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2025 was a transformative year for Trucky. We shipped major updates nearly every month, finally brought native support to Linux and Mac, and watched our community grow to over 400,000 users. Here’s what happened.
February: Visual Refresh
We kicked off the year with New Visual Themes, giving you more ways to customize your Trucky experience.
May-June: HUB Evolution
Trucky HUB got some serious attention with enhanced company management tools and new roleplay features. The highlight? Dealership’s Used Market—a game-changer for VTC fleet management that added realistic depth to company operations.
Trucky 3.2.x landed with cross-platform improvements and the usual bug squashing.
July: Summer of Big Changes
We completely overhauled the VTC Application System, making it easier for Virtual Trucking Companies to manage their operations. But the real excitement came from our New Recording Engine entering public beta—a ground-up rewrite that changed how Trucky captures your driving sessions.
August: Refinement
Version 3.3.1 brought the recording engine to everyone, refined with feedback from our beta testers. It’s always satisfying when community input directly shapes what we ship.
September: The Linux/Mac Breakthrough
This was the big one. Trucky 3.4 Beta finally delivered native Linux and Mac support for the Dispatcher.
We rewrote the Dispatcher Decrypting Engine from scratch in TypeScript—no more Wine dependencies, no more workarounds. Just native, clean support. And we didn’t stop there: we open-sourced the entire engine at github.com/Trucky/sii-decrypt-ts. Cross-platform support AND community contributions? Yes, please.
October: TruckyMods Level-Up
Our modding platform got a comprehensive upgrade:
For Creators:
- Creator Feed to showcase your work
- Redesigned Vendor Area with better organization
- Improved donation visibility (we only charge standard payment processing fees)
Under the Hood:
- AI-powered duplicate detection using Gemini to help moderators spot re-uploaded mods
- Enhanced auto-moderation with smarter content filtering
- Migration to Cloudflare R2—your downloads are now blazing fast worldwide
Trucky 3.4.4 hit stable with Electron 37, native Freight Market jobs on Mac/Linux, browser-based login, and a bunch of quality-of-life improvements.
We also opened applications for new Ambassadors to help represent Trucky across different communities.
November: Make It Yours
Game Info Full Screen launched for our Fan and Angel Patrons. Finally, you can position your game info components exactly where you want them. The live analog speedometer with dynamic RPM ring? Chef’s kiss.
December: Dashboard Dreams
We closed out the year with Trucky Dashboard—our most ambitious feature yet, now in Public Beta for Angel Patrons.
Three integrated parts:
- Designer: Drag-and-drop WYSIWYG editor with gauges, progress bars, labels, and images. Bind them to live telemetry, add conditional visibility, use our 50+ SVG icons or upload your own.
- Viewer: Real-time desktop display with always-on-top and fullscreen modes.
- Mobile Apps: Turn your phone or tablet into a wireless telemetry display. Perfect for sim rigs.
People are already building realistic dashboard replicas, minimalist HUDs, streamer overlays, and multi-monitor setups. We can’t wait to see what you create.
The Infrastructure Story
Behind all these features was a different battle: keeping the lights on.
Every month brought new records in daily and monthly active users. What started as exciting growth quickly became a stress test of our infrastructure. The backend code that worked fine for thousands of users started showing cracks under the weight of hundreds of thousands.
We spent countless hours rewriting backend systems to handle the load. Database queries that were “good enough” needed complete rethinking. API endpoints had to be optimized. WebSocket connections required new strategies. Server configurations demanded constant tuning.
It wasn’t glamorous work—no flashy announcements, no exciting feature reveals—just the grinding reality of making sure the service stayed stable and performant as concurrent connections pushed toward 3,000-5,000 at peak times.
Some rewrites happened three or four times as we discovered new bottlenecks. MySQL configurations were pushed to their limits. We migrated infrastructure, optimized Laravel applications, tuned PHP-FPM, and reconfigured Nginx more times than I care to count.
The growth was incredible. The technical debt it exposed was humbling. But we kept it running.
What It Means
Looking back, 2025 was about removing barriers. Native cross-platform support means no more platform compromises. Open-sourcing our code means the community can contribute directly. AI-powered moderation means our human moderators can focus on what matters. Dashboard customization means you build what works for you.
And behind it all: infrastructure that can handle what we’ve built and where we’re going.
Thanks to our 400,000+ users, 300+ TruckyMods creators, our Patrons who support development and test new features, and our Ambassadors who represent Trucky worldwide. You make this possible.
Here’s to 2026.
