February 23, 2026

Crown 0.61

What's New

This release upgrades the Linux rendering backend of Crown to a full Vulkan solution. That gives us a clean path for future performance work and fixes compatibility issues with tricky but increasingly common setups like XWayland + NVIDIA where the old GL backend wasn't doing well.

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Crown now uses Vulkan for rendering on Linux!

In this update we added 15 new manual pages, covering how to import resources, many Level Editor features, and various other topics to help you get up to speed faster.

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Our favorite figure from the new documentation pages

Crown 0.61 also brings a much-needed HSV color picker, a new flythrough camera mode for zipping around viewports, and lots of small tweaks and fixes across the editor.

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The new HSV color picker

As always, check out the latest changelog to see the full list of improvements and fixes. And don't forget to hop into our discord server and share your thoughts on the new stuff!

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