Unity Engine

Hi! My name is Matt, and I’m on Unity’s product management team looking after our support for XR development. I’ve been doing this for seven years now, and watching the XR developer community grow and support each other …

We’re excited to share that Android XR support has reached Pre-Release! This is a major step toward full support in Unity and brings new features and improvements for developers building Android XR applications. …

Hi everyone, We’d like to inform you about a recent issue impacting some Windows users when launching Unity software products. Due to a missing embedded intermediate certificate in our executables, certain users—particu…

We would like to inform our community about the deprecation of Unity MARS and the Unity AR Companion app. Starting with Unity 6.1, Unity MARS is considered deprecated, and no additional features will be developed. We w…

Unity 6.1 is now available on the download page and in the Unity Hub! Curious about what’s new in Unity 6.1? Check out our dedicated blog post, as well as the release notes, and the Unity Documentation. You can also …

Behavior Package 1.0.9 Now Available! We’re pleased to announce that Behavior 1.0.9 is now available with numerous fixes and two significant changes: 1. Graph Execution Model Changes Graphs no longer defer node execut…

Hi everyone, As you have probably seen in Unity’s roadmap, we have been working on a new runtime level of detail (LOD) system called Mesh LOD, which is a specialized solution to reduce vertex pressure on the GPU while…

Hi everyone, We’ve been closely following the discussions about our ongoing efforts, and in the spirit of transparency, we wanted to share some updates with you. First off, we want to thank you for the amazing response …

Hey, We’ve released version 1.14.0 which contains a couple of bug fixes as well as F13+ key support. It should already be available when adding the package manually by its name/version and suggested through the package…

Greetings from the Unity Graphics team. We are happy to share that as of Unity 6.1, the Sentis API is able to leverage a new and improved backend for DirectX 12. Sentis is Unity’s own library for importing Neural Netwo…

Hi Everyone, Today, we published our blog post What’s Next: A Look at Unity’s 2025 Roadmap and our roadmap presentation from earlier this week at GDC, where we shared an overview of the Unity Engine roadmap for 2025. W…

Hello Unity community! We are excited to announce the upcoming experimental package release of Graph Toolkit, a graph authoring framework designed to help you build custom node-based tools more easily and efficiently. T…

Hi, this is my first full update since taking on the Product Manager responsibilities for Animation. I’ll do my best to keep up the level of quality set by my predecessor, @UnityChinny. The last big update was tied to t…

Hello Unity developers, We are thrilled to present the latest updates to the Unity 6 Multiplayer roadmap! Coming Soon Host Migration for Netcode for Entities Host Migration for Netcode for Entities is now accessible as…

Hello, all – the ECS team is here to share our next roadmap update! :sparkles: What is DOTS? Unity’s Data-Oriented Tech Stack (DOTS) is a combination of technologies that work together to deliver a data-oriented app…

Dear Unity Developers, We are excited to announce that the experimental Host Migration feature in Netcode for Entities (com.unity.netcode@1.5.0-exp.101) is now available! We’ve introduced host migration support in Netc…

New VFX Graph Learning Templates in Unity 6 The VFX Graph team is thrilled to introduce our brand-new VFX Graph Learning Templates, available for import now in Unity 6. Whether you’re an experienced VFX artist or someone…

Unity UNET Service Final Shutdown FAQ What is the current status of UNET? UNET has been in a deprecated state since 2018. The service has been maintained in a limited capacity to support existing games, but will be compl…

Hi Unity Developers, We are introducing an update to UnityTLS, which both Transport and UnityWebRequest depend on, to ensure a more secure networking experience. This update will remove support for the deprecated TLS 1.…

You may have noticed some recent changes in the main DOTS samples repo (EntityComponentSystemSamples). It’s all listed in the root README, but here I’ll explain what’s changed. First, new and existing beginner material …

Hello everyone! The UI team is here to share a new roadmap update! But first, a quick introduction :waving_hand: - I’m Hersh, the new Product Manager for UI, taking the torch from Benoit Dupuis (@benoitd_unity) as he mo…

Greetings from the Unity Graphics team, We are happy to share that Unity 6.1 introduces a new Shading Rate API, supported on DirectX12, Vulkan and compatible consoles. This API can be used to control the shading rate of…

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…

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.…

Introduction At WWDC 2023 Apple announced a number of additions to its privacy program, including the introduction of Privacy Manifests. Since then, we have been collecting your questions, as well as seeking clarity fr…

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…