Happy New Year!
Although the year has barely started, we’re glad to say that 2026 is year of the Naev forums revenge!
For those that remember, Naev used to have forums from 2010 to 2016, which were quite popular, however, to the dismay of many, the ser…

It’s time for the Naev yearly release. This is a big one that paves the way for
plugins as first-class citizens of the Naev ecosystem. The development
manual has also been changed to be web-based
instead of a clunky PDF, and has been updated with many …

A bit over-ambitious beta, and hopefully the last, the main highlight is a
rework in Rust of the audio system and re-encoding of all files as higher
quality Opus files. Additionally, the opportunity was taken to add more
diversity and different engine …

This beta mainly addresses issues with Mac OS not finding saves (don’t worry they are still there).
Small improvements to escort behaviour are also included.

It’s not clear whether this is last beta, so, as always, please report any issues on this tra…

A long-standing issue has been fixed regarding bounty hunters attacking the
player for fighting pirates. Other than that, we’ve been able to replace more
placeholder graphics and solve an issue with NPCs not using beam weapons properly.
There are also …

The beta has already given its fruits finding some major issues including game not starting on certain platforms, and the game not saving when exiting via the small menu while landed.
We’ve also taken the opportunity to significantly reduce the entire …

This cycle, the beta arrives with some massive underlying technology changes
and a lot of new gameplay and content. This release marks the first step
into Naev’s next era with Rust-powered internals and the debut of our fully
integrated plugin manager….

Adding support for plugins was one of the foundational Naev goals that was finally realized in 0.10.0!
Since then, there have been some plugins made for Naev, however, due to the difficulties of finding them and such, even with the naev-plugins reposit…