ZFD Utilities Changelog

1.2.2+mc26.2

This release contains the unreleased feature work added after 1.0.20+mc26.2, plus the latest ping fixes.

Settings and profiles

• Added a permanent Vanilla profile that disables ZFD gameplay, HUD, camera, ping, folder, visual, and diagnostic features while keeping settings entrypoints available.
• Added built-in Default, Gameplay, Recording, and Vanilla profiles with automatic profile persistence and backup recovery.
• Added profile switching, cycling, saving, and deleting through the settings screen, an unbound Cycle Settings Profile keybind, and /zfdutils profile commands.
• Added profile hover descriptions and a focused Save current loadout flow with no custom-profile count limit.
• Added a five-second safety cooldown between named profile saves.
• Added an explicit Enable experimental features switch; experimental Voice settings and processing remain hidden and fail closed until enabled.

Voice Chat (Beta)

• Added optional Simple Voice Chat integration using its public pre-playback and pre-send PCM events.
• Added Smart Echo Fix modes, per-player incoming echo state, outgoing speaker-reference cancellation, and bounded local-only audio histories.
• Added voice processing and diagnostics settings, while keeping Simple Voice Chat optional.
• Fixed echo cancellation resetting during quiet microphone frames or short speech pauses.
• Improved render-reference tracking so outgoing delay and gain estimation remains accurate during two-way voice activity.

Camera and player presentation

• Added Freelook Scroll Zoom for fixed-distance Perspective Freelook setups.
• Fixed Perspective Freelook scroll distance being incorrectly tied to normal Zoom scroll settings.
• Added an optional self nametag for third-person and ZFD freelook views while preserving vanilla/server team and rank formatting.
• Fixed world-ping colour leaking into the rest of player names.

Keep Crouch

• Fixed Keep Crouch rapidly alternating sneak on/off while inventory, chat, pause, and other screens were open with Minecraft's Toggle Sneak option enabled.
• Keep Crouch now restores a released sneak state once and holds it steadily until the screen closes or the feature is disabled.

Ping diagnostics and display

• Added player-name autofill to /zfdping so online Java players can be selected from the suggestion list.
• Added /zfdping <player> to check an online player's reported latency, with case-insensitive name lookup.
• Fixed the local player's ping incorrectly showing 0 ms; ZFD now uses Minecraft's recent client-side network ping sample when the tab-list value has not populated yet.
• Zero or not-yet-available latency now displays as Calculating... instead of 0 across the HUD, player list, nametags, /zfdping, and /pingcounts.
• Crossplay/Bedrock-style player entries are filtered from ZFD's Java player ping displays and summaries, matching the existing /pingcounts filtering behavior.

Additional improvements

• Various bug fixes, reliability improvements, and polish across settings, HUD, diagnostics, camera, and client-side integrations.

1.2.1+mc26.2

Keep Crouch

• Fixed Keep Crouch rapidly alternating sneak on/off while inventory, chat, pause, and other screens were open with Minecraft's Toggle Sneak option enabled.
• Keep Crouch now restores a released sneak state once and holds it steadily until the screen closes or the feature is disabled.

Settings and experimental voice

• Removed Voice (Beta) as a top-level tab.
• Added a Settings tab containing Settings Profiles, menu-button preferences, and an Enable experimental features switch.
• Voice (Beta) now appears as a collapsed Settings section only after experimental features are explicitly enabled and the settings screen is reopened.
• Voice processing and local voice diagnostics now fail closed while experimental features are disabled.

1.2.0+mc26.2

Voice Chat (Beta)

• Added an optional Simple Voice Chat integration using its public pre-playback and pre-send PCM events.
• Added Smart Echo Fix modes, per-player incoming echo state, outgoing speaker-reference cancellation, and bounded local-only audio histories.
• Added Voice Chat settings for incoming/outgoing processing, diagnostics, and future server-supported broadcast helpers.
• Simple Voice Chat remains optional; ZFD does not declare it as a required dependency.
• Fixed the outgoing canceller disarming itself whenever the far side talked while the local microphone was quiet: three such frames (~30 ms) used to wipe the learned echo path, so suppression kept resetting during ordinary listening. Silent microphone frames are now skipped instead of counted as a lost path.
• Fixed speech pauses releasing a locked echo path: short reference gaps no longer collapse the learned alignment, so cancellation is armed immediately when talking resumes instead of bursting echo after every pause (verified by a new streaming pause/resume regression test).
• The render reference now records exactly what the speakers will play (after per-sender returned-self cleanup) so outgoing delay/gain estimation is not biased when both paths are active.

Ping and perspective freelook

• Fixed fresh-install Perspective Freelook scroll distance being incorrectly gated by the separate normal Zoom scroll setting.
• Added Freelook Scroll Zoom, enabled by default, for fixed-distance freelook setups.
• Added /zfdping to show the latency reported by the current Minecraft connection without making an external network request.

1.0.20+mc26.2

This release targets Minecraft 26.2 only.

Settings profile polish

• Settings Profiles now starts collapsed every time, matching the other advanced dropdown sections.
• Removed the long always-visible profile explanation from the settings page.
• Added a hover description for Default, Gameplay, Recording, Vanilla, and every custom profile so each loadout explains what it offers without taking up permanent screen space.
• Replaced the always-visible profile name field with a Save current loadout button.
• The save button first applies the settings currently shown on screen, then opens a focused profile-name dialog.
• Custom profile saves have no profile-count limit and become active immediately after saving.
• Added a five-second safety cooldown between named profile saves, including /zfdutils profile save <name>.
• Added the same named-profile save flow to the vanilla fallback settings screen.

1.0.19+mc26.2

This release targets Minecraft 26.2 only.

Fixes and profiles

• Fixed the self nametag renderer by supplying the same entity attachment position and interpolated yaw that vanilla uses for normal player nametags.
• Added a permanent Vanilla profile that disables ZFD gameplay, HUD, camera, ping, folder, visual override, and diagnostic features while keeping settings entrypoints available.
• Added a Save current settings as profile name field directly below the active profile selector. Type a name, edit settings, and press Done to save and activate that profile.
• Existing upgrades preserve their current configuration as Default. Clean installations use ZFD's product defaults instead of inheriting a developer or another player's settings.
• Clean-install Default keeps the Simple HUD in the top-left, Z zoom, and Left Alt freelook, while self/world nametags and client-side overrides begin disabled.

1.0.18+mc26.2

This release targets Minecraft 26.2 only.

Highlights

• Added an optional self nametag for third-person and ZFD freelook views.
• Self nametags use the player's vanilla/server display component so team colours, prefixes, suffixes, and rank formatting remain intact.
• ZFD's numeric world ping also appears on the self nametag when both ping features are enabled.
• Fixed world-ping colour leaking into the entire player name. Ping and vanilla/server name styling are now separate components.
• Added complete settings profiles with built-in Default, Gameplay, and Recording profiles.
• Added a Settings Profiles selector under Gameplay & Screens.
• Added an unbound Cycle Settings Profile keybind for instant profile switching.
• Added an unbound Toggle Self Nametag keybind.
• Added /zfdutils profile list, cycle, switch <name>, save <name>, and delete <name> commands for custom profiles.
• Added automatic profile persistence with backup recovery in config/zfdutilities-profiles.json.

Recording profile

The initial Recording profile starts from the user's current settings, then hides HUD/ping/performance overlays, disables Entity Hider, enables clear-weather visuals, and keeps the rest available for customization.

Notes

• ZFD Utilities remains fully client-side.
• Mod Menu and Cloth Config are recommended for the full settings panel but are not required.
• Existing zfdutilities.json settings are migrated into the initial Default and Gameplay profiles on first launch.

1.0.17+mc26.2

This release targets Minecraft 26.2 only.

Menu integration fixes

• Added separate settings for showing the ZFD Utilities icon on the main title screen and the in-game pause menu.
• Kept title-screen and pause-menu icon rows centered when either ZFD icon is hidden.
• Made both menu injections fail safely when an unusual or modded screen layout cannot be adapted.
• Added both icon visibility toggles to the Cloth Config panel and the vanilla fallback settings screen.

1.0.16+mc26.2

Initial public release of ZFD's Utilities for Minecraft 26.2.

Highlights

• Customizable Simple HUD with coordinates, FPS, ping, health, and equipment readouts.
• Colored ping display, ping category summaries, and /pingcounts diagnostics.
• Entity Hider with allowlists and optional radius mode.
• Smooth zoom, scroll zoom options, and hold-to-use perspective freelook.
• Client-side visual time and clear weather overrides for cleaner recordings and screenshots.
• Keep-crouch, creative fly speed, and first-person shield height customization.
• Optional singleplayer and multiplayer play-screen folders.
• Frametime graph, frame-spike logging, mouse-stutter diagnostics, and PC-spec logging.
• Assignable keybind slots for major toggle-style utilities.
• Clean first-release defaults intended for player customization.

Notes

• Client-side Fabric mod.
• Fabric API is required.
• Mod Menu and Cloth Config are recommended for the best configuration experience.
• Visual time, clear weather, and entity hiding only affect the local client.