Merged the Physics Core 2D project-settings pages into a single page and the settings asset Inspector now shows the full settings for direct editing.
Physics 2DImprovement
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PhysicsBody.SetBatchTransform() now has an additional "bool writePoses" flag to control if the Unity Transform are written to after the PhysicsBody poses are updated.
Physics 2DImprovement
PhysicsEvents of ContactBeginEvent, ContactEndEvent, TriggerBeginEvent and TriggerEndEvent can now be collated to produce a single Begin and End callback pair rather than multiple per-shape. This is critical to allow for "collider-style" callback behaviour where a logical group of shapes reports as a single compound shape.
Physics 2DImprovement
PhysicsJoint definitions now display as grouped, collapsible sections in the Inspector. Property drawers organize each definition into Anchors, Spring, Motor, Limit, Thresholds, Tuning and Drawing, so a definition reads as a handful of rows instead of a long flat list.
Physics 2DImprovement
PhysicsSpace now has several batch getter/setter methods to reduce round-trips from the engine including "SetBatchProxyAABB()", "GetBatchProxyAABB()", "GetBatchProxyCategories()", "GetBatchProxyUserHandle()" and "GetBatchProxyShapes".
Physics 2DImprovement
PhysicsSpace now has the ability to specify a bound world with "PhysicsSpace.Create(PhysicsWorld)". With a world bound, PhysicsShape can be synchronized with "PhysicsSpace.SyncShapes()" overloads.
Physics 2DImprovement
The PhysicsHingeJoint no longer draws redundant circles at its anchor points. No other joint does this.
Physics 2DImprovement
Updated PhysicsCoreSettings2D asset icon.
Physics 2DImprovement
PhysicsFixedJoint now uses a separate solving path when both the linear and angular frequencies are set to zero indicating full stiffness. This has always been a special set of values but now is much stiffer removing visible "ringing" artifacts when the bodies are relatively far apart and changing in both position and rotation.
Physics 2DImprovement
The PrefabImporter can now run out-of-process when "parallel import" (in ProjectSettings/Editor) is ON.
PrefabsImprovement
Added Vulkan graphics backend support to the GPU Profiler.
ProfilerImprovement
Improved native memory attribution so several kernel, plugin and file system allocations are reported against a named root instead of Unrooted in the Memory Profiler.
Improved our Lifecycle system to allocate less memory on hot paths.
Surface assembly references from the MSBuild compilation pipeline.
ScriptingImprovement
Gave subgraph node dropdowns an opaque background.
Linked bug report
UUM-143563: “Layer” container in the Layer Standard Node is missing background color
Steps to reproduce: 1. Create new Unity project using Universal 3D Template 2. Create new Shader Graph Asset in Project window (right-click > Create > Shader Graph > Lit Shader Graph) 3. In Shader Graph window create “Layer Standard” Node 4. Observe the “Layer” section in the Node Actual results: “Layer” container is missing background color and is transparent Expected results: “Layer” contain…
Retrieved 2026-11-09Improved padding on inline sliders.
Linked bug report
UUM-143533: Float with the "Disable Connector" enabled and "Slider" mode has inconsistent padding in the Subgraph Node
How to reproduce: 1. Create a new HDRP project 2. In the Project window, right-click -> Create -> Shader Graph -> Sub Graph 3. Add the Float variable 4. In the variable Inspector, enable the "Disable Conector" and change the mode to "Slider" -> Save 5. In the Project window, right-click -> Create -> Shader Graph -> Any Shader Graph 6. Add the Sub Graph to the Shader Graph and observe the resul…
Retrieved 2026-11-09Shader graphs with long path names should now open correctly.
Linked bug report
UUM-142738: "DirectoryNotFoundException" is thrown and Shader Graph does not open when opening a .shadegraph from a long path
Steps to reproduce: Create a new 3D URP project In the Project window, create folder with a lot of characters (e.g. "TestShaderGraphMaxLength") Inside of the folder, create another folder and continue doing that until the path is long: Assets/TestShaderGraphMaxLength/TestShaderGraphMaxLength/TestShaderGraphMaxLength/TestShaderGraphMaxLength/TestShaderGraphMaxLength/TestShaderGraphMaxLength/Tes…
Retrieved 2026-11-09Suppress superfluous warning messages when slot count changes from keyword/dropdown properties.
Linked bug report
UUM-143642: Removing an Enum Property Entry while the Node is in the workspace throws "Removing Invalid MaterialSlot" warning
Steps to reproduce: 1. Create new Unity project using Universal 3D Template 2. Create new Shader Graph Asset in Project window (right-click > Create > Shader Graph > Lit Shader Graph) 3. In Shader Graph window > Blackboard > create Enum property 4. Drag Enum Property to the workspace 5. While Enum property is selected in Blackboard, find Entries section in Graph Inspector > Graph Settings 6. P…
Retrieved 2026-11-09The editor console and shader inspector now emit warnings when invalid KEYWORD_TYPE_FLAG keywords are detected.
ShadersImprovement
Updating unlisted shader properties via Material Set[Type] APIs mark the material dirty.
ShadersImprovement
Added the IRenderGraphPassData interface that allows users to implement a Reset() method in their render graph pass data to clean up PassData object before they enter the object pool.
SRP CoreImprovement
Improved RgbToHsv accuracy.
Render Graph Viewer - Allow opening the C# code and line where a texture was imported or created.
SRP CoreImprovement
The TextScriptImporter can now run out-of-process when "parallel import" (in ProjectSettings/Editor) is ON.
TextImprovement
The TrueTypeFont importer can now run out-of-process when "parallel import" (in ProjectSettings/Editor) is ON.
TextImprovement
Improved how uGUI handles mesh data to reduce general overheads from uGUI Graphic objects.
uGUIImprovement
Improved the tween engine with performance optimizations. Removed duplicate tween engine implementations from the TMP assemblies.
uGUIImprovement
Added a one-time scan that lists themes affected by the theme priority change, with a report file written to Logs/ and an on-demand scan button in Project Settings > UI Toolkit.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Added a warning when a theme style sheet is imported by a regular style sheet, since the theme's priority does not apply in that case.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Added nested formats to the Smart Strings time formatter, so a nested list format can choose the separators between time units. The time formatter also accepts a DateTime or DateTimeOffset without format text.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Improved accuracy of time measurements in USS Stats window (experimental).
UI ToolkitImprovement
Improved main scene editing Overrides menu.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Improved performance and memory usage of VisualElement class list.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Improved Smart Strings: plural formatting now works for languages without plural forms and for a count of two in French, conditional formats read numbers the same way in every culture, and dictionary lookups follow the case-sensitivity setting.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Improved style sheet import diagnostics: an @import placed after style rules now produces a warning explaining that its position does not affect selector priority.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Improved Theme Style Sheet (.tss) references so newly written USS imports use GUID-based asset URIs, preventing references from being lost when the USS file is renamed or moved. Existing hand-authored relative imports remain supported, and users who prefer relative paths can still hand-edit them after saving.
Improved USS selector matching performance for complex selectors and for elements that match many selectors in the same stylesheet.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Reduced the amount of memory each VisualElement uses.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Shader Graph support for UIToolkit Filters.
UI ToolkitImprovement
Improved the performance of undoing and redoing reparenting actions in deep and wide hierarchies.
Undo SystemImprovement
Improved query performance for Collector Types (Any, Closest, All) for query types: Raycast, ColliderCast, Point Distance and Collider Distance, when casting against a MeshCollider. Improvement is particularly observable with Burst enabled.
ScheduleUpdateBroadphase previously overwrote the dynamic-tree update's JobHandle with the static-body change-check handle before scheduling the static-tree update, dropping the dynamic-tree job from the dependency chain, which can cause job safety errors when invoking Unity.Physics systems manually (for example; as is done by Netcode for Entities).
Unity PhysicsImprovement
Added contact hardening (distant-dependent reflections) to Screen Space Reflections for URP. This is controlled by 2 new settings: Contact Hardening Scale and Contact Distance Bias.
URPImprovement
Removed the Visual Scripting package from the 3D URP template to improve Editor startup time.
URPImprovement
Rendering Debugger - Frame Settings - Improved the messaging on Frame Settings, and improved how the configured data is shared among multiple scene cameras.
Reduced memory consumption in Release builds. In Release builds, Profiler.GetTotalAllocatedMemoryLong() and Profiler.GetTotalReservedMemoryLong() now report the size the allocator actually reserved rather than the size that was requested, so a higher value than before does not mean that more memory is used.
VisionOSImprovement
Reduced memory consumption when UnityDefaultAllocator is used in Release builds. Profiler.GetTotalAllocatedMemoryLong() and Profiler.GetTotalReservedMemoryLong() now report the size the allocator actually reserved rather than the size that was requested when UnityDefaultAllocator is used in Release builds, so a higher value than before does not mean that more memory is used.
WebImprovement
Improved performance of issuing async reads with DirectStorage.
WindowsImprovement
Improved performance on loading archive files with DirectStorage enabled.
WindowsImprovement
NVUnityPlugin.pdb is now available inside the Unity installation on disk and on Unity's symbol server.
WindowsImprovementServer
Graphics: Allow shader permutation to persist during building, allowing non-shadowed stencil deferred lights to avoid expensive shadowing calculations.
XRImprovement
Graphics: Improved GPU performance of stencil deferred point and spot light draws by specializing the per-light fragment shader per light type, letting point lights skip cone-angle math and spot lights skip a runtime shadow-map-face branch.
XRImprovement
Graphics: Reduced GPU frame time on Quad Views by reprojecting the outer pass's motion vectors into the inner pass instead of rendering its own motion vector pass.
XRImprovement
Improved GPU performance when QuadViews are enabled in Deferred rendering (when not using SpaceWarp) via reducing the amount of redundant geometry rendering in the focus-inner region during the low-resolution periphery pass.
XRImprovement
QuadViews: Allow LUT information to be reused within inner/outer views.
XRImprovement
QuadViews: Defer the submission of render commands to the final inner quad view pass to improve XR CPU performance.
XRImprovement
When the foveated rendering feature is enabled, avoid applying unnecessarily to the FinalBlit pass and allow skipping foveated rendering in the FinalBlit and UberPostProcess passes in URP when requested by the XR provider plugin.
XRImprovement
Changed: Added Render Shader User Value (RSUV) support to intermediate renderers.
2DAPI change
Added: Added EnergyUsage API to enable power monitor (CPU, GPU, TPU, display, memory) energy consumption reading.
Adaptive PerformanceAPI change
Added: Added CompileSdkSpec Gradle DSL classes.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added support for SDK Platform 37.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added support the new CPU/GPU utilization Adaptive Performance metrics via CPU/GPU headroom methods on Android.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added the PowerMonitor energy consumption API to Adaptive Performance Android provider.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added the PowerMonitor energy consumption API to Adaptive Performance Android provider.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ApplicationStartInfoProvider.GetHistoricalProcessStartReasons to retrieve ApplicationStartInfo records.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added PlayerSettings.Android.compileSdkVersion to set the compile API level independently of the target API level, including sub-integer (major.minor) precision.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ``AndroidWindowInsets.GetBounds(Type)`` to get the screen-space rect where an overlapping inset covers the game view.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ``AndroidWindowInsets.SetAppearance / GetAppearance`` runtime API to control system bar icon appearance (Light/Dark) per inset type.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ``AndroidWindowInsets.SetOverlapping / GetOverlapping`` runtime API to control which insets overlap with the game view.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ``AndroidWindowInsets.SetSystemBarsBackground / GetSystemBarsBackground`` runtime API to control system bars background transparency.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ``AndroidWindowInsets.Show(Type type, Type overlapping)`` overload to atomically show insets and set overlapping in a single operation.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ``PlayerSettings.Android.GetInsetsAppearance / SetInsetsAppearance`` editor API to configure per-inset appearance at build time.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ``PlayerSettings.Android.requestedOverlappingInsets`` to configure which insets the game view can draw behind (edge-to-edge rendering) at build time.
AndroidAPI change
Added: Added ``PlayerSettings.Android.systemBarsBackground`` editor property to configure system bars background (Opaque/Transparent) at build time.
AndroidAPI change
Changed: Reduced public API surface of the Android Java player library (com.unity3d.player) by making internal classes and methods package-private. Affected classes - ApplicationExitInfoBase, ApplicationExitInfoProvider, AudioVolumeHandler, Camera2Wrapper, GoogleARCoreApi, HFPStatus, MultiWindowSupport, NativeLoader, NetworkConnectivity, OrientationLockListener, PermissionRequest, PlatformSupport, StaticSplashscreen, UnityGameManager, UnityGameState, UnityPermissions, VideoPlayer, TimeoutThread, UnityPlayer.kbCommand, IFrameReady, IPermissionRequestCallbacks, VideoPlayer.StateCallback. Affected methods - UnityPlayer.getNetworkProxySettings(java.lang.String), UnityPlayer.startOrientationListener(int), UnityPlayer.stopOrientationListener(), UnityPlayer.setMainSurfaceViewAspectRatio(float).
AndroidAPI change
Deprecated: Removed deprecated TouchScreenKeyboard.Android.consumesOutsideTouches and closeKeyboardOnOutsideTap properties; Unity now always processes touches outside the on-screen keyboard.
AndroidBreaking
Changed: Moved AnimationPlayableOutputExtensions and AnimationStreamSource out of experimental. Projects will be upgraded automatically with the new namespace.
AnimationAPI change
Added: AssetImportContext.DependsOnArtifact overloads that take a UnityEngine.Object or a LazyLoadReference<T>, so a scripted importer can declare an artifact dependency directly from an object or lazy reference.
Asset ImportAPI change
Added: Added a real-time counterpart to ControlContext.SendMessage for the Scriptable Audio Pipeline. This is a binary breaking change, but it's source compatible.
AudioBreaking
Added: Added seeking support to scriptable processors and audio clips used as generators.
AudioAPI change
Added: Scriptable processors: added GeneratorInstance.CreationParameters and RootOutputInstance.CreationParameters; deprecated ProcessorInstance.CreationParameters and its implicit conversions (to be removed in a following version).
AudioBreaking
Deprecated: Deprecated various Audio APIs.
AudioBreaking
Added: Added a new AssetPostprocessor.OnProcessScene callback used when loading scenes in playmode or during a build as a deterministic replacement to IProcessSceneWithReport.OnProcessScene.
Build PipelineAPI change
Added: Allow for extra scripting defines when using BuildPlayer with BuildPlayerWithProfileOptions.
Build PipelineAPI change
Added: GameObjectUtility.AllStaticEditorFlagsSet returns true only if all of the requested StaticEditorFlags are set.
CoreAPI change
Added: GameObjectUtility.AnyStaticEditorFlagsSet returns true if any of the requested StaticEditorFlags are set.
CoreAPI change
Changed: Added new abstractions for progressive asset loading.
CoreAPI change
Deprecated: GameObjectUtility.AreStaticEditorFlagsSet use AnyStaticEditorFlagsSet for the previous behavior, or AllStaticEditorFlagsSet to require all flags. Existing code is automatically upgraded to AnyStaticEditorFlagsSet by the API Updater (no behavior change).
CoreBreaking
Added: Added a new public API to ease discoverability of available Main Toolbar elements.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added a new RequiresInsights attribute. Packages and user code can use it to declare a dependency on the Insights module, which ensures the module is included in the build.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added APIs to insert custom entries in the Graph and Blackboard right-click menus.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added HierarchyViewColumnDescriptor.MinWidth to set the minimum width of a custom Hierarchy column.
Added: Added more alloc-free APIs for TextElement.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added public text API to generate text using ATG.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added right click menu support for state machine.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added Span/ReadOnlySpan for applicable editor APIs.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added the MainToolbarCustomElement API to the customizable toolbar to enable the creation of custom VisualElements.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added the UnityEditor.EditorDialogEvents API, which raises dialogWillShow and dialogDismissed events when a native or custom modal dialog appears in the Editor. External tooling can use these events to detect that the Editor's main thread is blocked by a dialog instead of appearing hung.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added CompassSensor, exposing magnetic heading, true heading, raw geomagnetic vector, and heading accuracy as the parity equivalent of UnityEngine.Input.compass.
EditorAPI change
Added: Added EditorUserBuildSettings.activeNamedBuildTarget and BuildSummary.namedBuildTarget.
EditorAPI change