Unity

What's new in this version:

Improvements:
- Editor: Improved performance of Picking objects in the Scene View

API Changes:
- Core: Changed: Moved ProfilerStartFrame to Initialization section of scriptable player loop
- Graphics: Added: Added a field to the CullingParameters structure to allow for adjustment to the near clipping plane for shadow clipping - this is independent of the rendering camera near clipping plane.
- Graphics: Removed: Removed uploadClearedTextureDataAfterCreationFromScript from PlayerSettings as it was not working as intended and will be superseded with a per-texture flag.
- Windows: Added: UnityEngine.Windows.Input.ForwardRawInput now has a second overload that is usable without enabling unsafe code.
- XR: Added: Support for late latched previous view matrix for URP motion vectors

Changes:
- XR: The Oculus XR Plugin package has been updated to 1.11.0
- XR: Updated XR Management to 4.2.0
- XR: Updating Build Messaging with deprecation text for Lumin

Fixed:
- 2D: Fixed an issue where removing an edge in the Skinning editor would result in the mesh falling back to a quad
- 2D: Fixed case where Bounds can cause spriteshape not load in when running Player
- 2D: Fixed crash when optimizing the geometry of the SpriteShape in certain cases
- 2D: Fixed errors in the Sprite Skin section of documentation
- 2D: Quads are now generated at correct positions after removing all vertices from Sprite meshes
- Android: Fixed performance regression when using MSAA backbuffer with Vulkan
- Animation: Fixed grid in Animator window to always correctly cover the entire graph area
- Asset Pipeline: Fixed a performance regression where projects with large numbers of precompiled assemblies might experience slower import times
- Asset Pipeline: Fixed an issue where a project containing a symbolic link could crash on startup on Windows
- Build System: Fixed error "Cannot find mono image in MonoManager for assembly x" during assembly reload when calling ContentBuildInterface:GetPlayerObjectIdentifiersInAsset.
- Editor: Fixed editor crashes when exiting and keeping a tutorial project
- Editor: Fixed frame debugger does not update issue after clicking frame navigation arrows
- Editor: Fixed reflection probe baking sometimes containing the cyan loading shader
- Editor: Fixed Unity Package Manager diagnostic tool failing to run when started via the launch script.
- GI: Fixed bug where lighting information on renderers would occasionally be scrambled or lost when saving a scene
- GI: Fixed crash when baking 4K lightmap with maximum AA setting
- Graphics: [Vulkan] Profiler shows that the Texture memory usage is lower when Vulkan is used on some devices
- Graphics: [Vulkan] Texture Memory in Memory Profiler Module is not updated when profiling a Vulkan build
- Input System: Fixed incorrect Windows input event timestamps.
- iOS: Enabled ProMotion on ios15 and new devices (iphone13 family)
- iOS: Fixed value of Screen.safeArea retrieved during initialization of packages
- N/A (internal): Fixed Unity splash screen for some devices on EmbeddedLinux.
- Networking: UnityWebRequest now supports gzip compression on Windows
- Package: Fixed property drawing of Unity.Mathematics vector types when manually drawing a property that was hidden with [HideInInspector]
- Package Manager: Fixed the issue where delayCall delegate's Invocation List size doubles when the Package Manager is docked and the delayCall is Invoked
- Package Manager: Fixed the issue where OAuth errors are not logged in the console
- Package Manager: Removed extra fetch calls after Package Manager resolve. Should fix some Package Manager unit test instabilities
- Particles: Fixed right-click context menu for Renderer module Inspector
- Prefabs: Fixed crash with broken scenes where Transform has a PrefabInstance, but the containing GameObject doesn't have one
- Fixed instability caused by non deterministic order of stripped components
- Profiler: Fixed "Missing Profiler.EndSample: WaitForTargetFPS" errors in development builds
- Profiler: Fixed incorrect frame boundary location when profiling standalone builds
- Project Browser: Project Browser slider is correctly restored when clearing the search field after selecting a favorite filter
- Scene/Game View: Fixed new Scene View tabs not copying overlays layout of previous Scene View
- Serialization: In addition to SerializeReference, class referred by value will also be considered and added to the list of classes not to be stripped when performing a Player Build / Asset Bundle Build / Addressable Build
- UI Toolkit: Fixed issue where stylesheets added to a UIBuilder document were not cleared after created a new document
- WebGL: Added workarounds for various Safari Web Audio bugs playing back compressed and looping audio clips. Fixed a regression in Unity audio backend that could cause an incorrect audio volume to be set for < 1 second duration at audio playback start time.