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What's new in this version:

Features:
- VFX Graph: Added support for Texture2D Arrays in Flipbooks

Improvements:
- Editor: Added profiler markers around test setup, teardown, and execution
- Editor: Improving UTF documentation (DSTR-120)
- Editor: Reduced the per-test overhead of running tests in the editor
- Editor: Reduced the time taken to rebuild the test tree and to scan for assets a test created but did not delete
- Editor: Reduced time taken by filtering operations when only a subset of tests is run
- Package Manager: Added support for opt-in caching of Git LFS files when downloading Git packages. Caching is enabled by setting either of the following environment variables: UPM_ENABLE_GIT_LFS_CACHE or UPM_GIT_LFS_CACHE_PATH. The latter allows overriding the default cache location.
- Package Manager: Fixed an issue where using a Git URL with a revision and a package path in the wrong order would still clone the repository, introducing unnecessary delays before failing with an error.
- Package Manager: Improved logging by adding logs for cache misses and tarball download steps
- Package Manager: Improved the error message when a Git dependency cannot be resolved because the path querystring and revision fragment are in the wrong order
- Package Manager: Increased the amount of information logged to upm.log at various levels
- Package Manager: Optimized Git package download times for repositories using submodules (with Git 2.28.0 or higher installed only)
- Package Manager: Optimized Git package download times, most notably for repositories with a larger history
- Shaders: Reduced shader variant memory usage at runtime and memory consumption while loading shaders

Changed:
- HDRP: Cached the base types of Volume Manager to improve memory and cpu usage.
- HDRP: Reduced the maximal number of bounces for both RTGI and RTR
- Package: Recorder: Fixed an error in the that occurred when setting the build target to macOS standalone from the Editor in Windows
- VFX Graph: Property Binder : Handle Remove Component removing linked hidden scriptable objectfields.
- VFX Graph: Property Binder : Prevent multiple VFXPropertyBinder within the same game object.
- VFX Graph: Sphere and Cube outputs are now experimental.

Fixed:
- Android: Fixed an issue that causes a "failed to load libMain.so" error when deploying an APK from an app bundle
- Asset Import: Fixed the External Objects being displayed when selecting a Text Asset
- Asset Pipeline: Made description for Assertion failed on expression: 'ins.second || ins.first->second... more descriptive
- Editor: Corrected keymapping on linux for quote/backquote/doublequote keycodes
- Editor: Fixed progress bar related asserts when calling EditorUtility.CompressTexture with an EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar right around it
- Editor: Gracefully exit Editor when the shader compiler process cannot be launched due to external conditions
- Editor: Paste as Child should paste GO relative to parent instead of keeping world transform
- Editor: [Collab] Defer handling for downloading plastic cloud projects so package manager will initialize the default packages
- Graphics: Fixed ACES tonemaping on mobile platforms by forcing some shader color conversion functions to full float precision.
- Graphics: Fixed biased mips not being stable when mip-biasing kicks in
- Graphics: Fixed deadlock when scanning for mip streaming textures associated with a renderer
- Graphics: Fixed incorrect cubemap textures on some platforms when using crunched textures
- Graphics: Fixed stack overflow exception when compressing Texture to EXR with PIZ compression
- Graphics: Fixed virtual texturing stats not being correctly gathered and displayed while capturing the editor
- HDRP: Fixed error message when having MSAA and Screen Space Shadows
- HDRP: Fixed grey screen on playstation platform when histogram exposure is enabled but the curve mapping is not used.
- HDRP: Fixed HDRP material being constantly dirty.
- HDRP: Fixed HDRPAsset loosing its reference to the ray tracing resources when clicking on a different quality level that doesn't have ray tracing
- HDRP: Fixed issue in path tracing, where objects would cast shadows even if not present in the path traced layers
- HDRP: Fixed Nans happening when the history render target is bigger than the current viewport
- HDRP: Fixed SRP batcher not compatible with Decal
- HDRP: Fixed Tube and Disc lights mode selection
- HDRP: Fixed wrong color buffer being bound to pre refraction custom passes.
- IL2CPP: Avoid an error deleting build cache files when a native plugin is marked as read-only in the Unity project directory
- Linux: Converted "X11 did not respond within x milliseconds" error to a logged warning
- Package Manager: Fixed an issue where either no submodules or the wrong submodules could be cloned when using a Git-based dependency with both a path and a revision.
- Package Manager: Fixed an issue where files tracked by Git LFS were not retrieved when using a Git-based dependency with both a path and a revision
- Package Manager: Fixed an issue where the packages-lock.json file was overwritten with the same contents but considered modified by Unity, sometimes resulting in unnecessary operations
- Particles: Added missing particle attributes to the C# Job System integration
- Particles: Fixed crash when using modules with no assigned Particle System
- Physics: Fixed an issue when editing a PolygonCollider2D or EdgeCollider2D where you could delete edges/vertex without limit resulting in an editor tooling exception being thrown
- Physics: Fixed an issue where a negative X or Y local scale on a 2D Collider used by a CompositeCollider2D caused its winding to change resulting in its geometry not handled as a geometric merging operation (union) but instead a subtraction operation
- Physics: Fixed an issue where ContactPoint2D.tangentImpulse and ContactPoint2D.normalImpulse could occasionally return an undefined or NaN value
- Physics: Fixed an issue where particles using the Collision Module could occasionally leak through the vertex connections in an EdgeCollider2D
- Physics: Fixed an issue where the CapsuleCollider2D editor tooling incorrectly displayed gizmos when editing a GameObject with multiple CapsuleCollider2D of different orientations
- Physics: Fixed an issue with Cloth disallowing SkinnedMeshRenderer bounds update outside of playmode
- Physics: Made mesh collider error more descriptive by including the path to the object
- Prefabs: Fixed removing components from Prefab instances when RequireComponent is added after creating the Prefab
- Profiler: Fixed memory tracking of UnsafeUtility allocations
- Profiler: Maximizing the Profiler window whilst profiling the Editor will no longer cause a null argument exception
- Scripting: Fixed by removing dead code
- Scripting: Fixed exceptions getting logged in the Console when the Logger.logEnabled is set to false
- Shadergraph: Fixed a bug in master node preview generation that failed compilation when a block was deleted
- Shaders: Fixed incorrect array subscripts generated for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Metal and Vulkan when using arrays or structs in global scope
- Shaders: Fixed reflection reporting for structs in the global scope for OpenGL and OpenGL ES
- Shaders: Fixed reflection reporting for structs inside constant buffers for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Metal
- Shaders: Fixed reflection reporting for structs inside constant buffers for Vulkan
- UI: Fixed issue with checking for CanBindTo with null sprite
- UI Toolkit: Fixed showMixedValue broken on UI Toolkit PropertyField
- UI Toolkit: Fixed the TwoPaneSplitView's view data will not being persisted when the viewDataKey is set.
- Fixed the UI Builder window's layout will resetting anymore when the window is reloaded
- Universal: Fixed an issue where 2D lighting was incorrectly calculated when using a perspective camera.
- Universal: Fixed an issue where 2D Shadows were casting to the wrong layers
- Universal: Fixed an issue where Light2D did not upgrade Shadow Strength, Volumetric Intensity, Volumetric Shadow Strength correctly
- Universal: Fixed an issue where normal-mapped Sprites could render differently depending on whether they're dynamically-batched
- Universal: Fixed an issue where Post Processing doesn't enable when PostProcessData reassigned from the asset selector window.
- Universal: Fixed an issue where the camera renders black screen when Post Processing is enabled in the 2D Renderer and in the Camera Component.
- Universal: Fixed an issue where Transparency Sort Mode value is taken from Graphics Settings instead of 2D Renderer
- Universal: Fixed issue causing missing shaders on DirectX 11 feature level 10 GPUs
- VFX Graph: An existing link can be remade.
- VFX Graph: Artefact in VFXView using efficient debug mode in component target board
- VFX Graph: Consistently displays the Age Particles checkbox in Update context
- VFX Graph: Fixed compute culling compilation in URP
- VFX Graph: Fixed issue with VFX using incorrect buffer type for strip data.
- VFX Graph: Fixed shader compilation errors with textures in shader graph
- VFX Graph: Fixed when deleting a context node and a block while both are selected throws a null ref exception
- VFX Graph: Handle correctly locked VisualEffectAsset with version control system
- VFX Graph: Modified Sign operator node output for float when input is 0.0f
- VFX Graph: PCache: Unexpected ditable field in Mesh Statistics, Save & Cancel pCache, error trying to access not readable texture
- VFX Graph: Property Binder : Allow copy/past from a game object to another.
- VFX Graph: Property Binder : Undo after reset
- VFX Graph: Safe Normalization of Cross Products in Orient blocks
- VFX Graph: Use alphabetical order in type list in blackboard "+" button
- Windows: Fixed Win10 SDK not getting installed properly
- XR: Fixed non-fullscreen viewport rect handling on non-stereo cameras when XR devices are enabled
- XR: Fixed phrase recognizer to not throw exception after multiple runs in editor