6000.3.0b2

Added Mesh Renderer and Skinned Mesh Renderer 2D workflow support for 2D URP.

Extended the platform support of the screen reader support APIs to Windows and macOS, allowing Unity desktop applications to be made compatible with Narrator (Windows) and VoiceOver (macOS).

Added app category support to allow users to retain Android 15 orientation and rotation behavior when running on Android 16.

Added AppCategory analytics to support the collection of app category data.

Added HTTP/2 support for UnityWebRequest on Android.

In the global audio project settings, if the "Audio Foundation" property is set to "Enhanced", a new platform audio foundation is used on Windows and macOS. More platforms will be supported in future versions of Unity. In enhanced mode, the Unity audio engine will run at the channel layout and sampling rate selected via the new "Output Channel Layout" and "Output Sampling Rate" properties. The enhanced audio foundation executes the format conversions necessary to translate from the engine's format to the audio device's native format. This avoids the current issue where the audio engine may reset and lose all state when the default audio output device changes. In addition, in enhanced mode, all expensive platform audio operations, like enumerating, starting, and stopping devices, are all executed off the main thread, so there should be no more main thread hitches.

Set up Bee to better use with either MSVC dynamic or static CRT.

Added new functionality to the Editor dialog box API that will allow for icon choices, and opt out choices. Refer to EditorDialog in the Unity Documentation for more details.

Added performance indicators to the Windows Editor launch window. These indicators display when the Editor is built from source or the Developer Mode Editor preference is enabled.

Added SceneView debug labels and color coded bounds for MeshRenderer and SkinnedMeshRenderer to display active Mesh LOD for meshes with LODs.

Added the ability to dock overlays as full-height dynamic panels in the Scene view.

Made the Editor Launch Screen draggable on Linux.

Moved Adaptive Performance 6 from a package to the Unity core. Bundled provider packages with the Unity Editor.

The main Toolbar of the Editor is now extensible and customizable.

Updated the WebGLSupport artifact for the Mac Editor on Arm64 to be natively built on a Mac Arm64 computer.

Enabled HTTP/2 functionality and optimal extra HTTP/2 settings on EmbeddedLinux.

Engine Diagnostics:

Added options in the Project Settings and Build Profile windows to enable or disable engine diagnostics data collection. This feature is enabled by default in new Unity 6.2 projects. Scripting:

Added ConsentState.AnalyticsIntent and ConsentState.AdsIntent APIs. Use these APIs to define the purposes of data processing.

Added a new lightmap packing algorithm based on the third-party xAtlas library. This packer is now the default for new scenes, while older scenes will automatically continue to use the previous packer.

Published the Unified Raytracing API, which provides an API for creating cross-platform ray tracing shaders.

Added Split Graphics Jobs support to Metal.

Added support for hit shaders in .raytrace files. The GPU executes the hit shaders by default if the expected Shader Pass (specified using RayTracingShader.SetShaderPass) is not found in .shader files used by geometries in the acceleration structure.

Added MeshRenderer and SkinnedMeshRenderer shader user value API to set a per-renderer unsigned int value. This value can be retrieved in shader code to modify the shader value per object, using a single material.

Backport metadata reductions: reduce size of string literal data and type definition data by computing the length of each string during deserialization, removing Il2CppTypeDefinition::elementTypeIndex, and encoding the elementType in Il2CppTypeDefinition::parentIndex.

Enabled HTTP/2 functionality and optimal extra HTTP/2 settings on Kepler.

Enabled the Package Manager to check entitlements for Asset Store Unity Package Manager (UPM) packages and regular packages.

Enabled HTTP/2 functionality and optimal extra HTTP/2 settings on Linux.

Enabled HTTP/2 functionality and optimal extra HTTP/2 settings on the Mac platform.

Enabled users to toggle a profiler window panel within clone editors for Multiplayer Play Mode.

Add the Create UPM Package... option to the Project Browser and Assets contextual menus.

Added a Leave a Review link for packages on the Asset Store in the Package Manager.

Added a clear warning message for users when a package has an invalid signature.

Added a clear warning when a package has no signature.

Added a warning notification to the Package Manager button in the Editor toolbar for users who have packages with errors or warnings in their project.

Added an "Export as UPM package" option to the context menu, and changed current export option to "Export as Asset Package".

Added an "Export Package" button in the Package Manager that enables users to export a package locally as a tarball to their file system.

Added Errors and Warnings section in the sidebar.

Added messages in the Editor to improve visibility into package signature validation as part of ongoing efforts to enhance safety and standardization.

Added support for package signing using the Unity Command Line Interface (CLI) in batch mode.

Added the pinnedPackages optional property to the project manifest. This feature forces specified direct dependencies to use their exact manifest versions during package resolution and project update.

Display package errors in a warning pop-up when opening a project.

Users can now easily create packages from the Package Manager window.

Added conversion operators for LowLevelPhysics2D.PhysicsJoint.

Added extra safety when locking physics worlds so that using invalid bodies, shapes or joints always produces a lock and displays a nice console warning.

Added new low-level 2D physics API based upon Box2D v3. This does not interact with or change the existing API or components at this time. Later, this new API will replace the existing API and be integrated into the existing components.

The LowLevelPhysics2D renderer now performs orthographic render culling, which significantly improves debug rendering performance in large scenes.

The LowLevelPhysics2D.PhysicsRotate property drawer now shows angles labelled as "Angle" and not "Degrees".

Added support for building dedicated server players that target Linux Arm64 platforms using IL2CPP.

Added Unity Profiler Capture List that shows recent profiling sessions and information.

Enabled HTTP/2 functionality and optimal extra HTTP/2 settings on QNX.

Enabled specifying the SCREEN_PROPERTY_PIPELINE property for each window.

Added a template browser accessible through the Create menu. Users can designate any Shader Graph asset as a template in the Asset Inspector.

Added support for additional UV channels where applicable.

Added three new options to the Unlit target: Keep Lighting Variants, Default Decal Blending, and Default SSAO. These options enable you to more effectively create custom lighting models using the Unlit target. For examples, refer to the Shader Graph Custom Lighting sample content in the documentation.

Users can now add project-wide shader keyword list declaration overrides from Graphics Settings. This update allows users to switch between statically compiled variants and dynamic branching and completely remove keywords that are never used.

Added the ability to connect to player builds in the Render Graph Viewer.

Added Shader Graph support for terrain shaders. This update includes support for the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) and Universal Render Pipeline (URP), a new subtarget type, and a new node for loading terrain data.

Added BR tag for ATG.

Added Sprite tag to ATG.

Added a new USS aspect-ratio property, which defines the width-to-height ratio used in layout calculations.

Added a SVG importer option to import antialiased VectorImages.

Added new filters to UI Toolkit, allowing you to apply tint, opacity, invert, grayscale, sepia, blur, contrast, and hue-rotate effects on VisualElement objects.

Added PopupMenuSimulator for UI Test Framework.

Added the Image element to the UI Builder library and exposed its properties as UXML attributes.

Implemented dashed pattern in Painter2D Strokes.

Implemented gradient fill in Painter2D.

Implemented texture fill in Painter2D.

Implemented UITK ShaderGraph Master Node.

Released UI Test Framework 1.0 Package.

Added Kawase and Dual filtering options for Bloom. These filters trade quality for performance and are primarily intended for mobile platforms: Kawase filtering is optimized for smaller resolutions. Dual filtering is suitable for larger resolutions. * Gaussian filtering remains the best choice for quality and stability. Each filter requires unique settings to achieve visual parity.

Enabled HTTP/2 functionality on Universal Windows, including optimal HTTP/2 settings.

Added a Disabled option for the intermediate texture in URP.

Internal GXR-5 Extend functionality of URP to support quad view with 2 views x 2 passes Opaque texture decals can cause rendering artifacts in quad view when interacting with the transparent pass. Gaze tracking is not functional in our current testing scenarios.

Added support for BaseColorMapMode in unlit output.

Useres can now more easily create VFX templates.

Added a button for connecting to the Unity Profiler in the Default and PWA Web templates.

Added a Web Profiling dialog to start a Unity Profiler session and show the profiler's IP address and port.

Enabled HTTP/2 functionality on Windows, including optimal HTTP/2 settings.

Provided framebuffer tile size information from the application to OpenXR runtime. Thisallows XR vendors to make several optimizations.

Updated the Render Pipeline Converter with a minor user experience rework. (UUM-115317) First seen in 6000.3.0a5.

Added tooltips to properties for the TilesetImporter editor.

Improved performance of instantiation of GameObjects from Tiles.

Increased the default alpha level of the Tile Palette Grid when the Editor is in Light mode, to make the Grid more visible.

SpiteAtlas previews can now be packed and previewed asynchronously, which prevents the Editor from freezing during these operations. Previously, packing SpriteAtlas previews did an internal import when enabled for builds in an synchronous way and then displayed sprites. This also fixes an issue where all Atlases are packed when Atlas preview is clicked in certain cases, now only the atlas that is selected to be previewed is packed.

Added the option to force the use of internal storage for persistent and cache files.

Unity will now print which SDK/NDK/JDK is used for the build in Editor.log.

Added profiler markers to PlayableDirector and PlayableOutputs to facilitate profiling for Timelines.

Improved evaluation performance of Animation Components which are animating large amounts of properties.

Improved memory allocations related to Animator callbacks, leading to improved performance.

CAMetalDisplayLink is now enabled by default.

Improved the timing accuracy of AudioRandomContainer.

The Audio Source's "Audio Resource" field has now been generalized to an "Audio Generator" field, allowing to additionally assign and pick new Scriptable Generator assets and MonoBehaviours in the inspector.

Added copy and open functionality for attachment paths.

You can set ID3D12GraphicsCommandList::IASetVertexBuffers once instead of several times in a loop inside GfxDeviceD3D12Base::DrawBuffersCommon.

- Remove the Description Foldout in favor of a text block.

Adjust the sizes of the default platform icons.

Added a dropdown to Fullscreen Renderer Feature to create a new Fullscreen Shader Graph from default template, or a new Fullscreen (handwritten) Shader using SRP Blit template.

Added a dropdown to URP Decal Projector to create a new Decal Shader Graph from default template, or a new URP Decal Material.

Added a setting in Preferences/Shader Graph to automatically open newly created graph assets.

Added a setting in Preferences/Shader Graph to choose whether a new graph and material assets are created as a Material Variant or not.

Added a tooltip to the Create button in the Project Browser. The tooltip reads: "Create new Asset."

Added informational console error messages that are triggered by custom overlays using invalid windows.

Added new Editor asset icons for Texture2DArrays, Texture3Ds, and CubemapArrays.

Added support for generating CubemapArray thumbnails in AssetPreview.

Added support in the Frame Debugger for viewing shading rate image attachments and other Variable Rate Shading details in a render pass in the Editor.

Added two new states to the dynamic panel: toolbar and collapsed.

Changed "Unity Package Manager" to "Package Manager" to reduce truncation when displayed on the Editor startup splash screen.

Improve player build times when both burst and il2cpp are involved. Some workflows that were tested saw a 22% reduction in player build times. However, the savings vary by project and workflow. In some workflows there could be little to no reduction.

Improved Editor startup time by deferring package manager setup until licensing is ready.

Improved performance of RectTransform.GetWorldCorners by removing an unneeded call to the Transform property.

Improved the Auto Graphics API UI to always display a list of available graphics APIs. Added a warning if the graphics API will change after restarting the Editor.

Modified diagnostic switches are now written to the Editor.log on Editor startup.

Modified the Editor Launch Screen close button on Linux to dim and become non-interactible after a user selects it.

Modified the Editor Launch Screen close button on macOS to dim and become non-interactive after you select it.

Moved the warning message when no material is assigned to a URP Fullscreen Renderer Feature, from Console to Inspector.

Removed Linq usage in CoreUtils.

Removed some string allocations in ATG.

Removed the Reset Size option from the Overlay contextual menu for overlays that are not actually able to be resized by the user.

Simplified Pool System for ATG.

The UI for Object Fields and the Object Selector now supports filtering the 'objectType' by an interface, both in UI Elements or EditorGUI.

This improvement allows users to customize the background colour of Overlays by window. It adds a new Overlays section in User Preferences with sections for each window, wherein overlays can also be enabled, disabled or the colours reset to default.

Updated code generation option labels in PlayerSettings to better reflect their purpose: Changed Faster runtime to Optimize for runtime speed. Changed Faster (smaller) builds to Optimize for code size and build time.

Updated the dynamic panel icons with official icons.

Updated the Platform Browser header section to show new UI images.

DelayedAttribute now supports Vector and Rect fields when drawn with UI Toolkit.

Added validity checks for GameWindow operations in the Windowing API.

Reflection probe transform can now be rotated in URP.

The system now prompts you to save any unsaved scenes before baking reflection probes in HDRP.

- Migrated HDAdditionalLightData.innerSpotPercent to Light.innerSpotAngle.

Migrated HDAdditionalLightData.shapeWidth and shapeHeight to Light.areaSize for area lights, and to Light.cookieSize2D for directional lights.

Migrated HDAdditionalLightData.aspectRatio to Light.innerSpotAngle for pyramid lights.

Migrated Light.cookieSize to Light.cookieSize2D.

Deprecated the HDRP HDAdditionalLightData.SetSpotAngle() API.

Added new profiler mark to display time spent waiting for the next drawable on devices using the Metal graphics API.

Fixed errors in the URP Samples.

Optimized Skinned Mesh Renderer matrix calculations to enable Unity to parallelize these calculations, even when using the non-optimized import setting.

Improved startup time and reduced metadata memory usage by delaying the creation of generic method instances.

Made a small performance improvement in isinst checks generic types with generic variance.

Reduced default worst-case input latency and reduced likelihood of dropped/undetected input when using Xbox gamepads on Windows, UWP, Xbox by increasing the default polling frequency for input devices polled in the background.

Improved time for the Package Export window to show up.

Replaced the sidebar, error, and warning icons.

Improved the tooltips for the Physics Settings window.

Renamed the API parameter rot to rotation in Rigidbody.MoveRotation() to ensure consistency with Rigidbody.MovePosition().

The "Reuse Collision Callbacks" option inside the Physics settings is now enabled by default for new projects.

You can now strip the PhysX integration from build targets when that use "Strip Engine Code" to remove native Unity code. To strip the PhysX integration, set the GameObject SDK dropdown to "None" in Project Settings > Physics.

Removed code that supported passing project settings objects (such as PlayerSettings and QualitySettings) to Instantiate() or loading them from AssetBundles. This change reduces binary size across all platforms, with a reduction of approximately 100KB on Web platforms.

Upgraded DLSS3 (v3.7.2) to latest DLSS4 (v310.3.0): added DLAA quality mode & DLSS Render Preset options under HDRP Dynamic resolution DLSS settings.

Added a range of UX feedback collected during additional testing of the Profiler Overview feature.

Added support for native allocation call stacks in Memory Profiler 1.1.6. Use the -enable-memoryprofiler-callstacks command-line argument to enable this feature on desktop and mobile platforms.

The Profiler Overview's lists of top markers now combine marker instances within a frame and link to the CPU Hierarchy where appropriate.

Multidisplay monitor commandline argument.

Added a dedicated edit mode to the main toolbar.

Added ability to collapse tool groups in the Tools overlay.

Improved Editor Tools icon fallback and grouping behaviour.

Improved user experience and workflows when using Editor tool contexts.

Improved symbol post-processing times for Cloud Diagnostics and Engine Diagnostics.

Added a new set of sample content that provides example terrain shaders that use Shader Graph.

Added a new set of sample content to Shader Graph that shows how the lighting model can be customized directly in the graph. Custom lighting can improve performance and/or provide a way to stylize the look of a project and this sample shows how to do it.

Added an option to Custom Interpolators to change the interpolation type, such as no interpolation or centroid.

Added both preference and setting path for variant limit exceeded warning message.

Added the ability to promote subgraph properties to the final shader.

Addressed an issue where the far right toolbar dropdown was difficult to interact with.

Improved resizing behavior for custom property and function inspectors.

Improved shader variant exceeded message to direct users to both project settings and preferences.

Improved spacing of a certain toggle on the shader graph preferences page.

Made some small polish fixes to Shader Graph template files.

Modified the Heatmap asset help button so it now redirects to Shader Graph documentation.

Subgraphs with a non-previewable first output now default to having no node preview.

Improved build time for shaders with multiple subshaders and passes but few variants.

Added backbuffer as target support for AddBlitPass Render Graph utility.

Added custom support for MaterialUpgraders.

Added validation for the AddBlitPass function to ensure proper handling of null source textures.

Improved Cleaning of the resources when there is an exception in the rendergraph.

Improved RG error system handling with more descriptive messages.

Improved the Render Graph exception handling mechanism and its logging behaviour, removing unnecessary error messages.

Optimized the AddBlitPass utility to use AddCopyPass when applicable.

Updated the Render Graph Viewer to automatically refresh when changes occur in the render graph execution.

Improved ATG performance by adding parallelization on more algorithms.

Improved performance for ATG.

Added the ability to change the TreeView item indent with a custom style property called --unity-tree-view-indent.

Added isDelayedsupport to composite fields: Vector2Field, Vector2IntFIeld, Vector3Field, Vector3IntField, Vector4Field, RectField and RectIntField.

Improved layout cache management.

Improved UI Toolkit performance when using Advanced Text Generator.

Migrated various control tests to the new UITK test framework.

Upgraded USS parser. This includes more robust handling of selectors and tokens, with stricter validation and clearer error reporting. This upgrade may expose previously unnoticed invalid USS in your projects.

Added API documentation for SetRenderAttachment/SetRenderAttachmentDepth/SetInputAttachment to specify the limitation when using the same render texture with different depth slices at different render target indices.

Small optimization: removed unneeded intermediate textures for Forward+ in Editor.

Updated the Rendering Settings Converter in the Render Pipeline Converter to create one Universal Renderer per rendering mode, instead of creating one per Quality level.

Improved CPU performance by reducing internal dereferencing of PPtr.

Improved VFX default resources.

Users can now insert a template into an existing graph at a chosen initial position to avoid nodes from overlapping.

VFX Graph: Enabled sticky notes to be added to groups and improved the color theme.

Set a minimum width and height for the Physics Debugger window.

Added a warning to the Tilemap Inspector when the Tilemap isn't attached to an enabled Grid.

Disabled the instantiation of GameObjects from Tiles when the Tilemap isn't attached to an enabled Grid to prevent performance issues from these GameObjects.

Reduced recursive limit from 11 to 6 for instantiation of GameObjects from Tiles.

The minimum supported version for tvOS is now tvOS 15. The previous minimum was tvOS 13.

Made internal changes to FMOD.

Updated the UI of the Bug Reporter to remove the small cross buttons at the end of each text input field.

Added messages in the Console to improve visibility into package signature validation as part of ongoing efforts to enhance safety and standardization.

Changed dynamic panel sizes to use pixels instead of percentages.

Improved PackageInfo.FindForAssetPath API documentation.

Redesigned the Overlay menu.

Renamed the Diagnostics section in the Preferences menu to Editor Diagnostics.

The Game view rendering statistics window now displays a warning of incorrect triangle and vertex count when indirect draw calls are issued, such as is the case with GPU Occlusion Culling.

The shader variant limit option in Shader Graph Project Settings now requires an opt-in override toggle.

Updated the AI toolbar button to also install the Inference Engine.

Updated verbose Unity version strings in the About window to display a Git commit hash and Git branch name instead of progress and digress numbers.

Updated GatherDependenciesFromSourceFile to trigger a warning when using AssetImporter.GetAtPath. (CPN-1363)

The OpenCL based GPU lightmapper is now the default for new projects and new lighting settings assets.

Ported HDRP to the Native Render Pass Render Graph API.

Changed the serialized form of TypeDefinitionIndex in the global metadata file to use the smallest possible numeric representation, reducing the metadata size for most programs.

The minimum supported version for iOS is now iOS 15. The previous minimum was iOS 13.

Updated C and C++ version used when building iOS and tvOS platforms from Xcode project.

Updated the Package Manager window to display completely non-compliant scoped registries.

Set a minimum width and height for the Physics Debugger window.

Increased the default frame count in the Unity Profiler to 2,000.

Added a warning to the console if \[SerializeReference\] is used on a type that is not serializable.

Enabled RenderGraph.nativeRenderPassesEnabled by default.

POI-2047: UITK Test Framework 1.0 Package.

Isolated post-processing URP compatibility mode from Render Graph mode. Split PostProcessingPass into two independent classes for compatibility mode and render graph. Compatibility mode post-process code is now in the Universal.CompatibilityMode namespace.

Updated global settings for URP empty scene template. It will now have rotating reflection probes enabled when creating a new URP project.

Updated FullScreenRenderPass to use AddCopyPass and AddBlitPass utilities when applicable (e.g., fetchColorBuffer enabled and no texture requirements).

Updated the Rendering Settings Converter in the Render Pipeline Converter so that it only displays Quality levels that have missing Universal Render Pipeline (URP) assets.

Updated C and C++ version used when building visionOS platform from Xcode project.

Updated com.unity.xr.openxr package version to 1.15.0.

Updated the Oculus XR Plugin package to version 4.5.2.

Updated the com.unity.xr.openxr package to version 1.15.0-pre.2.