OpenRCT2 v0.5.2 “The funniest joke in the world” released!

While most of the team is busy, we offer you "The funniest joke in the world", the latest and greatest OpenRCT2 release v0.5.2. Please exercise caution, as increased exposure can lead to negative effects.

Here's the rather short changelog:

• Improved: [#26322] [Plugin] Add footpath flags to FootpathSurfaceObject in the plugin API.
• Improved: [#26566] Improve the performance of sorting sprites.
• Fix: [#26350] [Plugin] ListViews altered by plugins post their creation are not invalidated.
• Fix: [#26565] Game crashes when switching to another tab in the guest window.
• Fix: [#26583] The default tab is not highlighted when opening a ride window.
• Fix: [#26602] Crash when locating the nearest mechanic for a ride that has not previously been inspected.
• Fix: [#26615] Missing junction path tile in Build your own Six Flags Over Texas.
• Fix: [#26616] Fix gap in buyable land in Build your own Six Flags Magic Mountain.
• Fix: [#26624] Tile elements selected by clicking on them with the tile inspector open do not always redraw correctly.
• Fix: [#26634] Add missing park patch file for Build your own Six Flags Great Adventure.

Breaking Change

Due to GitHub lack of support for Windows7/8 action runners, we no longer support those platforms. As they have been unsupported for years by Microsoft, we recommend you upgrade to play OpenRCT2 for security reasons!

Overview Video

Our trusted partner, Deurklink, has again helped on promoting the new release with a video mentioning this release notable changes:

Title sequence contest

We'd like to take this opportunity to remind you of the ongoing title sequence contest - there's still time to enter the contest with the grand prize of having your very own park featured in the OpenRCT2 title sequence!

Read more about it here:  https://www.dkmp.wtf/post/openrct2-title-sequence-contest-2026

Download

• Download release
  v0.5.2 — Windows — 36 MiB — Signed

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank everyone who contributed with code, testing, translations, bug reports and everything else. We would also like to thank our sponsors:

• Digital Ocean, for hosting the multiplayer master server and our infrastructure
• Backtrace, for handling our automated crash reports
• JetBrains, for providing us with development software
• Github, for handling our development and issue tracker
• SignPath, for providing a free certificate to sign our builds

If you're interested in contributing to OpenRCT2, feel free to join us on Discord.

You can also sponsor OpenRCT2 team members:

• https://github.com/sponsors/IntelOrca
• https://github.com/sponsors/janisozaur
• https://github.com/sponsors/broxzier
• https://github.com/sponsors/Gymnasiast

On behalf of the OpenRCT2 team: happy building!

~janisozaur