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Discord Patch Notes: December 8, 2025 (opens in new tab)

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Discord’s December 8, 2025 patch focuses on faster uploads, quicker video playback, a redesigned Desktop User Settings experience, and broad reliability improvements. Major infrastructure updates include resumable media uploads, Rust-based retry logic, and CDN changes that substantially reduce video startup latency. The release also contains numerous desktop, mobile, chat, localization, and UI bug fixes.

Uploads, Performance, and Settings

  • Media uploads now support resuming after interruptions, which is especially useful for large files.
  • New Rust-based retry logic reduced upload latency by about 15% overall:
    • iOS: 21% faster
    • Android: 10% faster
  • CDN configuration changes improved video embed startup times:
    • P90 latency fell from 600 ms to 275 ms.
    • P95 latency fell from 1,250 ms to 658 ms.
    • Rare cases involving videos taking up to 40 seconds to start were also addressed.
  • Desktop User Settings received a redesign intended to make options easier to find, with metrics indicating improved usability.

Platform and General Improvements

  • Mobile apps upgraded from React Native 0.78 to 0.81.4.
  • Desktop upgraded to Electron 37.
  • Server Hub search is now more performant, particularly for hubs connected to more than 50 servers.
  • Linux clients no longer display duplicate titlebars.
  • Various desktop rendering issues were fixed, including stray white pixels, incorrect scrollbars, spacing problems, and MacOS traffic-light alignment.
  • Server folders, unread channels, invite searches, profile previews, and image previews received multiple correctness fixes.
  • Emoji Studio now properly re-centers images when using Reset Image.
  • Search in Settings no longer produces empty categories for certain queries.
  • Several localization issues were corrected, including “Edit Profiles” and “Search in DMs.”
  • Users can now dismiss the Upcoming Events banner in voice channels.
  • Event invites, event popouts, custom-location sharing, and event Join buttons were repaired.
  • Android and iOS fixes address server folders, server lists, nameplates, role settings, and profile customization controls.

Chat and Messaging Fixes

  • Multiline typing in the Desktop Message Forward interface no longer causes visual shifting.
  • Spoiler timestamps now render correctly before content is revealed.
  • Mobile fixes improve message-row sizing, reply navigation, forum interactions, and thread rendering.
  • Android code blocks once again use monospace formatting.
  • Sticker Picker and Emoji Picker navigation now behaves correctly on Android.
  • Scrollbars remain interactive when thread previews are present.
  • Inbox navigation to thread-creation messages has been fixed.
  • Forum post search no longer includes excessive blank space.
  • Additional iOS fixes address swiping to reply, navigating to message replies, and displaying the thread spine connecting avatars to threads.

Overall, the update combines meaningful performance improvements with a large collection of visual and interaction fixes. Users who depend on large uploads, embedded video, mobile chat, or Desktop settings should benefit most, though the changes may continue rolling out across platforms.