Unity Engine

Howdy everyone, Back again with May’s ICYMI, lemme know if I missed anything: Discussions posts Last month’s ICYMI: April - In Case You Missed It Announcements: Unity 6 developers - migrate to IAP 5 with our new A…

:package: Netcode for Gameobjects 2.12.0 is now live! :package: NGO v2.12.0 is out! This release focuses on Transport layer improvements to the connection flow and a round of deprecation cleanup → check the sections bel…

Support for Intel-based Macs will be deprecated in Unity 6.6 and 6.7, and unavailable from Unity 6.8. Support for Apple silicon is not affected by this change. Due to Apple’s ongoing reduction of Intel-based Mac support,…

Hi everyone, In Unity 6.6, we’re deprecating the UNITY_64 and DEVELOPMENT_BUILD scripting symbols and introducing a new Player Setting, Managed Code Variant, to take the latter’s job. If you’ve ever guarded code with #i…

We’re excited to announce that Behavior 1.0.16 is now available! This release brings support for Unity 6.5, a revamped prefab workflow for BehaviorGraphAgent, new node lifecycle APIs, automatic enum dependency tracking,…

Hi everybody! My name is Rasmus and I’m a graphics engineer in Unity’s lighting team. As some of you already know, we have been working on a new dynamic global illumination feature for Unity called Surface Cache GI (SCGI…

Hi everyone! The Unity Android platform team here. We know that game performance in production is of utmost importance to you and your games. In an extremely competitive landscape, every little boost counts to help make …

We’re back with the 4th entry in our dev logs on the new GameObject layer for Netcode. You can check what we’ve been up to with our first entry here. Prediction GhostBehaviour Prediction Netcode for Entities (N4E) has h…

We’re excited to introduce Lighting Search in Unity 6.5, a new workflow in the Unity Editor designed to make it easier to manage lighting-related data in complex scenes. By bringing powerful search, filtering, and editi…

Greeting from the Graphics team, We are happy to share some interesting updates for PSO (Pipeline State Object) tracing and pre-caching in Unity 6.5. Integrating PSO tracing in your project can improve rendering perform…

Greeting from the Unity Graphics team, Unity 6.6 will officially increase the Android minimum spec to require OpenGLES 3.1 version or higher. We will now remove the Android Player setting for Require ES 3.1. All Android…

Hi folks, Behavior has progressed a lot in the last year, it is in a much better state today, and we’re proud of where the package has landed. As we focus on improving other areas of Unity, our approach to Behavior will…

Overview Unity 6.3+ features an update to its Android build tooling, moving to Gradle 9.1.0 (from 8.13) and to Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) 9.0.0 (from 8.10.0). While we aim to keep build dependencies as stable as possib…

Unity’s OpenXR: Meta package is the recommended path for building Meta Quest experiences. Starting from Unity 6.5, the OculusXR package is deprecated, and no longer recommended for production. While the OculusXR packag…

Hi everyone, As we did with Unity 6.5, here is some early notice about upcoming breaking changes we plan to make in Unity 6.6. While our goal is for every release in the 6.x series to be a completely seamless upgrade e…

Physics Core 2D in Unity 6.5 The Physics Core 2D release in 6000.5.0b2 introduces key updates: Renaming: “LowLevelPhysics2D” is now “PhysicsCore2D,” reflecting its foundational role. Modularity: The new module is indep…

Hello everyone, If you’ve been using the Addressables package, we’d love to hear from you. We’re running a short 5–10 minute survey to better understand the community’s experience with Addressables, especially around ov…

Hi everyone, We’re excited to kick off the public Beta for Unity 6.5 and start sharing weekly builds with you for early testing! Visit our beta landing page for the latest beta releases and release notes, and make sure …

Hi everyone, We’re excited to kick off the public Alpha for Unity 6.6 and start sharing weekly builds with you for early testing! Through the 6-6-Alpha tag, you can discuss 6.6 pre-releases with us and the wider commun…

Hello! With the ongoing integration of CoreCLR into Unity, bringing significant changes and improvements to the Editor, we decided to focus our effort on upgrading Cinemachine 3 to make it compatible with 6.5. As a resu…

Get access to the latest Engine version today by downloading Unity 6.4, and find everything included in this release in our “What’s New” documentation. Unity 6.4 is a Supported release, which means it receives the same …

We want to share where our focus is when it comes to Unity’s render pipelines. This is a topic we know is on a lot of your minds, and one we discussed extensively with many of you, including at Unite Barcelona. We’ve hea…

Hello folks, We are excited to bring support for future 16 KB compatible devices to the Unity Engine! With Android 15, Google introduced support for 16 KB memory page sizes in the OS. It is expected that device manufac…

The latest release of Unity’s official support for visionOS 26 is now available for all Unity Pro, Enterprise and Industry subscribers on Unity 6.3 via the 3.0 packages. Highlights for Release 3.0 This release includes…

Following our deprecation of MARS in Unity 6.1, we’re writing to let you know that Unity MARS and the Unity AR Companion app will no longer be supported for production starting from Unity 6.3. For more information on you…

We’re excited to announce an updated release of the Composition Layers Experimental Package! This new version builds on the initial launch, incorporating key additions, changes, and fixes to enhance your development expe…

Starting in Unity 6.3, the Magic Leap (x86_64) build target will be limited to existing projects only. You’ll still be able to open and build current projects targeting Magic Leap (x86_64), but new projects can not be cr…

We’re thrilled to announce that experimental support for Android XR is now available! Whether you’re ready to port an app or create something new, Android XR empowers you to build immersive experiences using the tools yo…

Hey, We sometimes get requests for the early versions of the Unity Editor. Please note that we don’t support downgrading a project to an older editor version. However, you can import projects into a new editor version.…

Hey fellow Shader Artists! Not so long ago, I posted about Shader Graphs Properties , and in a similar fashion, I wanted to share some information about Keywords and Branching to save everyone a long read through the do…