Sodium 0.4.0-alpha6 for Minecraft 1.18.1

⚠️ This is a early alpha version of Sodium for Minecraft 1.18, meaning that you might run into significant bugs or other issues. Please make it clear when reporting issues the exact version you are using.

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This release is a minor patch for 0.4.0-alpha5 which fixes a number of reported issues. We're currently working on some pretty big changes for the next major release and are pressed for time, so this patch only a small set of issues.

Highlights

• Lag spikes caused by block updates should be significantly improved
• Fog effects now match those introduced in Minecraft 1.18.1
• Fixed a slow memory leak that would occur from fence objects being leaked
• Server view distance is now respected, preventing discrepancies between client/server
• Biome blending effects have been improved slightly
• World rendering bugs/flickering caused by being far away from world center (i.e. near the world border) no longer occurs

Known issues

• Some parts of the world may not load correctly unless the player exits and loads the world file again