6000.5.0a8

Added extensibility support for Light2D and ShadowCaster2D components. Users can now implement custom provider classes to modify or extend their behavior.

Activated Adaptive Performance Basic Provider for additional platforms.

The new Apple provider for Adaptive Performance enables Thermal Warnings for iOS, tvOS and visionOS and a wide range of scalers usable with those warnings.

AudioClip can now be used as a Scriptable Generator.

Added a new expression node to simplify inlining mathematical statements.

Added support for custom styling for lists and array from the DataTypeStyleMapper.

Code analyzer now catches many serialization issues at compile time in addition to runtime, which gives you an early warning about potential issues around serialization.

Added the new TransformRef API for Entities, which uses the same underlying data structure as the UnityEngine transform system and paves the way for integration between Entities and GameObject transforms.

Added query tree organization and built-in queries for the LightingSearch window.

Added render pipeline-specific selectors for the LightingSearch window.

Added support for creating Untyped variable nodes in a graph.

Kerberos proxy authentication support.

Added a new dedicated Samples view in the Package Manager window.

Added a worldDrawing flag to PhysicsBody, PhysicsShape, PhysicsChain, all PhysicsJoint types, and their respective definitions. This flag controls whether the object automatically draws when the world debug renderer draws.

Added a menu item to create a new shader graph using a template, from the URP Decal Projectors and URP Fullscreen Renderer Feature.

Added initial support for reflected functions.

Added drag and drop support for StyleSheetsWindow.

Added submodules for Physics2D and PhysicsCore2D built-in modules.

Enabled the Player setting WebAssembly 2023 by default.

Added a 2D Profiler that displays real-time visualization of texture atlas usage whic offers clear insights into sprite and atlas efficiency during gameplay.

Added extensibility support for Light2D and ShadowCaster2D components. Users can now implement custom provider classes to modify or extend their behavior.

Activated Adaptive Performance Basic Provider for additional platforms.

The new Apple provider for Adaptive Performance enables Thermal Warnings for iOS, tvOS and visionOS and a wide range of scalers usable with those warnings.

Insets visibility can now be controlled via Editor API/UI and Runtime API. Refer to PlayerSettings.Android.requestedVisibleWindowInsets, PlayerSettings.Android.systemBarsBehavior, AndroidApplication.currentWindowInsets, AndroidApplication.onWindowInsetsChanged to learn more.

AudioClip can now be used as a Scriptable Generator.

Added the ability to extract type tree data from asset bundles to reduce their size. This data can be loaded at runtime and shared between all bundles.

Added a new expression node to simplify inlining mathematical statements.

Added support for custom styling for lists and array from the DataTypeStyleMapper.

Added tracking for UGUI usage.

Changed the Texture Inspector's color channel previews to default to grayscale, and added a button to toggle between grayscale and colorized views.

Code analyzer now catches many serialization issues at compile time in addition to runtime, which gives you an early warning about potential issues around serialization.

Project Auditor: asynchronous analysis.

Updated Project Auditor to report the use of obsolete APIs.

Added IBUS Input Method Editor (IME) support for Embedded Linux platform.

Added a setting (Preferences > Entities) to show hidden Entities in the hierarchy window.

Added a way to filter systems in the Systems window by namespaces.

Added the new TransformRef API for Entities, which uses the same underlying data structure as the UnityEngine transform system and paves the way for integration between Entities and GameObject transforms.

Replaced the search bar in the Systems window with a quick search bar that provides additional filtering options.

DisableAutoTypeRegistration now is allowed assembly-wide.

Added a new LightingSearch window foundation with lightmap browsing and preview capabilities.

Added query tree organization and built-in queries for the LightingSearch window.

Added render pipeline-specific selectors for the LightingSearch window.

Added selectors for editing lighting properties in the Lighting Search window.

Added support for creating Untyped variable nodes in a graph.

Added support for the TextArea attribute to create multi-line text fields for ports and options.

Added the ability to create custom classes that inherit from DataTypeStyleMapper to associate icons and colors with custom data types. Custom DataTypeStyleMapper classes can be decorated with DataTypeStyleMapperAttribute to specify compatible graph types.

Updated the Constant node to support collections, such as lists and arrays. These collections can grow up to 50 elements and each element is editable directly from the node view.

Added an opt-in On-Tile Validation check on UniversalRenderer. Enabling it will enforce On-Tile optimization by issuing a warning and removing non-compatible features.

Added a system that adjusts the frame rate based on the thermal state. When the device overheats, iOS enters Serious and then Critical thermal states. In the Critical state, iOS reduces system-wide performance to lower device temperature. With this new system Unity proactively lowers the frame rate to 30 FPS in Serious state and 15 FPS in Critical state, which helps prevent the device from becoming too hot, improves responsiveness under overheating conditions, and reduces the likelihood of GPU timeouts or rendering freezes. This feature is enabled by default and it can be toggled in the iOS Player Settings using the Adjust iOS FPS based on thermal state checkbox. In addition, the frame rate in the Serious state can be configured using Serious Thermal State FPS, and in the Critical state using Critical Thermal State FPS.

Kerberos proxy authentication support.

Added IBUS and FCITX5 Input Method Editor (IME) support for Desktop Linux platform.

Added support for CAMetalDisplayLink on the Mac Player. It is disabled by default and can be enabled in Player Settings by toggling "Use MetalDisplayLink (Mac Player only)" or by using the environment variable UNITY_USE_METAL_DISPLAY_LINK=1. Using CAMetalDisplayLink decreases stuttering, improves frame pacing, and makes Time.deltaTime more stable.

Moved the Netcode for Entities package from the DOTS repository into the Unity Engine as a built-in package.

Netcode for Entities package has now all the same changes as 1.12.0 version which marks the common package state between standalone package version and built-in one.

Moved the Transport package from a separate repository into the Unity Engine as a built-in package.

Added a Locate button in the Package Manager to locate imported samples in the Project window.

Added a new dedicated Samples view in the Package Manager window.

Enabled full modification of the technical names through the Inspector for packages in development.

Reduced information in the header and displayed them in cards in the Details and Overview tab.

Added a worldDrawing flag to PhysicsBody, PhysicsShape, PhysicsChain, all PhysicsJoint types, and their respective definitions. This flag controls whether the object automatically draws when the world debug renderer draws.

Added new Physics Core 2D features including a dedicated settings Editor, per-world custom transform writing/tweening with callbacks and events, custom transform planes, global transform read modes, contact filter mode, rendering availability in non-development builds, control of maximum worlds to reduce static memory overhead, and always-draw options.

Added support in PhysicsMath for transform setting with PhysicsTransform.

Improved debug rendering for multiple cameras to ensure accurate custom draw element lifetimes. Custom drawing is now always drawn after any automatic scene drawing.

Optimized Debug Rendering with more optimized SDF shaders. In addition, the properties "drawThickness" and "drawPointScale" are fixed so they correctly render in pixel scales. It is recommended that you either reset the "PhysicsWorldDefinition" to its defaults or use the defaults for "drawThickness" of 1 and "drawPointScale" of 0.5.

PhysicsRotate can now create rotations using either radians or degrees. Deprecated the constructor that accepted a radian angle due to the Burst compiler incompatibility. In addition, simplified its property drawer to display only its rotation without the resultant direction.

When using PhysicsBody transform writing of Interpolation, you can now perform a final interpolation-sync prior to the next simulation. This ensures the Transform is synchronized with the current body pose using the PhysicsWorld.syncInterpolation or PhysicsWorldDefinition.syncInterpolation options.

Added code coverage support for development builds on standalone platforms (Windows, macOS, and Linux) that use the Mono scripting backend.

Added a log message on Editor shutdown that displays the version of the oldest serialized file loaded during the session.

Added a menu item to create a new shader graph using a template, from the URP Decal Projectors and URP Fullscreen Renderer Feature.

Added a new switch node, allowing multiple branching cases to be expressed in a single node. The node automatically matches cases for connected float inputs in enum mode.

Added an option to disable the connector on subgraph inputs for select types, forcing them to be statically compiled.

Added initial support for reflected functions.

Added support for float mode in subgraphs, allowing for additional UX options for inputs on corresponding subgraph nodes.

Added the UNITY_PLATFORM_META_QUEST preprocessor directive for shader compilation when targeting Meta Quest. This can be used to create platform-specific shader optimizations.

Added a PanelRenderer component to UI Toolkit.

Added an experimental USS Stats window.

Added drag and drop support for StyleSheetsWindow.

Added editor support for VisualElementReference<T>.

Added support for animating PanelRenderer UIToolkit content using the Animator of the legacy Animation component.

Added support for PanelRenderer to display its elements in the new Hierarchy window.

Integrated override bars and affordances for attributes in the Visual Element Inspector.

Synchronized the stylesheets window to the staging context.

We added a new sample to the Unity Physics package, demonstrating how to use the newly introduced Direct Solver to produce an advanced game physics scenario. You can import this new "Advanced Game Physics Sample - Chain and Gears" directly into your project from the Package Manager via the Samples tab of the Unity Physics package. The sample provides an advanced physics-based game element that leverages Unity Physics' novel solver technology to simulate a complex mechanism involving gears interacting with a chain. It combines the new Direct Solver for accurate simulation of the stiff chain links and the gears with the Iterative Solver for efficient simulation of all the collisions in the scene. Unity Physics automatically couples the results of both solvers for lifelike, stable and efficient simulation results. This setup demonstrates how both solvers combined can capture exciting emerging physical behaviors at real-time simulation rates, such as the jamming of the gears caused by the chain getting stuck between the gears' teeth in this example scenario.

Added a cset by cset diff panel in the branches view.

Added a properties panel for the selected changeset/shelveset.

Added an empty state in the history view.

Added branch names to the branch deletion dialog.

Added specific empty states for Pending/Incoming Changes with filters,.

Added an option to release the VFX batch instance when the VisualEffect is disabled.

Added the ability to search and filter in the template window (also available for ShaderGraph).

Exposed "Target minimum visionOS Version" to visionOS Player settings.

Added a submodule for the libtess2 external library.

Added submodule for external library double-conversion.

Added submodule for the Clipper external library.

Added submodule for the external library zlib.

Added submodules for Physics2D and PhysicsCore2D built-in modules.

Added submodules for PhysX libraries.

Added submodules for the Box2D external libraries.

Added submodules for libpng and libjpeg libraries that enable stripping these third-party libraries if no PNG or JPEG images are loaded during runtime.

Enabled the Player setting WebAssembly 2023 by default.

Added DirectStorage support for asset loading in Windows Standalone builds. You can use this feature by using Enable Direct Storage in Player Settings.

Optimized the Asset Hot Reloading subscription system.

Added a new setting in the Entities Preferences where you can select which Worlds should be visible in the Hierarchy. By default, Live Worlds are visible in the hierarchy.

Changed SubScene nodes in the Hierarchy window to be named after the SubScene and displayed with the Scene icon.

Improved performance of Metal (macOS/iOS) Development builds.

Action button text in trust warnings and error window matches the action made by the user.

PhysicsComposer can now convert both "CircleGeometry" and"CapsuleGeometry" to "PolygonGeometry" using a static method of "PhysicsComposer.ToPolygons()".

PhysicsComposer now implements the IDisposable interface where the public IDisposable.Dispose method simply calls "PhysicsComposer.Destroy()".

Upgraded DLSS SDK from v310.4.0 to v310.5.0, including adding Preset L and M to DLSS Super Resolution.

Improved UGUI Shaders sample to take advantage of promoted properties and subgraph improvements, by replacing former custom nodes with subgraphs.

Added OnFontMaterialRequest callback to complement the existing OnFontAssetRequest callback that allows custom loading of font related resources that are not contained in a Resources folder when using the &lt;font&gt; and &lt;material&gt; markup tag variants. Added new variant to the &lt;font&gt; markup tag to allow referencing a font asset by the source font's family and style name. Example: &lt;font familyName="Roboto" styleName="Bold"&gt;. This new variant assumes the referenced font asset has already been loaded. Added missing OnColorGradientRequest callback to provide the same custom loading functionality that is available with the &lt;font&gt; and &lt;material&gt; markup tags. Added OnCharacterRequest callback to allow loading font asset resources based on the requested character.

Improved mesh update performance.

AsyncReadManager now supports DirectStorage when enabled.

Improved performance when sampling the nearest position on the NavMesh.

Improved Android Studio integration, file paths in compilation errors are now clickable and navigate to the correct line and column.

Improved performance for symlinks detection.

Improved DX12 Split Jobs SRP Testing Coverage.

Improved DX12 SRP Test QV Coverage.

Improved UWP DX12 SRPTests coverage.

Added a "Create Folder with Selection" option to the Create menu to allow the creation of a new folder containing the current Project Browser selection.

Added a Save option to Project Auditor when selecting New Analysis.

Added main Project Auditor preferences to its start screen.

Added unused memory information in bytes to texture atlas messages in Project Auditor.

Fixed a performance regression with the Editor's property caching system.

Fixed an issue where overlay presets dropdown not showing their status when modified. (STO-3734)

Improved interactivity of progress bar when opening the "Compile and Show Code" dropdown in the Shader Inspector.

Improved Project Auditor code analysis.

Increased the minimum width of the Sprite Editor Window so when the window is undocked it cannot be resized so that the window is too thin to display all the buttons on the toolbar.

Optimized the Asset Hot Reloading subscription system.

Switched IMGUI text backend to ATG.

The "Destroy may not be called from edit mode\!" error now contains the relevant GameObject name.

The "DontDestroyOnLoad only works for root GameObjects or components on root GameObjects." warning now contains the relevant GameObject name.

The "Using mirror once texture wrap mode which is not supported by the platform." warning now contains the relevant Texture name.

Updated documentation button styling in Project Auditor to match the Editor.

Added a new setting in the Entities Preferences where you can select which Worlds should be visible in the Hierarchy. By default, Live Worlds are visible in the hierarchy.

Changed SubScene nodes in the Hierarchy window to be named after the SubScene and displayed with the Scene icon.

Entity and section nodes are parented below susbcene nodes in the new Hierarchy.

No longer showing the System Entities in the Hierarchy window.

Optimized iteration over component types within an archetype in certain cases.

Removed expensive baking analytics in the Entities packages that occurred during subscene importing. This was done to speed up build times.

World nodes are now always displayed after Scene nodes in the hierarchy window.

Removed unneeded noise evaluation in APV when sampling per-vertex.

Added a message to the Frame Debugger that displays when the Editor is waiting for the player to respond or send messages.

Improved performance of Metal (macOS/iOS) Development builds.

Improved baseVertex validation when setting a sub-mesh on a Mesh.

DX11 SRP Tests to run with correct threading modes.

Improved GraphicsTests Split Jobs Coverage.

Improved Metal MultiThreaded testing coverage.

Added the in keyword to RenderGraph TextureHandle and BufferHandle function parameters in HDRP, as they are now readonly structs.

Render Pipeline Converter: Allowed HDRP to use Readonly material converter. (SRP-974)

Improved de-virtualization of boxed virtual calls in generic code that are guarded by an is check.

Made a minor reduction in IL2CPP player build times by optimizing managed symbol file handling by UnityLinker and IL2CPP.

Optimized calls to typeof(T).IsEnum, typeof(T).IsByRefLike, typeof(T).IsValueType, typeof(T).IsPrimitive in generic code.

Optimized type equality checks in generic code.

Reduced code size by reducing the number of method invoker variations generated.

Removed boxing in generic code when the box is done for an isinst call.

Removed collection of generic instances for method that are replaced by intrinsics.

Small performance improvement in generic variance type checks.

IMGUI now uses Advanced Text Generator to generate its Text.

Improved TouchScreenKeyboard with visible input to support liquid glass on iOS 26 and later.

Action button text in trust warnings and error window matches the action made by the user.

Aligned active trust messages with passive trust.

Improved active trust handling in the Package Manager.

Added the ability to specify if internal collision, trigger, and joint event buffers should be de-allocated with a specific time interval. Effectively allowing memory pressure to be reduced when a physics scene's preparation stage runs. These settings can be found in Project Settings &gt; Physics &gt; Settings &gt; GameObjects tab, under the "Frame Maintenance" foldout.

Exposed log verbosity as a option within the Physics pane to allow users to suppress some warnings and logs coming out of the PhysX integration. The new setting can be found under *Edit &gt; Project Settings &gt; Physics &gt; Settings* under the GameObject tab. (PHYS-681)

PhysicsComposer can now convert both "CircleGeometry" and"CapsuleGeometry" to "PolygonGeometry" using a static method of "PhysicsComposer.ToPolygons()".

PhysicsComposer now implements the IDisposable interface where the public IDisposable.Dispose method simply calls "PhysicsComposer.Destroy()".

Upgraded DLSS SDK from v310.4.0 to v310.5.0, including adding Preset L and M to DLSS Super Resolution.

Editor: Migrated Profiler charts from IMGUI to UITK.

Added an overload to GameObjectUtility.DuplicateGameObjects that allows not recording the Undo.

Fixed an issue where the swizzle node's input slot could end up in a bad state. Changed its behavior so that the node's input and output slot always reflect the swizzle mask.

Improved appearance of channel dropdown on UV node when node is collapsed.

Improved contrast of category names.

Improved some cases where swapping pipeline assets could cause disruptions.

Improved the alignment of the help box in the Project Settings window.

Improved the formatting of the help box in the Project Settings window.

Improved UGUI Shaders sample to take advantage of promoted properties and subgraph improvements, by replacing former custom nodes with subgraphs.

Updated the grouping shortcut to match the context menu behavior.

Updated the help button for heatmap values to redirect to the Shader Graph package documentation.

Added keyword type information in the X_KEYWORD_DECLARED macros. This allows the shader code to make preprocessing time decisions based on whether specialized variants are being generated or if dynamic branching is used instead. X_KEYWORD_DECLARED will have KEYWORD_TYPE_FLAG_SPECIALIZED_VARIANTS set if shader_feature or multi_compile is in use. Correspondingly dynamic_branch keywords will have KEYWORD_TYPE_FLAG_RUNTIME_BRANCHING set.

Improved errors reported when a shader compiler process crashes.

Improved GPU performance on Meta Quest devices by avoiding shadow map sampling for geometry that is back facing in relations to the shadow casting light.

Added Material Variants handling to the Render Pipeline Converter's Shader Upgrade.

Avoid Render Pipeline Converter to output unnecessary information upon conversion.

Improved the Render Pipeline Converter console report to display conversion results.

Optimized Render Graph through several small improvements, with no changes in logic. Render Graph recording step is 2% to 4% faster on the main CPU thread in several scenarios.

Volumes - Fixed Open In Rendering Debugger. Now it selects the given Volume Component to inspect.

Improved Test Data ToString Representation.

Added OnFontMaterialRequest callback to complement the existing OnFontAssetRequest callback that allows custom loading of font related resources that are not contained in a Resources folder when using the &lt;font&gt; and &lt;material&gt; markup tag variants. Added new variant to the &lt;font&gt; markup tag to allow referencing a font asset by the source font's family and style name. Example: &lt;font familyName="Roboto" styleName="Bold"&gt;. This new variant assumes the referenced font asset has already been loaded. Added missing OnColorGradientRequest callback to provide the same custom loading functionality that is available with the &lt;font&gt; and &lt;material&gt; markup tags. Added OnCharacterRequest callback to allow loading font asset resources based on the requested character.

Added a GameObject menu item to add a Panel Renderer.

Added live reload support to PanelRenderer.

Added schema support for "authoring-id".

Improved consistency between computed style length encoding and corresponding layout node style.

Improved consistency between computed style units and corresponding layout node style data.

Improved inspector support for elements so they use driven properties when displaying live attribute values.

Improved memory usage of Visual Element layout border data and simplified preprocessing step for border style data.

Improved mesh update performance.

Improved performance of layout calculation by removing various pre-layout data conversions.

Improved UXML importer performance.

Improved Visual Element Reference picker to include a type and name filter. The full path is now also considered in the search.

Moved data used for native layout into computed style structure and removed data redundancy from LayoutManager.

The UI Debugger now shows the Authoring Id for elements.

Added the in keyword for RenderGraph TextureHandle and BufferHandle function parameters in URP, as they are now readonly structs.

Changed DepthCopyPass to ignore copyToDepth and copyResolvedDepth constructor parameters. These are now derived from the source and destination TextureHandles to ensure functional correctness.

Added an "Open Project Settings &gt; Graphics" button below the warning "BatchRendererGroup Variants must be set to Keep All" that appears in the Inspector when enabling GPU Resident Drawer on a URP asset.

Preview of a visible GameView camera would discard history and effectively disable TAA in the GameView. Previews are treated as redraws to avoid discarding the history of the GameView.

Implemented a GPU performance improvement on the Meta Quest platform by optimizing the function that queries for whether the active camera uses perspective or orthographic projection.

Disabled profiling during Shader Graph code generation to fix errors that occurred in some circumstances.

PanelRenderer now releases its root visual element to help reclaim memory and diagnose usage of stale element references.

Made Adaptive Performance Android Provider package discoverable in the Unity Package Manager.

Improved GPU performance on Meta Quest on Forward. Added a loop unroll keyword if there is only one additional light per object selected on the URP Asset.

Upgraded DotNetSdk from 8.0.312 to 8.0.318.

Upgraded DotNetSdkRoslyn from 6.0.413 to 8.0.318. Note that we will not be exposing support for newer C\# language versions as a part of this change. Updating the compiler is a step towards this, but other components also need to be updated before we can enable newer C\# language versions.

Changed Look Dev Volume Profile Lifetime Management.

Changed previous fix to only happen in Editor outside of Play Mode.

Changed the Prismatic Articulation Joint type with targetVelocity set (a velocity motored prismatic articulation joint) so now setting the Target Velocity to a positive value results in a positive linear velocity during simulation. Similarly, setting the Target Velocity to a negative value will result in a negative linear velocity.

Replace obsolete GetInstanceId() calls in Unity Physics baking with GetEntityId() calls.

Added a new world icon for displaying world nodes in the new Hierarchy.

Added entities world node support in the new Hierarchy.

Added support for entity prefab nodes in the Hierarchy window.

Added support for parent and children entity nodes.

Added support for reparenting Entity nodes in the new Hierarchy.

Improved the performance of entities in the new Hierarchy.

System inspection information is moved from the inspector window into its own panel in the Systems window.

GPUResidentDrawer and EntitiesGraphics Unification Part 1 : Extend GRD

Introduced the foundations for a RenderWorld.

Added support for custom instance injection in GPUResidentDrawer. Needed to inject Entities from the outside.

Added support for generalized GPU archetypes and instanced material properties. Needed to support EntitiesGraphics MaterialsProperty override.

Added support for Lightmap TextureArray. Needed for Entities support.

Texture importing now strictly adheres to the supported formats in https://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/ImportingTextures.html. Circumventing this by changing an image file's extension will no longer work. If a image file format is necessary, please file a feature request so we can look into properly supporting it.

Grouped and renamed export functions in the Editor's right-click menu.

The selection of the Package Manager window no longer affects the inspector. Editing the package manifest remains available.

Changed the Scene Depth Difference Node to default to using View Position instead of World Position.

Disabled profiling during Shader Graph code generation to fix errors that occurred in some circumstances.

Rename uGUI's profiler modules (UI and UI Details) to "UI (Canvas)" and "UI Details (Canvas)".

PanelRenderer now releases its root visual element to help reclaim memory and diagnose usage of stale element references.

UI Toolkit Test Framework: Internalized some IMGUI-related properties.

Improved the warning message shown when running render pipeline converters in batch mode to better explain potential limitations and recommend the dedicated conversion UI for reliable results.

Displayed progress indicator overlaying the view.

Implemented a "clever" truncation of paths.

Moved incoming and shelves notifications to the top bar.

Redesigned all the views and dialogs.

Redesigned the main panel to include a top breadcrumb.

Renamed toolbar dropdown to comply with a 120px max width limit in 6.5.

Show real indeterminate progress bar.

Updated deleted and moved overlay icons.