BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily: Paintbox Release Locks In Creator Suite
Version 2026.9.12 packages the creator suite and two immediate follow-up fixes. The work improves Form Editor usability and resolves a chat-filter timeout bug that broke a full-tier run on main.
Duration: PT2M8S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: BlocksBeyondTheStars Daily
- Published: 2026-09-21T04:01:32Z
- Audio duration: PT2M8S
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Good morning, it's Monday, September 21st, 2026.
The 2026.9.12 paintbox release is finalized, wrapping the creator suite plus two post-merge fixes for usability and reliability.
First, the release itself, covered in PR 1972. It packages work from the creator-suite merge, including the Texture Editor, Form Editor, My Tools, world textures, multi-block forms, tool models as data, and the texture submission flow, alongside the two follow-ups from PR 1971. For developers, that means the…
Second, creator usability. Playtest feedback flagged the Form Editor preview: stepping through 31 materials with back-and-forward arrows took up to 15 clicks with no image or search. PR 1971 replaces the stepper with a searchable scrolling list in the lower left column, with tile images, category headers, and…
Third, a reliability fix with security implications. The chat filter's personal-data pattern uses a regular expression that can time out, but because match results are evaluated lazily, enumeration happened outside the error handler, so the timeout was never caught. That escaped failure broke one full-tier run on…
Also noted in commit F A 1 B 13 B: the bedless settlement test now tries its known…
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