Unity 5.4.0 Beta

5.4.0b7 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.
• Fix regression issues when opening scenes in play mode
• 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.
• Samsung TV: Fixed shader compilation crash on NT14U TVs
• Shadows: Directional shadows will present shadow acnee when using a custom projection matrice and a very large frustum (20k+)
• Unity crashes sometimes after deleting asset files from project folder
• VR: Single-Pass-Stereo causes some lighting problems
• [Billboard][LOD] Unity crashes when picking deleted Speedtree Billboard LOD level
• [GL] [Windows] Unity crashes or hangs with no respond on moving and undocking tabs
• [Skinning] Skinning broken on Mac
• [Windows][MT] Unity crashes after mass placing SpeedTrees on terrain

Improvements

• VR: Dynamically switch to headset's audio output / input driver (Oculus SDK 1.0+)
• VR: Mask invisible pixels so GPU time is not wasted (Oculus SDK 1.0+)

Fixes

• Animation: Added AnimationClipPlayable.applyFootIK
• Animation: Added better error messaging and handling for for AnimationCurves with invalid data.
• Animation: Fix memory leak in AnimatorOverrideController
• Animation: Fixed a bug where the animation window would try to access a deleted animator component and cause a crash
• Animation: Fixed an issue where AnimationPreview objects would get grabbed by FindGameObjectWithTag
• Animation: Fixed an issue where Changing culling modes during runtime would not take effect correctly
• Animation: Fixed an issue where imported keyframes would overlap and get sorted in the wrong order
• Animation: Fixed an issue where the ModelImporterClipAnimation inspector would not show properly when he Avatar Mask was empty
• Animation: Fixed Animation recording being broken in some cases.
• Animation: Fixed animation window not updating to selection when out of focus or when just opened
• Animation: Fixed AnimationClipImporter inspector for Generic clips
• Animation: Fixed AnimationClipPlayable.duration so that it returns the length of its AnimationClip
• Animation: Fixed curve selection loss in curve editor when move keys in dopesheet editor.
• Animation: Fixed dopesheet keyframe manipulation not registered.
• Animation: Fixed inconsistencies in dopesheet editor and curve editor framing
• Animation: Fixed long Animator.Update not playing all Events/ExitTimes
• Animation: Fixed loss of animation window selection when selecting child game objects.
• Animation: Fixed offset when drag&dropping sprites in animation window.
• Animation: Fixed property added in recording mode to read-only clip
• Animation: Fixed text editing overlay remaining active in animation window when losing focus
• Animation: Fixed unresponsive animation window when zoomed out beyond a certain level
• Animation: Implemented API for tangentMode in AnimationUtility
• Animation: Optimized AvatarMask inspector.
• Animation: Root motion not applied on single object
• Animation: Rotation value changes on play mode a little bit
• Animation: Unity hardcrashes when importing blender rigify model
• Multiplayer: Disabled host migration on WebGL clients (they can't become host)
• Multiplayer: Disallow sending NetworkConnection object in commands
• Multiplayer: Fixed issue where SyncLists didn't use the configured channel
• Multiplayer: Fixed issue with ClientScene.objects list increasing after every host migration
• Multiplayer: Fixed issue with OnStartAuthority being called twice on player with local authority on host
• Multiplayer: Minor improvement to network manager HUD ('connecting' state and cancel button)
• Multiplayer: SyncList now sends updates only when a value assignment changes the current value
• Particles: Disable size/rotation properly when toggling 3D in the editor
• Particles: Disabling unused UI options
• Particles: Fixed crashes with null curves and gradients
• Particles: Fixed culling when using SetParticles in standalone
• Particles: Fixed debug plane visualization
• Particles: Improve mesh particle error message, when buffers re full
• Particles: Preserve stopEmitting parameter when becoming visible (culling fix)
• Particles: Support radius in Trigger Module

The following are changes and fixes to 5.4.0 features and regressions...

Improvements

• Editor: Changes the "Module Manager" button to "Open Download Page", in Build Settings, for missing playback engines

Fixes

• Animation: Fixed animation event inheriting from ScriptableObject not getting triggered
• Animation: Fixed assert when using Animator.MatchTarget
• Animation: Fixed custom components not appearing in the Add Property menu of the Animation Window.
• Animation: Fixed error message showing : GetLocalizedString is not allowed to be called from a MonoBehaviour constructor
• Animation: Fixed floor display in Generic animation previewer
• Animation: Fixed import of humanoid clip when root is not identity
• Animation: Fixed loss of animation window selection when selecting child game objects
• Animation: Fixed values in the AnimationClipImporter inspector being not-editable
• Core: Fixed "TLS Allocator ALLOC_TEMP_THREAD ..." messages in console when saving a scene
• Core: Fixed edge case in the job system during shutdown
• Core: Multi-second stall in Particle System
• Editor: Fixed being unable to drag and drop components that are not expandable (such as the 'audio listener')
• Editor: Fixed issue that made GameObjects disappear from the Editor if they have an associated editor script that made use of DontDestroyOnLoad
• Editor: Fixed width of the Build Settings Window. This was causing problems when the Standalone option was selected but the players weren't available.
• Editor: Fixes issue where Editor wouln't start with a path including multi-byte characters
• Graphics: Fixed a crash in the editor when switching graphics API from a non-DX9 API e.g. DX11
• Graphics: Fixed SkinMeshInfo memory leak
• Graphics: In play mode set the graphics device sRGB write mode to match the lighting mode e.g. enable sRGB write mode in linear lighting mode
• MonoDevelop: Enable NUnit add-in by default. Fixes issue with error dialog on MonoDevelop start-up
• OpenGL: Fixed mipmap generation for render textures using OpenGLES
• OSX: Fixed an issue where pasting into a text field caused the text to be added twice
• OSX: Fixed SIMD errors in source code builds on OSX
• Particles: Allow both shape & position in scripted emission
• Particles: Fixed error message when scaling
• Particles: Fixed INF error message due to default bounding box
• Particles: Fixed regression with subemitters inheriting velocity
• Physics: Prevent Collider recreation when setting isKinematic; therefore, OnTriggerExit/Enter are not triggered unnecessarily
• Scripting: Fixed registration of Shuriken icalls under Mono AOT.
• UI: Fixed a problem where some fonts would not load correctly on some platforms
• UI: Stopped raycast from traversing up the hierarchy when a canvas with override sorting is encountered.
• Windows Store: Fixed crash when loading C# type from plugin which was not included in the final build.
• Windows Store: Mouses and touches will work correctly after locking/unlocking the screen.