#Luanti 5.12.0 was just recently released. The website is currently in the process of being updated but you'll get it soon enough depending on where you get your Luanti from.

When you first open it you'll probably see that the default gradient on buttons (originating from the Irrlicht "Windows Metallic" skin) is finally gone in favour of a more flat background.

It is a much more neutral default and I hope it will be seen as an improvement for the main menu - of course, games still can and should style their own buttons to their liking.

This change to remove the gradients goes all the way back to something I did while working on my ROllertest fork of Luanti some years back. I had opened a PR to upstream it... but turns out gradient designs is something people have very strong opinions about!

But it was now recently adopted by siliconsniffer and then got accepted and merged just in time for the 5.12 feature freeze: https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/pull/16015 🥳