Standard Assets goint to be updated?

Unity Engine
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I am new to Unity and am working from the book “Unity From Zero To Proficiency” whose examples use Standard Assets. As everyone apparently knows the GUIText stuff has moved from depreciated to obsolete so it doesn’t work in the 2019.2-2019.3 releases. I understand the reasoning to remove this old tech, but what I don’t understand is why the Standard Assets have not been updated for new users. As a brand new Unity user, it took a while to figure out why I was getting errors with the example and then finally discovered it could work with older versions of Unity.

For the sake of new users, existing documentation, and 3rd Party books about learning Unity, doesn’t it make sense to upgrade the Asset Package or replace it with a newer one?

Apologies if there is an update somewhere, as I mentioned, I’m new and could well have missed it.

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I agree but I haven’t seen any notice of update. For a new user, you would actually do just as well if you reverted to the 2018 LTS build and worked from there. I’m actually still on 2018 LTS and so is my company, just because we don’t really have the need for ALL the latest bells and whistles, although I do casually monitor engine improvements.

For more recent Unity stuff there is usually some package on the asset store demoing the feature. Not always but often. But those are usually massive tech demo projects keyed around some particular technology, such as DOTS/ECS.