What's new in Battle.net 2.14.0.13597
Jul 15, 2022
- Improvements to All Games Filtering:
- Select the "My Games" filter to get a view of your games.
- Our Mac users can now use the "MacOS" filter to see games that are available on Mac devices
- Want to try something new? Find a new game for free by selecting the "Start for Free" filter
- Check Out Our Mobile Games!:
- Use the "Mobile" filter in the All Games space to see which games are available on a mobile device
- Game tabs now have a "Play on Mobile" button to get you into the game as quickly as possible!
- Get Into Early Access Content:
- If you have access to an early release version of a game, there will be a link on the game tab that says "New Beta Available." Click on the link to change your game version & click play to launch the game!
- Bug Fixes and Visual Improvements:
- Collapsed friends list now also shows what games your friends are playing
- Improved accessibility across our app to improve the screen reader experience
- Simplified the Blizzard & Activision Banners and added titles to the filtered views in All Games
New in Battle.net 2.5.0.13099 (Sep 10, 2021)
- Installed game filter:
- Use the filter in All Games to see which games you have installed
- Navigate directly to your installed games
- Easier Favoriting:
- Add favorites directly from the favorites bar by clicking the plus icon
- Remove favorites by right-clicking
- Drag and drop to reorder favorites
- Bug fixes and improvements:
- Improved the look of Shop in the app
- Fixed visual bugs in News
New in Battle.net 2.3.0.13016 (Jul 16, 2021)
- Unlock your Friends list:
- Our detachable Friends list is here! You can undock your friends list from the main app window and move it where it is convenient for you to keep an eye on your friends
- Favorites at your fingertips:
- It's now easier to customize your favorites
- Add a game to your favorites directly from its game page
- Newly installed games are automatically added to your favorites bar
- Re-order your favorite games using drag and drop
- Remove an existing favorite by right-clicking or visiting All Games
New in Battle.net 2.2.0.12942 (Jun 9, 2021)
- Global friends list:
- Battle.net is a place for players to engage with their games and connect with each other. Now, we're taking those connections global!
- Starting June 8, 2021, your friends in Europe, America and Asia sill be merged into a global friends list
- You can chat, create groups, and see what your friends are playing - all in one place
New in Battle.net 1.32.0.12712 (Mar 9, 2021)
- Those of you who’ve been participating in the beta are already familiar with these updates. For everyone else, you’ll see some major changes when your client’s patched from the live version of Battle.net to the new version:
- Improved navigation and layout—you can now favorite your games and arrange them for ease of access
- A much more expansive layout for news and game content in full-page view
- A revamped social pane so you can better see your friends and what they’re up to on each game tab
- Major accessibility improvements—we’ve added the ability to navigate most of the app with your keyboard, increased our screen reader support, and improved the color contrast
- A new, consolidated notifications hub for messages and download status
New in Battle.net 1.25.0 Build 12315 (Sep 2, 2020)
- We've made changes to how the Battle.net App supports voice chat.
New in Battle.net 1.23.2 Build 12210 (Jul 31, 2020)
- Bug Fixes and Improvements:
- Fixed an issue where group invite notification toasts were missing an accept button
- Fixed visual display issues with game update toasts
- Added a link to the Call of Duty League in the App navigation
New in Battle.net 1.22.0 Build 12008 (Jul 1, 2020)
- Updates to Region Selection:
- We've made changes to the way you select your region when launching games.
- Region selection for all games can now be done by selecting the globe next to the version dropdown.
New in Battle.net 1.20.1 Build 11900 Beta (Mar 7, 2020)
- Added Feature: Download Manager:
- Keep up with your downloads and get into game faster with the download manager:
- Manage and view all your available updates in one centralized location
- Start and pause updates without switching between games
- Add available updates to your queue and choose which games will be ready first
- Bug Fixes and Improvements:
- Fixed an issue where some chat notifications weren’t displaying
- Made visual updates to the buttons in the automatic updates settings
- Resolved an issue with the progress bar occasionally displaying zero progress
New in Battle.net 1.18.0 Build 11699 (Jan 30, 2020)
- Bug Fixes:
- Screensavers are no longer blocked by having the app in focus
- Last selected region (Americas/Europe/Asia) persists between PTR and different game versions
- Battle.net and its settings are restored when restarting, returning from gameplay, or reopening from minimized
- The Chats and Groups window will stop animating when out of focus
- Forum links no longer 404
New in Battle.net 1.17.0 Build 11660 (Jan 30, 2020)
- What's New:
- We’ve updated the app’s layout, so you can see the most recent news and stories about the game you’re playing in the “Latest Stories” feed (alongside relevant material from other games)
- There's also a customizable games navigation, so the games you care the most about are just a click away
- Your friends list is always available, making it easier to stay in touch and view everything you have going on. The “Chats and Groups” button opens a movable window for your conversations
New in Battle.net 1.15.4 Build 11512 (Jan 30, 2020)
- Blizzard Streaming:
- We are always focused on delivering the best experience possible for our players. With this in mind, we have made the decision to remove Blizzard Streaming from the Battle.net desktop app due to technical and game performance issues.
New in Battle.net 1.15.1 Build 11346 (Aug 8, 2019)
- Login by Phone:
- Players with Blizzard SMS Protect is enabled can now log in to the App with their phone number!
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved an issue where players on the Beta version of the Battle.net App would unneccesarily see a dialog prompting them to return to the standard version.
- Fixed an issue where status messages on the friends list displayed a differing message on the hover tool-tip.
New in Battle.net 1.15.0 Build 11266 (Jun 28, 2019)
- Login by Phone:
- Players with Blizzard SMS Protect is enabled can now log in to the App with their phone number!
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved an issue where players on the Beta version of the Battle.net App would unneccesarily see a dialog prompting them to return to the standard version.
- Fixed an issue where status messages on the friends list displayed a differing message on the hover tool-tip.
New in Battle.net 1.14.4 Build 11234 (Jun 19, 2019)
- We've updated the Region/Account selection for World of Warcraft to make it easier to navigate to the version of the game you want to play. You'll now select the version of the game (World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft Classic, Public Test Realm, etc) in the Version dropdown. If you have multiple game accounts for your selected version, you'll be able select your account in the second Account
- Dropdown.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved an issue where the World of Warcraft Classic Beta shortcut would not focus the correct game version in the App.
New in Battle.net 1.14.0 Build 11123 (Apr 30, 2019)
- We've made changes to the way we serve game updates to save you bandwidth and always keep your recently played games up-to-date.
- Bug Fixes:
- Resolved an issue where activating push-to-talk or mute/unmute did not play a sound.
- Removing a user from a group while they are in voice no longer puts the group in a bad state.
- Fixed an issue where users could not send messages in the Social tab.
- Inviting a banned user to a group now displays the correct error message.
New in Battle.net 1.12.8 Build 10950 (Apr 2, 2019)
- Overwatch League:
- Overwatch League is back. Get excited far Season 2 which officially starts on February 14th. Watch live games and VODs, stay up-to-date with the latest league news, and cheer on your favorite teams - all from the Overwatch League Tab!
- Patching improvements:
- We've made it easier to prioritize a game update. Simply press the ''Update'' button on a queued game update to start it immediately.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where transitioning between Shop and News tabs would fail to load content.
- Resolved an issue with member list ordering in Blizzard Groups.
- Fixed an issue where same visual icons in the Social tab would wrap to the next line.
New in Battle.net 1.12.7 Build 10904 (Jan 24, 2019)
- We're rolling out an update that will allow players to reduce the amount of data needed to install World of Warcraft PTR when World of Warcraft is already installed!
- This will significantly reduce the download size and disk space requirements for installing and updating the two versions.
- Players who have the WoW PTR currently installed can uninstall and reinstall the PTR to take advantage of the space savings.
- Please leave any comments via the feedback portal in the Blizzard menu!
New in Battle.net 1.12.6.10853 (Dec 18, 2018)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a compatibility issue with older processors
New in Battle.net 1.12.6.10789 Beta (Nov 27, 2018)
- With this patch. we've added some new features to improve your experience in App. However, we'vee also added some foundational changes to our App, many issues are discovered, please submit them via the feedback bar at the bottom one App!
- Avatar Filtering:
- As we strive to make it easy to express yourself on Battlenet with Profiles and Avatars. we wanted to make it even easier to find the avatar that pest expresses you! we've added avatar filtering by game to let you navigate to mat perfect avatar. Click on your avatar in the top right of the App to check it out!
New in Battle.net 1.12.5.10649 (Oct 25, 2018)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused the Beta client to crash on boot for users with High Contrast Mode (Windows) enabled
New in Battle.net 1.12.0.10155 (Jun 14, 2018)
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Terms and Use Agreement to fail to load
- Fixed an issue that caused the login window to hang while using a push button authenticator
New in Battle.net 1.12.0.10060 Beta (May 15, 2018)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that caused high DPI screens to scale incorrectly on Macs
- Copying and pasting text on a Mac will no longer duplicate the text
- The emoji keyboard in pop-out chats now closes when pressing escape
New in Battle.net 1.11.2 (Apr 5, 2018)
- Feature Updates:
- Emoji autocomplete will only appear after a colon and two characters, ":0" will not trigger the
- autocomplete.
- Tip: The emoji autocomplete can be closed at any time by pressing ’ESC'.
- Bug Fixes:
- The Overwatch League tab will no longer be ’Live Now’ while streaming reruns.
- Fixed an issue causing the date bar to not show in chats.
- Profiles set to private now have the correct padding.
New in Battle.net 1.11.1 (Apr 1, 2018)
- Feature Updates:
- Improvements to Chat:
- A new Emoji keyboard has been added that can be accessed by selecting the Emoji icon in the chat input box. You can browse by category, search by keyword, and quickly access most recently used emojis.
- Emojis are also accessible by their short-code equivalent. You can now begin typing an emoji short-code and see auto-complete options available in-line.
- Pro Tip: You can see the short-code equivalent for each emoji in the search bar by hovering over the emoji in the keyboard.
- Improvements to Player Profiles:
- Mutual friends are shown when viewing other players' profiles
- Profiles now display rich presence for Blizzard players
- Improvements to Blizzard Groups:
- You can now reorder your groups in the social tab by clicking and dragging
- Group leaders can now reorder channels within their group by clicking and dragging
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that affected setting hotkeys for muting voice and streaming controls
- Fixed a bug causing group member lists to auto-collapse when resizng the App window
- Fixed a bug with not remembering the last channel a user was in when switching groups
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause Groups to load with wrong channel selected
New in Battle.net 1.10.0.9766 (Feb 17, 2018)
- Feature Updates:
- Minimizing the App to the System Tray (by closing the main App window, and keeping Battle.net in the background) will unload the Overwatch League tab content and unload it from memory.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where clicking with the middle mouse button could load content in the wrong place.
- Fixed a crash that could happen when App played a sound when volume was not set to 100%.
New in Battle.net 1.10.0.9737 (Feb 17, 2018)
- FEATURE UPDATES:
- Games can now be launched from the Windows System Tray and Task Bar directly on PCs, and from the Dock on Apple systems.
- Made updates to video playback and decoding components.
- We updated components for the Battle.net App:
- Upgraded Chromium to v62
- Upgraded Qt to v5.9.3
- We made some updates to Blizzard Groups and Chats:
- Added a badge to indicate a message in a group was edited
- Updated experience for new/empty groups, making it easier for admins to manage them
- Updated experience for new/empty chats
- Made back-end improvements and enhancements to the chat system
- BUG FIXES:
- Fixed minor bugs and issues