Unity 2023.2.0a11

2D: Added: TileAnimationFlags.UnscaledTime.

2D: Added: TileBaseEditor with an implementation for RenderStaticPreview, which allows users who extend from the TileBase class to have a simple default asset preview for their extended classes of TileBase.

2D: Added: Tilemap.loopEndedForTileAnimation callback when Animated Tiles have reached the end of their animation loop if it has the LoopOnce flag set.

Android: Added: Expose UnityPlayer.invokeOnMainThread, a helper function for delegating callbacks on game loop thread.

Android: Added: new Android Project Configuration API that allows to copy arbitrary files to the Gradle project.

Android: Deprecated: Deprecate OnPostGenerateGradleAndroidProject in favor of OnModifyAndroidProjectFiles.

Animation: Added: ClearKeys and CopyFromAPI in AnimationCurve. (UUM-20456, UUM-20458)

Apple TV: Added: Added identifier for 3rd generation Apple TV 4K.

Asset Pipeline: Added: AssetDatabase.GetScriptableObjectsWithMissingScriptCount and AssetDatabase.RemoveScriptableObjectsWithMissingScript for finding and removing ScriptableObject instances in assets which are missing their scripts. (Thank you @Xelnath for the request!).

Asset Pipeline: Added: AssetDatabase.TryGetAssetFolderInfo which can be used to know if a certain path is being tracked by the AssetDatabase and can handle import dependencies and asset imports.

Build Pipeline: Added: "Dedicated Server optimizations" option that strips all shaders from Dedicated Server builds. (MTT-5538)

Build Pipeline: Obsoleted: methods on BuildPipeline class will now trigger build error rather than warning and implementation is removed. These APIs have been marked obsolete since Unity 5.

Core: Added: new overloads of GameObject.CompareTag and Component.CompareTag which take a new TagHandle type. These new overloads can be more efficient, especially when comparing many objects with the same tag.

Core: Added: overload to NativeArrayUnsafeUtility.ConvertExistingDataToNativeArray which takes a Span as input.

Core: Added: JobsUtility.ThreadIndexCount returns the maximum number of job workers that can work on a job at the same time. The job system will create a number of job worker threads that will be no greater than the number of logical CPU cores for the platform. However, since arbitrary threads can execute jobs via work stealing we allocate extra workers which act as temporary job worker threads. JobsUtility.ThreadIndexCount reflects the maximum number of job worker threads plus temporary workers the job system will ever use. As such, this value is useful for allocating buffers which should be subdivided evenly between job workers since JobsUtility.ThreadIndex and NativeSetThreadIndexAttribute will never return a value greater than JobsUtility.ThreadIndexCount. (UUM-29945)

Core: Added: JobsUtility.ThreadIndex returns the index for the current thread when executing a job, otherwise 0. When multiple threads are working on a parallel job at once, no two threads will have the same index. The range is [0, JobsUtility.ThreadIndexCount). The value returned when called from within a job is the same as the one stored in a job member decorated with Unity.Collections.LowLevel.Unsafe.NativeSetThreadIndexAttribute, otherwise 0. (UUM-29945)

Documentation: Changed: Fixed duplicated inherited members in CustomRenderTexture class API documentation.

Editor: Added: Exposes EditorApplication.focusChanged event which fires when the Editor gains and loses focus.

Editor: Added: EditorApplication.isFocused property indicating the cached state of the Editors focus.

Editor: Removed: AssetDatabase.RefreshDelayed() method has been removed.

Editor: Removed: AssetDatabase.RefreshDelayed(ImportAssetOptions options) method has been removed.

Editor: Removed: Bool AssetDatabase.TryGetGUIDAndLocalFileIdentifier(int instanceID, out string guid, out int localId) method has been removed.

Editor: Removed: Bool AssetDatabase.TryGetGUIDAndLocalFileIdentifier(Object obj, out string guid, out int localId) method has been removed.

GI: Added: API for accessing global light probe data used in rendering as well as for individual scenes.

GI: Deprecated: LightProbes.cellCount, LightProbes.count and LightProbes.positions have been deprecated.

Graphics: Added: an AreaLight member to the Rendering.ShadowMapPass enum.

Graphics: Added: API for modifying positions of LightProbes objects.

Graphics: Added: AsyncGPUReadbackRequest.forcePlayerLoopUpdate.

Graphics: Added: CanvasRenderer.GetMesh API, analogous to CanvasRenderer.SetMesh has been Added.

Graphics: Added: Inline Ray Tracing (Ray Query/DXR 1.1) support to all rasterization shader stages. Added new methods for binding an acceleration structure (Shader.SetGlobalRayTracingAccelerationStructure, CommandBuffer.SetGlobalRayTracingAccelerationStructure). Added new pragma require inlineraytracing support in rasterization shader stages. Added new built-in global shader keyword UNITY_DEVICE_SUPPORTS_INLINE_RAY_TRACING to be used with multi_compile.

Graphics: Changed: Added a new read-only Light.dilatedRange member. Before this addition, for area lights, if you set Light.range, and then immediately read it back, it would return a different value. This is because area lights have a larger effective range since the source is an area, and not a single point. Now, the Light.range always returns the same value you set, and the newly added Light.dilatedRange returns the range dilated to account for the area size.

Graphics: Changed: Deprecated Texture2D constructors that require a boolean value and string to set up Mipmap Limit behavior in the constructor. Use MipmapLimitDescriptor to specify whether (a) Mipmap Limits should be enabled, and if so, (b) if the Texture belongs to a particular group.

Graphics: Changed: Deprecated Area in favor of Rectangle in the LightType enum. Added Box, Pyramid, and Tube members to the same enum.

Graphics: Deprecated: Deprecated TextureCreationFlag.IgnoreMipmapLimit. Any shape of Texture created from script will ignore Mipmap Limits by default. Use of mipmap limits can be enabled by using a MipmapLimitDescriptor in the constructor, where supported.

Graphics: Deprecated: Light.shape. This information is now unified into Light.type.

HDRP: Deprecated: HDLightType, HDLightTypeAndShape, SpotLightShape, and AreaLightShape. HDRP directly uses Light.type in native Unity, and handles the upgrade automatically.

Input: Added: Expose Input.mousePositionDelta.

iOS: Added: identifiers for iPad models released in 2022.

Networking: Removed: The legacy networking API (Network, NetworkView, etc), which was marked as obsolete in 2018, has now has been deleted.

Package: Deprecated: com.unity.subsystemregistration is being deprecated.

Package Manager: Obsoleted: Client.ResetToEditorDefaults is now obsolete.

Package Manager: Removed: Removed the obsolete UnityEditor.PackageManager.PackageInfo.status field and UnityEditor.PackageManager.PackageStatus enum.

SRP Core: Added: Added UnityEditor.Rendering.VolumeProfileUtils class containing utilities related to managing Default Volume Profiles.

SRP Core: Added: Added VolumeManager.Initialize()/Deinitialize() that Render Pipeline is expected to call from its constructor/destructor.

SRP Core: Added: Common C# & Shader Code for Scalable Temporal Post-Processing Upscaler.

SRP Core: Added: new VolumeManager API to manage default volume profiles.

SRP Core: Added: ObjectID Render Request that provides a render texture with the ObjectId of each pixel.

UI Toolkit: Added: Added API to know when a panel may need to be rendered to use in conjunction with on demand rendering.

UI Toolkit: Added: Added canChangeExpandedState to tree view controllers to allow users to disable items expansion.

UI Toolkit: Added: Added drag and drop API for collection views; canStartDrag, setupDragAndDrop, dragAndDropUpdate and handleDrop, similar to what exists in IMGUI.

UI Toolkit: Added: Added GetIndentationDepth and GetIndentationDepthByIndex in tree view controllers.

UI Toolkit: Added: callback for receiving all changes inside a panel.

UI Toolkit: Added: VisualElement methods HandleEventBubbleUp and HandleEventTrickleDown. Added FocusController method IgnoreEvent.

UI Toolkit: Obsoleted: EventBase method PreventDefault. Not upgradable automatically.

UI Toolkit: Obsoleted: PropagationPhase values AtTarget, DefaultAction, and DefaultActionAtTarget. Not upgradabe automatically.

UI Toolkit: Obsoleted: VisualElement methods ExecuteDefaultAction and ExecuteDefaultActionAtTarget. Not upgradable automatically.

Universal RP: Removed: Removed RenderTargetHandle and Scriptable Renderer backwards compatibility with RenderTargetHandle and RenderTargetIdentifiers. RTHandles to be used.

Version Control: Removed: Removed Collab and its dependency from the package.

XR: Obsoleted: The old Subsystem APIs are marked as obsolete in favor of the SubsystemWithProvider APIs.