Fixed static entities not updating lighting when light probes change and the entity does not.
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Fixed Surface Cache GI ignoring the Global Illumination LOD of static LOD Groups in closed subscenes, which made every LOD level contribute to global illumination.
A Terrain added to a ray-tracing acceleration structure no longer leaks a Mesh and its GPU buffers.
Avoid out-of-bounds memory access in UnifiedRayTracing which caused undefined behaviour on certain platforms.
Fix a bug where APV bake fails when scene contains a VFXRenderer.
Linked bug report
UUM-150965: APV: "InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid" is thrown during Generate Lighting when a static GameObject has a MeshFilter and a Visual Effect (VFXRenderer) Component
Steps to reproduce: Create a new 3D (URP) project In Edit > Project Settings > Quality > current URP asset, make sure Light Probe System is set to Adaptive Probe Volumes Create a Cube (GameObject > 3D Object > Cube), and with the Cube selected press Add Component and add a Visual Effect component With the Cube selected, enable the Static checkbox in the top right of the Inspector (Contribute G…
Retrieved 2026-11-10Fix a bug where editing a shader used in a scene that uses surface cache GI causes error spam in the console.
Fix speckles/white spots with APV
Linked bug report
UUM-133626: White flickering artifacts are present on dynamic objects when doing rotation/movement and using APV
Reproduction steps: 1. Open the attached project "ReproProj" 2. Open the “/Assets/Scenes/SampleScene.unity” Scene 3. Enter the Play Mode 4. Closely observe the Game view while the car rotates Expected result: No artifacts are present Actual result: White artifacts are flickering Reproducible with: 6000.0.66f1, 6000.3.5f1, 6000.4.0b6, 6000.5.0a5 Reproducible on: Play Mode Windows Standalone Pla…
Retrieved 2026-11-11Fixed a bug where reflection probes sometimes would not be re-baked when baking lighting, if only URP-specific settings were modified.
Linked bug report
UUM-133949: The Reflection Probe fails to update properly when generating lighting in the Lighting window and using a custom Renderer Feature
How to reproduce: 1. Create a new Unity URP Project 2. Import the attached “TestURPFeature“ custom Unity package 3. Navigate to Assets > TestURPFeature 4. Open the “TestURPFeature” Scene 5. Navigate to Assets > Settings > PC_Renderer 6. In the Inspector window, add the “Debug Feature” Renderer Feature 7. In the Lighting window, click on the “Generate Lighting” button 8. Navigate to Assets > Se…
Retrieved 2026-11-11Fixed a bug where Surface Cache GI did not affect Terrains using custom shader graph shaders.
Fixed a heap-buffer-overflow read when deduplicating overlapping Light Probes from multiple loaded scenes.
Fixed GC allocations every frame in Surface Cache GI, even when nothing in the scene changed.
Fixed GC allocations in Surface Cache GI when many objects are added, removed, or change materials in the same frame.
Fixed light baking failing when the only Global Illumination contributors in a scene had no materials assigned.
Fixed shader compiler warnings shown in the Inspector when selecting the Adaptive Probe Volumes VoxelizeScene shader.
Fixed Surface Cache failing to start on devices with a maximum graphics buffer size below 256 MB.
Fixed Surface Cache geometry rendering incorrectly after many meshes were added to the scene.
GIFix
Fixed Surface Cache GI and the Compute ray tracing backend never hitting geometry on Adreno 650 GPUs with Vulkan.
Fixed Surface Cache Global Illumination permanently leaving some screen pixels without a patch.
Fixed the Baked Albedo and Baked Emissive Scene view draw modes showing shifted and cropped textures when using the Unity Compute lightmapper.
GIFix
Fixed the Surface Cache GI renderer feature running an incorrect defrag shader variant on devices that report a compute subgroup size of 2 or 128.
Fixed the Unity Compute Light Baker information box in Graphics settings not hiding when the Default Light Baker setting was reverted with Reset or Undo.
Make Surface Cache check for inline ray tracing support to match its use of RayQuery (instead of checking for ray tracing shader support).
Prevent MissingReferenceException in Surface Cache
Context menus closing will no longer block keyboard shortcuts in Graph Windows.
Fix Copy/Paste of values in fields inside of nodes.
Fixed a horizontal scrollbar that appeared in the inspector when a state machine transition was selected, even when the content fit the inspector width.
Fixed a NullReferenceException thrown when setting the Title, Subtitle, Tooltip, DefaultColor or FillAmount of a Node created from script before setting its Position.
Linked bug report
UUM-150194: NullReferenceException is thrown when setting the Title of a programmatically created GraphToolkit Node before setting its Position
How to reproduce: Open the attached “GraphToolkitSetTitleError.zip” project In the Project window, double-click the "Sandbox Graph" asset In the top toolbar of the Graph window, click the "Add Custom node" button Observe the Console and Graph editor view Actual result: “NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object” is thrown, and the node is not created Expected…
Retrieved 2026-11-11Fixed an issue where short portal names were cut off because the portal node did not keep a minimum width.
Linked bug report
UUM-133912: Short Portal names are cut off
Steps to reproduce: Open the attached project Open the Test.texmkr graph asset Select the Wire between "New Variable" and "UniformNode" Right-click and select the Convert To Portals option Delete the name of the Portal and observe the Portal node width Change the name of the Portal to "Test" Observe the Portal nodes again Actual results: The Portal node width is shorter compared to when no nam…
Retrieved 2026-11-12Fixed the name of the Graph Toolkit Window in the Overlay Preferences.
(Graphics) RenderBuffer.GetNativeRenderBufferPtr no longer returns null when called immediately after RenderTexture.Create with graphics jobs enabled.
GraphicsFix
Add a workaround for compiling surface-cache HWRT shaders on MTL.
GraphicsFix
Added warning when the specified Keyword Declaration Override does not match any Keyword Declaration in the project.
Ensure correct backbuffer dimensions when using multiple displays.
Fix crash when importing Texture2DArrays with small dimensions and many elements
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UUM-153670: Crash on CachedWriter::Write when importing a tiny non-power-of-two Texture2DArray from a package
How to reproduce: 1. Create a new project (any pipeline) 2. Download the attached “IN-153687” package 3. Drag the “IN-153687” package into the Assets folder 4. Click “Import“ 5. Observe the crash Reproducible with: 6000.6.0a6, 6000.6.3f1, 6000.7.0b2, 7000.0.0a1 Not reproducible with: 6000.0.84f1, 6000.3.25f1, 6000.6.0a5 Reproduced on: Windows 11 Not reproduced on: No other environment tested N…
Retrieved 2026-11-10Fixed a CPU performance regression when submitting draw calls in Scriptable Render Pipelines.
Fixed a crash on quit in players that use split graphics jobs with DirectX 12 on Universal Windows Platform.
Fixed a crash on Vulkan when pre-warming pipeline state objects with GraphicsStateCollection.WarmUpProgressively.
Fixed an assert "Metal: memoryless texture requires 2D texture." that the Editor logged on Metal when it rendered single-pass XR to memoryless texture arrays.
Fixed an InvalidOperationException when a script disposed the destination NativeArray of an in-flight AsyncGPUReadback request on exiting Play Mode.
Linked bug report
UUM-143136: InvalidOperationException error thrown when deallocating a NativeArray on exiting Play mode after using AsyncGPUReadback.RequestIntoNativeArrayAsync
How to reproduce: 1. Open the attached "AsyncGPUReadbackUndisposable.zip" project 2. Open the "SampleScene" 3. Enter the Play mode 4. Exit Play mode 5. Observe the Console Actual result: "InvalidOperationException: The Unity.Collections.NativeArray1[System.Single] has been set to undisposable and cannot be deallocated." error is thrown in the Console Expected result: No errors are thrown in th…
Retrieved 2026-11-09Fixed AsyncGPUReadback.RequestIntoNativeArray logging read/write access and undisposable errors for a NativeArray that was used by a completed job.
Linked bug report
UUM-102552: “AsyncGPUReadback - NativeArray does not have read/write access” error is thrown when using the AsyncGPUReadback:RequestIntoNativeArray after scheduling a job
Reproduction steps: 1. Open the attached “BugRepro” project 2. Open the “Assets/Scenes/SampleScene.unity“ Scene 3. Enter the Play Mode 4. Select the “Job Tester” GameObject in the Hierarchy window 5. In the Inspector window, right-click click on Simple Array Job Tester(Script) and choose "Test Job" 6. Select the “Array Updater” GameObject in the Hierarchy window 7. In the Inspector window, rig…
Retrieved 2026-11-09Fixed batch mode builds overwriting custom render queue settings in materials.
Fixed Graphics State Collection assets not reimporting when a shader they reference changes.
GraphicsFix
Fixed slow render graph compilation in the Editor and in players with script checks enabled. Pass names longer than 61 bytes are no longer truncated in the Render Graph Viewer.
Fixed SystemInfo.supportsConservativeRaster returning false and conservative rasterization being unavailable on Vulkan on GPUs that report a maxExtraPrimitiveOverestimationSize of 0, such as AMD GPUs.
Linked bug report
UUM-143199: SystemInfo.supportsConservativeRaster evaluates to false when maxExtraPrimitiveOverestimationSize==0
How to reproduce: Create a new project using the “Universal 3D” template Change the graphics API to Vulkan in the Project Settings > Player Create a new MonoBehaviour script in the project with the code line “Debug.Log(SystemInfo.supportsConservativeRaster);” added to the Start() method of the MonoBehaviour class Create an empty GameObject in the Scene Hierarchy and add the newly created scrip…
Retrieved 2026-11-12Fixed the Editor freezing during an asset import on Linux when running on OpenGL.
GraphicsFixLinux
Fixed Windows player crash when using Vulkan graphcis API on projects that repeatedly change display settings.
Runtime crash due to a malformed BatchDrawRange has been fixed.
Texture2D.ReadPixels and ScreenCapture could return stale data on AMD GPUs with Vulkan when graphics jobs were enabled and the GPU was busy.
URP Decals shader could rarely produce NaN values on Android platforms when sampling non-normal-map textures set as the Normal Map, especially visible as white flashes when in conjunction with other amplifying effects like Bloom.
Linked bug report
UUM-153167: XR Graphics: Quad view with decals and bloom effect causes white flashing
There are white flashes if using quad view + decals + bloom. Tested on Meta Quest 3. Repro: create a scene using decals and bloom or use attached project which is set up for this already configure project for Meta Quest make sure quad view is selected in the foveation feature settings build and run actual results: white flashes around the decals expected: no flashes
Retrieved 2026-11-10Vulkan: Fixed a random crash caused by an invalid shader module when shaders were unloaded and reloaded with graphics jobs enabled.
GraphicsUUM-136086
SystemInfo.supportsParallelPSOCreation now correctly returns true on Android devices with a single core enabling parallel PSO creation.
Fix shadergraph compilation failure on uv4 input semantic differences.
Fixed "Default" being added to some Enum Material properties
Linked bug report
UUM-134256: Changing “Mesh Decal Bias Type” to “Depth Bias” on Decal Simple material stays set to “Default” in Inspector window
Steps to reproduce: 1. Create new Unity project using High Definition 3D Template 2. Open Shader Graph Templates window (Project window > Create > Shader Graph > From Template) 3. Select “Decal Simple” Template and press “Create” 4. When created, press on “Decal Simple” Shader in Project window and convert it to the Material 5. Select newly created Decal Material in Project window 6. In Inspec…
Retrieved 2026-11-11Fixed a dark outline appearing around geometry against the sky when MSAA and a cloud layer are enabled.
Linked bug report
UUM-150911: A dark outline appears on mesh borders with sky background when MSAA is enabled
How to reproduce: 1. Open the attached "IN-151203_63hd.zip" project 2. Open the "SampleScene" 3. In the Project Settings, enable any MSAA mode (Edit -> Project Settings -> Graphics -> HDRP -> Multisample Anti-Aliasing Quality) 4. In Game view, observe the border between the background sky and the visible cube Actual result: A dark outline appears on the border between the mesh and the backgrou…
Retrieved 2026-11-10Fixed an issue where FSR2 upscaler resources leaked GPU memory each time HDRP rebuilt the render pipeline, for example after a quality level change.
Fixed CoreCLR lifecycle management on various systems
Fixed overlapping labels in the HDRP Quality Settings panel where quality level tags overlapped with asset names.
Fixed shader compilation errors and incorrect base map results for TerrainLit Shader Graphs.
Fixed the Disable Mip Caching tooltip in the Rendering Debugger so that it refers to the Texture Streamer and Mipmap Streaming instead of internal class names.
Fixed warning in ScriptableRuntimeReflectionSystemSettings when re-entering play mode
Fixed water surfaces that disappeared for a moment in the Editor when a scene had water surfaces with different band counts.
Fixed a crash when calling GetType() through a boxed Nullable<T> that has no value, in generic code built with Faster (smaller) builds.
Fixed GC marking on InlineArray types.
IL2CPPFix
Fixed issue where memory from a thread object could be kept alive by the GC past its exit
Linked bug report
UUM-149541: Memory from the last exited managed thread is not freed when IL2CPP is used
How to reproduce: Open the attached project “IN-150912” Ensure that IL2CPP is selected as the Scripting Backend in “Project Settings → Player → Other Settings” Build and run the project Press ‘Space’ in the Player Observe the payload status text at the top of the Player Actual result: Payload 3 shows “alive = True” Expected result: Payload 3 shows “alive = False” Reproducible with: 6000.0.0f1,…
Retrieved 2026-11-10Fixed issue where RuntimeTypeHandle equality checks may fail.
IL2CPPFix
Fixed missing GC write barrier in Thread.VolatileWrite(ref object, object).
Fixed rare C++ error that could cause compiler errors converting types at call sites
Raise ArrayTypeMismatchException if invalid generic delegate is stored in covariant array.
Fixed an edited text field displaying its uncommitted text on another element, and keystrokes reaching that element, when a list in an IMGUI inspector is partially scrolled.
Fixed an edited text field displaying its uncommitted text on another visible element when scrolling a list in an IMGUI inspector.
Fixed IMGUI text drawing a few pixels past the borders of enclosing scroll views and containers when the text overflowed its control.
Linked bug report
UUM-150041: List item text in Import Activity window's Overview tab is clipping through the list border
Steps to reproduce: Open the attached project Open the Import Activity window (Window -> Analysis -> Import Activity) Dock the window next to the Game view In the Import Activity window's Overview section, scroll through the Most Dependencies and Longest Import Duration lists Observe the Item text at the bottom of the list Actual results: Item text is clipping through the List's border Expecte…
Retrieved 2026-11-10Fixed long Editor tooltips, such as the backup confirmation toggle in Project Auditor, showing empty space to the right of their wrapped text.
Fixed text fields not scrolling to keep the cursor visible when typing text longer than the visible field width
Linked bug report
UUM-149213: Text field cursor does not follow the text when typing a long name in the Project window's rename mode
How to reproduce: 1. Create a new Unity project 2. In the Project window, select an asset and enter rename mode 3. Type a name long enough to exceed the width of the visible text field 4. Observe the text field while typing Expected results: The text field scrolls/follows the cursor so the currently typed character stays visible Actual results: The text field stays anchored at the start of the…
Retrieved 2026-11-10Fixed the text cursor being vertically misaligned in an empty text field.
Linked bug report
UUM-145875: Caret is vertically misaligned on custom Editor windows when using GUI.TextField
Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a new project 2. Import the attached “EditorWindowTemp.cs“ script 3. Open Window → CaretBug 4. Click on the TextField Actual result: Caret is misaligned with the TextField Expected result: Caret is aligned properly Reproducible with: 6000.5.0a3, 6000.5.1f1, 6000.6.0b1, 6000.7.0a1 Not reproducible with: 6000.0.78f1, 6000.3.18f1, 6000.5.0a2 Reproducible on: macOS Se…
Retrieved 2026-11-09Fixed a regression that added roughly 60 ms to editor project load time when input devices were first detected.
Fix misaligned labels in the Input Actions editor properties pane.
Input SystemFix
Fix single clicks generating duplicated touch events, when using Device Simulator and Touch Simulation. When the Device Simulator view is enabled Touch Simulation events are supressed.
Fixed a NullReferenceException when reopening a device's Device Debug View window in the Input Debugger after it had previously been maximized and closed.
Fixed an Input Actions importer error message that incorrectly reported a duplicate Action Map name when the actual problem was a duplicate Action name within an Action Map.
Fixed an overlapping memory copy when removing an element from an InputControlList, which AddressSanitizer reported as memcpy-param-overlap.
Fixed devices that were disconnected or reconfigured while the application was out of focus staying in the device list.
Fixed issue on macOS where third party tools sending repeated key down events without a key up could result in keys becoming stuck
Fixed polling for interaction phases (such as WasPerformedThisFrame) being missed during Update due to interaction timeouts sometimes occurring during the later before-render period when a before-render device (such as an XR HMD) is added. This means that timeouts and interactions like Hold may now wait to perform until the next frame instead of the earliest chance during before-render.
Fixed the "Location Distance Threshold" label being clipped and misaligned on the Input System Settings project settings page.
Fixed the error "type is not a supported string value" that was logged in the Console when viewing binding properties in the Input Actions Editor.
Fixed the Input Actions editor window being recreated (flickering) when cancelling the unsaved-changes prompt on close; the window now uses the Editor's standard unsaved-changes handling.
Fixed the Input Debugger device window showing a blank window after the device was disconnected and reconnected.
Fixed the Input System Package settings window accepting negative and non-finite (NaN or Infinity) values for Location Accuracy and Location Distance Threshold instead of clamping them to 0 like the scripting API.
This fixes Windows' Xbox Game Bar and macOS overlays (Spotlight et al). On Windows, Steam/Discord/NVIDIA overlays work as always.
Linked bug report
UUM-150045: Keys remain stuck as "pressed" when focus shifts to any overlay
Steps to reproduce: 1. Open attached project “IN-151262” 2. Make sure “Assets/FPS/Scenes/MainScene” is selected in the scene list 3. Enter the Play mode 4. Press "W" to start running forward 5. With "W" still held press ALT + Windows Key + G to bring up the Xbox Game Bar overlay (This works with other overlays as well) 6. Observe the Game view 7. Refocus Unity, press some other keys to except …
Retrieved 2026-11-10Fix building UnityFramework directly via command line
Fix GameAssembly ignoring the target OS version from Player Settings
Fixed a crash when application:openURL or application:continueUserActivity was called before Unity initialized.
Linked bug report
UUM-151801: Application crashes when "application:openURL:options" runs before Engine initializes
How to reproduce: 1. Open the attached “IN-152919” project 2. Open Build Profiles and switch to iOS (File > Build Profiles) 3. Build the project 4. Open the built project in Xcode 5. Deploy to a device 6. Observe the device Actual result: The app crashes at startup Expected result: The app launches successfully to a sample scene Reproducible with: 6000.0.23f1, 6000.0.83f1, 6000.3.24f1, 6000.6.…
Retrieved 2026-11-10Fixed incomplete privacy manifest when integrating only UnityFramework.framework (Unity as a Library).
iOSFix
Fixed Input System wrong touch delta when scene is changed
Fixed the secondary display mirroring the device screen instead of showing its own camera view on iOS 27.
Preserve the movie pause state after returning from background
Rename AppDelegate and SceneDelegate class to be consistent with other naming
Fixed a stack overflow when converting a large NativeText or UnsafeText to a string, and when appending a large string to a NativeText, UnsafeText, or FixedString.
Fixed crash in DomainUnloadAutoFree memory tracker.
Linked bug report
UUM-144552: Crash on DomainUnloadAutoFree::FrameMaintenance during Editor usage
How to reproduce: 1. Create a new Unity project 2. In the Hierarchy, create a new empty GameObject 3. In the Inspector, add the "Shadow Caster 2D" Component 4. Wait 2-3 seconds and click anything in the Editor 5. Observe the crash Reproducible with: 6000.6.0a7 Can't test with: 6000.0.76f1, 6000.3.15f1, 6000.4.8f1, 6000.5.0b9 (One-time crash) Reproducible on: macOS Tahoe 26 (M1) Not reproducibl…
Retrieved 2026-11-09Fixed crash in DomainUnloadAutoFree memory tracker.