Welcome to the Blockbench 4.2 beta!

This is an early version of the upcoming 4.2 update, which focuses on UI panels, but also adds a lot of other features.

You can find the latest version of the beta here: https://github.com/JannisX11/blockbench/releases

To test this beta, download the required installation files from below, or enable the setting "Update to Pre-releases" inside Blockbench. Enabling this setting will tell Blockbench to always update to the latest pre-release, allowing you to test the latest features.
Please note that pre-release versions may be unstable and have more issues than release versions.

To test the web app, visit https://blockbench-dev.netlify.app/

Please report issues you find in the beta, make sure to specify the correct version.

Interface Changes

• Panels can now be snapped to the top and bottom of the interface
• Panels can now float above the interface
• Added Quick Setup menu to allow first time users to select a language, keymap, and theme
• Redesigned About window
• Added searchable context menu lists
• Added Action Control to tool menu
• Added view mode and shading options to viewport controls
• Restructured timeline toolbar
• Added sub menu entries that can both be clicked, and have their own sub menu each

QOL

• Added Move Texture with UV option (#715)
• Added option to add elements to template (#1183)
• Added Mesh editing tools to the main toolbar for easier access
• Keyframe inputs now work as sliders
• Added UV checker view mode
• Add Move to group menu (#1244)
• Added option to save and load timeline setups
• Added frames option in texture resize dialog
• Improved UV support for mesh faces
• Added support to keep textures on mesh faces in template generator
• #1252 Resolve Group action now supports adding a keybinding
• Plugin tags can now be clicked to filter for them
• Animated texture slider now loops texture animation
• Jump frame buttons now work for animated textures

Improved UI for touch devices

• Added support for landscape mode
• Added panel split-screen mode
• Added undo and redo buttons
• Various improvements for touch input

Texture editing

• Added new texture editing menu
• Added Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Hue adjustment tools
• Added invert colors and curve adjustment tools

Misc

• Added export option for tint maps
• New macOS icon
• New Minecraft skin models: Frog and Tadpole
• Added option to unload individual animations
• Improved loading for Minecraft bedrock attachables
• Added support for upper case or title case Right and Left when flipping bones
• Added custom sliders and toggles for animation variable placeholders
• Variable placeholders can now preview texture changes via preview.texture. Setting this variable will select a texture. Textures are taken from the Blockbench textures list and are not necessarily the same ones as in Minecraft.
• Change selection center calculation to bounding box based instead of weight based. This should improve the functionality of the centering tool in some cases.
• Added OBJ face export mode option, to force either tri or quad export (#1257)

Technical Changes

• Added globals to Blockbench object for easier auto-complete
• Updated to Electron 17
• Updated to Font Awesome 6
• 3D viewport elements are now customizable via CSS color variables
• Added support for material icons for outliner nodes
• Added support for icons in dialog sidebars
• Changed the description for MC 1.17 modded entity models to include 1.18
• Added Canvas.gizmos array to store all 3D objects that should be hidden in screenshots

Fixes

• Fixed issue where keyframes would sometimes revert after dragging
• Fixed an issue with the glTF exporter when exporting cubes without any faces
• Fix issue with animated texture timeline only affecting selected texture
• Fixed #1273 Mesh UVs mirrored
• oninstall event not fired when side-loading plugins in web app
• Fix #979 issues with edit time codes in edit sessions
• Fixed #1311 Tabs can accidentally be closed while navigating UV
• Issue with toolbar spacers at the start or end of toolbars
• Fix issue with text copy and pasting on mobile devices