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What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- 2D: Fixed TilemapRenderer in Individual mode not rendering Tiles with Tilemap Color
- Android: Fix Application.targetFrameRate and Screen.currentResolution.refreshRate on some variable refresh rate displays
- Android: Fixed Android Export Project option when Il2CPP used with C++ Compiler Configuration Master
- Animation: Fixed a bug where the most recent Animation Event is not triggered again when resetting Playable Time with SetTime(-1)
- Asset Import: Removed unsupported layerElement reference mode error logs
- Audio: Fixed DSPGraph mixer thread exceptions
- Audio: Fixed DSPGraph playback not pausing when player is paused
- Build Pipeline: Fix Unity command line player build failing due to invalid path argument to '-buildLinux64Player'
- Burst: Support for loading additional burst libraries in playmode/standalone for modding support.
- DX12: Fix for shader resource view of indirect argument buffer
- Editor: Added missing keycode mappings for special characters (e.g. ^, ~, |)
- Editor: Ensure there's proper Prefab and context menu handling for a ReorderableList as a whole, also when removing elements from the list.
- Editor: Exposed BuildUtility.BuildCanBeAppended to check for possibility of BuildOptions.AcceptExternalModificationsToPlayer usage
- Editor: Fix SceneHierarchy renaming using the context menu while a renaming is already active
- Editor: Fixed an issue where Asset Database dependencies were not included when exporting packages.
- Editor: Fixed AppStatusBar throwing MissingReferenceException when the Editor Layout is reset during Progress Bar updates.
- Editor: Fixed audio clip preview playback position when clicking on the waveform.
- Editor: Fixed Game Objects with Playable Director component can't be turned into a prefab when Timeline window is open in preview mode.
- Editor: Fixed ReorderableList not being drawn correctly while in horizontal layout
- Editor: Fixed serialized private inherited arrays not being reorderable by default
- Editor: Fixed [NonReorderable] not being applied to a private arrays inside a struct
- GI: Fixed color space for directional lightmap while baking with progressive updates.
- GI: Increase numerical stability in tetrahedralization code.
- Graphics: Added support for CreateExternalTexture with the Vulkan API
- Graphics: Fixed an issue where the was no warning about double usage in shaders on metal
- Graphics: Fixed incorrect shadows when using DrawMeshInstancedIndirect
- Graphics: Fixed issue where speedtree textures were becoming unbound after clicking "Regenerate materials"
- Graphics: Fixed metal/vulkan shaders sometimes referencing inputs omitted by the compiler
- Graphics: Fixed metal/vulkan shaders sometimes referencing outputs omitted by the compiler
- Graphics: Fixed shaders that use immediate consts failing compilation under some circumstances
- Graphics: Fixed situation where Hybrid Renderer could throw errors because of invalid reflection data
- Graphics: Issue an error message when trying to use the Hybrid Renderer V2 with SRP Batcher OFF. Also deterministically skip the rendering in this case
- Graphics: Readded VSync Count tooltip in Quality Settings
- Graphics: Removed excessive CustomRenderTexture updates and fixed various dependency issues
- Graphics: Support for Crunched 16k textures
- Graphics: Texture2D.PackTextured changes so that compressed textures with mips and a padding greater than zero are now decompressed (see documentation for details)
- IL2CPP: Avoid a crash on startup for assemblies that use nested types in the type. Google Ad Mobs has one such assembly, for example
- IL2CPP: Fixed file and directory patterns ending with ".*" incorrectly including files names that partially match on non Windows platforms
- IMGUI: Fixed the MissingMethodException when adding elements to ReorderableList with String type
- iOS: When selected XCode project build destination is not allowed (root project folder, Assets folder, etc.) warning is displayed
- Linux: Fixed an issue where the Linux Downloader would not properly extract files
- Linux: Fixed tooltip shows up in the window switcher as a separate window
- macOS: When selected XCode project build destination is not allowed (root project folder, Assets folder, etc.) warning is displayed
- Networking: UnityWebRequest: DownloadHandler.text will handle exception if encoding is not supported (fallback to UTF-8)
- Package Manager: Fixed 'My Registries' menu not showing up after configuring a scoped registry
- Package Manager: Fixed an issue where missing localhost in the hosts file configuration could prevent Unity from connecting to the Unity Package Manager
- Package Manager: Fixed issues when using Unity Package Manager on Intel's 10th generation processor
- Package Manager: Fixed issues where updates to outdated Assets does not show up in the Package Manager UI
- Package Manager: Fixed the issue where Open in Unity from Asset Store results in endless loading in Package Manager
- Particles: Fixed ParticleSystemRenderer GetMeshes freezing when one of its meshes had been destroyed and had gone null
- Physics: Display Linear and Angular damping in the root of the ArticulationBody
- Prefabs: Fixed that dragging a Prefab asset to the Scene view while in Prefab Mode in Context did not render the dragged object normally but instead using the context render mode
- Profiler: Fixed crash due to used textures stats counting when gfx jobs are enabled
- Profiler: Fixed ProfilerRecorder for "GC Allocated In Frame" reports 0 bytes if the Profiler isn't currently recording
- Profiler: Prevent disabled Profiler modules from pulling Profiler statistics.
- Profiler: Prevent the chart separator lines from disappearing when resizing or scrolling in the Profiler window.
- Scripting: Changed NativeArray limit of 2GiB in size, and now it can contain 2^31 items instead.
- Scripting: Fixed ApiUpdater internal recursion when assigning to deprecated Component.rigidbody
- Scripting: Fixed hang that would be encountered when mono's finalizer thread would compete with the debugger thread for a lock
- Scripting: Fixed potential AsseblyUpdater assembly corruption when applying Camera.GetScreenHeight() / GetScreenWidth() -> Screen.height/width updates.
- Scripting: Fixed potential AsseblyUpdater assembly corruption when field name and type needs updating
- Serialization: Fixed crash reordering array of struct, containing SerializeReference fields and non SerializeReference fields as well under certain circumstances.
- Serialization: FormerlySerializedAs attribute now correctly new value instead of old value if both are present
- Serialization: ProjectSettings will now get re-serialized as text instead of as binary
- Shaders: Fixed a crash when trying to set keywords on a material that has no shader assigned
- Shaders: Fixed compute and raytracing shader caching regression
- Shaders: Fixed handling of the scalar after the matrix that is not 4xN
- Shaders: Fixed local keyword from UsePass not working in the shader that uses the pass
- Shaders: Fixed shader memory being attributed to ShaderLab instead of individual shaders
- Terrain: Fix the case where terrain appears temporarily white during a scene save
- Terrain: Fixed a crash when neighboring terrains have inconsistent heightmap settings
- Terrain: Fixed terrain GI baking where holes are painted
- Terrain: Fixed terrain normal maps and mask textures around holes
- Terrain: Fixed the terrain geometry after painting holes
- UI: Fix issue where a Graphic could be set as a raycast target even is disabled
- UI Toolkit: Fixed performance of Line Renderer list of positions when its size is big enough to require scroll on the Inspector view
- Video: [osx] Fixed a crash when playing a video at speed > 2x
- XR: Fix Vulkan broken on Oculus Quest

Changes:
- Shaders: Increased the global shader keyword limit to 384
- XR: The Oculus XR Plugin package has been updated to 1.7.0
- XR: Updated Windows XR SDK Plug-in to 4.4.0
- XR: Updated XR Plug-in Management to 3.2.17

Improvements:
- Physics: Rearrange the ArticulationBody properties so that damping and friction is located right after mass and is not visually separated from it by the anchor properties
- Prefabs: Undo operations on objects in nested prefabs has been optimized by up to 30%
- Shaders: Improved a warning about arrays in property sheets being capped to previous size