* Added a new recipe item (Armlet of Mordiggian)
* Added a new recipe item (Orchid Malevolence)
* Added a new recipe item (Shiva's Guard)
* Added a new base item (Javelin,139527)
* Remade Power Treads
* Changed Monkey King Bar recipe
* Remade Vladmir's Offering
* Reduced Ultimate Orb price by 50 gold
* Mystic Staff price from 2900 to 2700 gold
* Reduced movement speed bonus from Boots of Travel by 5
* Reduced Linken's Sphere recipe by 100 gold
* Changed the second secret shop model (to Goblin Shop) and the shop's carried items
* Bottle and Ring of Basilius no longer shift positions in your inventory when used
* Reduced Black King Bar cooldown from 100 to 85 seconds
* Increased Kelen's Dagger of Escape cooldown from 25 to 30 seconds
* Improved Bloodstone's charge regeneration rates
* Reduced mana cost on Hand of Midas
* Lowered mana cost on Helm of the Dominator
* Purchasing Bottle fills it to 2/3 instead of to maximum.
* Lowered Eaglehorn price from 3400 to 3300 gold
* Dagon's mana costs and cooldown now decreases per level
* Reduced mana cost on Nathrezim Buckler
* Euls and Guinsoo now share cooldown
* Lowered Gloves of Haste price from 610 to 550 gold
* Recoded Aghanim's Scepter. It can now be dropped, sold and disassembled. It also properly updates itself in deathmatch.
* Decreased Linken's Sphere cooldown from 60 to 40 seconds
* Reduced Hyperstone price from 2300 to 2100 gold


* Remade N'aix
* Changed Crystal Maiden's Brilliance Aura to a global effect
* Increased Acid Spray duration by 4 seconds
* Undid previous Jugg armor buff and increased starting strength by 3 and movement speed from 290 to 295
* Removed the invulnerability period while Priestess of the Moon is leaping
* Lowered Puck's initial Intelligence and Intelligence Growth
* Lion's Mana Drain is now faster (same mana drain over 4 seconds instead of 5)
* Changed Dark Rift from channeling to cast delay and reduced mana cost
* Increased cooldown on Call of the Wild
* Increased Lich attack range from 500 to 550
* Increased Pit Lord's movement speed and starting Intelligence
* Improved cast and attack animation time on Broodmother
* Decreased cooldown on Death Coil from 15 to 11 seconds
* Rewrote Fissure to avoid Entangle and Impale based spell conflicts
* Improved Chen's movement speed by 5
* Reduced Bristleback's strength growth from 2.7 to 2.2
* Reduced Poof's cooldown and mana cost


* New loading screen art (kunkka.deviantart.com)
* Added player index flags to replays
* Fixed a typo with Reaper's Scythe
* Fixed some rare exploits with the Freeze Leaver system
* Improved Harbinger's story (Terrorblaze)
* New Spectre background story (-Jenova-)
* New Visage background story (Grujah)
* New Storm Spirit background story (Inferno[DK])
* New Ogre Magi background story (Digital Anomaly)
* New Alchemist background story (Inferno[DK])
* New Lion background story (vertigo12)
* New Centaur background story (-Jenova-)
* New Slardar background story (Inferno[DK])
* New Tinker background story (Grujah)
* New Rigwarl background story (Volcove)
* New Zeus background story (Inferno[DK])
* New Pudge background story (Inferno[DK])
* New Traxex background story (Volcove)
* New Vengeful Spirit background story (-Jenova-)
* New Mortred background story (Inferno[DK])
* Fixed various item tooltips



* Fixed a bug when reloading saved game with Leshrac or Storm
* Fixed a big but rare MAC only (PPC not Intel) bug relating to Abaddon
* Lowered Puck's Intelligence gain per level
* Increased cool down on Waning Rift
* Slightly reduced Shapeshift's cool down
* Increased Reverse Polarity cool down from 120/100/80 to 120/110/100 seconds
* Increased Enigma's base armor
* Rebalanced Chronosphere
* Fixed various Silence durations on non-hero units
* Fixed converted ghouls' capacity to attack trees
* Slightly lowered Puck's movement speed
* Fixed a rare fatal issue with Aphotic Shield that could happen in -sh or with converted units
* Increased Yurnero's base armor
* Fixed a typo in Sanity's Eclipse tooltip
* Increased Rooftrellen's Agility per level
* Changed terrain command to be a host entered game mode (-ts/-terrainsnow). Please advertise this when you are hosting a game, not everyone likes a different terrain.
* Increased Tidehunter's movement speed
* Restored the old duration based Shallow Grave
* Fixed fogged units not getting stunned from Dream Coil
* Fixed game mode parser to not error "invalid game mode" when a non-gamemode option is entered before the game mode itself (like -weather snow before -ap for example)
* Fixed Dragon Knight's revive name
* Fixed Soul Assumption visual effect
* Increased Lycanthropy Wolves' base armor
* Fixed a recent bug with Multicast Bloodlust
* Fixed various other minor typos
* Fixed damage type on Double Edge to deal magic damage instead of pure damage to yourself
* Added some better feedback text to -swap
* Slightly lowered Bristleback's base armor



* Added a new hero from the Model-To-Hero contest (see below)
* Added a new ability for Animal Courier to change its model.
* Fixed Planeswalker's Cloak and Hood of Defiance stacking issues on various heroes' innate magic resistance abilities.
* Fixed an old rare bug with Leshrac (and recently Storm) that would cause them to constantly drain mana.
* Fixed a bug when killing heroes with Crow
* Fixed Flesh Heap to work properly with suicides
* Fixed a bug in -dm -nd that causes the hero after Bristleback to have Warpath if Bristleback dies with the buff on, and the player quickly picks a new hero.
* Fixed the game mode text to display in proper order
* Fixed Starfall doing extra damage on the second hit
* Restored Freeze Hero functionality
* Added a command -test to enable single player commands to be usable in multiplayer for easier extensive testing
* Added new command '-terrain snow'. This transforms the current terrain into a snow terrain. This is a very experimental mechanism and is still very much a WIP in the visuals department.
* Fixed Death Pulse to hit properly non-magic-immune Ancients
* Improved Alchemist's movement speed a bit
* Increased ranged creep's mana pool
* Rebalanced Sanity's Eclipse (Less damage, better leveling)
* Improved Harbinger's casting animation time
* Fixed a visual glitch with Dispersion that would make it look like it did more Dispersions than it actually did
* Fixed a bug with Unstable Concoction when used during the transformation of Chemical Rage
* Fixed a bug with Greaterbash
* Improved Lion's movement speed a little
* Fixed Panda's Storm Wind Walk stats
* Game now gives an error message when attacking Roshan from a disallowed area
* Added -nr(-norepick)
* Added -mute as a custom player command to disable kill sounds
* Fixed a bug with Weave and Reincarnation


- Lots of effort was made to fix stability issues with the map. Either this or 6.48b will be the new stable version, depending on reports after it gets played in the open for a bit first.


- Congratulations to the final 8 and everyone that participated and voted in the hero contest. Vodoun's hero was the primary selection with one ability from coldlikehell's hero. Once again, thanks to everyone participating in contest.