I recently stumbled over the term “doomscrolling”, and in case you’re as clueless as I am, it means “obsessively reading social media posts about how utterly fucked we are”. And with the climate crisis, an ongoing pandemic and general politics, I can totally see where that’s coming from - but the first association I had was actually something quite different.

One of the main things a software developer does is finding ways to create order. The natural enemies of this endeavour are entropy and (often enough, if we’re being honest) reality.

Now, we may not be able to do anything about reality breaking our stuff - but entropy is a different story.

If you’re following the progress of Duality, then you are already aware that I have cut back my role in the development of the project for personal reasons, and am now advising a group of core maintainers from the community who continue where I left off.

After almost ten years as the main developer of the project, this was a big leap of faith for me - but in retrospect, I probably should have taken it years ago. Let me explain.

There are two things I’m refering to with the headline here.

After a long public beta in source code form, Duality v3 is now officially released.

• Download the binaries for a fresh install.
• Changelog highlights and full list.
• Upgrade Guide for existing projects.
• In-depth Development Info on all the big changes to v3.

Have fun, and build something nice.