6000.1.0b5

Added a TileSet asset.

Added an option to disable field editing in Sprite Editor to prevent accidental edit.

Added storage for Slice settings in the TextureImporter for textures of type Sprite.

Added the Slice on Import option to Slice settings to automatically re-slice Textures when Textures are reimported.

Added UX polish to field editing in the Sprite Editor to prevent accidental edits.

PSDImporter now supports the generation of Tile assets and Tile Palette from source assets.

The Tilemap Extra package provides the new AutoTile feature.

Added a utility window to the Web platform tab in the Build Profiles window you can use to publish games on Unity Play (https://play.unity.com/). To access this window, select Publish to Play on the Web platform tab.

Added configurable Build Automation Settings to Build Profiles when the Build Automation package is installed.

Added functionality that enables platforms to install required packages automatically after user approval.

Added graphics settings overrides to build profiles.

Added preconfigured development build profiles to the Facebook Instant Games platform. These profiles optimize for shorter build times to help improve developer productivity.

Added support for a quality levels override in build profiles.

Added support for Facebook Instant Games.

Facebook Instant Games now includes default settings for targeting mobile and desktop devices that optimize for build size to reduce load times.

Added bicubic sampling support for lightmaps in the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) and Universal Render Pipeline (URP), which can greatly improve the appearance of low resolution lightmaps. To enable this feature, navigate to *Project Settings > Graphics > Use Bicubic Lightmap Sampling*.

Added a conversion utility to convert Android Player Settings fields "Vulkan Device Allow List" and "Vulkan Device Deny List" to a "Vulkan Device Filter Lists" asset.

Added a new "Vulkan Device Filter Lists" asset type. Use this asset to create filters for Android Devices and to determine whether Vulkan can be enabled on the device and, if so, what the preferred graphics jobs mode would be for that device enabling runtime graphics jobs mode selection.

Added RayTracingAccelerationStructure.UpdateInstanceGeometry API to manually trigger a geometry acceleration structure (BLAS) update. Added RayTracingMode.DynamicGeometryManualUpdate to be used in conjunction with UpdateInstanceGeometry function. This mode can be configured in Renderers or specified when using RayTracingAccelerationStructure.AddInstance(s) functions.

Added the new C\# API RayTracingAccelerationStructure.RemoveInstances, which removes ray tracing instances from an acceleration structure based on their layer or ray tracing mode.

Introduce a new C\# API RayTracingAccelerationStructure.AddInstancesIndirect to specify ray tracing instance transformation matrices using a GraphicsBuffer.

Added Variable Rate Shading support for Custom Passes.

Unity now supports QNX 8.0

Added a render graph debug setting that allows users to temporarily disable pass merging to isolate issues or investigate performance changes.

Added a Mask64Field control that supports a UInt64 (64-bit unsigned integer), allowing up to 64 flags. This control is identical in behavior to the existing MaskField control.

Improved the workflow for authoring variables in the UI Builder.

Added Deferred+ rendering mode.

Added Variable Rate Shading support for Custom Passes (ScriptableRendererFeature).

Added a menu entry to 'Open in Unity Cloud' that shows the repository in the Unity Dashboard.

Added a merge options dialog to the merge view.

Added copy path and history context menu actions in all applicable menus.

Added diff and merge settings in Project Settings > Version Control > Unity Version Control Settings.

Added file conflict and directory conflict context menu actions to the merge view.

Added the ability to merge a branch or a changeset, using new context menu actions.

Changed compression format from gzip to brotli.

Created a new template to support landscape orientation on the Facebook Instant Games platform.

WebGPU is now officially available as one of the graphics APIs for the Web Player.

The Meta Quest Platform is now available in the Build Profiles window.

Improved the performance of Tilemap.SetTile APIs.

Clarify docs for Render Over Native UI, that it doesn't work when application is in split screen mode. The reason is - most likely Android is not rendering UI behind the app when in split screen mode

Player Settings for tvOS will now have app-slices settings when on-demand resources are enabled.

Reduced peak memory usage at the end of Asset Importing, caused by the Bumpmap material/texture check.

Signed the bug reporter on MacOS.

Added the ability to configure the number of asset garbage collector helper threads. Users can set this via Command line argument: -gc-helper-count N Boot configuration file: gc-helper-count=N

Internal RenderGraph ResourceHandle API is now readonly to improve performance.

Added more context and examples to documentation for IRenderPipelineGraphicsSettings and IRenderPipelineResources in Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP) packages.

Improved and expanded the scripting API documentation for MeshRenderer.

Improved documentation for Textures.desiredTextureMemory, Texture.targetTextureMemory, and Texture.totalTextureMemory.

Improved documentation of the Scene class, and added missing documentation for Scene.isSubScene and Scene.handle.

Improved the documentation for GraphicsBufferHandle.

Improved Transform.Translate documentation

Added an array slice and mipmap info to the render graph debugger.

Added extra validation to the render graph texture descriptor to avoid silently failing when a user tried to create an invalid texture.

All colors from Color.cs are now presented as defaults in the Color Picker window.

Improved material creation for PBR Sky custom material.

libcurl used by Unity updated to version 8.10.1.

Modified the new memory leak detection warning so it correctly uses 'Settings' instead of 'Preferences' to indicate where the Leak Detection Level dropdown selector is as a path. Only for macOS editor.

Moved Undo History from the Edit menu to Window/General.

Moving the Shared Scene List option out of the Platforms List in the Build Profiles window, and updated its icon.

Reduced the number of FileIO operations required when loading a DLL.

Renamed Assets/Extract From Prefab to Assets/Extract Material SubAsset and disabled this menu item when no asset is selected in the Project window.

Reorganized the Assets menu to improve navigation.

Reorganized the Edit menu to improve navigation.

Added a new parameter to ShaderConfig.cs in URP Config to reduce shader variants of fog keywords (FOG_EXP, FOG_EXP2, FOG_LINEAR) by dynamic branches.

Added documentation for how shadow matte interacts with stencil and ray traced shadows for Unlit Shader Graph.

Improved the water sample by adding a cave scene using caustics and deformation texture.

Wizard - Simplified the list of validations for IRenderPipelineGraphicsSettings.

Do not emit incremental GC write barriers for writes to function pointer fields.

mdb symbol files are now not read during IL2CPP player builds.

Now write IL2CPP type and field values in C instead of C++.

[RequireDerived] and [RequireImplementors] now mark all instance constructors of all types that they cause to be marked.

Added support for F13 to F24 (F13 to F20 on Mac) for the new Input System package.

Removed the automatic creation of a desktop shortcut when you install a new version of the Unity Editor.

Updated variants for iOS On Demand Resources with new options available in Xcode.

When using Input System package for input handling, an iOS-specific input event handler displays in the Unity memory profiler as InputHandler object.

Optimized job system scheduling for better scaling as the thread count increases.

Optimized thread waking when jobs complete to reduce job system overhead.

Concurrent operations made with the UnityEditor.PackageManager.Client class are now processed sequentially instead of failing with a concurrency error.

Added IUnityGraphics.h in the Vulkan native rendering plugin header to eliminate the hidden include dependency.

Added documentation for ProfilerCounterOptions.

Added SystemInfo.hasTiledGPU.

Updated awaitable methods that require a call from the main thread. These methods now throw an InvalidOperationException in a more reliable way, instead of failing on a random internal call.

Added the -typeinfo argument to binary2text to allow debugging issues with corrupt type info in AssetBundles.

Improved performance of reading texture data embedded in text files.

Added support for spacewarp to Shader Graph.

Improved shader compilation logging in the player.

Added support for using commas in UxmlAttribute list items. Commas are encoded as %2C to avoid conflicts with list item separators.

Improved Unity Profiler usage with UI Toolkit by giving more explicit names to certain markers and removing redundant markers.

Added the ability to turn Reflection Probe Atlas on or off for Universal Render Pipeline (URP) Forward+ renderers, regardless of blending.

Added a missing button in the VFX template window to quickly install learning templates.

Enable threaded RenderQueue extraction for VFX renderers.

Enabled instancing support for VFX using GPU events.

Improved shader generation time by implementing a local include template cache.

Improved shader source generation performance.

Improved VFX compilation time by avoiding redundant instanciation of implicit blocks.

Modified the code generation process to skip creating DXR-related code when ray tracing is not enabled in the output.

Optimized the particle attribute layout for a smaller memory footprint.

Performance optimization on the attributes manager.

Reduced the main thread cost of VFX.Update by moving some transform-related operations to other threads.

Exposed physical camera support through the WebCamTexture.devices property on Android 10 and newer devices (where available).

Unity now uses WindowInsetsController and setDecorFitsSystemWindows APIs on Android 11 or newer versions instead of setSystemUiVisibility API. This affects the behavior of Unity APIs: Fullscreen Mode, Hide Navigation Bar, and Render outside safe area. The application appearance remains the same on devices using Android 10 or older compared to Android 11 or newer versions.

Updated AGP to 8.72, Gradle to 8.11, and Command-Line Tools to 16.0

Updated error messages for AAC audio imports when file contains 2048 samples or less.

Replaced the Unity Bug Reporter.

Added a warning message in Player Settings to indicate Input Manager is legacy with a recommendation to use the Input System package instead.

Changed canRunInBackground to false for Windows Gaming Input gamepads since they cannot be used while the application is in background.

Embedded platforms are now visible in the platform browser.

Improved LogLevel API documentation.

Improved PackageCollection API documentation.

Minimum window width and minimum window height resolution settings are now available regardless of the Fullscreen Mode set for the application window in Android Player settings.

Now use less-verbose version strings by default on official branches.

Physics: Reverted a fix for small body tunnelling at high (~200Hz) simulation frequencies. If affected, use the recommended workaround to decrease ccd threshold to slightly under 1/4 of the half-extent of the scene's smallest object.

Modified the Linux toolchain package installation process. The package is now automatically installed only when the project switches to *Linux Standalone or Dedicated Server* target.

Changed package installation folder names from <packageName> to <packageName>@<fingerprint>.substring(0,12) in the Library/PackageCache folder to prevent locking issues.

.framework plugins are now imported with the "Add to Embedded Binaries" flag enabled by default.

.xcframeworks are now imported with the "Add to Embedded Binaries" flag enabled if they contain .frameworks or dynamic libraries.

Added an automatic UnityDirMonSyncFile rule for existing ignore.conf to avoid triggering unnecessary finding changes operations.

Improved the search box so it can resize when there is not enough space in the toolbar.

Optimized incoming changes to reload the Package Manager only when needed (Gluon/partial workspace only).

Optimized switching operations to only trigger the Package Manager to reinstall packages when needed.

Updated the minimum supported version to Unity 2021.3.0f1.

Updated the Unity logo in the *Sign in to Unity VCS* window.

Upgraded the version of MSVC used to build Unity to 14.42.34433.