fabulously-optimized

• Updated Architectury API, Cloth Config API, Entity Culling
• Updated Fabric Loader to 1.13.1
• Updated FO version label's/MultiMC notes' link

New mods

• Entity Texture Features - random and emissive mob textures!
• Zoomify - customizable zoom!

Removed mods

• WI Zoom - superseded by Zoomify

Other

• Updated 'Slight' Gui Modifications, Architectury API, Fabric API, FastOpenLinksAndFolders, Sodium Extra, TieFix

• Updated FastOpenLinksAndFolders, Reese's Sodium Options, Sodium Extra

• Updated FastOpenLinksAndFolders, Reese's Sodium Options, Sodium Extra

Even though MC 1.18.2 is coming soon, I now consider FO to be stable for MC 1.18.1 and I recommend you to update to it.
Major changes compared to 2.7.0:

New mods

• Starlight - improves chunk performance, 75% preferred it in the public vote (1.0.0 stable version)
• Puzzle - adds some Optifine features like emissive mobs and resource pack-provided splash screen
• TieFix - disables telemetry (sending diagnostics data to Mojang) and fixes some bugs

Removed mods

• Phosphor - replaced with Starlight as a result of the public vote
• Hydrogen - deprecated, but FerriteCore already exists and has similar features

Other

• Colormatic temporarily removed as it breaks with the new Sodium
• Between beta 2 and stable: updated Fabric API, Reese's Sodium Options

Individual shader settings can now be configured!

• Updated CIT Resewn, Cloth API, Fabric API, Iris Shaders

Individual shader settings can now be configured!

• Updated CIT Resewn, Fabric API, Iris Shaders, Not Enough Crashes
• Skipped Cloth API update as things broke

Individual shader settings can now be configured!

• Updated Architectury API, Cloth API, Iris Shaders, Not Enough Crashes

First beta for 1.18.1!

New mods

• Puzzle - adds some Optifine features like emissive mobs and resource pack-provided splash screen
• TieFix - disables telemetry and fixes some bugs
• Starlight - improves chunk performance, 75% preferred it so here it is! (1.0.0 stable version)

Removed mods

• Phosphor - replaced with Starlight as a result of the public vote
• No Telemetry - replaced with TieFix which has the same feature but can be toggled as well

Other

• Sodium got a bugfix update - fixing lag spikes, fog, memory leak and more
• Updated CIT Resewn, Cloth API, Dynamic FPS, Fabric API, Indium, Iris Shaders, Not Enough Crashes, Sodium, Sodium Extra
• Colormatic temporarily removed as it breaks with the new Sodium
• Don't Clear Chat History is still forced, Hydrogen is still removed - will not highlight in changelog anymore until something changes

• Sodium got an update with some bugfixes, including a memory leak fix.
• Updated Fabric API, Iris Shaders, Sodium

Phosphor voting still ongoing!

• Iris got a performance update, the game should run better regardless of whether you have shaders enabled.
• Updated Animatica, Colormatic, Fabric API, Iris Shaders, Reese's Sodium Options

• Iris got a performance update, the game should run better regardless of whether you have shaders enabled.
• Updated Animatica, Architectury API, CIT Resewn, Fabric API, Fabric Language Kotlin, FastOpenlinksAndFolders, Iris Shaders, item Model Fix, LambdaBetterGrass, Reese's Sodium Options

• Iris got a performance update, the game should run better regardless of whether you have shaders enabled.
• Updated FastOpenLinksAndFolders, Iris Shaders, Item Model Fix, Reese's Sodium Options
• Skipped Architectury API update as something broke in its last few versions for 1.16.5

Happy new year, time to test Phosphor! Vote here!

• Swapped Starlight with Phosphor for testing
• Updated Architectury API, CIT Resewn, FastOpenLinksAndFolders, LambdaBetterGrass, Lithium, Not Enough Crashes, Reese's Sodium Options

Thank you for 200K downloads! Starlight testing is ongoing, don't forget to vote.

• Updated Animatica, Architectury API, Fabric API
• Enabled Cull Leaves resource pack
• Slightly simplified MultiMC/MultiMC auto-update instance config
• Currently forced (do NOT report any issues to those mods!): Don't Clear Chat History
• Currently removed Hydrogen, Phosphor

It's time to test Starlight! Your vote matters, read more here!

• Added Starlight for testing
• Added back Cull Leaves (oops!)
• Updated Fabric Language Kotlin, Item Model Fix, Mod Menu
• Currently forced (do NOT report any issues to those mods!): Animatica, Don't Clear Chat History
• Currently removed Hydrogen, Phosphor

• Another patch for the multiplayer bug (updated Fabric Loader to 0.12.12)

• Another patch for the multiplayer bug (updated Fabric Loader to 0.12.12)
• Updated Architectury API, Cloth Config API, Custom Entity Models

• Another patch for the multiplayer bug (updated Fabric Loader to 0.12.12)
• Updated Architectury API, Cloth Config API

• Another patch for the multiplayer bug (updated Fabric Loader to 0.12.12)
• Updated Architectury API, Cloth Config API