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We are listening to our users who are demanding that we fix more bugs, and faster, with our ongoing patch build releases. Each patch build is a full release of the editor with all runtimes and contains a number of bug fixes.

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Patch 5.3.8p2

Released: 17 August 2017

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.8p2. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Fixes

Revision: 702ec25c6a03

Patch 5.3.7p4

Released: 7 February 2017

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.7p4. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Improvements

  • Virtual Reality: Updated to Oculus runtime version 1.11.

Fixes

  • (854214) - Android: Fixed an incorrect behaviour with Application.persistentDataPath.
  • (none) - Android: Play audio from background applications at the original volume when it is not muted.
  • (668043, 837519) - Asset Pipeline: Fixed an issue where asset and timestamp maps could get out of sync.
  • (865666) - Graphics: Fixed a crash that occurred when loading models from AssetBundles with Tangents set to Calculate Legacy.
  • (none) - Networking: Skip proxy check when using the "file://" protocol.
  • (764734) - Shadows: Fixed a memory leak and assert when shadows are cast from lights with specific properties and in a specific scene setup.
  • (813101) - WebPlayer: Fixed compression settings for WebPlayer when building from command line.

Revision: 316083f083fb

Patch 5.3.7p3

Released: 21 December 2016

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.7p3. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Fixes

  • (853979) - Build Pipeline: VR Splash Screen texture will no longer be included when building a project for a non-VR platform.
  • (791434) - Core: Fixed an issue which was causing hangs in the job system when running on certain platforms with a low number of cores e.g. older Windows Phones, UWP dual core machines.
  • (851359) - Graphics: Fixed a crash when deleting a Shader that is used by some Materials in the scene.
  • (836815) - Graphics: Fixed the issue of Lighting preview windows not rendering correctly on Mac's with retina displays.
  • (851689) - Graphics: Fixed memory leak when instantiating materials (e.g. via renderer.material).
  • (853532) - iOS: Added Taiwanese language support.
  • (814493) - iOS: Fixed an issue where the keyboard could lose focus when rotating the device.
  • ([828762(https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/product/unity/issues/guid/828762/)) - iOS: Fixed background applications sound muting after running unity application.
  • (852363, 814365, 823587) - iOS: Fixed several crashes with regards to WWW and WebRequest.
  • (677623) - iOS: Fixes language support to differentiate between traditional and simplified Chinese.
  • (801761) - Prefabs: Fixed an issue where a prefab instance could be incorrectly marked inactive when first loading a scene.
  • (850350) - Scripting: Fixed MonoDevelop build errors when building UnityScript and Boo projects.
  • (847853) - WebGL: Fixed crash when user writes a file using custom ArrayBuffer.
  • (855881) - Windows Store Apps: Fixed Unity C# projects when there was dependency among them.
  • (856362) - Windows Store: Fixed a rare hang when alt tabbing during level load.

Revision: 53544b1200e7

Patch 5.3.7p2

Released: 25 November 2016

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.7p2. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Improvements

  • macOS/iOS/tvOS: Allow developers to use Xcode's manual signing paradigm by specifying a provisioning profile in Player Settings.
  • VR: Updated Oculus to version 1.10.

Fixes

  • (832578) - Audio: Fixed an issue which prevented streaming audio loading on 32-bit Apple devices which were upgraded to iOS 10.
  • (814160) - Editor: Fixed the logType passed to LogCallback in the event of an unhandled exception.
  • (833866) - Editor: Tweaked the output of the generated Visual Studio solution file to better match Visual Studio standard format to fix problems opening Unity generated projects with Rider GUI.
  • (832595) - Graphics: Fixed a crash when switching scenes whilst reflection probes are updating.
  • (769758) - Graphics: Fixed selection of objects in Scene View if the scene contains reflective water.
  • (849701) - IL2CPP: Fixed a crash that could occur in the player when a virtual method was called on a value type and that value type implemented an interface which had an overload of that virtual method.
  • (849072) - IL2CPP: Implemented the array SetValue method for arrays of nullable types.
  • (847838) - IL2CPP: Prevented a compiler error in generated C++ code when calling Interlocked.CompareExchange from some managed code.
  • (845174) - IL2CPP: Prevented a stack overflow exception in the player at run time when an infinitely nested generic method is used.
  • (845448) - UI: Fixed Sprite Packer not packing sprites with ETC1 when compressing sprites for android.
  • (846096) - UI: Fixed threading problem when computing bounds which could lead to an infinite loop in the UI system.
  • (721071) - UI: Fixed Transparency not being applied to UI Elements if ETC1 compression is used combined with having specified a Packing Tag.

Revision: c7f50ac202bd

Patch 5.3.7p1

Released: 11 November 2016

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.7p1. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Fixes

  • (818174) - Android: Fixed case of audio stutter when launching Android player from a notification on the lockscreen.
  • (807983) - Android: Fixed an issue whereby the projects without audio stopping the external audio sources.
  • (824009) - Asset Bundles: Fixed the assetBundle property of AssetBundleCreateRequest so that it stalls instead of returning null when the bundle is not yet ready.
  • (829898) - Build player: Reverted the change, which saved relative paths for build target but introduced issues for targets that needed to browse for folders instead of files (webGL, etc).
  • (837783) - Graphics: Fixed potential lock when in fullscreen exclusive mode and minimising/maximising screen.
  • (840596) - IL2CPP: A call to GetCurrentMethod in a generic method should return the generic method definition, not the inflated generic instance method.
  • (845666) - IL2CPP: Fixed stacktraces on iOS when Link Time Optimization (LTO) was enabled in the build.
  • (838259) - IL2CPP: Return an empty array from GetGenericArguments when it is called on a MethodInfo object from a non-generic method. Previously the runtime incorrectly threw an assert in this case.
  • (836165) - Mac Editor: Fixed a crash when using Build and Run for iOS projects.
  • (843181) - Mac Editor: Fixed editor hanging if app was already running in Xcode 7.x when using Build and Run.
  • (840534) - Mono: Prevent GetHostEntry from throwing a SocketException on Windows when the machine is not connected to any network.
  • (821570) - Windows Store: Fixed a crash in multi scene system caused by internal managers being garbage collected.

Revision: a26d44cae81c

Patch 5.3.6p8

Released: 24 October 2016

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.6p8. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Improvements

  • VR: Update Oculus to version 1.9 .

Fixes

  • (821680) - Cache Server: Fixed an issue where cache serve could crash due to unhandled EEXIST error when creating directory.
  • (832996) - D3D11: Take into account ColorSpace (linear/gamma) when capturing screenshots.
  • (834633) - IL2CPP: Use the no-strict-overflow flag to compile generated C++ code on gcc and clang based compilers so that we match the integer overflow behavior of C#.
  • (720704) - Shaders: Fixed some cases of inout struct variables with COLOR semantic members wrongly translating into GLES2.0.
  • (803901) - UI: Fixed the issue with double rendering of world canvas in the Editor.
  • (none) - VR: Fixed a crash at startup on GearVR if Focus is lost very close to the time or the app starting.
  • (none) - WebGL: Fixed Code Blob memory leak.
  • (759492) - WebGL: Fixed browser lock-up when profiling.
  • (775178) - WebGL: UnityWebRequest.downloadProgress now returns the actual progress as opposed to 0.
  • (none) - WebRequest: Allow empty headers as that is in general valid.
  • (825429) - WebRequest: Allow setting Accept-Encoding header from scripting at users own risk.
  • (none) - Windows: Added safety check when receive new window size with zero values, make minimum value 1, otherwise functions like CreateDepthStencilView will fail.

Revision: c04dd374db98

Patch 5.3.6p7

Released: 7 October 2016

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.6p7. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Improvements

  • IL2CPP: Added an option to link.xml files to ignore missing assemblies.

Fixes

  • (830443) - AI: Fix for regression where a pushed passive NavMeshAgent would sometimes move to its origin after navmesh carving.
  • (824107) - Android: Fixed a crash on Android when using the FrameDebugger.
  • (832271) - Audio: Fixed a memory leak when quickly loading and unloading lots of audio assets.
  • (834100, 833996) - Canvas: Fixed a regression introduced in 5.3.6p4 where non-native fullscreen player appeared darker when Canvas was present, in Linear color space.
  • (748499) - Editor: Fixed the recursive directory copy situation.
  • (779052) - Editor: Fixed a crash when registering undo for a null object.
  • (832155) - GUI: Fixed a regression introduced in 5.3.6p4 and 5.3.6p5 where GUI.DrawTexture & GUI.DrawTextureWithTexCoords appeared lighter in Linear color space.
  • (815783) - IL2CPP: Allownow Monitor.TryEnter to correctly obtain a previously taken lock that has been released, which did not work in some cases.
  • (826624) - IL2CPP: Corrected the stack state handling during code conversion for some box opcodes.
  • (834376) - IL2CPP: Removed an unnecessary assert when GC.Collect(1) is called. The call will still have no impact though.
  • (811959, 815928) - iOS: Fixed a crash when killing the app while a WWW Request was in flight.
  • (none) - iOS: Fixed the run loop mode warning on iOS 10 devices.
  • (820863) - iOS: Fixed the appearance of apps freezing when locking/unlocking the device.
  • (820162) - UAP: Fixed the incorrect language being returned when system language was Spanish(Argentina).
  • (832104) - UAP: Fixed an incorrect resolution being reported when the composition scale changed and the game window was minimized.
  • (803937) - VR: Fixed a crash when an invalid Oculus plugin is used. Throws warning instead.
  • (826132) - VR: Removed an audio output warning when Unity Audio is Disabled.
  • (814388) - WebRequest: More correctly follow the HTTP Specification for sending POST data during a Redirect.
  • (827748) - Windows Store: UnityEvent.Remove listener will work correctly when .Net Native is enabled. Previously events were not removed as expected.

Revision: abe3b84f224e

Patch 5.3.6p6

Released: 22 September 2016

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.6p6. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Fixes

  • (822393) - AssetBundle: Fixed the issue that error sometimes happens when LoadAssetAsync and UnloadUnusedAsset is called before prefab is instantiated.
  • (796046, 778891) - Editor: Fixed an issue where a project with no Library folder could raise a warning stating that the project was made before 5.0.
  • (775153) - GI: Fixed an issue whereby the bake got stuck if the object was positioned far from the origin.
  • (none) - iOS: Fixed an issue with App store submissions with Xcode 8 when application is not using camera APIs (WebCamTexture).
  • (809752) - iOS: Fixed an issue where Touch.deltaTime was incorrectly returning zero when device had been on for approximately 30 days or more.
  • (none) - iOS: Fixed on-screen keyboard input for Chinese (Simplified) Pinyin 10 Key keyboard.
  • (717587) - Kernel: Fixed a crash resulting from redo after revert.
  • (804333) - Kernel: Fixed a crash resulting from undo after reverting prefab.
  • (none) - Textures: Correctly unregister external native textures.
  • (820517) - UnityWebRequest: Fixed a possible freeze when using custom download handler script.
  • (812567, 829765) - WebGL: Fixed asset bundles memory usage at loading time, preventing some content to run on 32-bit browsers.
  • (831144) - Windows Store: Fixed Unity PDB files not getting included into built .appxsym package.
  • (825230) - Windows: System resolution or orientation changes are now detected and responded to accordingly.
  • (782109) - WWW: Make Dispose asynchronous to prevent freeze or performance drop, as it might be costly.

Revision: 8f5aa09cf3e8

Patch 5.3.6p5

Released: 15 September 2016

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.6p5. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Improvements

  • iOS: Added iPhone 7 and 7+ entries to the device enum.
  • iOS: Updated Build and Run to work with Xcode 8.
  • VR - Updated Oculus plugin to version 1.8.

Fixes

  • (none) - Fixed HoloLens touch injection for flat apps.
  • (none) - Animation: Fixed the OverrideController memory leak.
  • (778656) - Deployment: Enabling free users to access experimental builds.
  • (811241) - GI: Fixed a crash in Reflection Probe component when multiple scenes are used.
  • (812576) - Graphics: Fixed a crash in the Editor when material and shader properties weren't updated correctly.
  • (821208) - Graphics: Fixed a crash that would in some cases happen after Material.CopyPropertiesFromMaterial.
  • (828145) - GUI: Fixed an issue where GUI::DrawTexture appeared darker than GUI::DrawTextureWithTexCoords when in Linear color space.
  • (827851) - Input: Mouse position is now updated but not clamped on windows when outside of game window.
  • (826595) - iOS: Added missing iOSTargetOSVersion enum entries.
  • (824979) - iOS: Corrected the default setting for bitcode on the XCTest target to fix a linker error.
  • (826526) - Mono: Use an IPv4 address (if one exists) before an IPv6 address for .NET remoting connections.
  • (827984) - Mono/IL2CPP: Corrected a rare deadlock in the C# lock implementation.
  • (797793) - OS X: Fixed memory leak in joystick input handling code.
  • (825235) - Shaders: Fixed frac(constant) sometimes being mis-compiled.
  • (none) - Shaders: Fixed shader compiler bug which could have caused errors in GLSL shaders that might crash the GPU on OSX.
  • (822553) - Shaders: Fixed UNITY_APPLY_FOG not working as expected if an expression is passed as fog coordinate.
  • (819470) - UI: Fixed a memory leak caused by IntermediateRenderers not being cleaned up.
  • (none) - UI: Fixed a random crash in SyncElement caused by unknown parent canvas.
  • (809374, 825435) - UI: Fixed an issue with animating canvas properties not applying.
  • (821727) - UI: Fixed an issue with Canvas sorting order being incorrect under certain cases.

Revision: d64ba7d31ce9

Patch 5.3.6p4

Released: 2 September 2016

We are happy to announce Unity 5.3.6p4. The release notes and the corresponding issue tracker link for issues fixed in this release are as shown below.

As always, patch releases are recommended only for users affected by those bugs fixed in that patch.

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Improvements

  • Windows Store: Windows Extension SDK references will now be automatically added to Assembly-CSharp projects

Fixes

  • (822015) - AI: Fixed an issue where NavMeshAgent remaining distance property would be wrong right after setting the agent destination to the same polygon.
  • (822362) - AI: Fixed an issue where NavMeshAgent would sometimes teleport right after NavMeshObstacle carving.
  • (807983) - Android: Fixed an issue where projects without audio could stop external audio sources.
  • (808752) - Android: Fixed build time regression when using the resources folder.
  • (754003) - Android: Fixed device screen clear bug on Vivante GC1000 GPUs and using GLES2 API.
  • (824596) - Animation: Fixed the crash when triggering a newly created animation clip at runtime.
  • (none) - Animation: Deleting an Override controller that was previously set as the runtimecontroller no longer reset the animator statemachine memory.
  • (823410) - Animation: Fixed a crash when changing AnimatorOverrideController during interrupted transition.
  • (769445) - API Updater: Fixed a crash when updating Boo/UnityScript scritps with empty "else" blocks.
  • (809268) - API Updater: Fixed crashes / issues with paths containing either "exe" or "dll" in any part other than the file extension.
  • (813805) - DX11: Fixed bad GPU skinning interaction with tessellation shaders, crashes some drivers. 
  • (819175) - Editor Tests: Added first pass assemblies to be picked up by the editor tests runner.
  • (775290) - Editor: Fixed an issue where 'sub-assets' could appear in the wrong order in the Editor or change order when saving.
  • (771779) - Editor: Fixed s crash caused by leading and/or trailing slahes in MenuItem names.
  • (708582) - Editor: Fixed an issue where ColorPicker color was darker than the actual color picked in Linear color space.
  • (none) - Editor: Fixed issue where objects in Inspector Preview appeared darker in Linear color space
  • (764857) - Editor: Javascript PackageManager now supports UNC path on Windows.
  • (none) - Fixed syntax error in user-agent header string generated by API requests within Unity web views
  • (710633) - Graphics: Fixed a crash when blend shape value is changed for an object with cloth component.
  • (798702, 810632) - Graphics: Fixed a couple of bugs in the CPU mipmap generation (2D & 3D) for floating point texture formats: RHalf, RFloat, RGHalf, RGFloat, RGBAHalf, RGBAFloat.
  • (813671) - Graphics: Use Renderer::GetTransform() when calculating local AABB so that static batched renderers return the reference transform correctly. 
  • (819647, 821614) - IL2CPP: Corrected some calls to HasValue on nullable types, which could return true when the nullable does not have a value.
  • (820071) - IL2CPP: Corrected the behavior of the is operator when used with a struct embedded in a parent generic class.
  • (821418) - IL2CPP: Fixed the poor performance of string.Intern().
  • (817286) - Input: Workaround an issue where cursor would disappear on touch based devices like Surface Pro 4.
  • (800209) - iOS: Disabled certain Xcode debugging features in the project template causing mem usage to grow.
  • (796762) - iOS: Fixed a crash due to linker error in simulator on startup in certain Unity releases.
  • (791063) - iOS: Fixed simulator crashes when device was rotated.
  • (822063, 816232) - Mono: Fixed a crash in compute_class_bitmap when using reflection.
  • (763583) - Mono: Fixed a crash in find_method_in_metadata which can occur on startup.
  • (798133) - OSX Player: The OSX standalone player now allows to switch out of the application by using Cmd+Tab when running in fullscreen mode.
  • (805669) - Plugins: Fixed an issue where DLL plugins with non-lowercase extensions cause the architecture platforms panel not to be displayed.
  • (777937) - tvOS: Fixed 2nd stage splash screen.
  • (none) - tvOS: Fixed allowed scripting implementations and architectures in player settings.
  • (797645) - UI: Fixed a race condition in UI mesh processing leading to rare crashes.
  • (797560, 633000) - UI: Fixed issue where Canvas/UI appeared darker when camera was disabled and color space was set to Linear.
  • (813683) - Windows Store: Fixed a bug where mouse scrollwheel was returning inverted values.
  • (none) - Windows Store: Fixed Xbox Live SDK not being automatically referenced by C# scripts if installed on the machine

Revision: e7c839af3bca

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