Discord Patch Notes: December 8, 2025

Welcome to Patch Notes! In this series, we comb through the newest changes in performance, reliability, responsiveness, usability, and general bug-squishing we’ve done to make Discord better. 

If you discover a bug of your own, check out our Bimonthly Bug Megathread on the community-run r/DiscordApp subreddit. Tell us what’s been bothering you, and our Engineering team will be more than happy to check it out. 

Those who love living on the edge can opt into the TestFlight version of Discord and try out the latest features before they release on iOS. Help us squish some pesky bugs! It’s like your uncle works at Discord. Find it at dis.gd/testflight. 

All fixes listed below have been committed and merged, but may still be rolling out to individual platforms at the time of this post.

Highlights

• We've refactored our media upload client code with improved retry logic and added support for file upload resumption, so large uploads can continue if interrupted. The new retry logic is written in Rust and delivered significant latency improvements—around 15% overall, with mobile platforms seeing the biggest gains (21% faster on iOS, 10% faster on Android). 

• We’ve shipped a redesign of our Desktop User Settings. The goal of the redesign was to improve user’s ability to find what they’re looking for by improving the design language. Our metrics indicate this was successful, but please reach out if you have feedback.

• We invested in some CDN configuration changes that dramatically improved video embed startup times. P90 latency improved 54% from 600ms to 275ms, and p95 latency improved 47% from 1,250ms to 658ms. This also fixed certain aberrant cases where videos could take as long as 40 seconds to play. Enjoy the consistent, speedy loads of video content.

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General

• We updated React Native on our mobile applications from 0.78 to 0.81.4.
• We’ve upgraded our Desktop app to use Electron 37.
• Lacking permission to update your nickname in a server no longer renders the error twice. Lacking permission to update your nickname in a server no longer renders the error twice.
• Searching in a Server Hub on Desktop should be more performant now, especially in hubs that link to many servers (50+).
• Fixed an issue with the invite recommendation phrasing in the Overlay, which could easily have been perceived as an incoming message.
• Resolved an issue that could cause the available Server emoji slots to show a negative number.
• Fixed a bug that caused certain images to vertically stretch in Server Profile setup. 
• Resolved an issue that caused Linux clients to display two titlebars.
• Resolved an issue on Desktop that caused erroneous white pixels in the guild list. These pixels were fugitives from the unread pills, exploiting assumptions in our z translation logic to break free. Please continue to report all pixel fugitives you encounter.
• Fixed spacing issues on Desktop between the Accept and Deny buttons on friend requests.
• Resolved design consistency issues with the search bar within the server invite modal on Desktop.
• Resolved a bug that could cause the profile preview to render the wrong display name style when navigating between server and global profiles. 
• Resolved an issue with the image dimensions when confirming the report of another user. 
• Fixed a bug that could cause server folders to incorrectly render a scroll bar. 
• The Reset Image button in Emoji Studio should now properly re-center the image.
• Fixed an alignment issue with the MacOS traffic lights.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Avatar Decorations to not properly be previewed in “Nitro Preview” settings.
• Fixed a bug with Quick Switcher that caused duplicate entries to appear under Unread Channels.
• Resolved several spacing and design consistency issues in the Join Application creation UX on Desktop.
• Fixed an issue where pop outs on Desktop didn’t always respect client themes.
• Resolved an issue on Android that could cause expanding and collapsing server folders to leave blank space in the server list.
• Fixed a bug that caused the scroll bar on the server list to disappear on iOS.
• Resolved a long standing bug on Desktop that caused searching for users in the Instant Invite UI to occasionally fail to find exact matches.
• Fixed a 1 pixel gap on Desktop between the server header at the top of the channel list and the message component. 👁️🔍
• The “Edit Profiles” button at the top of settings is now localized properly. 
• The “Search in DMs” string in the search input on the DM list is now localized properly.
• Fixed an issue that caused display names and usernames to be improperly swapped in a particular Nitro modal.
• Fixed a bug that could cause searches for specific strings in Settings to render completely empty categories.  
• You can now dismiss the Upcoming Events banner in Voice Channels.
• Fixed a bug that caused a missing background in per-server nameplate previews when no nameplate was applied.
• Fixed a bug on Android and iOS that prevented the “None” option from being selected in per-server Nameplate settings.
• Resolved an issue on iOS where the Permission text would clip into other text when scrolling within the Roles settings.
• Fixed a bug that caused the “Use Default” buttons for Avatar Decorations and Nameplates in profile preview to not function properly.
• Fixed a margin padding issue with the friend referral element in Nitro Home that occurred in narrow app widths.
• Resolved an issue in Student Hubs server search that could result in missing access errors.
• Resolved a bug with the preview message text being misaligned in Display Name Styles configuration flows.
• Resolved alignment issues with the various action buttons on Event popouts.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the invite modal from functioning properly when sharing events with custom locations.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Join button on event invites from functioning properly.

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Chat

• The text input in the Message Forward UX on Desktop no longer visually shifts in the UI when typing multi-line messages.
• Resolved a bug that caused timestamps within un-revealed spoilers to not render properly.
• Fixed an iOS bug that caused an incorrect height to get set for message rows when swiping.
• Fixed a bug that prevented scrollbar interaction when a thread view preview existed.
• Resolved an issue on Android that caused code blocks to no longer be monospace.
• Fixed a bug that caused the header in the Mute this Channel flow on Android to no longer be centered properly.
• Resolved a bug on iOS that caused swiping to reply on a forum’s starter post to not function properly.
• Fixed an Android bug that caused the Sticker Picker to not close properly after sending a sticker.
• Resolved an issue on Android that prevented navigating between servers in the Emoji Picker.
• Fixed an issue on iOS that prevented the UX element that connects user avatars to threads (we call it the thread spine) from rendering.
• Fixed a bug that prevented navigating to a thread creation message from Inbox.
• Resolved a bug that enforced excessive blank space in the Forum post search bar.
• Fixed an issue on iOS that often prevented navigating to message replies properly.
• Fixed an issue on iOS that caused the member list to use the wrong font.
• Fixed a bug that could crop emojis in iOS message notifications. 
• Fixed an Android issue that prevented pasting into a DM after cold starting the application.
• Fixed an iOS issue that could cause threads to disappear in the message list when scrolling the chat history.
• The “Open in Mod View” button should work properly now when invoking from Forum Channel post lists. 
• Fixed a bug on iOS that caused messages to sometimes render on top of the reply preview.
• Fixed a bug on Android where recently sent attachments have the “x” button.

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Activities and Apps

• Fixed an iOS issue that caused unnecessary ellipsizing on the “App is thinking…” message when processing a slash command.
• Fixed an alignment issue with Activity Cards.
• Resolved spacing issues in the Twitch Connections section of User Settings. 
• Resolved an issue that caused certain games to not render their image properly in Activity Cards.
• Resolved several issues with the “Toggle Detection” element in the Registered Games settings on MacOS.

Audio/Video

• You can now zoom in on a Go Live stream, perfect for when you forgot your glasses at home.
• Discord now supports hardware accelerated video encoding for AMD graphics cards on Linux through VAAPI, yielding almost twice the quality using less resources.
• Go Live on Steamdeck is now faster with zero-copy encoding from Gamescope, making it possible to share the action with your friends without burning up your Steamdeck.
• Video streams from macOS and iOS have improved quality as a result of better rate-control tuning.
• Fixed a bug that caused using Return to accept a Voice Channel switch modal to change voice channels but not dismiss the modal. 
• Resolved padding issues on the audio device modal on Desktop.
• Fixed a desktop issue that could cause VC user hover popouts to get stuck enabled.
• Resolved a bug that caused soundboard intro sounds to sometimes not fully play.
• Fixed padding issues in the Voice RTC debug info panel.
• Fixed an alignment issue on Android with voice channel status and channel name in the channel list.
• Fixed an element height consistency issue in the Call UX on desktop between the Disconnect button and the control tray.

Media

• Fixed an issue on iOS that could cause incorrect image placement when rotating to horizontal in the gallery view.
• Fixed a bug in our Developer Portal that caused image uploads to not align properly within the Add Image UX.
• Fixed a bug that caused videos on Android to stop playing when a new reaction was added to them.
• Fixed an Android issue that could cause safe areas to not be respected after utilizing the share function.
• Resolved an issue with certain video link embeds not properly loading player controls for controlling the video. 
• The iOS app no longer renames unknown file extensions to “.unknown”.
• Fixed a bug on Android that caused attachment previews to disappear after using emoji auto complete. 
• Fixed a bug that caused animated GIFs to not animate for the sender on Android.

Accessibility

• Resolved an issue that caused certain menus to no longer receive keyboard focus when navigated to.
• Fixed a bug that caused certain screen readers to not announce statuses properly in DMs
• We’ve made changing your status less painful to accomplish while utilizing a screen reader. The bug report for this was 10+ steps, not including launching the app or configuring anything. Apologies for the inconvenience here! 
• Added roles for screen readers to the “Turn on notifications” and “Close” buttons in the DM notifications call to action.
• We’ve improved screen reader output when inspecting reactions to a message to better indicate who sent them.
• Screen Readers should now announce which server a message is from in a forwarded message, when available.
• Fixed an issue that prevented screen readers from fully announcing the status message when unignoring users.
• The Unignore button now has correct roles configured on iOS and Android.
• Screen Readers should no longer read markdown timestamps in chat twice.

All relative measurements cited were performed internally with our own instrumentation and tooling.

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… oh hey, you read everything! If you’re itching for the latest updates to Discord, you can find our previous Patch Notes articles here, or check out our archive of past Changelogs if you’re more into the fun stuff.