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+5.4.0b9 Release Notes
Known Issues
- After expand/collapse Unity Editor window looks corrupted. If you maximize/minimize/click on windows in Editor they'll return to normal state.
- GPU Instancing: Instancing might get broken under glcore if graphics jobs are enabled.
- Graphics: with the new jobs enabled, reflection probes might render incorrectly in rare cases.
- In deferred rendering, lightmapped objects affected by mixed-mode lights will fallback to forward rendering.
- On Windows with MSAA and Image Effects, game view can be rendered upside down
- Shadows: Directional shadows will present shadow acnee when using a custom projection matrix and a very large frustum (20k+)
- Using OpenVR + Vive + Outdated Oculus Utils = Crash. Users are advised to update their Oculus Utils
- VR: Single-Pass-Stereo causes some lighting problems
- [Billboard][LOD] Unity crashes when picking deleted Speedtree Billboard LOD level
- [IMGUI][OSX][Regression] Detached tab is not moved slightly with the cursor after opening project with changed layout in 5.4
- [Regression] RTP Terrain shader rendering is broken after upgrading project to 5.4
Features
- VR: Native OpenVR support added
- Note that native OpenVR support renders with an off-center asymmetric projection matrix. This means that any shaders which relied on fov / aspect may not work correctly.
Backwards Compatibility Breaking Changes
- Shaders: Default shader compilation target was changed to "#pragma target 2.5" (SM3.0 on DX9, DX11 9.3 feature level on WinPhone). Can still target DX9 SM2.0 and DX11 9.1 feature level with "#pragma target 2.0". The majority of built-in shaders target 2.5 now. Notable exceptions are Unlit, VertexLit and fixed function shaders.
Improvements
- Editor: Added support for resizing the height of the preferences window.
- Shaders: ComputeBuffer data layout now matches between DX and automatically translated GL shaders. Action required: All OpenGL specific data layout tweaking in user scripts getting or setting data from ComputeBuffer should be removed.
Fixes
- Animation: Fix to prevent crash when a clip is null for an animation extracted from an asset bundle, and whose dependencies have not loaded.
- Asset Bundles: Fixed the source of error messages when building variant asset bundles.
- AssetBundles: BuildAssetBundles will now switch back to the original Active Build Target when finished.
- Editor: Fixed access violation in GUIView::GUIViewWndProc.
- Editor: Fixed case of access to destroyed window during shutdown.
- Editor: Fixed case of different color gradients & pickers being seen between Gamma and Linear space player settings
- Editor: Fixed case of EditorJsonUtility throwing MissingMethodException.
- Editor: Fixed changing order of components not getting saved. We now also support undo.
- Editor: Fixed crash that could happen when animation window is open and playmode is entered
- Graphics: Fixed case of crash after SetTargetBuffers and GameObject.SetActive(false).
- Graphics: Fixed some cases of incorrectly detecting "destroy RT being assigned to Camera.targetTexture", resulting in losing Camera.targetTexture - e.g. in case of context-loss on DirectX or changing Emulation Layer in the Editor and such like.
- Multiplayer: Fixed issue where wrong initialization connection amount could lead to system crash.
- OpenGL: Fixed various corner case issues for GLSL shader generation on ComputeBuffer loads, stores and atomic ops
- OpenGL: Windows fullscreen mode fixes
- Physics: Fix to ensure that 2D Overlap/Cast checks use consistent 'skin' radius for all shapes
- Physics: Fix to ensure that a Joint2D auto-configuration still works if joint is added from script.
- Physics: Fix to ensure that a TargetJoint2D added via script allows collisions with static colliders.
- Physics: Fix to ensure that changing Rigidbody2D.gravityScale whilst a Rigidbody2D.MovePosition is in progress now works.
- Physics: Fix to stop Rigidbody2D with Interpolation being placed at world origin for a single update upon start.
- Physics: Fixed case of center of mass and inertia tensor being reset after game object was reactivated.
- Physics: Rigidbodies without non-trigger colliders can again have custom center of mass and inertia tensor.
- Scripting: Always throw an exception when calling AssetDatabase methods from constructors and during serialization
- Scripting: Deactivation order during built application shutdown is now consistent with normal scene unloading. Previously closing a built aplication could result in a NullReference exception.
- Scripting: Fixed crash after calling DestroyImmediate(gameObject) in MonoBehaviour.Awake
- Scripting: Fixed crash when accessing SerializedProperty.tooltip in some cases.
- Scripting: Fixed issue with being unable to use ScriptableObject.CreateInstance with a nested ScriptableObject class
- Standalone player: Fixed Application.persistentDataPath when Product Name contains invalid path character.
- Templates: Fixed whitespaces in Editor Tests template
- UI: Fixed ArgumentOutOfRange exception sometimes being thrown when editing InputField on mobile.
- Visual Studio: Fixed crash when opening VisualStudio + improved VisualStudio startup performance
- Windows: "Build & Run On" option will now work correctly with Universal Windows 10 Apps (it is no longer greyed out)
- Windows: Screen.currentResolution() now returns desktop resolution instead of window screen resolution when application is in windowed mode.
- Windows Store: Fixed support for JPEG images for tiles, splash screen etc.
- Windows Store: SystemInfo.deviceType will now correctly report Handheld when running on Windows Phone 10.
The following are changes and fixes to 5.4.0 features and regressions...
Changes
- Editor: Disabled 'reinstall package' feature when importing a package.
- Editor: Removed the warning described by the following note, originally added in Alpha 6: "Added a warning if there are still managed threads running after exiting play-mode. The editor only stops all managed play-mode threads when entering play-mode and recompiling scripts."
Improvements
- Graphics: GPU instancing no longer requires dynamic batching enabled.
Fixes
- Android/IL2CPP: Fix to prevents a crash in the garbage collector when it attempts to scan a section of memory used for the code that may have been unmapped by the OS.
- Editor: Fixed case of access to deleted object in WWWDelayCall.
- Editor: Fixed case of ClearPersistentDirty call on deleted object.
- Editor: Fixed case of read violation in CefInstance.
- Editor: Fixed crash when dragging a prefab instance from one scene to another
- IL2CPP: Fix to avoid crash when constructing error message.
- IL2CPP: Fix to prevent generated C++ code from failing to compile with errors like "error: use of undeclared identifier 'L_5'" in some cases.
- IL2CPP: Fix to properly marshal formatted classes.
- IL2CPP: Fix to properly parse binary text assets.
- Windows Store: Fixed case of scene starting while still showing Unity splash screen.
- XBoxOne/IL2CPP: Fix to allow a call to Guid.NewGuid to work correctly.
Changeset
+Changeset: 04b47bfe5580
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Release notes
+5.4.0b9 Release Notes
Known Issues
- After expand/collapse Unity Editor window looks corrupted. If you maximize/minimize/click on windows in Editor they'll return to normal state.
- GPU Instancing: Instancing might get broken under glcore if graphics jobs are enabled.
- Graphics: with the new jobs enabled, reflection probes might render incorrectly in rare cases.
- In deferred rendering, lightmapped objects affected by mixed-mode lights will fallback to forward rendering.
- On Windows with MSAA and Image Effects, game view can be rendered upside down
- Shadows: Directional shadows will present shadow acnee when using a custom projection matrix and a very large frustum (20k+)
- Using OpenVR + Vive + Outdated Oculus Utils = Crash. Users are advised to update their Oculus Utils
- VR: Single-Pass-Stereo causes some lighting problems
- [Billboard][LOD] Unity crashes when picking deleted Speedtree Billboard LOD level
- [IMGUI][OSX][Regression] Detached tab is not moved slightly with the cursor after opening project with changed layout in 5.4
- [Regression] RTP Terrain shader rendering is broken after upgrading project to 5.4
Features
- VR: Native OpenVR support added
- Note that native OpenVR support renders with an off-center asymmetric projection matrix. This means that any shaders which relied on fov / aspect may not work correctly.
Backwards Compatibility Breaking Changes
- Shaders: Default shader compilation target was changed to "#pragma target 2.5" (SM3.0 on DX9, DX11 9.3 feature level on WinPhone). Can still target DX9 SM2.0 and DX11 9.1 feature level with "#pragma target 2.0". The majority of built-in shaders target 2.5 now. Notable exceptions are Unlit, VertexLit and fixed function shaders.
Improvements
- Editor: Added support for resizing the height of the preferences window.
- Shaders: ComputeBuffer data layout now matches between DX and automatically translated GL shaders. Action required: All OpenGL specific data layout tweaking in user scripts getting or setting data from ComputeBuffer should be removed.
Fixes
- Animation: Fix to prevent crash when a clip is null for an animation extracted from an asset bundle, and whose dependencies have not loaded.
- Asset Bundles: Fixed the source of error messages when building variant asset bundles.
- AssetBundles: BuildAssetBundles will now switch back to the original Active Build Target when finished.
- Editor: Fixed access violation in GUIView::GUIViewWndProc.
- Editor: Fixed case of access to destroyed window during shutdown.
- Editor: Fixed case of different color gradients & pickers being seen between Gamma and Linear space player settings
- Editor: Fixed case of EditorJsonUtility throwing MissingMethodException.
- Editor: Fixed changing order of components not getting saved. We now also support undo.
- Editor: Fixed crash that could happen when animation window is open and playmode is entered
- Graphics: Fixed case of crash after SetTargetBuffers and GameObject.SetActive(false).
- Graphics: Fixed some cases of incorrectly detecting "destroy RT being assigned to Camera.targetTexture", resulting in losing Camera.targetTexture - e.g. in case of context-loss on DirectX or changing Emulation Layer in the Editor and such like.
- Multiplayer: Fixed issue where wrong initialization connection amount could lead to system crash.
- OpenGL: Fixed various corner case issues for GLSL shader generation on ComputeBuffer loads, stores and atomic ops
- OpenGL: Windows fullscreen mode fixes
- Physics: Fix to ensure that 2D Overlap/Cast checks use consistent 'skin' radius for all shapes
- Physics: Fix to ensure that a Joint2D auto-configuration still works if joint is added from script.
- Physics: Fix to ensure that a TargetJoint2D added via script allows collisions with static colliders.
- Physics: Fix to ensure that changing Rigidbody2D.gravityScale whilst a Rigidbody2D.MovePosition is in progress now works.
- Physics: Fix to stop Rigidbody2D with Interpolation being placed at world origin for a single update upon start.
- Physics: Fixed case of center of mass and inertia tensor being reset after game object was reactivated.
- Physics: Rigidbodies without non-trigger colliders can again have custom center of mass and inertia tensor.
- Scripting: Always throw an exception when calling AssetDatabase methods from constructors and during serialization
- Scripting: Deactivation order during built application shutdown is now consistent with normal scene unloading. Previously closing a built aplication could result in a NullReference exception.
- Scripting: Fixed crash after calling DestroyImmediate(gameObject) in MonoBehaviour.Awake
- Scripting: Fixed crash when accessing SerializedProperty.tooltip in some cases.
- Scripting: Fixed issue with being unable to use ScriptableObject.CreateInstance with a nested ScriptableObject class
- Standalone player: Fixed Application.persistentDataPath when Product Name contains invalid path character.
- Templates: Fixed whitespaces in Editor Tests template
- UI: Fixed ArgumentOutOfRange exception sometimes being thrown when editing InputField on mobile.
- Visual Studio: Fixed crash when opening VisualStudio + improved VisualStudio startup performance
- Windows: "Build & Run On" option will now work correctly with Universal Windows 10 Apps (it is no longer greyed out)
- Windows: Screen.currentResolution() now returns desktop resolution instead of window screen resolution when application is in windowed mode.
- Windows Store: Fixed support for JPEG images for tiles, splash screen etc.
- Windows Store: SystemInfo.deviceType will now correctly report Handheld when running on Windows Phone 10.
The following are changes and fixes to 5.4.0 features and regressions...
Changes
- Editor: Disabled 'reinstall package' feature when importing a package.
- Editor: Removed the warning described by the following note, originally added in Alpha 6: "Added a warning if there are still managed threads running after exiting play-mode. The editor only stops all managed play-mode threads when entering play-mode and recompiling scripts."
Improvements
- Graphics: GPU instancing no longer requires dynamic batching enabled.
Fixes
- Android/IL2CPP: Fix to prevents a crash in the garbage collector when it attempts to scan a section of memory used for the code that may have been unmapped by the OS.
- Editor: Fixed case of access to deleted object in WWWDelayCall.
- Editor: Fixed case of ClearPersistentDirty call on deleted object.
- Editor: Fixed case of read violation in CefInstance.
- Editor: Fixed crash when dragging a prefab instance from one scene to another
- IL2CPP: Fix to avoid crash when constructing error message.
- IL2CPP: Fix to prevent generated C++ code from failing to compile with errors like "error: use of undeclared identifier 'L_5'" in some cases.
- IL2CPP: Fix to properly marshal formatted classes.
- IL2CPP: Fix to properly parse binary text assets.
- Windows Store: Fixed case of scene starting while still showing Unity splash screen.
- XBoxOne/IL2CPP: Fix to allow a call to Guid.NewGuid to work correctly.
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