I had to try this beta unintentionally due to Launcher doesn't respect "allow betas: off". 
Anyways, I noticed a font issue. In 25.08, a different font is being used and it looks worse.
25.07.2
25.08b1
The issue still persists.
Does this effect only the qt menubar or also the webviews?
I had reverted to 25.07.2 as I didn’t intend to participate in the beta testing at this stage. Can other Windows users answer Anon’s question? Otherwise, I will check it again some time later.
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The “All Anki windows go blank after a video driver update” problem finally seems to be fixed now.
Maybe the upgrade to Qt 6.9 helped?
I’m using Windows 11 and the latest NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver (version 576.88 as of Jul 1, 2025), and Tools/Preferences/Appearance/Video driver has the default Direct3D setting.
PS,
That old thread from 2023 is locked, obviously. Maybe it could be temporarily unlocked to put a small update there?
This version the Ankiconnect add-on has failed, so I rollback to the 25.07.2 (3adcf05c)
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Updated launchers have been posted on Release 25.08b1 · ankitects/anki · GitHub. They fix a failure to launch on some Linux distros, and improve the handling of beta versions.
Likely a Qt change. Win some, lose others 
That’s unexpected. What was the error?
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This new launcher shows an “Access is denied.” error.
Anki Launcher
1) Latest Anki (press Enter)
2) Choose a version
3) Keep existing version (25.07.2)
4) Revert to previous version (25.08b1)
5) Allow betas: off
6) Cache downloads: off
7) Uninstall
8) Quit
>
Updating Anki...
error: Access is denied. (os error 5) at path "C:\\WINDOWS\\.tmpN936VU"
Install failed: Failed with code Some(2): C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Anki\uv.exe sync --upgrade --managed-python --no-config --python 3.13.5
1) Latest Anki (press Enter)
2) Choose a version
3) Keep existing version (25.07.2)
4) Revert to previous version (25.08b1)
5) Allow betas: off
6) Cache downloads: off
7) Uninstall
8) Quit
> 3
Anki will start shortly.
You can close this window.
Damn, looks completely broken on Windows. Appreciate the quick report, and will look into a fix shortly.
I’ve updated the launchers with a different approach. Would you mind trying again?
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The latest launcher seems to work fine on my Windows 11 computer.
Also:
Starting with this beta, it seems that applying any “border” styling rules (e.g., border-color or border-radius) to input elements automatically changes their background color.
This one works fine for me.
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It doesn’t happen more than once?
That’s unexpected - we’ll need to bisect the recent changes and figure out what’s caused this.
So far only happened once
This happens only on darkmode for me. Also, it doesn’t always happen. E.g. type the following style:
input {
border: 1px transparent #fff;
}
I can confirm the issue only occurs in dark mode. That said, in my testing so far, it seems to happen consistently.
I’m not an expert in CSS, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the rule border: 1px transparent #fff; might not be valid. The second value should typically specify a border style (like solid or dotted), rather than a color.
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You’re right. I somehow messed it up in the console.
Ignore my above statement in this case, please.
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