This version brings multiple performance improvements and new graphical feature:

• CPU and GPU rendering up to 15-30% faster depending on hardware.
• Smoother frametime on higher render distances.
• Chunk building (loading) up to 5x times faster.
• New lighting system which takes into account non-full blocks for ambient occlusion (needs to be enabled on Video Settings -> Smooth Lighting -> On (Sub-block)).

Perfomance

• GPU performance uplift by rendering on swap chain images directly
• Reduced GPU memory consumption and improved performance by using per rendertype buffers
• Reduced GPU memory usage due to AreaBuffer rework
• CPU performance improvement when using direct draw due to removal of section offset push constants
• Reworked section graph and bfs to improve performance and frame time stability
• Improved chunk build time by up to 5 times

Graphics

• New Sub-block AO (needs to be enabled in video settings)

Bugfixes

• Fixed world border not rendering
• Fixed crash when minimizing window while loading a world
• Fixed screenshots color swapping when using swap chain BGR format
• Fixed lighting bug on text rendertype
• Fixed some errors on vertex encoding
• Fixed errors on color encoding
• Fixed window border bug on Wayland-Gnome
• Fixed crash when using breeze_rendertype
• Fixed crash when loading data packs
• Fixed GlTexture crash due to wrong target check
• Mipmap level is now updated on setting change

Other

• Removed deprecated GUI optimzations setting