and hanging connections.

Changes in the 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

The UltraStar 0.8.1 beta is available for DOWNLOAD