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We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.11f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.11f1

• AI Navigation Core: Trigger volumes are included in nav mesh generation for NavMeshSurface when geometry is set to Physics Colliders (UUM-10109)

• Asset Bundles: AssetBundle indeterminism caused by mesh streaming info (UUM-12721)

• Graphics Device Features: [Graphics] Crash when submitting depth with no MSAA (UUM-13249)

• Linux: [Backport] [Linux] Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (UUM-971)

• MacOS: [M1] Crash on System.Object:__icall_wrapper_ves_icall_array_new_specific when launching a project (UUM-3207)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Optimization: [Mac] Editor performance drops on macOS when clicking and dragging on Position, Rotation and Scale values in Transform component (UUM-7457)

• Scene Management: Crash when accessing transform component after calling Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets() (UUM-11111)

2021.3.11f1 Release Notes

Improvements

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.animation] Added bone weight index validation in SpriteSkin's validate method, to ensure valid data before continuing with deformation.

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.animation] Updated Toolbar and Visibility tab buttons' selection color.

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.common] Added support for different sized texture inputs in ImagePacker.

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.psdimporter] Improved import speed and memory allocation for psd/psb files by reducing the intermediate texture buffers.

• Asset Import: Reduced the time taken by refreshing the asset database, which among other things improves the performance of editing prefabs.

• Asset Pipeline: Do not assert on race when receiving import worker results for a deleted asset. (UUM-12649)

• Core: Added Transform.SetLocalPositionAndRotation(). This allows you to set both the localPosition and localRotation of a transform in a single call, which is more efficient than assigning to localPosition and localRotation separately. (Thank you to @DevDunk on the forum for the request!).

• Graphics: Improved performance and memory usage of GPU/Compute Skinning on iOS. (UUM-11356)

• Multiplayer: Added Unity Netcode for Gamebjects Package 1.0.1.

• Multiplayer: Added Unity Transport Package 1.2.0.

• Scripting: Improved pop-up error messages when attaching scripts to GameObjects. (UUM-2557)

API Changes

• Android: Changed: Updated SupportsAccelerometer() API to return whether a device has an accelerometer sensor or not.

Changes

• Editor: Updated manifest.json to use com.unity.inputsystem package version 1.4.2.

Fixes

• 2D: Added 2D Triangle default asset to replace missing place holder. (DANB-125)

• 2D: Fixed upgrading from 2020.3 might lost Sprite reference. (DANB-133)

• Android: Fixed exporting the Android Studio project to a non-existing folder using Editor API (UUM-1886)

• Android: Fixed orientation issues in laptop mode and tablet mode on Chromebooks. (UUM-782)

• Asset Import: Fixed import of some meshes with Blend Shape Normals set to Calculate. (UUM-7867)

• Audio: Fixed Audio Clip Import Settings not getting saved when the "Override for Dedicated Server" setting is enabled. (UUM-399)

• Audio: Fixed doc for GamepadSpeakerOutputType to be used exclusively for playstation 4, playstation 5 platforms and editor platforms only. (UUM-407)

• Audio: Fixed unexpected output from OnAudioFilterRead when the audio source is stopped and the 'spatialize' property is enabled. (UUM-6318)

• DX12: Fixed crash that can occur when calling ComputeBuffer.GetData() with non zero computeBufferStartIndex parameter. (UUM-11444)

• Editor: Backport Fix [2021.3] - Android Builds Fail When Windows Regional Format is Set to Thai. (UUM-954)

• Editor: Fixed an API breaking change for the EditorToolAttribute constructor. (UUM-5792)

• Editor: Fixed build process should be quicker to detect scripting backend changes when building to a pre-used folder (1421700). (UUM-1949)

• Editor: Fixed case where Editor would crash when a selected renderer was deleted. (UUM-3249)

• Editor: Fixed crash when opening scenes in builds that had missing Prefab sources. (UUM-2546)

• Editor: Fixed dragging prefab with ctrl on linux. (UUM-1601)

• Editor: Fixed errors in DebugManager/DebugHandler that could occur after making a build. (UUM-13827)

• Editor: Fixed inspector and documentation to reflect intended behavior. (UUM-2392)

• Editor: Fixed SceneVisibilityManager exceptions when using shortcuts with no Hierarchy window. (1425103)

• Editor: Fixed the "Auto-hide gizmos" preference in the Scene View page to persist value when reopening the editor. (UUM-7848)

• Editor: Fixed the selection when the root game object has a SelectionBase component and the child is a prefab. (UUM-7831)

• Editor: Game/Scene view window now no longer flickers on resizing when Graphics API is set to OpenGL. (UUM-1682)

• Editor: OpenGLES target missing in generated VFX shader. (UUM-11347)

• GI: Fixed a case where scene objects would lose their lighting data when they are packed into or unpacked from a prefab, and playmode is entered without first saving the scene. (UUM-11182)

• GI: Fixed baking stall occuring when baking terrain with holes. (UUM-950)

• Graphics: Added error message for indirect compute buffers incorrectly flagged on DX11. (UUM-899)

• Graphics: Fixed an issue where creating SparseTextures with certain TextureFormats could crash Unity, even though the equivalent GraphicsFormat is marked as unsupported for SparseTextures. (UUM-7671)

• Graphics: Fixed an issue where SystemInfo.IsFormatSupported((My GraphicsFormat), FormatUsage.Sparse) would always return false on Metal, even if the requested GraphicsFormat actually is supported. (UUM-7671)

• Graphics: Fixed an issue where the D3D11 WARP driver would crash when creating a SparseTexture with the BC1/BC4 GraphicsFormats. (UUM-7664)

• Graphics: Fixed an issue where using TextureFormat.YUY2 / GraphicsFormat.YUV2 with a SparseTexture would crash on Metal. (if sparse textures are supported). (UUM-7671)

• Graphics: Fixed crash when using bad args in CommandBuffer.DrawRenderer. (HRB-20)

• Graphics: Fixed issue in which editor would get stuck when importing corrupted FBX models. (UUM-3981)

• Graphics: Fixed sporadic freeze in mesh upload (UUM-4293)

• Graphics: Fixed Vulkan validation error when GFR is disabled (UUM-9583)

• Graphics: Graphic and Compute Buffer allocations will now allocate less garbage collected memory. (UUM-4005)

• Graphics: Updated libjpeg-turbo to version 2.1.2 to solve security issues with version 1.3.1, used by Texture2D and ImageConversion LoadImage API and ImageConversion EncodeToJPG API. (UUM-4950)

• HDRP: Clamp negative absorption distance. (UUM-6746)

• HDRP: Clarify the error message saying the HDRP is not supported on a certain platform. (UUM-7419)

• HDRP: Clear custom pass color and depth buffers when the fullscreen debug modes are enabled. (UUM-8397)

• HDRP: Fixed a null ref exception when destroying a used decal material. (UUM-4353)

• HDRP: Fixed bad undo behaviour with light layers and shadows. (UUM-5701)

• HDRP: Fixed broken denoiser for ray traced shadows in HDRP. (UUM-2140)

• HDRP: Fixed color grading issue when multiple cameras have same volume properties but different frame settings. (UUM-3314)

• HDRP: Fixed custom pass UI not refreshed when changing the injection point. (UUM-8410)

• HDRP: Fixed Depth Of Field compute shader warnings on metal. (UUM-7783)

• HDRP: Fixed discrepency in the fog in RT reflections and RTGI between perf and quality. (UUM-7434)

• HDRP: Fixed history transform management not being properly handeled for ray traced area shadows. (UUM-2150)

• HDRP: Fixed scalarization not scalarizing properly. (UUM-6360)

• HDRP: Fixed shadow dimmer not affecting screen space shadows. (UUM-6512)

• HDRP: Fixed SpeedTree importer when shader has no diffusion profile. (UUM-1875)

• HDRP: Fixed tessellation in XR. (UUM-3338)

• HDRP: Fixed the material rendering pass not correctly changed with multi-selection. (UUM-2236)

• HDRP: Fixed the new ray tracing quality nodes not working. (UUM-7987)

• HDRP: Fixed the ray traced ambient occlusion not rejecting the history when it should leading to severe ghosting. (UUM-3225)

• HDRP: Fixed tonemapping not being applied when using the Show Cascades debug view. (UUM-3942)

• HDRP: Fixed upperHemisphereLuxValue when changing HDRI Sky. (UUM-3326)

• HDRP: Fixed volumetric clouds fog history issue that leads to severe ghosting. (UUM-4801)

• HDRP: Initialize DLSS at loading of HDRP asset. Previously intialization was too late (ad HDRP pipeline constructor). Moved initialization to OnEnable of SRP asset. (UUM-5928)

• HDRP: Removed "Sprite Mask" from scene view draw modes as it is not supported by HDRP. (UUM-3320)

• HDRP: RTHandle sampling out of bounds on previous frame pyramid color. This causes sometimes bad pixel values to be reflected. (UUM-2331)

• HDRP: Shaders correctly fallback to error shader. (UUM-1417)

• IL2CPP: Avoided a crash in the IL2CPP runtime when the GUID property of a type is obtained for a type with a StructLayout attribute but without a Guid attribute. (UUM-10859)

• IL2CPP: Avoided a crash when using GetFiles multiple times for directories with many files on iOS.. (UUM-8885)

• IL2CPP: Avoided an intermittent crash on shutdown when many threads are waiting on a Monitor object inside for a C# lock statement. (UUM-10374)

• IL2CPP: Corrected the build of a Mac Standalone player with an exported Xcode project when script debugging is enabled. (UUM-11352)

• iOS: Disabled depth16 support on pre-iOS14 or pre-A9, since depth-bias does not work correctly (UUM-9562)

• iOS: Stop Touch.rawPosition changing position when touch is dragged (UUM-7581)

• Kernel: Race condition in DualThreadAllocator when using BatchDelete. (UUM-5941)

• Linux: Enabled and fixed a failed integration test on linux. (UUM-1593)

• Linux: Fixed Server runtime not responding to SIGTERM and other signals. (UUM-1582)

• Mono: Updated the machine config file for Android Player builds. (UUM-12561)

• Networking: UnityWebRequest will not change HEAD to GET on 302 or 303 response. (UUM-7274)

• Networking: Upgraded curl to 7.84.0. (UUM-11134)

• Package Manager: Fixed a regression where packages would fail to resolve with a ENOENT mkdir error when the project path or global cache path contained quotes. (UUM-13252)

• Package Manager: HTML text cleaned up in details view. (UUM-7701)

• Profiler: Fixed enabling Deep Profile on Standalone Profiler crashes the Standalone Profiler with "Sending message header failed" warnings. (UUM-2371)

• Profiler: Fixed failures in opening local documentation files from Editor on macOS. (UUM-6164)

• Profiler: Fixed issue where autoconnecting to/disconnecting from profiling tools could cause a crash. (UUM-876)

• Scene Manager: Opening a broken scene with light mapping enabled could crash the editor. (UUM-9319)

• Scene/Game View: Fixed case where gizmos with bounds near the camera could be incorrectly culled. (UUM-9158)

• Scripting: Fixed an issue where adding a component declared in a nested class could end up adding the wrong component type. (UUM-9221)

• Scripting: Fixed case when trying to serialize generics with generic fields of types from different assemblies. (UUM-8844)

• Shadergraph: Fixed a compilation bug in BiRP Target in some variants with lightmaps. (UUM-7354)

• Shaders: Fixed "State comes from an incompatible keyword space" assertion firing sometimes when building asset bundles. (UUM-11958)

• Shaders: Fixed a bug with SHADER_AVAILABLED_XXX macros not being defined in compute shaders. (UUM-9751)

• UI Elements: Fixed min max slider behaving abnormally when using larger thumb styling. (UUM-5017)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed an issue where the children of a TwoPaneSplitView would have incorrect sizes when displayed after being hidden. (UUM-2538)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed bug where prefabs dragged to the Scene window aren't properly canceled if the drag ends on top of an overlay window. (UUM-10082)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed for 2021.3.X: [UI Builder] @import is stripped from the associated .uss file when saving .uxml. (UUM-14414)

• UI Toolkit: InspectorElement layout is broken if parent container flex direction is set to row. (UUM-8431)

• Universal RP: Fixed decal msaa error then camera is selected in deferred rendering path. (UUM-13666)

• Universal RP: Fixed decal screen space to work without intermediate texture and DBuffer to force using intermediate texture. (UUM-13682)

• Universal RP: Fixed decals correctly handle last batch. (UUM-13660)

• Universal RP: Fixed decals to pass correct viewDirectionWS to screen space and gbuffer lighting.

• Universal RP: Fixed decals to produce correct world to tangent matrix. (UUM-13674)

• Universal RP: Fixed default URP asset being included in builds when it wasn't supposed to be (when URP asset overrides are available for all target's quality levels). (UUM-8487)

• Universal RP: Fixed instacing error when decals loaded, but not the decal shaders.

• Universal RP: Fixed render scale correctly work with screen size property. This includes decals. (UUM-13667)

• Universal RP: Universal RP: Fixed excessive banding from FSR in URP. (UUM-9558)

• URP: Added force depth prepass option when requesting the Depth Texture. (UUM-8273)

• URP: Fixed Gizmos in Game View when using Viewports (UUM-7069).

• URP: Shaders correctly fallback to error shader. (UUM-1417)

• VFX Graph: Fixed flickering when sorting large systems. (UUM-9514)

• VFX Graph: Fixed position where VFX are created when VFX asset is dragged to Scene View. (UUM-4749)

• VFX Graph: Removed incompatible target generating shader targetting VFX. (UUM-8476)

• VFX Graph: Stop rendering VFX shadows when VFX are disabled in Scene View visibility menu. (UUM-4752)

• Video: Editor crashes when playing a video file with 14 audio tracks in Play mode. (UUM-861)

• Video: VideoPlayer throws errors when VideoClip loaded from AssetBundle nears the end (UUM-1888)

• Virtual Texturing: Added a notice regarding the experimental state of Virtual Texturing to the Player Settings editor.

• Virtual Texturing: Added a warning for Procedural Virtual Texturing clarifying that the feature is not currently supported.

• Virtual Texturing: The experimental state of Streaming Virtual Texturing and Procedural Virtual Texturing was not clearly indicated in the API docs and Manual, this has been corrected. For clarity, these features should not be used in production.

• WebGL: Fixed a bug where losing focus on the player would cause buttons to become stuck. (UUM-3230)

• WebGL: Fixed a bug where pressing the CMD key on Safari would cause buttons to become stuck. (UUM-12013)

• WebGL: Improve shader compilation performance problems on MacOS when GPU instancing is used. (UUM-6390)

• WebGL: This PR fixes a regression in 3D audio effects. The audio listener orientation was not set correctly. (UUM-1165)

• Windows: Fixed mouse buttons do not get switched when the primary mouse button is changed. (UUM-3959)

Package changes in 2021.3.11f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.inputsystem: 1.4.1 → 1.4.2

• com.unity.transport: 1.1.0 → 1.2.0

• com.unity.netcode.gameobjects: 1.0.0 → 1.0.1

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.10f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.10f1

• Profiler: Standalone Profiler Crash in RtlEnterCriticalSection on exit (UUM-13932)
  First seen in 2022.2.0b8.

• AI Navigation Core: NavMesh::Raycast freezes the whole editor in an infinite loop on Application.UpdateScene (UUM-2496)

• Asset Bundles: AssetBundle indeterminism caused by mesh streaming info (UUM-12721)

• Graphics Device Features: [Graphics] Crash when submitting depth with no MSAA (UUM-13249)

• Kernel: [2021.3] Editor crashes on GetTransformAccess when undoing GameObject duplication (UUM-13617)

• Linux: [Backport] [Linux] Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (UUM-971)

• MacOS: [M1] Crash on System.Object:__icall_wrapper_ves_icall_array_new_specific when launching a project (UUM-3207)

• MacOS: [Mac] Editor performance drops on macOS when clicking and dragging on Position, Rotation and Scale values in Transform component (UUM-7457)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Scene Management: Crash when accessing transform component after calling Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets() (UUM-11111)

• Shader System: Shader variant build preparation does not scale (UUM-3711)

• Vulkan: [Android][Vulkan] Android GPU Inspector crashes with "Failed to profile the replay. Cause: Replay crash" when using Vulkan Graphics API (UUM-13433)

2021.3.10f1 Release Notes

Features

• Editor: Added com.unity.services.mediation@1.0.4.

Improvements

• Documentation: Added a summary and code example for IJobParallelForTransform.

API Changes

• Graphics: Added: Expose Texture2D.ignoreMipmapLimit property to ignore QualitySettings.masterTextureLimit.

Changes

• 2D: Added dialog box to the Skinning Editor when entering Play Mode to allow saving unsaved changes.

• 2D: Refactored internal triangulation and tessellation APIs.

Fixes

• 2D: Creating a new vertex or an edge outside of the main geometry is now handled correctly. (1398541)

• 2D: Fixed editor crash when calling SpriteAtlasUtility.PackAtlases. (UUM-6965)

• 2D: Fixed the isolate behavior in the Sprite tab in the Visibility panel. (DANB-67)

• 2D: When a recursive depth from instantiating GameObjects using a Tilemap Tile reaches a threshold, an error message is logged and the recursive loop is stopped in the Editor or in Development Players. (UUM-8380)

• 2D: When modifying Sprite Library's Category name after user presses apply, the changes to the name are saved. (DANB-6)

• Android: Added mono audio output support. (UUM-9205)

• Android: Fixed a possible crash on many PowerVR based devices. (UUM-7782)

• Asset Pipeline: Asset preview thumbnails in the Editor's project window would sometimes be missing reflection probe lighting, this has been fixed and re-baking reflection probes (after making some change, such as to the material) will update thumbnails. (UUM-1820)

• Asset Pipeline: Fixed 'learn more' online documentation links for asset import workers and Unity Accelerator in the editor UI, so they target the currently loaded version of Unity. (UUM-12248)

• Asset Pipeline: Fixed an issue where assets with dots in the filename (other than the extension) could incorrectly invoke a warning about mismatched main object names. (UUM-3986)

• Asset Pipeline: Fixed an issue where the asset database might fail to detect that custom postprocessing of assets had produced an infinite loop during project import. (UUM-867)

• Audio: Fixed AudioClipPlayable.IsDone is false when AudioClipPlayable.Seek is used to reset the time. (UUM-398)

• Editor: Fixed a deadlock in Accelerator upload while using '-quit'. (UUM-3184)

• Editor: Fixed an issue with too many open files when downloading from Accelerator. (UUM-4330)

• Editor: Fixed crash when OnDemand scheduler tries to upload previews without accelerator connection. (UUM-5544)

• Editor: Fixed package manager dropdown position sometimes is not fixed below it. Fix some GUIDepth errors. (UUM-11291)

• Editor: Installing Linux mono and IL2CPP support on mac will no longer keep only the most recently installed of the two. (UUM-1696)

• Editor: Timestamp for boot.config in user project is now only updated when changed. (UUM-2342)

• GI: Fixed an issue where environment lighting is missing from player builds when the scene hasn't been baked. (UUM-2743)

• GI: Fixed APV Partial Baking when using GPU Lightmapper. (UUM-885)

• GI: Fixed denoising issues with OIDN and OptiX denoisers on GPULM when using different values for direct lighting sample count and indirect lighting sample count. (UUM-2158)

• GI: Fixed for prefab assets showing in Light Explorer when Show Inactive Objects is checked. (UUM-835)

• Graphics: Fixed crash in Vulkan Editor on Windows when using XR Mock HMD. (UUM-6726)

• iOS: Disabled capitalization, autocorrection and others when soft keyboard is secure and input is hidden. (UUM-5974)

• Networking: Fixed a texture leak when UnityWebRequest is used with DownloadHandlerTexture and a texture is never queried. (UUM-953)

• Particles: Skip draw call for gpu instanced mesh particle trails if using same material as particles. (UUM-7071)

• Project Browser: Fixed context menu does not appear when holding Ctrl and pressing left mouse button in the Project window on Mac. (UUM-5191)

• Scripting: Increased performance by not casting Mathf.Abs to float when passing a float value. (UUM-1821)

• Serialization: Properly track managed-only classes so they are not stripped by the il2cpp linker. (UUM-4103)

• Shaders: Fixed a crash when calling GetShaderKeywords on a user-constructed ShaderKeywordSet. (UUM-2536)

• UI: Unity Game Services projects no longer creates a dropdown when the project names contains a slash in the Editor Project Linking UI.

• UI Toolkit: Fixed warning caused by unprocessed focus events sometimes happening when detaching a UIDocument containing a focused element from its parent panel. (UUM-1296)

• Video: A "Can't play movie" error is now thrown when setting VideoPlayer.url to an invalid url through a script. (UUM-11380)

• Windows: Fixed an issue so that the UnityPlayer.dll properties sheet is now more complete. (UUM-10370)

• Windows: Fixed incorrect scan codes that are exposed through KeyControl.scanCode of New Input System. (UUM-9029)

Package changes in 2021.3.10f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.2d.animation: 7.0.6 → 7.0.7

• com.unity.2d.common: 6.0.3 → 6.0.4

• com.unity.2d.psdimporter: 6.0.4 → 6.0.5

• com.unity.2d.spriteshape: 7.0.5 → 7.0.6

• com.unity.purchasing: 4.4.0 → 4.4.1

• com.unity.services.analytics: 4.1.0 → 4.2.0

Packages added

• com.unity.services.mediation@1.0.4

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.9f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.9f1

• AI Navigation Core: NavMesh::Raycast freezes the whole editor in an infinite loop on Application.UpdateScene (UUM-2496)

• Linux: Editor crashes at "DisconnectGtkSignal(void*, GtkCallbackResponse ()(), void)" when opening floating windows (UUM-11724)

• Linux: Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (UUM-971)

• MacOS: [M1] Crash on System.Object:__icall_wrapper_ves_icall_array_new_specific when launching a project (UUM-3207)

• MacOS: Editor performance drops when clicking and dragging on Position, Rotation and Scale values in Transform component (UUM-7457)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Mono: [Linux] C# Reflection performance is 50 to 60 times slower (UUM-11526)

• Scene Management: Scene causes Editor crash when specific Lighting Data Asset is used (UUM-9319)

• Scripting: Crash when accessing transform component after calling Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets() (UUM-11111)

• Shader System: Shader variant build preparation does not scale (UUM-3711)

2021.3.9f1 Release Notes

Features

• Editor: Added editor analytics event tracking for "Refresh access" and "New link..." button click.

• Version Control: Added notification banner on the status bar for live updates.

Improvements

• Mono: Added support for direct ETW profiler integration on Windows Desktop for managed code, with no plugin required.

Changes

• Version Control: Renamed "Invite members to workspace" option to "Invite members to organization".

Fixes

• Android: Fixed an Android audio crash when targeting API Level 31 and running on an Android 12 device. Also fixed an AudioManager.GetStreamVolume exception when targeting API Level 29 or later, which caused the AudioSettings.Mobile.stopAudioOutputOnMute feature to not work correctly, if enabled. (UUM-5652)

• Android: Fixed bug when building with IL2CPP and scaler types getting stripped out.

• Android: Fixed bug with manual lifetime tests failing occasionally.

• Android: Fixed bug with scaler not being initialized with settings from the Editor UI properly when using profiles.

• Android: Fixed bug with test provider and settings showing up in Project Settings.

• Android: Toggling Build App Bundle in the Build Player Window will now prompt for a save location rather than attempting to use the last build location which would have been the incorrect type of package. (UUM-1692)

• Asset Bundles: Fixed memarchive0 error when entering play mode. (UUM-493)

• Asset Pipeline: The option to 'Recompile after finished playing` did not work and has been removed. To support the intended functionallity a new option to only auto refresh outside playmode has been added. (UUM-818)

• Build Pipeline: Fixed a bug where the player data cache would not distinguish between server builds and normal standalone players, which could cause the wrong data ending up in players.

• Build Pipeline: Fixed PlayerBuildInterface.ExtraTypesProvider API not working.

• Editor: Added the option to set something as the first child of the root. (UUM-955)

• Editor: Fixed an issue preventing the resize the Inspector window when docked near another window. (UUM-1956)

• Editor: Fixed an issue where certain properties could not be excluded in the TextureImporterInspector. (UUM-3787)

• Editor: Fixed an issue with the 'Fix' button for vertex stream in particle shaders. (UUM-11695)

• Editor: Fixed drag and drop in between blue line indicators in inspector does not always work on linux. (UUM-1568)

• Game Core: Fixed web requests getting stuck when aborting them. (UUM-874)

• HDRP: Added async compute support doc. (UUM-6183)

• HDRP: Added missing using statements in one of the example scripts in the documentation for the accumulation API. (UUM-3224)

• HDRP: Disabled Volumetric Clouds for Default Sky Volumes. (UUM-6185)

• HDRP: Fixed a discrepancy between recursive rendering and path tracing for refraction models. (UUM-6179)

• HDRP: Fixed a render graph error when rendering a scene with no opaque objects in forward. (UUM-6189)

• HDRP: Fixed a rounding issue in ray traced reflections at half resolution. (UUM-6177)

• HDRP: Fixed an issue with DOTS and Look Dev tool causing entities in the tool to be drawn in the game view. (UUM-6188)

• HDRP: Fixed an issue with the ray traced screen space shadows slots/indices. (1424996)

• HDRP: Fixed an issue with up direction of the light anchor tool being wrong on occasion. (UUM-6190)

• HDRP: Fixed artifacts on PBR DOF camera cuts such as the COC sticking around with blurry values. (UUM-6187)

• HDRP: Fixed artifacts on quarter and half res depth of field when dynamic resolution jumps between resolutions. (UUM-6184)

• HDRP: Fixed blinking Ray traced reflection with dynamic resolution. (UUM-6180)

• HDRP: Fixed blinking SSGI with dynamic resolution. (UUM-6181)

• HDRP: Fixed cull mode toggle in transparent material inspector shifting the UI. (UUM-6186)

• HDRP: Fixed Decal Layer Texture lifetime in rendergraph. (UUM-6664)

• HDRP: Fixed duplicated code sample in the custom pass documentation. (UUM-6173)

• HDRP: Fixed errors in CPU lights: includeForRaytracing, lightDimmer not working for HDAdditionalLightData and camera rel rendering. (1424704)

• HDRP: Fixed incorrect distortion when hardware DRS is enabled. (UUM-3322)

• HDRP: Fixed leaks in ray tracing effects due to missing ambient probe for ray tracing effects. (UUM-589)

• HDRP: Fixed noisy top shadows when using 'High' Filtering Quality with Tesselated Meshes (Lit Tesselation). (UUM-3341)

• HDRP: Fixed pivot position in the eye material sample scene. (UUM-10663)

• HDRP: Fixed quad artifacts on TAA and fixed an issue on bicubic filtering. (UUM-6205)

• HDRP: Fixed re-ordering issue in the custom pass list. (UUM-6176)

• HDRP: Fixed reflection issue upon scene filtering. (UUM-6514)

• HDRP: Fixed SSGI using garbage outside the frustum. (UUM-6175)

• HDRP: Fixed the clamp happening on the sum of ray tracing samples instead of per sample. (UUM-6513)

• HDRP: Fixed the default DXR volume not having any DXR effects enabled. (UUM-6182)

• HDRP: Fixed transparent canvas not displaying in camera preview. (1403011)

• HDRP: Profile list button now greys out instead of throwing error. (UUM-6174)

• HDRP: Specular occlusion now falls back to normal when bent normal is not available. (UUM-6662)

• HDRP: Updated a misleading tooltip in the environment lighting in HDRP. (UUM-6178)

• IL2CPP: Allow breakpoints to be set in managed code in private and internal types. (UUM-9132)

• IL2CPP: Avoid a potential crash when a Unity player is unloaded and reloaded. (UUM-2660)

• IL2CPP: Corrected layout structures in memory with an explicit layout and a size parameter. (UUM-9100)

• IL2CPP: Corrected the assembly reference for the base type of stubbed reference types created by the UnityLinker. (UUM-7772)

• IL2CPP: Corrected the behavior of Ping on Windows platforms. (UUM-8801)

• IL2CPP: Corrected the behavior of RuntimeInformation.OSDescription on WebGL. (UUM-1144)

• IL2CPP: Do not inflate RGCTX for types and methods with non-inflated generic parameters. (UUM-6057)

• IL2CPP: ETW patterns are no longer stripped out on non-windows platforms. (UUM-5771)

• IL2CPP: Fixed incorrect code generation for references to void* pointers. (UUM-4299)

• IL2CPP: Fixed leak of internal thread objects that could manifest in a pause on player exit. (UUM-607)

• IL2CPP: Prevent a memory corruption that could happen when the "Faster (smaller) builds" option is used with generic types that have a generic base class with no fields, and a different base class with at least one generic field. (UUM-3066)

• IL2CPP: Support marshaling of blittable generic instances in delegates and P/Invokes. (UUM-9460)

• IL2CPP: Throw an exception from Buffer.BlockCopy when the destination array has a non-primitive element type. (UUM-3302)

• IL2CPP: Updated zlib to version 1.2.12 for CVE-2018-25032. (UUM-599)

• Kernel: Dynamic array no longer use slower code path for assign operator with POD types. (UUM-7924)

• Linux: Fixed an issue preventing the creation of Apple silicon related builds on Linux. (UUM-901)

• Linux: Fixed gui errors when clicking the prefab's override button in the inspector. (UUM-1566)

• Mono: Fixed a crash during stack trace construction if a this object is null. (UUM-611)

• Mono: Fixed crash that would occur when assigning a large struct to the field of a null object. (UUM-10477)

• Mono: Fixed crash when passing a generic class to a function pointer. (UUM-603)

• Mono: Fixed Interlocked.CompareExchange float on M1. (UUM-9159)

• Particles: Load MeshFilter Components before Particle Systems to ensure they can be used during prewarms. (UUM-832)

• Physics: Fixed Articulation Bodies teleporting to NaN coordinates when changing joint type at runtime. (UUM-7418)

• Physics: Fixed overlap queries missing small convex Mesh Colliders. (UUM-6271)

• Physics: Fixed raycasts missing after moving a lot of objects. (UUM-7416)

• Profiler: Fixed profiler not opening the correct version of the documentation. (UUM-4963)

• Scripting: Changed to rulesetfile not triggering compilation. (UUM-3560)

• Scripting: Fixed an issue where Application.logMessageReceived can be called from a job, when the job is scheduled on the main thread. (UUM-3085)

• Scripting: Fixed an issue where define constraints on unity's pre-defined symbols like "UNITY_INCLUDE_TESTS" were misbehaving for Precompiled assemblies. (UUM-9378)

• Scripting: Gradient API is now thread safe. (UUM-834)

• Serialization: Fixed an issue when a PropertyModification targetting a serialize reference instance which was no longer being present could cause memory corruption. (UUM-959)

• Shaders: DrawMeshInstanced now provides error feedback when using a shader that does not support instancing. (UUM-6026)

• Shaders: Fixed an issue where adding packages to a project would not update the Shader Compiler include search paths. (UUM-3982)

• Shaders: Made compute shaders respect #pragma enable_cbuffers. (UUM-11520)

• Terrain: Fixed an issue where URP failed to render grass Terrain details. (UUM-9122)

• uGUI: Fixed calculation of pointer position when running in multiple display mode and the main display was fullscreen with a non-native aspect ratio. (UUM-7893)

• uGUI: Fixed Graphic.Raycast not ignoring CanvasGroups when they were disabled. (UUM-972)

• uGUI: uGUI: When disabling a canvas and reenabling it, SubCanvas now renders correctly.'. (UUM-9248)

• uGUI: When disabling a canvas and reenabling it, SubCanvas now renders correctly.

• UI Toolkit: Fixed for issue where ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown when adding/removing elements from a List in the Inspector. (UUM-957)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed for offset issues and layout delays in default PropertyField on array values when adding or removing items. (UUM-902)

• UI Toolkit: The hierarchy tree will keep its expanded state and selection when saving in the UI Builder. (UUM-1884)

• UI Toolkit: UI Elements property animations, as well as scheduled items, asynchronous tasks and Update() callbacks are now updated as expected when a modal editor window is opened. (UUM-1695)

• UI Toolkit: [UI Builder] Fixed an issue where the buttons tooltip in the inline styles were showing its parents. (UUM-1816)

• Undo System: Handle objects created by Animation Rigging during undo/redo. (UUM-7875)

• Universal: Fixed depth pre-pass being always executed on GLES devices. (UUM-8381)

• Universal: Fixed incorrect light brightness when using SimpleLit shader. (UUM-7851)

• Universal: Fixed specular highlight edges on Android. (UUM-7654)

• URP: Fixed alpha discard on Unlit Sprite targets for Shadergraph. (UUM-6998)

• URP: Fixed an additional light performance regression on Quest. (UUM-9423)

• Version Control: Fixed not being able to view changesets in a Gluon workspace
  Fixed not being able to insert carriage return in checkin dialog.

• VFX Graph: Fixed an issue with Motion Vector target offset with Line Output. (UUM-3303)

• VFX Graph: Read only fields texts is almost invisible due to an opacity value issue. (UUM-9222)

• VFX Graph: Vector2 node indeterminate value behavior was not consistent with other Vector nodes. (UUM-2071)

• Video: Fixed an issue where the first video's frame was drawn out of order when the H.264 B-Frames video is used. (UUM-819)

• Video: [WIN 8 KN/N] VideoPlayer inadequate error reporting on errorReceived callback when Media Player is not present. (UUM-839)

• Windows: Fixed builds launching on the wrong display after upgrading the project from Unity 2020.3. If the project was previously upgraded to 2021.3, this may cause the builds to start up on a different display first. Use Win + Shift + Left/Right arrow to move the window to the desired display. (UUM-4178)

• Windows: Fixed crash on startup when Vjoy HID device is connected to a computer. (UUM-8786)

• Windows: Fixed resolution misdetection on vertical displays, which caused APIs like Screen.currentResolution or Screen.GetDisplayLayout() return wrong data and the player contain letterboxing when it shouldn't. (UUM-7552)

• Windows: Restore the display enumeration behaviour of Unity 2021.1 and earlier: the primary display will always be treated as display 1.

Package changes in 2021.3.9f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.adaptiveperformance: 3.0.2 → 4.0.1

• com.unity.adaptiveperformance.samsung.android: 3.0.1 → 4.0.1

• com.unity.collab-proxy: 1.17.1 → 1.17.2

• com.unity.purchasing: 4.3.0 → 4.4.0

• com.unity.xr.legacyinputhelpers: 2.1.9 → 2.1.10

Packages added

• com.unity.services.wire@1.1.0

• com.unity.xr.core-utils@2.0.0

• com.unity.xr.interaction.toolkit@2.0.2

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.8f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.8f1

• AI Navigation Core: NavMesh::Raycast freezes the whole editor in an infinite loop on Application.UpdateScene (UUM-2496)

• AI Navigation Core: Trigger volumes are included in nav mesh generation for NavMeshSurface when geometry is set to Physics Colliders (UUM-10109)

• Android: Crash when accessing transform component after calling Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets() (UUM-11111)

• Customer QA Onboarding: [M1] Crash on System.Object:__icall_wrapper_ves_icall_array_new_specific when launching a project (UUM-3207)

• Linux: [Backport] [Linux] Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (UUM-971)

• MacOS: [Mac] Editor performance drops on macOS when clicking and dragging on Position, Rotation and Scale values in Transform component (UUM-7457)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Scene Management: Scene causes Editor crash when specific Lighting Data Asset is used (UUM-9319)

• uGUI: Broken mouse pointer input coordinates in GraphicRaycaster for certain window sizes in Build when run in windowed mode (UUM-7893)

2021.3.8f1 Release Notes

Improvements

• Player: Improved performance when loading scenes with a high number of light probes. (UUM-7568)

• UI: The TextureImporterInspector will now disable the "sRGB (Color Texture)" toggle for HDR targets instead of silently overriding. (reflected in API docs) (UUM-7553)

Changes

• IAP: # Changelog
  ## [4.3.0] - 2022-06-16
  ### Added
  

  • GooglePlay - API IGooglePlayConfiguration.SetQueryProductDetailsFailedListener(Action) called when Unity IAP fails to query product details. The Action will be called on each query product details failure with the retry count. See documentation "Store Guides" > "Google Play" for a sample usage.

• URP: Updated Burst dependency to 1.7.3.

Fixes

• 2D: Fix asset previews for Tilemap Prefabs by not stripping away the Grid Component when generating the asset preview. (UUM-2503)

• Android: Fix crash with Vulkan when putting app into background during startup. (UUM-915)

• Android: Fix overflow of MotionEvent global references. (UUM-8438)

• Android: Fixed building exported Unity project in Android Studio. (UUM-520)

• Asset Pipeline: Asset Pipeline: Increasing the default import worker connect timeout, to avoid import worker client processes shutting down unnecessarily, when working with larger projects. (UUM-2502)

• Asset Pipeline: Fixed intermittent Accelerator disconnection caused by interrupt signals raised by Mono. (UUM-3655)

• Build Pipeline: Fix crash when using -standaloneBuilSubtarget option. (1354140)

• Editor: Fixed custom editor GUI support for the BuiltIn ShaderGraph Target. (1380485)

• Editor: Fixed performance issue for looping small clip with root motion extraction. (UUM-6515)

• Editor: Fixing a bug where changing the selection with a locked inspector and an active EditorToolContext was throwing errors. (UUM-5836)

• Editor: Replace Premium Expert Help link in Editor Help Menu with a link to Unity Learn. (UUM-8297)

• Editor: [SpeedTree] Fixed an exception when the user backs off form the 'Search and Remap' dialog in the SpeedTree Material Editor.

• Graphics: Fixed AssetPreviews + texture preview window for ASTCnm/Plain normal maps. (UUM-7833)

• Graphics: Fixed numerous cases where mini-thumbnails would not match the expected visual look when using linear project color space. (UUM-7833)

• Graphics: Fixed Single Channel Red mini-thumbnails not actually being red-only. (UUM-7833)

• Graphics: Fixed undefined behaviour occurring with AssetPreview for Single Channel Alpha texture types. (UUM-7833)

• Graphics: Graphics: 2D Textures with multiple faces or images now correctly update their hash values when any face/image is changed and not just the first one. (UUM-2506)

• Graphics: The generated mini-thumbnail of TextureGenerationOutput will now properly set its expected stored color space. (UUM-7833)

• iOS: Fixed forcing jobified metal rendering. (UUM-7195)

• Scripting: Fixed issues with operation on invalid gc handles. As part of this 2 new asserts are introduced that are triggered when invalid gc handle operations are detected. The operations are skipped when detected to avoid scripting domain / memory corruption. (UUM-906)

• Scripting: Improved diagnostic message and do not enter in safe-mode on some unsupported ApiUpdater scenarios involving .asmref adding code into .asmdef. (UUM-3564)

• Shaders: Fixed a surface shader error when multiple uv sets were being used on the same texture. (UUM-929)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed broken highlight when hovering selectors with Runtime theme which references an invalid path. (UI Builder) (UUM-937)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed wrong focus grabbing when refreshing BaseVerticalCollectionView. (UUM-5440)

• UI Toolkit: Fixes focus in the list view when navigating with arrow keys or scrolling. (UUM-5443)

• Universal Windows Platform: Fixed a crash when entering a composition string longer than 64 characters into the IME. (UUM-928)

• Universal Windows Platform: Fixed Build & Run picking the wrong instance of Visual Studio which potentially doesn't have required components installed to deploy the application. (UUM-931)

• WebGL: Fixed bug where the rendering canvas wasn't resizing when changing orientation. (UUM-1135)

• WebGL: Fixed connection between the WebGL player and the profiler. (UUM-798)

• WebGL: Fixed player connection used when running PlayMode tests on WebGL. (UUM-1170)

• Windows: Fixes topmost region of Popup windows not receiving mouse messages. (UUM-5783)

Package changes in 2021.3.8f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.inputsystem: 1.3.0 → 1.4.1

• com.unity.purchasing: 4.2.1 → 4.3.0

• com.unity.services.analytics: 4.0.1 → 4.1.0

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.7f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.7f1

• AI Navigation Core: NavMesh::Raycast freezes the whole editor in an infinite loop on Application.UpdateScene (UUM-2496)

• Inspector Framework: List element overlaps everything when using Serializable struct/class (UUM-7683)

• Linux: [Backport] [Linux] Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (UUM-971)

• MacOS: [Mac] Editor performance drops on macOS when clicking and dragging on Position, Rotation and Scale values in Transform component (UUM-7457)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Scene Management: Scene causes Editor crash when specific Lighting Data Asset is used (UUM-9319)

• Shader System: Editor crashes when building if calling "ShaderKeyword" methods in "IPreprocessShaders" classes (UUM-2536)

• uGUI: Broken mouse pointer input coordinates in GraphicRaycaster for certain window sizes in Build when run in windowed mode (UUM-7893)

• uGUI: UI becomes not interactable after deactivating and reactivating Canvas (UUM-9258)

• uGUI: UI Elements are no longer rendered when deactivating and reactivating the Parent GameObject (UUM-9248)

• Universal RP: Lights appear significantly brighter when using the Simple Lit shader (UUM-7851)

2021.3.7f1 Release Notes

Features

• Editor: Added timestamps argument to include timestamps and thread ID prefix to logs.

• Editor: Adds the ability to block shortcuts from triggering during playmode while the game view window is focused.

• Player: Added timestamps argument to include timestamps and thread ID prefix to logs.

Improvements

• Editor: Added a confirmation dialog when switching serialization modes

• HDRP: Further improve the consistency of non-physical depth of field at varying native rendering resolutions and resolution scales.

Changes

• Android: Accept build-tools version 30.0.x instead of strictly 30.0.2

• IAP: # Changelog
  ## [4.2.1] - 2022-06-14
  ### Fixed
  

  • Downgrade com.unity.services.core from 1.4.1 to 1.3.1 due to a new bug found in 1.4.1

• Package: Update auth package to 2.1.1

• Package: Update core package to 1.4.1

Fixes

• 2D: Fixed case where Shape of PolygonCollider2D doesn't update when Sprite Shape contains vertex at [0,0]. (1401376)

• 2D: Fixed case where SpriteShape throws ArgumentException error when checking position validity of a point added to Spline. (1387298)

• 2D: Fixed case where Tangent Data is always saved even when not in use for SpriteShapeRenderer when GeometryCache is active. (1394404)

• 2D: Fixed duplicate instantiated GameObjects from Tiles on Tilemap Prefabs when instantiating the Tilemap Prefabs. (UUM-1671)

• Android: Blind fix for an issue where executing Android SDK tool command would fail with missing java error. For ex., "Unable to locate a Java Runtime". Even though everything is set correctly in Preferences->External Tools->JDK. Also during the failure, Unity will now print environment variables thus helping identifying such issues in the future. (UUM-2106)

• Android: Bring back the ability to initialize UnityPlayer with Context class, this allows Unity to initialize itself from WallpaperService. (1413649)

• Android: Fixed high memory usage when uploading 2D array textures using Vulkan on Adreno devices. (1418261)

• Android: Fixed overhead of memory allocations in the Vulkan backend for allocation sizes between 128kB and 1024kB. (UUM-5966)

• Android: Fixed regression where TouchScreenKeyboard.Open() was not opening. (UUM-2112)

• Android: Fixed Screen.safeArea returning wrong height when building Native app with Unity as a Library. (UUM-515)

• Asset Pipeline: Fixed an issue where generating previews of some prefabs could raise an 'unknown importer' error in the console. (UUM-2908)

• DX12: Fixed for crash when an upload subupdates buffer was assigned to a compute shader as a UAV. (UUM-5770)

• Editor: Fixed crash when moving non-empty folder to a target containing another folder with the same name in the Project Browser. (UUM-5197)

• Editor: Fixed occasional crash when loading TIFFs with bad thumbnail tags. (UUM-3783)

• Editor: Replaced the scene asset icon with new Unity logo. (1385124)

• Game Core: Fixed crash on pre-processor only compilation of compute shaders. (UUM-908)

• GI: Fixed Light Probes losing their lighting data after entering Play mode when Baked and Realtime GI are enabled. (UUM-3968)

• GI: Fixed SetLightingDataAsset with multiscenes (caused the lightmaps to disappear for other scenes). (UUM-916)

• GI: [GPU PLM] OpenCL shader loading time in new projects has become significantly slower. Fixed regression by speeding up OpenCL shader loading stage by caching binaries in the GICache. (UUM-1350)

• Graphics: Fixed some dropdown menus in the Mac Editor that would previously jitter or jerk out with artifacts when opened. (UUM-5546)

• Graphics: SkinnedMeshRenderer and MeshRenderer are now in the same SRP Batch during shadow pass. (UUM-4336)

• Graphics: Switching vsync mode while in a Metal player could sometimes cause a freeze due to the vsync status not syncing correctly before waiting on the frame present - this has been fixed. (UUM-5547)

• HDRP: Add a blendable perceptual blending parameter on volumetric clouds to get rid of over exposure artifacts. (1407686)

• HDRP: Adding mechanism in HDRP to strip FragInputs, which will allow us to strip some interpolators in the pixel shader For shader graphs. (1399841)

• HDRP: Facilitated reactivation of Ray Tracing Light Cluster in Path Tracing. (1404944)

• HDRP: Fixed a performance issue with Single Shadow debug mode. (1400281)

• HDRP: Fixed a render error when disabling both motion vectors and opaques. (1410622)

• HDRP: Fixed a render graph error when opening a project with default lighting enabled and clouds in the scene. (UUM-3339)

• HDRP: Fixed a render graph error when using Output AOV in non-dev builds. (1421560)

• HDRP: Fixed accumulation when shutter interval is zero. (1399841)

• HDRP: Fixed an issue with decals not scaling with a parent transform. (1401887)

• HDRP: Fixed artifacts on the edges of the screen when enabling volumetric clouds. (1400011)

• HDRP: Fixed blend mode label field. (1410907)

• HDRP: Fixed Cloud Layer rendering on nvidia gpus. (1401162)

• HDRP: Fixed custom post-processes not released correctly when switching HDRP assets. (1419924)

• HDRP: Fixed errors in HDR comparison doc. (1410049)

• HDRP: Fixed errors when switching to SMAA. (1401225)

• HDRP: Fixed for Texture2D and Texture3D parameters not accepting 'None' as value. (1406928)

• HDRP: Fixed game view goes greenish and then black in editor with DX12/Vulkan (1415948)

• HDRP: Fixed the documentation for recursive rendering not being clear enough for the smoothness' behavior. (1409004)

• HDRP: Fixed the SSR not properly working on deferred with tiles with multiple variants. (1399311)

• HDRP: Fixed Volumetric Clouds texture input fields. (1408252)

• HDRP: Fixrd a NaN resulting from path traced hair materials with certain base color inputs. (1411249)

• HDRP: Improved the default state of newly created Planar Reflection Probes. (1420128)

• HDRP: Made sure that camera jittering is disabled in Path Tracing. (1399440)

• HDRP: updated accumulation API scripts to solve issue with screen shot capture in certain Unity Editor workflows. (1415399)

• IL2CPP: Avoid incorrect behavior of the Array::Set method when the faster (smaller) builds IL2CPP code generation option is used. (1411185)

• IL2CPP: Avoided a stack overflow during code conversion when an attribute constructor uses the attribute itself. (UUM-3907)

• IL2CPP: Copy .h source plugin files into the Gradle project generated for Android builds. (UUM-3641)

• IL2CPP: Fixed "Cannot add a generic parameter reference without an instance" error when converting a method with a generic function pointer. (1427170)

• IL2CPP: Fixed issue where a try block inside of a loop nested in a try/finally block could cause the finally handler to run multiple times. (1402180)

• IL2CPP: Fixed issue where assemblies with an instance method and a static method with the same name, parameters, and return type would cause the build to fail. (1411168)

• IL2CPP: Fixed issue where Assembly.GetType() on a type without a namespace could match a nested type with the same name and issue where Assembly.GetType() did not respect the ignoreCase flag for nested types. (1422119)

• IL2CPP: Fixed performance issues in metadata access with thread contention. (UUM-609)

• IL2CPP: Fixed performance regression in regular expressions. (UUM-590)

• IL2CPP: Fixed possible runtime crash when a generic type is used as a base class generic parameter. (UUM-1129)

• IL2CPP: Throw a managed exception when CreateDelegate is called with a delegate type that was not generated ahead of time. (UUM-817)

• Mono: Correct issue where FileSystemEventArgs.FullPath did not return a fully qualified path. (UUM-1822)

• Mono: Fixed "The BinaryReader read data to a Span is always zero." (UUM-866)

• Mono: Fixed issue where FileSystemEventArgs.FullPath would have an incorrect path if FileWatcher event was on a file in a subdirectory. (1397564)

• Mono: Fixed System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send on Windows.

• Package Manager: Fixed an issue where some PackageInfo properties would not be populated correctly if the package came from a GitHub registry. (1354652)

• Particles: When using the Built-in Rendering Pipeline, prevent the Standard Unlit Particle shader from performing unnecessary lighting calculations on the CPU. (UUM-827)

• Scripting: Fixed case when double-clicking message wouldn't open the correct file and line. (UUM-897)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed a bug where ListView and TreeView using SelectionType.None would still be selectable with double click and navigation keys. (UUM-5438)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed an issue where the expanded state of the ListView would not be serialized across selections. (UUM-1461)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed disabled UIDocument still being rendered on editor start. (UUM-793)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed VisualElements change scaling when mouse moves over a different window on a higher DPI display. (UUM-7260)

• URP: URP 2D - Fixes vertex color for sprite shapes. (UUM-1921)

• Version Control: Fixed missing references in synced prefabs.

• VFX Graph: Position ArcSphere failing with BlendDirection. (UUM-1295)

• VFX Graph: Unexcepted double blend direction slot on Position Mesh block. (UUM-5082)

• VFX Graph: Unexpected lossy scale evaluation on GPU. (UUM-539)

• XR: Fixed Screen Space Shadows in Single Pass Instancing.

Package changes in 2021.3.7f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.2d.spriteshape: 7.0.4 → 7.0.5

• com.unity.collab-proxy: 1.15.18 → 1.17.1

• com.unity.purchasing: 4.1.5 → 4.2.1

• com.unity.services.authentication: 2.0.0 → 2.1.1

• com.unity.services.cloudcode: 2.0.0 → 2.0.1

• com.unity.services.cloudsave: 2.0.0 → 2.0.1

• com.unity.services.core: 1.4.0 → 1.4.2

• com.unity.learn.iet-framework: 2.2.1 → 2.2.2

• com.unity.learn.iet-framework.authoring: 1.0.2 → 1.0.3

• com.unity.transport: 1.0.0 → 1.1.0

Packages added

• com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.0.0

• com.unity.multiplayer.tools@1.0.0

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.6f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.6f1

• AI Navigation: NavMesh::Raycast freezes the whole editor in an infinite loop on Application.UpdateScene (UUM-2496)

• Customer QA Onboarding: [M1] Crash on System.Object:__icall_wrapper_ves_icall_array_new_specific when launching a project (UUM-3207)

• Linux: [Backport] [Linux] Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (UUM-971)

• MacOS: [Mac] Editor performance drops on macOS when clicking and dragging on Position, Rotation and Scale values in Transform component (UUM-7457)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Package: Empty "StreamingAssets" folder gets created after building an empty project (1423325)

• Shader System: Editor crashes when building if calling "ShaderKeyword" methods in "IPreprocessShaders" classes (UUM-2536)

• Text: [Mac] ShortcutManager ignores Shift modifier (UUM-4083)

2021.3.6f1 Release Notes

Features

• Package Manager: Related to [PAX-1772](https://jira.unity3d.com/browse/PAX-1772) As a user I should be able to specify the location of the AssetStore cache

Improvements

• Burst: Support for __Unmanaged for non-extern functions

• Burst: Used explicit namespace for UnityEditor.PackageManager.Events to avoid conflicts.

• DX12: Set swapchain background color to make resize visually more pleasing and disable scaling in resize.

• Windows: Added "-force-d3d11-flip-model" command line parameter to force Unity to use DXGI flip model swap chain.

API Changes

• UI Toolkit: Added: Added a NestedInteractionKind enum to ScrollView to give control over event propagation while scrolling.

Changes

• XR: The Oculus XR Plugin package has been updated to 3.0.2.

Fixes

• Android: Allow any file to be selected as keystore (previously only .keystore was supported). (UUM-917)

• Android: Fix video with alpha when using Vulkan on some older devices. (1407184)

• Android: Fixed a potential app store validation issue related to a QueryIntentActivities() call when initializing the engine.

• Android: Fixed crash during low memory kill. (UUM-4811)

• Android: Fixed Java local reference leak when AndroidJavaProxy is passed as argument to AndroidJavaObject.Call/CallStatic. (1389252)

• Android: Fixed Patch (/And Run) failing on some Android 12 devices with "Permission Denied" or "No such file or directory". (UUM-2445)

• Asset Bundles: Refactors out the requiresTextureCompression boolean flag.
  The texture compression setting is now set internally from either the existing EditorPrefs setting kCompressTexturesOnImport or checking if the BuildPipeline build is in progress. (UUM-3653)

• Burst: A potential issue with the debug info mover pass, that meant it only affected the first entry point in a module.

• Burst: Added workaround for "cannot dlopen until fork() handlers have completed" issue seen in macOS 12.3.

• Burst: Fixed a bug that manifested when using IAP in UWP builds with Burst - we were scanning the assembly hierarchy too deep for Bursted types, which led to an AssemblyResolutionException.

• Burst: Fixed a bug where using ReinterpretStore(someIndex, (ushort)someValue) could cause an internal compiler error in Burst.

• Burst: Fixed a bug with Span and ReadOnlySpan types where if the indices used were not already 32-bit signed integers, an internal compiler error would occur if running with safety checks enabled.

• Burst: Fixed a compiler crash if users used __refvalue or __arglist in Burst. Neither of these are supported, but now we will nicely tell you via a compiler error that they aren't supported.

• Burst: Fixed a compiler error when trying to acquire the function pointer of a generic function from Bursted code.

• Burst: Fixed a memory leak where during hashing we'd pin a GC object and never unpin and free it.

• Burst: Fixed bug in static constructor ordering in the presence of indirect dependencies between static constructors (i.e. static constructor -> static method -> static constructor) that could result in a runtime crash.

• Burst: Fixed compiler crash when the only usage of a static field was in a formatted exception string.

• Burst: Fixed compiler crash when trying to dynamically call BurstCompiler.CompileFunctionPointer in Burst-compiled code.

• Burst: Fixed hashing bug that could occur when a function pointer type is used in a method parameter.

• Burst: Fixed hashing error that could occur in the presence of multiple synthesized explicit interface implementations with the same name and signature.

• Burst: Fixed hashing error that could occur with unbound generic type.

• Burst: Using a function only through a C# function pointer could cause a crash.

• Editor: Fixed Verify Saved Assets modal window to accept changed graphics api. (1380734)

• Editor: Fixed Verify Saved Assets modal window to accept user input. (1365765)

• Editor: IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown when openning Object Picker. (UUM-2825)

• GI: Fixed the pushoff setter on GPU lightprobes baking. (UUM-857)

• Graphics: "Rim left" and "Rim right" presets are difficult to visualize in the inspector. (1399494)

• Graphics: Draw calls with not all ComputeBuffers bound correctly can lead to crashes on M1. Calls are now discarded and error message is output with shader name. (1395963)

• Graphics: Fixed a performance issue in the SRP Render loop. (UUM-6109)

• Graphics: Fixed false positives from checking if all buffers are bound correctly on Metal. (1395963)

• Graphics: Fixed for updated XR Display headers breaking Oculus App Spacewarp (ASW) due to error in back-compat code path (UUM-7369)

• Graphics: Fixed LightAnchor when camera is tilted, work with Local and World Up. (1403119)

• Graphics: Fixes incorrectly regenerated thumbnails when reimporting sprites with an asset postprocessor. (UUM-5469)

• HDRP: Added an error message in the custom pass volume editor when custom passes are disabled in the HDRP asset. (1407146)

• HDRP: Added the volumetric clouds to the feature list of HDRP (case 1410051). (1410051)

• HDRP: Changed back height of the path tracing progress bar to 0.5% of the resolution. (1404944)

• HDRP: Fixed an issue regarding the scaling of texture read from the after-post-process injection point. (1412459)

• HDRP: Fixed black screen with MSAA and TAAU both enabled. (1411217)

• HDRP: Fixed constant repaint when static sky set to none. (1414957)

• HDRP: Fixed custom pass material editor not displaying correctly read-only materials. (1411764)

• HDRP: Fixed decal angle fade for decal projectors. (1410918)

• HDRP: Fixed DRS resolution not working for custom post process / custom passes. Pre post effect passes looked croppted (case 1398904). (1398904)

• HDRP: Fixed error on lens flare enabled causing motion vectors to be faulty. (1398635)

• HDRP: Fixed flickering tiles on FPTL when light count exceeds 32 on vulkan. Caused by a compiler bug vulkan only (case 1401605). (1401605)

• HDRP: Fixed for baked reflection probes. (1403131)

• HDRP: Fixed HDRP Wizard windows duplicated when entering in play mode. (1407981)

• HDRP: Fixed issue that would always save Decal Materials when saving the scene. (UUM-6276)

• HDRP: Fixed issue with motion blur having small holes in its blur with high velocities. (1415008)

• HDRP: Fixed issue with overblown exposure when doing scene filtering. (1333684)

• HDRP: Fixed issue with path tracing, when Ambient Occlusion Remapping is forced to zero on materials. (1401329)

• HDRP: Fixed issue with specular occlusion being wrongly quantized when APV is enabled in HDRP. (1407475)

• HDRP: Fixed label for background clouds in Environment Lighting tab. (1409875)

• HDRP: Fixed lens flare wobbling caused by using jittered matrix, more visible with DLSS (case 1403463). (1403463)

• HDRP: Fixed min percentage of dynamic resolution in HDRenderPipeline not clamped (case 1408155). (1408155)

• HDRP: Fixed missing menu item to create reflection proxy volume. (1401202)

• HDRP: Fixed Planar Probe not rendering when sky is None. (1410628)

• HDRP: Fixed Reflection Proxy Volume allowing negative values. (1401205)

• HDRP: Fixed the history buffers being all discarded when the number of ColorPyramidBuffers changed (case 1405726). (1405726)

• HDRP: Removed clamping for ray traced reflections on transparent objects (case 1414178). (1414178)

• HDRP: Updated frame diagram image in documentation (missing Flim grain and Dithering). (1407628)

• HDRP: Volumetric fog color no longer affects height fog when disabled. (1414943)

• Linux: Enabled macro in sdl to enable deadkey response in built executable. (1134402)

• Linux: Fixed crash caused by destroying MenuItem widgets and accessing their data in GTK handlers. (1372311)

• Linux: Fixed crash when launching standalone profiler on Linux. (UUM-5543)

• Linux: Fixed missing game controller mappings for certain controllers. (1384896)

• Linux: Fixed print stack trace frequently crashing (UUM-1595)

• Networking: Fixed IPv6 support on Windows and Android. (UUM-926)

• Particles: Fixed errors when viewing a Force Field Preset inspector whilst entering Playmode. (UUM-1818)

• Physics 2D: Ensure that the PlatformEffector2D continually calculates friction/bounce when something is in contact with it. (UUM-1684)

• Prefabs: Removed unpack Prefab instances option when deleting Prefabs
  This makes case 1360671 obsolete. (UUM-3368)

• Profiler: Fixed Memory Profiler capture reloading unloaded assets referenced by scripts. (UUM-898)

• Profiler: Fixed untracked memory allocated via AsyncUploadManager when browsing Addressables. (1410384)

• Scripting: Fixed issue where OnPostRender is called multiple times per frame when setting Application.targetFrameRate. (UUM-911)

• Scripting: Fixed issue where yielding WaitForEndOfFrame was getting called too many times per Editor player loop. (UUM-904)

• Security: Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1m. (1352528)

• Shaders: Editor in -nographics mode does not support compute shaders. (1410540)

• Text: Fixed Text component not rendering elements with floating point coordinates correctly on machines with locale set to one that uses commas as decimal separators. (UUM-868)

• Text: Fixed the UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion error when inputting an emoji into a text game object.

• uGUI: Reverted the default behavior for UI elements that implement IPointerEnter/Exit back to what it was before: when hovering a child component, it also sends the hovering event to the parent(s).
  Also added a field (sendPointerHoverToParent) in the BaseInputModule that can be set to false to change the behavior to: when hovering a child component, it doesn't send the hover event to the parent(s). (UUM-2468)

• UI Toolkit: Fix SVG 9-slice visual artefact. (UUM-5434)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed an issue where the UI Builder breaks the cursor property when saving by appending a comma between the additional parameters. (UUM-872)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed nested scroll view behaviour on mobile; scrolling will stay in the scroll view that initiated the drag. (UUM-941)

• UI Toolkit: This fixes the following:
  

  • 1357086: Changes in UI Builder are lost when editing a 2D sprite
    
  • UIT-1233: UIBuilder: Message in dialog unclear - "UI Builder: Document has unsaved changes"
    The message appearing on screen is now clearer and a bit more explanatory for users. While it doesn't fix the problem at the source, it at least informs users more efficiently (about the reasons why they ended up there). (UUM-847)

• Universal Windows Platform: Fixed Application.OpenURL asserting due to not freeing temporary memory. (UUM-2205)

• Universal Windows Platform: Fixed errors when trying to use the System.Web.HttpUtility class on UWP. (UUM-4008)

• Universal Windows Platform: Fixed memory leak when creating new PlayerPrefs with key that is longer than 25 characters. (UUM-4166)

• URP: URP 2D - Fix Light2D upgrading issue with m_AlphaBlendOnOverlap property (UUM-1845)

• VFX Graph: Fixed exception when there is a GPU in subgraph and flow link in parent graph. (UUM-571)

• Video: Video player no longer suffers performance issues in windowed mode with external monitor. (1350851)

• Web: Implemented Application.RequestUserAuthorization/HasUserAuthorization API:
  https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Application.RequestUserAuthorization.html and sets the front facing mode of devices that don't include "front" or "back" in their label to true (1283191)

• WebGL: Fixed clearing of user template variables when template is switched. (1328657)

• WebGL: Removed 255 character limit for audio file urls. (1327368)

• Windows: Fixed Screen.currentResolution containing incorrectly rounded refresh rate. (UUM-1512)

• Windows: Fixed the game window teleporting to another display on certain display setups when switching to exclusive fullscreen mode at resolution that's significantly lower than the display's native resolution. (UUM-1513)

• XR: Fixed XR devices not following RunInBackground setting in Player Setting on PC standalone and playmode in Editor.

Package changes in 2021.3.6f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.burst: 1.6.5 → 1.6.6

• com.unity.ide.rider: 3.0.14 → 3.0.15

• com.unity.ide.visualstudio: 2.0.15 → 2.0.16

• com.unity.mobile.notifications: 2.0.1 → 2.0.2

• com.unity.remote-config: 3.1.0 → 3.1.3

• com.unity.remote-config-runtime: 3.1.0 → 3.1.3

• com.unity.xr.oculus: 3.0.1 → 3.0.2

• com.unity.collections: 1.2.3 → 1.2.4

Packages added

• com.unity.services.ccd.management@2.1.0

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.5f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.5f1

• AI Navigation: NavMesh::Raycast freezes the whole editor in an infinite loop on Application.UpdateScene (UUM-2496)

• Asset - Database: Texture size increased on first build when 'Compress Textures/Assets on Import' is enabled (1397965)

• Customer QA Onboarding: [M1] Crash on System.Object:__icall_wrapper_ves_icall_array_new_specific when launching a project (UUM-3207)

• HD RP: [HDRP] RT Shadow for Area lights do not render correctly (UUM-5925)

• HD RP: [HDRP][DXR] RT Shadows ghosts on one view when we have two cameras at the same time (UUM-2150)

• HD RP: [HDRP][PathTracer] Flashing at first frame blow up the automatic progressive exposure and create an overexposed converged frame when using recorder with accumulation (UUM-2427)

• Linux: [Backport] [Linux] Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (UUM-971)

• Metal: Consistent EditorLoop 5-10ms spikes when using Metal API (1378985)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Package: Empty "StreamingAssets" folder gets created after building an empty project (1423325)

• Physics: Crash on internalABP::ABP_PairManager::addPair when switching to ArticulationJointType.SphericalJoint during runtime (1418715)

• Text: [Mac] ShortcutManager ignores Shift modifier (UUM-4083)

2021.3.5f1 Release Notes

Improvements

• 2D: Com.unity.2d.animation - Updated Visibility Tab documentation page.

• Asset Import: Importing Models and their Materials using MaterialDescription will correctly use the glossiness value from the Material Fbx properties and applies it to the Standard Shader. (1370645)

• Graphics: Reduced command buffer CPU overhead.

• Graphics: Reduced RenderGraph CPU overhead.

Changes

• 2D: Com.unity.2d.animation - Removed the 'Open' button from Sprite Library Asset and Sprite Library Source Asset inspectors.

• Serialization: Changed alignment in Resource Image transfer function from 4 to 16 bytes to improve patching results on some platforms.

Fixes

• Android: Fixed potential crash during shutdown when using Vulkan. (1423459)

• Animation: Fixed InvalidOperationException when undoing in Animator Window with empty AnimatorController. (UUM-1853)

• Asset Import: Fixed an issue that importing Models and their Materials using MaterialDescription will correctly use the glossiness value from the Material Fbx properties and applies it to the Standard Shader in HDRP and URP. (1370665)

• Asset Import: Fixed an issue where the Model Importer remaps materials even when MaterialImportMode is None. (1401070)

• Asset Import: Fixed internal MaterialDescription AssetPostprocessor priorities to -1000 so they don't conflict with users default implementations. (1360618)

• Asset Import: Scripted importers that use Allocator.Temp allocated memory no longer leak memory on the asset import worker.

• Editor: Fixed default vertex colors for the billboard LOD vertex data for SpeedTree v8 imports. (1417551)

• Editor: Fixed ReorderableList first element height when the element uses PropertyDrawer. (1409773)

• Editor: Fixed spurious assembly file locking which could prevent rebuild after using the right clic "Open source code" on a test in the Test Runner window.

• GI: The editor could crash in case of overlapping light probes when additively loaded scenes. This fix eliminates an attempt to deduplicate light probes with respect to positions. A warning is introduced as the lack of deduplication could cause flickering objects.

• Graphics: Allowed a native Texture3D to be bigger than 2GB. (UUM-4006)

• Graphics: Disabled dynamic lightmapping shader variants that have DOTS_INSTANCING_ON enabled.

• Graphics: Fixed a crash happening when an invalid Skinned Mesh Renderer is used with Ray Tracing effects. (1404046)

• Graphics: Fixed consistent Gfx.WaitForPresentOnGfxThread editor spikes when using Metal. Also fixed issue which caused the Game View FPS to drop when the editor was moved to a different display. In addition, fixed bad performance when Game View was displayed in a different window at the same time as the Scene View. (UUM-4697)

• Graphics: Fixed occasional crash when compressing to ETC2 with Texture2D.Compress. (1417802)

• Graphics: Fixed potential stall on buffer uploads in OpenGL GfxDevice. (1369478)

• Graphics: Fixed realoading of VFX Assets while inspecting a Cube Render Texture. (1340307)

• Graphics: Fixed reinitializing of a compressed, non-crunched texture. (1401977)

• Graphics: Shadow casters with different UnityPerMaterial aren't properly SRP Batched. (1421660)

• IL2CPP: Corrected the behavior of named pipes on Windows platforms. (1420995)

• IL2CPP: Corrected the module initializer function call signature to avoid calling the wrong method on WebGL. (1399638)

• Input: Fixed Alt-Tabbing out of build leaves the Alt key pressed on return. (1399038)

• Input: Fixed InputSystem.QueueStateEvent throwing exceptions when called from non-main thread. (1348778)

• Input: Fixed keys being stuck pressed when application regains focus on Windows Standalone, macOS with input system package. (1361145)

• Input: Fixed mouse coordinates being incorrect until first move on Windows Standalone, Linux, macOS with input system package. (1231907)

• Input: Fixed PrintScreen key reported as pressed when pressing Insert/Home/Del/etc with NumLock being off with Input System package on Windows (also modified UWP and GDK). (1359217)

• Input: Fixed Touchscreen.pressure being corrupted on Windows Standalone with input system package. (1378194)

• Kernel: Fixed an issue when attempting to load corrupted rest-certificate.pem cert would crash Unity. (1423569)

• Linux: Fixed Linux Editor ignores mouse scroll wheel input when the cursor is locked on the new input system. (1354498)

• Linux: Fixed Linux Editor's new input system's mouse scroll delta values clamped between -1 and 1. (1365433)

• Linux: Fixed player window cannot be resized when the player is started in full screen mode. (1372700)

• macOS: Fixed corruption when resizing player window. (1327755)

• Mono: Fixed random crash on exit or domain reload. (1418292)

• Package Manager: Fixed an issue that the Package Manager window takes a while to load initially. (1350368)

• Particles: Fixed for glitching particle effects that showed up when using graphics jobs. (UUM-2577)

• Profiler: Fixed failing performance tests RepaintProfilerWindowWith6VisibleCharts and RepaintProfilerWindowWith2VisibleAnd4InvisibleCharts due to unity setup coroutine timing out. (UUM-2999)

• Serialization: Avoid crash during build related to assets that use SerializeReference and Garbage Collection. (UUM-644)

• Shaders: Fixed an occasional crash when entering playmode and trying to run a compute shader. (1413012)

• uGUI: FIxed an issue that MissingReferenceException is thrown when calling Object.Destroy from a UI Button. (1428922)

• uGUI: Fixed oversized UI Sprites with Mip Stripping enabled. (1393270)

• uGUI: Fixed UI Components causing GC Allocation when enabled. (UUM-1807)

• UI: Updated COPPA compliance link.

• UI Toolkit: Implemented a workaround allowing UIToolkit to be rendered on buggy Adreno GPUs. (1361189)

• UI Toolkit: Implemented a workaround allowing UIToolkit to draw with proper color channels on buggy Adreno GPUs. (1429559)

• URP: URP 2D - Fix bug when upgrading parametric lights to freeform lights. (UUM-1869)

• Video: Fixed a crash when importing a file in play mode. (1305732)

• WebGL: Fixed AudioClip.GetData(). (1369656)

• WebGL: Fixed bug where some control keys were being incorrectly interpreted as text. (1417650)

• Windows: Fixed dragging files from Unity to other applications when the file path contains non-ASCII characters. (1402070)

Package changes in 2021.3.5f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.2d.animation: 7.0.5 → 7.0.6

• com.unity.2d.psdimporter: 6.0.3 → 6.0.4

• com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras: 2.2.2 → 2.2.3

• com.unity.cinemachine: 2.8.4 → 2.8.6

• com.unity.collab-proxy: 1.15.17 → 1.15.18

• com.unity.purchasing: 4.1.4 → 4.1.5

• com.unity.remote-config: 2.1.2 → 3.1.0

• com.unity.remote-config-runtime: 2.1.2 → 3.1.0

Packages added

• com.unity.services.analytics@4.0.1

• com.unity.services.cloudcode@2.0.0

• com.unity.services.cloudsave@2.0.0

• com.unity.services.economy@2.0.3

• com.unity.services.lobby@1.0.1

• com.unity.services.qos@1.0.1

• com.unity.services.relay@1.0.3

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.4f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.4f1

• Android: Editor is unable to find JAVA when building an application (UUM-2106)

• Asset - Database: Texture size increased on first build when 'Compress Textures/Assets on Import' is enabled (1397965)

• Asset Bundles: Textures are not compressed when building bundles (1412557)

• Graphics Device Features: Random-write to UAV texture from shadowcaster shader causes GPU hang when filtering Scene Hierarchy objects (1417589)

• HD RP: [HDRP][DXR] Temporal denoising is broken up to 2021.3 in punctuals raytraced shadows (UUM-2140)

• IL2CPP: [Android] Build fails when building an exported project with Script Debugging enabled (1373278)

• IMGUI: Impossible to change the Gradient's location value in the Visual Effects Graph when using the keyboard (1420954)

• Inspector Framework: First array element expansion is broken for arrays that use Custom Property Drawers (1409773)

• Kernel: Unity crashes on StackWalker::GetCurrentCallstack when rest-certificate.pem is corrupted (1423569)

• Metal: Consistent EditorLoop 5-10ms spikes when using Metal API (1378985)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Mono: Editor crashes intermittently on mono_object_isinst when closing it in batch mode or when building (1418292)

• Package: Empty "StreamingAssets" folder gets created after building an empty project (1423325)

• Physics: Crash on internalABP::ABP_PairManager::addPair when switching to ArticulationJointType.SphericalJoint during runtime (1418715)

• Quality of Life: [Mac] ShortcutManager ignores Shift modifier (1424655)

• Shader System: Editor crashes in Play mode when Groupshared memory and a constant buffer value is used in a compute shader on OpenGLES3 (1413012)

2021.3.4f1 Release Notes

Features

• Graphics: Added gaze foveated rendering (GFR) on Vulkan.

Improvements

• Android: Added the AssetBundle extension to the list of exceptions for gradle compression of StreamingAssets. (1405245)

• Documentation: Added code snippet for Physics.ContactModifyEvent.

• Services: Opting out of analytics within the editor is now available to all customers and will sync the settings with the Unity backend.

Fixes

• 2D: Fixed case where Lighting is incorrect when Sprite Atlas uses secondary Texture Normal Maps in Linear Color Space. (1378322)

• 2D: Fixed Tile Palette window incorrectly preventing selection in Scene View when Tilemap Tools are inactive. (1365564)

• Android: Fixed an issue to allow 2 segment package names. (1425979)

• Android: Fixed app-freezing when an application changes into multi-window(split-screen) on Chrome OS tablet mode. (1361131)

• Android: Fixed Screen.resolutions to return all supported refresh rates, not only 60Hz. (1426366)

• Animation: Fixed an issue where the parameter preview of the animator did not work anymore. (1388833)

• Editor: Sped up drag & drop in the Project view on large projects. (1314065)

• GI: Strip shader variants with DIRLIGHTMAP_COMBINED keyword enabled when both LIGHTMAP_ON and DYNAMICLIGHTMAP_ON are disabled when building the player. Directional lightmap logic is always enclosed in the more general baked or dynamic lightmap blocks. (1307896)

• Graphics: Fixed a crash when calling Graphics.RenderMesh for a Mesh that was destroyed. (1404273)

• Graphics: Fixed flickering of particle system when using Vulkan. (1417289)

• IL2CPP: Fixed a crash during liveness processing when asynchronous delegate invocation is used. (1417730)

• IL2CPP: Fixed an issue where calls to GetHashCode on value types with no instance fields would not return a stable value. (1411455)

• IL2CPP: Fixed builds failures when doing .NET Framework API builds and referencing types in System.Drawing. (1413051)

• IL2CPP: Fixed code generation for Enum.HasFlag when its second argument is a System.Enum type. (1420369)

• IL2CPP: Fixed function pointer bugs with integer casting and signature comparisons. (1391567)

• IL2CPP: Fixed invalid C++ code for unmanged function pointer call in shared generic code. (1417082)

• IMGUI: Removed hard-coded color space of the gradient picker. (1383095)

• Input: Fixed keyboard not working on iOS 15. (1376970)

• Kernel: Fixed VirtualFileSystem tests failing in the case of short paths being returned. (1402346)

• Linux: Fixed a crash at the launch on systems that does not support Vulkan and OpenGL3.2. (1372651)

• Linux: Fixed input system package drop down is a blank square issue. (1391850)

• macOS: Enabled the Build and Run button for Apple Silicon builds in the Silicon Editor. (1415688)

• Mono: Fixed a bug where the SmtpClient would ignore the ServicePointManager's SecurityProtocol level. (1389326)

• Mono: Fixed a crash when de-serializing managed objects that have changed field types. (1378713)

• Mono: Fixed a rare incremental GC crash on Windows. (1411601)

• Mono: Fixed an incorrect exception being thrown via Process.Start when windows path contains '. (1387637)

• Mono: Fixed an issue where callstacks would not be reported on OSX. (1411374)

• Mono: Fixed default interface method crash when using mismatched generic arguments. (1394314)

• Mono: Fixed PlatformNotSupportedException when calling System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData.Protect. (1397970)

• Mono: Implemented ProcessStartInfo.ArgumentList which was introduced in .Net Standard 2.1. (1396842)

• Mono: Improved error handling to throw a MarshalDirectiveException when marshaling generic instances as return types from pinvoke callbacks. (1390445)

• Mono: Removed handling SIGINT when Mono is embedded in Unity and the Player. (1376434)

• Physics 2D: Fixed an issue in the CustomCollider2D where a shapes bounds were not updating when replacing existing shapes with different vertices only. This resulted in an incorrect collision detection for that shape. (1425289)

• Scene/Game View: Fixed possible argument exception when using Scene Visibility API. (1288443)

• Scripting: Fixed a case where the type of generic fields inside generic classes would fail to get resolved when building the project. (1415422)

• Scripting: Fixed filtering of assemblies by platform constraints not working and by defines. (1373388)

• Serialization: Fixed a crash when deserializing a Prefab instance containing a resize on an array containing a nested type with a Fixed Buffer. (1400774)

• Shaders: Fixed a crash when warming up a shader variant collection that had a shader with UsePass. (1407692)

• Shaders: Fixed include dependencies being reported incorrectly when guarded by defines that depend on keywords. (1401580)

• Shaders: Fixed redundant shader variant recompilation after Editor relaunch. (1425799)

• Shaders: Fixed ShaderKeywordSet.Disable not disabling keywords. (1417644)

• uGUI: Fixed RectMask2D using the wrong Canvas for calculations after it was reparented. (1395695)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed the preview texture of linear gradients in gamma projects. (1369425)

• Universal: Fixed an issue that preview cameras no longer spam errors on the first frame of rendering. (1393818)

• URP: Fixed an issue of Renderer2D using the incorrect render path when lights are out of the scene view. (1400566)

• URP: Fixed errors when using Native RenderPass and Render Objects feature after Post Processing.

• URP: Fixed smooth material lighting banding issues on mobile platforms. (1375791)

• VFX Graph: Fixed an issue that in Output Particle blocks, shader graph exposed properties order is now consistent with shader graph blackboard. (1398256)

• Video: Fixed an issue that Video's Alpha not transparent when built with WebGL. (1397499)

• WebGL: Fixed WebGL build in the Linux editor to include default resources. (1411380)

• XR: Fixed Unity VR Splash screen not showing up on UWP.

Package changes in 2021.3.4f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.collab-proxy: 1.15.16 → 1.15.17

• com.unity.localization: 1.0.3 → 1.3.1

• com.unity.render-pipelines.core: 12.1.6 → 12.1.7

• com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition: 12.1.6 → 12.1.7

• com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition-config: 12.1.6 → 12.1.7

• com.unity.render-pipelines.universal: 12.1.6 → 12.1.7

• com.unity.scriptablebuildpipeline: 1.19.6 → 1.20.1

• com.unity.services.core: 1.3.1 → 1.4.0

• com.unity.shadergraph: 12.1.6 → 12.1.7

• com.unity.visualeffectgraph: 12.1.6 → 12.1.7

• com.unity.visualscripting: 1.7.6 → 1.7.8

• com.unity.xr.openxr: 1.4.1 → 1.4.2

Packages added

• com.unity.services.authentication@2.0.0

Pre-release packages added

• com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.0.0-pre.9

• com.unity.multiplayer.tools@1.0.0-pre.7

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.3f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.3f1

• Asset - Database: Texture size increased on first build when 'Compress Textures/Assets on Import' is enabled (1397965)

• Asset Bundles: Textures are not compressed when building bundles (1412557)

• DirectX11: Crash on GfxDeviceD3D11Base::ResolveDepthIntoTexture when opening the project (1408785)

• Graphics Device Features: Random-write to UAV texture from shadowcaster shader causes GPU hang when filtering Scene Hierarchy objects (1417589)

• IL2CPP: [Mobile] [IL2CPP] Build fails when using custom script and target architecture ARM64 is selected (1420369)

• IMGUI: Impossible to change the Gradient's location value in the Visual Effects Graph when using the keyboard (1420954)

• Inspector Framework: First array element expansion is broken for arrays that use Custom Property Drawers (1409773)

• Kernel: Unity crashes on StackWalker::GetCurrentCallstack when rest-certificate.pem is corrupted (1423569)

• Linux: Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (1423683)

• Linux: New Input System's Input Actions windows's Binding Path dropdown is rendered as an empty white square on Linux (1391850)

• Metal: Consistent EditorLoop 5-10ms spikes when using Metal API (1378985)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Mono: Editor crashes intermittently on mono_object_isinst when closing it in batch mode or when building (1418292)

• Mono: [Android] "Found plugins with same names" error is thrown when building on Android with duplicate .dll files (1373388)

• Package: Crash on TcpProtobufClient::EndBatch when creating a Prefab and Cache Server is disconnected (1383891)

• Package: Empty "StreamingAssets" folder gets created after building an empty project (1423325)

• Package: Unity crashes in batch mode when using -vcsMode Perforce (1396449)

• Physics: Crash on internalABP::ABP_PairManager::addPair when switching to ArticulationJointType.SphericalJoint during runtime (1418715)

• Progressive Lightmapper: [GPU PLM] OpenCL shader loading time in the new projects has become significantly slower (1389752)

• Quality of Life: [Mac] ShortcutManager ignores Shift modifier (1424655)

• Serialization: Editor crash when deserializing an array of a type with a nested fixed-size buffer field (1400774)

• Shader System: Editor crashes in Play mode when Groupshared memory and a constant buffer value is used in a compute shader on OpenGLES3 (1413012)

• Shadows/Lights: Scene is brighter in Standalone player if it was open in the Editor at build time (1375015)

• Web Platform: [Linux] Webgl build crashes every time when using Unity Editor on Linux (1411380)

2021.3.3f1 Release Notes

Features

• Asset Pipeline: Accelerator Corruption Detection

Improvements

• Android: Bump Android Logcat package to 1.3.2 version.

Changes

• iOS: Changed how selection is handled if it's set before the on screen keyboard has showed up.

• Package: com.unity.purchasing version updated to 4.1.4

Fixes

• 2D: Fixed issue where Sprite reference might be lost after upgrading. (1398401)

• Android: Fixed a Unity Audio bug related to Bluetooth audio. This was causing issues with Vivox, and possibly other 3rd part audio libraries, with Bluetooth functionality. On Android, Bluetooth audio state is basically global, so Unity Audio now only makes the bare minimum changes to this state. We may still call startBluetoothSco and stopBluetoothSco when starting or re-initializing the audio output engine and when starting/stopping the Unity microphone. We may also call AudioManager.setMode when starting/stopping a Bluetooth mic through the Unity microphone APIs, but that's it. (1418634)

• Asset Import: Changing texture shape no longer causes NullReferenceExceptions. (1355120)

• Asset Import: Upgraded boost::asio version to v1.20.0. (1408567)

• Build System: Removed legacy project file causing issues when opened through VSCode's Omnisharp. (1389396)

• Editor: Fixed crash when calling GUIClip.SetMatrix early in the domain reload. (1332043)

• Editor: Fixed editor freezes for a moment when moved from one screen to another with different resolution scale. (1322959)

• Editor: Fixed editor mode shortcut of custom commands not working. (1421416)

• Editor: Fixed occasional missed mouse messages in the Windows Editor when the cursor is locked. (1365651)

• Editor: Fixed ReorderableList custom element height callback exception when there are no elements in the list. (1399803)

• Editor: [SpeedTree] High poly SpeedTrees do not import correctly. (1364523)

• GI: Fixed a bug where additively loading a scene could cause lighting data assets to be altered, and new lighting data assets to be created. (1381583)

• Graphics: Fixed overlay camera stacking is not working on MacOS when using OpenGLCore with MSAA. (1250331)

• Graphics: Fixed validation error on Vulkan when transitioning layout from VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_PRESENT_SRC_KHR. (1380371)

• HDRP: Fixed a leak when creating and destroying manually reflection probes. (1394192)

• HDRP: Fixed NaNs in volumetric clouds on consoles. (1419211)

• HDRP: Fixed prefab mode context visibility not hiding custom passes, decals, and local volumetric fog objects. (1395948)

• iOS: Fixed Input Field caret jumping when Hide Mobile Input is used. (1415962)

• iOS: Fixed occasional xcode 13.3 build fail due to "a cyclic reference". (1418416)

• Linux: Fixed editor crash on startup when opened on machines with certain Intel MESA cards. (1375312)

• Linux: Fixed linux playmode window from processing multiple mouse events on each mouse click event. (1337545)

• Linux: Fixed maximizing of playmode window on linux while trying to change tabs to scene view. (1407426)

• Linux: Fixed Shift + Tab keyboard input to support backwards navigation in Linux editor text fields. (1396671)

• macOS: Fixed flicker in splash screen when using OpenGL. (1396489)

• macOS: Fixed OSX sending a Return keycode event when return was pressed to confirm an IME string. (1381684)

• macOS: MoveMainWindowTo no longer fails to switch screens when monitors are scaled. (1417303)

• Mobile: Added a new Player setting "Reset resolution on window resize" to reset resolution when native window is resized. (1393410)

• Networking: UnityWebRequest: fix support for System.Uri with file path containing spaces and plus characters (both at the same time). (1367599)

• Particles: Fixed ringbuffer mode to work properly with pause-and-catchup culling mode. (1385616)

• Profiler: Fixed Asset Loading Profiler module Hierarchy sorting. (1369190)

• Profiler: Fixed issue where Mesh memory usage was not being updated when applying new MeshData with Mesh.ApplyAndDisposeWritableMeshData. (1377773)

• Scripting: Removed outdated System.Reactive extensions from .Net 4.8 profile. (1407597)

• Search: Fixed a ThreadAbortException when creating multiple C# scripts in quick succession. (1398886)

• Search: Fixed Advanced Object Picker does not persist settings in context menu. (1417074)

• Search: Fixed failure while loading a search index concurrently. (1417609)

• Search: Fixed quick Search does not find all files (when temp is part of the folder name). (1409878)

• Search: Fixed search freeze Unity if opening query block selector and if the scene provider is still searching for some results. (1411739)

• Search: Fixed thumbnails in Search window (with inspector panel turned on) changing when selected. (1402123)

• Search: Fixed unwanted warning shown when loading URP converters. (1410719)

• Source Code Build: Don't strip PlatformDependent/UnixCommon from source code releases.

• Source Code Build: Fixed ProjectFile dependency breakage for source code customers.

• uGUI: Fixed incorrect input coordinates when using multiple displays and the main display had a non native resolution. (1141732)

• uGUI: Fixed InputField not correctly handling IME input when return was pressed. (1349037)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed issue when item is removed from hierarchy while the pointer is still in a captured state. (1389285)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed possible NullReferenceException in BaseTreeView.OnViewDataReady. (1401264)

• UI Toolkit: Theme Style Sheet doesn't update when it has been changed more than once through script. (1377689)

• Universal: Fixed spot and point light harsh distance falloff artefact on some platforms due to fp16 precision issue. (1416456)

• Universal: Fixed _InternalLut being released too early and logging warnings when using post-processing in stacked camera's in URP 2D. (1378811)

• Universal: Reverted behavior to allow FinalBlit being skipped when the user has no ScriptableRenderPasses with "AfterRendering" as renderEvent while finalPostProcessing is not needed. (1407414)

• WebGL: Fixed automatic playback of compressed audio. (1395655)

• Windows: Fixed mouse button occasional becoming stuck in "down" state when running in Play Mode. (1405273)

• XR: Updated the verified AR Foundation related packages to 4.2.3. Please see the AR Foundation package changelog for details.

Package changes in 2021.3.3f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.ide.rider: 3.0.13 → 3.0.14

• com.unity.ide.visualstudio: 2.0.14 → 2.0.15

• com.unity.mobile.android-logcat: 1.2.3 → 1.3.2

• com.unity.mobile.notifications: 2.0.0 → 2.0.1

• com.unity.purchasing: 4.1.3 → 4.1.4

• com.unity.xr.arcore: 4.2.2 → 4.2.3

• com.unity.xr.arfoundation: 4.2.2 → 4.2.3

• com.unity.xr.arkit: 4.2.2 → 4.2.3

• com.unity.xr.arkit-face-tracking: 4.2.2 → 4.2.3

• com.unity.xr.arsubsystems: 4.2.2 → 4.2.3

We are happy to announce Unity 2021.3.2f1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

Unity Editor Download Assistant

• Unity Hub
• Download (Win)
• Download (Mac)

Component Installers Windows

• Unity Editor 64-bit
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Mac

• Unity Editor (Intel)
• Unity Editor (Apple silicon)
• Built in shaders
• Unity Accelerator
• Torrent download (Win+Mac)

Component Installers Linux

• Unity Editor
• Unity Accelerator

Known Issues in 2021.3.2f1

• Asset - Database: Texture size increased on first build when 'Compress Textures/Assets on Import' is enabled (1397965)

• Asset Bundles: Textures are not compressed when building bundles (1412557)

• DirectX11: Crash on GfxDeviceD3D11Base::ResolveDepthIntoTexture when opening the project (1408785)

• DirectX11: Random-write to UAV texture from shadowcaster shader causes GPU hang when filtering Scene Hierarchy objects (1417589)

• IL2CPP: [Mobile] [IL2CPP] Build fails when using custom script and target architecture ARM64 is selected (1420369)

• IMGUI: Impossible to change the Gradient's location value in the Visual Effects Graph when using the keyboard (1420954)

• Linux: Editor crashes at "GfxDeviceGLES::DrawBuffersBatchMode" when entering Play Mode in the LEGO tutorial (1423683)

• Linux: Editor crashes at "__assert_fail_base.cold" when opening a project (Linux) (1375312)

• Linux: New Input System's Input Actions windows's Binding Path dropdown is rendered as an empty white square on Linux (1391850)

• Metal: Consistent EditorLoop 5-10ms spikes when using Metal API (1378985)

• Mono: Crash with ScanAssemblyForAttributesAndInterfaceImplementations when opening a project (1376858)

• Mono: [Android] "Found plugins with same names" error is thrown when building on Android with duplicate .dll files (1373388)

• Package: Unity crashes in batch mode when using -vcsMode Perforce (1396449)

• Physics: Crash on internalABP::ABP_PairManager::addPair when switching to ArticulationJointType.SphericalJoint during runtime (1418715)

• Quality of Life: ReorderableList out of bounds exeception (1399803)

• Quality of Life: [Mac] ShortcutManager ignores Shift modifier (1424655)

• Scene/Game View: Game Object Material starts flickering when dragging new material over other Game Object that touches first Object (1423053)

• Search: Fail to load the search index concurrently (1417609)

• Serialization: Editor crash when deserializing an array of a type with a nested fixed-size buffer field (1400774)

• Shader System: Editor crashes in Play mode when Groupshared memory and a constant buffer value is used in a compute shader on OpenGLES3 (1413012)

• Shadows/Lights: Scene is brighter in Standalone player if it was open in the Editor at build time (1375015)

• Texture: File could not be read error is thrown when a 16 bit .tif file is present in the project (1404047)

• Version Control: Crash on TcpProtobufClient::EndBatch when creating a Prefab and Cache Server is disconnected (1383891)

• Web Platform: [Linux] Webgl build crashes every time when using Unity Editor on Linux (1411380)

• WebGL: WebGL Input System interactions are delayed or played preemptively when the project is built (1405517)

2021.3.2f1 Release Notes

Features

• Version Control: Added "Switch to changeset" menu option in changesets view
  Added "Go back to changeset" menu option in changesets view

Improvements

• Graphics: Using memoryless MSAA now also applies to the MSAA attachment when depth resolve is used

• License: show proper license error dialog when editor is opened with a build license

API Changes

• iOS: Added: Added iPad Air 5 and iPhone SE 3 to devices.

Changes

• Services: UGS packages are now available in the Package Manager

• Version Control: Removed category icons from views
  Removed "com.unity.services.core" package dependency

• XR: The Oculus XR Plugin package has been updated to 3.0.1.

• XR: Updated OpenXR Package to 1.4.0

Fixes

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.animation] Fixed an issue when Skinning Editor will lose reference after exiting Play mode. (1405289)

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.animation] Fixed an issue where moving vertices in the Skinning Editor might result in invalid edges (1386153)

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.animation] Fixed an issue where the SpriteSkin components would not get initialized on editor launch. (1401139)

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.animation] Sprite Library cannot reference itself in the Main Library field or any asset that references it. (1401464)

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras] [AnimatedTileEditor] Fix undo when setting number of Sprites for Animated Tile.

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras] [RuleTileEditor] Fix undo when setting number of Rules for Rule Tile.

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras] [RuleTileEditor] Use different text color for Extend Neighbors with dark and light skin.

• 2D: [com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras] [RuleTile] Fix data for custom container fields not being transferred in RuleOverrideTiles overriding a Custom Rule Tile.

• Android: Added Initial launch size metadata into AndroidManifest.xml for Chrome OS devices with Android R or higher installed. (1360064)

• Android: Fix build failure when you had .androidlib plugin in a package. (1394476)

• Android: Fixed a bug with Unity UGUI and UI Elements input fields, where switching languages dynamically and IME functionality was not working. (1395812)

• Android: Fixed XR subsystem initialization in case of app bundle + asset packs. (1392895)

• Asset Bundles: Ensure that padding is added after blocks info so that Switch patching works appropriately. This fix implies that loading newly generated AssetBundles will require using this new Unity editor/runtime combination. (1403996)

• Build System: Dedicated server build will not inadvertently strip mesh data from meshes used for collision. (1399961)

• DX12: - Offset binding support for cbuffers disabled from SystemInfo on DX12 as it has never been supported, full implementation is upcoming. (1381731)

• Editor: Backport bug fix from 2022.2: Executing Build And Run with Dedicated Server platform now opens terminal window on Linux and macOS.

• Editor: Ensured that the Application Identifier errors and warnings are shown in the correct cases. (1382818)

• Editor: Fixed an issue where the "Install into source code 'build' folder" would not build in the source code folder. (1366021)

• Editor: Fixed crash that could occur when docking a window, if its size is momentarily zero. (1397003)

• Editor: Fixed incorrect screen size when dragging in the prefab stage. (1394756)

• Editor: Fixed the validation of the Application Identifier.

• Editor: Fixed tooltips not being resolved when using a custom label that does not contain a tooltip. (1415921)

• Editor: Fixing issue where if the Gameview was a fixed size, upon opening the editor the the Gameview was in the background it wouldn't update its size value properly. (1378321)

• GI: Fixed NaN artifacts that were sometimes appearing in lightmap when sampling a rectangle light. (1360935)

• Graphics: Fix global UAVs is Ray Tracing shaders (e.g. closesthit shader) generating errors in the console window when used. (1411409)

• Graphics: Fix redundant store of depth buffer MSAA samples to memory on Quest when depth resolve is used. (1413086)

• Graphics: Fixed a missing API documentation on the Graphics Core Package.

• Graphics: Fixed mipmap streaming issue that could happen in projects where Quality Setting "Texture Quality" specifies a texture mipmap level of lower resolution that the one set in Quality Setting "Texture Streaming / Max Level Reduction" (case 1417480) (1410879)

• Graphics: Fixed wrong RT discarding on metal when using CommandBuffers in OnRenderImage. (1395106)

• Graphics: Universal backport for missing shader keyword using shader graph with deferred rendering. (1372326)

• HDRP: Fixed an issue with overlay queued shaders not rendering in HDRP (case 1400281). (1379399)

• HDRP: Fixed decal normal overwriting normal map when normal blending is enabled. (1400660)

• HDRP: Fixed volumetric fog being clamped by the max shadow distance on metal. (1419758)

• HDRP: Improved robustness of path tracing dirtiness check. (1401691)

• IL2CPP: Workaround the Clang 12+ bug that could surface with IL2CPP by changing the Hash128 constructor code. (1422065)

• iOS: Prioritised the connected device for Xcode's run destination when building & running an iOS project on Apple Silicon. (1402105)

• License: Increase timeouts of license client and disable signature validation.

• macOS: Fixed "Already have uncommitted encoder" error present under some circumstances. (1400691)

• Networking: UnityWebRequest: filter error display in players Developer console the same way as in Editor. (1413106)

• Package Manager: Fixed an issue where in "My Assets" tab, some package thumbnails lead to wrong target URLs.

• Package Manager: Fixed an issue where UPM would hang for five seconds when exiting. (1409591)

• Profiler: Added option to disable GPU ProfilerRecorders on OpenGL, which otherwise block the "GPU Usage" Profiler module. (1359552)

• Scene/Game View: Fixed Overlays layout not maintained after domain reload. (1410898)

• Scripting: Fixed an editor crash when loading a precompiled assembly compiled with a compiler lacking "ref struct" support.

• Scripting: Ignore hidden sequence points when calling Coverage.GetSequencePointsFor. (1415957)

• Shaders: Changing line endings in shaders or include files will no longer cause recompilation of variants. (1415557)

• Shaders: Compute shader compilation progress bar no longer gets stuck. (1415495)

• Shaders: Fixed a rare shader compiler crash when expanding unterminated macros. (1402454)

• Shaders: Fixed Vulkan graphics artifacts in HDRP when there is high density of light sources. (1404875)

• Shaders: Material, Shader and MaterialPropertyBlock will now show an error in Editor and development player builds when adding a value using one of the Set* methods with the same name but different underlying type as an existing value set previously. (1404185)

• uGUI: Fixed issue in TimeManager that led to unscaledDeltaTime to be 0, cascading to other areas such as the ScrollRect code that produced a NaN in resulting calculations. (1375087)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed asset reimportation/refresh cause exception when displayed on the game view. (1402588, 1420033)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed erroneous visual when removing inline style related to the transform (rotate, translate and scale). (1392844)

• UI Toolkit: Fixed UI Builder theme serialization. (1402333)

• UI Toolkit: UI Toolkit and UI Builder packages are no longer accidentally inserted into user project when there's an indirect dependency from a different package.

• Universal: acked depth-stencil format is used again on some platforms to improve graphics performance. (1416507)

• Universal Windows Platform: Fixed an issue where games sometimes running on integrated GPU on certain laptops. UWP player will now behave like Windows Standalone and will always try to run on the dedicated GPU. (1394866)

• Universal Windows Platform: Fixed development builds not starting up on Windows 10 versions prior to build 15063.

• Universal Windows Platform: Fixed SystemInfo.operatingSystem returning wrong Windows version on some versions of Windows (notably builds 18363, 19042, 19043 and 19044). (1400786)

• URP: Fixed Blit and MotionVectors shader compilation errors with GLES2 API. (1388668)

• Version Control: Fixed light theme icons used in dark theme after pulling incoming changes.
  Fixed "Input string was not in a correct format" error.

• Video: Fixed crash on UnityMain when building for server with active VideoPlayer in Scene. (1350949)

• Windows: Fixed "-monitor" argument incorrectly affecting the target display when desired window bounds exceed the resolution of the target display. (1401606)

• Windows: When building for x86 with IL2CPP and Visual Studio 2017, Unity will use 64-bit tools, which makes the linker less likely to run out of memory on large projects. Unity already used 64-bit tools when using Visual Studio 2019 and 2022.

• XR: Fixed Oculus Quest software keyboard not showing up on InputField interaction. (1417991)

Package changes in 2021.3.2f1

Packages updated

• com.unity.2d.animation: 7.0.4 → 7.0.5

• com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras: 2.2.1 → 2.2.2

• com.unity.collab-proxy: 1.15.15 → 1.15.16

• com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json: 2.0.0 → 3.0.2

• com.unity.postprocessing: 3.2.1 → 3.2.2

• com.unity.services.core: 1.0.1 → 1.3.1

• com.unity.xr.oculus: 3.0.0 → 3.0.1

• com.unity.xr.openxr: 1.3.1 → 1.4.1

Packages no longer available

• com.unity.services.analytics-runtime