In #next-update, a straight white male criticized the warning shown every time a player fails to spawn a prop, entity or weapon (from a commit on 28.08), arguing that the failed spawn is indication enough and that servers run prop placement scripts. Albino said it pops up even with tips turned off. Later the same day, a straight white male added that the code calls the popup with GAMEMODE:AddNotify with no checks.

Commit 788529 on main improves the DImage shader replacement system and reworks the Paint tool UI to show previews.