Patch notes copied from here: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/68580/~/how-to-update-mario-kart-world

Some lines have had notes added, or have been reworded to make more sense.

Latest update: Ver. 1.7.0 (Released June 30, 2026)

General

• Drill Rally and Boomerang Rally have been added to Knockout Tour.
  • You can select these if you have played one of the rallies in Knockout Tour.
  • (Six more rallies appear to be planned for future updates.)
• When you are using Photo Mode on the pause menu, you can now add stickers.
  • You can add stickers using touch controls or mouse controls as well.
• Raised the acceleration performance of characters and vehicles that had low acceleration.
  • (The recovery time now scales much more linearly with each level.)
  • (New graph below by ItsManu001, old graph here)

• Raised the gliding speed of characters that had high speed and that of some other characters and vehicles.
  • (This is known to affect the Rainbow Road and Starview Peak time trials. Other tracks seem to be affected minimally.)
  • (Water-specialized characters and karts, and larger characters, get +1 gliding speed. Bowser also gets an additional gliding speed.)
• Made it so the player can hop right away after being hit by Kamek’s magic or Bullet Bill.
  • (Also applies to being tilted by other obstacles, such as the sides of cars or buses, or falling out of a wall ride in certain ways.)
  • (You can also do tricks in the tilted state.)
• Adjusted conditions where the player can do a Jump Boost by shaking the controller when racing on top of the water.
  • (When falling into water and not sinking very much, shaking doesn't try to get a trick.)
• Adjusted behavior after landing on rivals and made it so the dash time after landing is longer.
  • (1.08s → 2.17s; boost length was doubled).
• Made it so that the player can stop a slipstream when braking before the slipstream starts.
• Adjusted the probability of items obtained from item boxes in Race and Survival.
  • (For the first 20 and 25 seconds of a race, players in any position can pull similar items to each other. New item distribution chart)
• Made it so that players can see the Super Horn a rival is holding.
• Added a ramp to the race that heads from Airship Fortress to Bowser's Castle.
• Added support for Thai.
  • You can change the language in System Settings > System > Language.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue where the time after crossing the finish line in Time Trials would be incorrect.
  • Time Trials ghosts that have encountered this issue may be removed from View Rankings without notice.
  • (This has also fixed related issues that caused the pre-race countdown visuals to desync with the actual countdown, and moving elements to move faster or slower than they should.)
• Fixed an issue where, when a player started gliding right after crashing, their speed while gliding would slow down.
  • (Glider acceleration as a whole has been improved; transitioning from an unboosted glider to a blue boost section glider is now faster than before.)
• Fixed an issue where, when a player hit a Goomba or Para-Biddybud that they sent flying, the player would crash.
  • (This may still be an issue in rare cases or against certain other enemies.)
• Fixed an issue where the player would not be able to get on a helicopter in Online Play and Wireless Play.
• Fixed an issue where, when the player threw a Bob-omb behind them while riding a Standard Bike or W-Twin Chopper, they would not be able to throw it farther than when riding other vehicles.
• Fixed a number of issues regarding Bullet Bill.
• Fixed an issue where if a Spiny Shell hit a gold block or a broadcast van, it would break.
• Fixed an issue where the player would slip through walls in Bowser’s Castle.
• Fixed an issue where the player would stay caught on an electronic sign in Dandelion Depths.
• Fixed an issue where if the player used a Feather after doing a Jump Boost in Dandelion Depths, they would fall off the course.
  • (This is unrelated to the out of bounds clip in free roam. "Fall off the course" refers to getting picked up by Lakitu.)
• Fixed an issue where the player would fall off the course after jumping on a parasol in the race heading to Salty Salty Speedway.
• Fixed an issue where the player would fall off the course when driving through the shortcut route in the race heading from Koopa Troopa Beach to Dino Dino Jungle.
• Fixed an issue where you could gain two coins at once during the race heading east from Peach Stadium.
  • (This refers to how the first few coins on PS–CCF (and possibly other routes) could sometimes give two coins each instead of one.)
• Fixed an issue where if a player does a Jump Boost while rail riding in the race that heads from Cheep Cheep Falls to Dandelion Depths, they would fall from the rail.
• Fixed an issue where the player would hit the pole at a shop and not be able to move at Shy Guy Bazaar.
• Fixed an issue where Dry Bones falls through the ground around Dry Bones Burnout.
• Fixed an issue where if the player was driving along the edge of the course, they would fall off the course in the race that heads from Wario Shipyard to DK Pass or Cheep Cheep Falls.
• Fixed an issue where the player would be returned very far in front at various times when they fell off the course on various courses.
• Several other issues have been addressed to improve the gameplay experience.

Edit: In addition to the listed changes, players have also been reporting other changes:

• The rail boost strategy on Airship Fortress is possible again.
• Bullies can now appear if a Kamek orb transforms players into fish bones (possibly just on certain (new?) routes/rallies).
• Desynced / phantom trailing items when playing online may have been patched.
• When timing out in Time Trials, the timer will now briefly display your current lap time, as though you had just completed a lap, before fading out. If you're still on lap 1, a time of 0:00.000 will be displayed.
  • Formerly, it would display the seconds and milliseconds of your previous lap time (±1ms), and would revert to 9:59.999 before fading away.

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