Unity 5.3.8

Note that this is an updated version of 5.3.8f1 with revision 9886e74732cf, with only one fix for (891264)

The Unity 5.3.8 public release brings you a couple of improvements and a number of fixes. Read the release notes below for details. Note that this is going to be the last official release in 5.3 series.

For more information about the previous main release, see the Unity 5.3.7 Release Notes.

Note that this is the last and final release for Unity 5.3.x.

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Release notes

Improvements

  • macOS/iOS/tvOS: Allow developers to use Xcode's manual signing paradigm by specifying a provisioning profile in Player Settings.
  • VR: Updated Oculus to version 1.11.

Fixes

  • Android: Fixed a crash when doing simultaneous SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync and Resources.Load. (782183)
  • Android: Fixed an incorrect behaviour with Application.persistentDataPath. (854214)
  • Android: Fixed an issue whereby the projects without audio stopping the external audio sources. (807983)
  • Android: Fixed case of audio stutter when launching Android player from a notification on the lockscreen. (818174)
  • Android: Play audio from background applications at the original volume when it is not muted.
  • Asset Bundles: Fixed asset bundle load progress reported by AssetBundleLoadFromAsyncOperation. (880965)
  • Asset Bundles: Fixed the assetBundle property of AssetBundleCreateRequest so that it stalls instead of returning null when the bundle is not yet ready. (824009)
  • Asset Pipeline: Fixed an issue where asset and timestamp maps could get out of sync. (668043, 837519)
  • Audio: Fixed an issue which prevented streaming audio loading on 32-bit Apple devices which were upgraded to iOS 10. (832578)
  • Build Pipeline: VR Splash Screen texture will no longer be included when building a project for a non-VR platform. (853979)
  • Build player: Reverted the change, which saved relative paths for build target but introduced issues for targets that needed to browse for folders instead of files (webGL, etc). (829898)
  • Cache Server: Batch builds do not fail if the Cache Server is unreachable. (840009)
  • Cache Server: Fix for Cache Server Preferences where it would sometimes use the wrong server address when connecting. (775982)
  • Cache Server: Paths passed to the cache server may now include spaces in OSX (enclose these paths with double-quotes). (780150)
  • Cache Server: Properly implemented 'Last Resource Used' caching of files. (782662)
  • Core: Fixed an issue which was causing hangs in the job system when running on certain platforms with a low number of cores e.g. older Windows Phones, UWP dual core machines. (791434)
  • Editor: Fixed the logType passed to LogCallback in the event of an unhandled exception. (814160)
  • Editor: Tweaked the output of the generated Visual Studio solution file to better match Visual Studio standard format to fix problems opening Unity generated projects with Rider GUI. (833866)
  • Graphics: D3D9- Internal resolves no longer result in a drawn pixel such as a single white pixel when using deferred mode. (728324)
  • Graphics: Fixed a crash that occurred when loading models from AssetBundles with Tangents set to Calculate Legacy. (865666)
  • Graphics: Fixed a crash when deleting a Shader that is used by some Materials in the scene. (851359)
  • Graphics: Fixed a crash when switching scenes whilst reflection probes are updating. (832595)
  • Graphics: Fixed memory leak when instantiating materials (e.g. via renderer.material). (851689)
  • Graphics: Fixed potential lock when in fullscreen exclusive mode and minimising/maximising screen. (837783)
  • Graphics: Fixed selection of objects in Scene View if the scene contains reflective water. (769758)
  • Graphics: Fixed the issue of Lighting preview windows not rendering correctly on Mac's with retina displays. (836815)
  • IL2CPP: A call to GetCurrentMethod in a generic method should return the generic method definition, not the inflated generic instance method. (840596)
  • IL2CPP: Fixed a crash that could occur in the player when a virtual method was called on a value type and that value type implemented an interface which had an overload of that virtual method. (849701)
  • IL2CPP: Fixed stacktraces on iOS when Link Time Optimization (LTO) was enabled in the build. (845666)
  • IL2CPP: Implemented the array SetValue method for arrays of nullable types. (849072)
  • IL2CPP: Prevented a compiler error in generated C++ code when calling Interlocked.CompareExchange from some managed code. (847838)
  • IL2CPP: Prevented a stack overflow exception in the player at run time when an infinitely nested generic method is used. (845174)
  • IL2CPP: Return an empty array from GetGenericArguments when it is called on a MethodInfo object from a non-generic method. Previously the runtime incorrectly threw an assert in this case. (838259)
  • iOS: Added Taiwanese language support. (853532)
  • iOS: Fixed an issue where the keyboard could lose focus when rotating the device. (814493)
  • iOS: Fixed background applications sound muting after running unity application. (828762)
  • iOS: Fixed several crashes with regards to WWW and WebRequest. (852363, 814365, 823587)
  • iOS: Fixes language support to differentiate between traditional and simplified Chinese. (677623)
  • Mac Editor: Fixed a crash when using Build and Run for iOS projects. (836165)
  • Mac Editor: Fixed editor hanging if app was already running in Xcode 7.x when using Build and Run. (843181)
  • Mono: Prevent GetHostEntry from throwing a SocketException on Windows when the machine is not connected to any network. (840534)
  • Networking: Skip proxy check when using the "file://" protocol.
  • Prefabs: Fixed an issue where a prefab instance could be incorrectly marked inactive when first loading a scene. (801761)
  • Scripting: Fixed MonoDevelop build errors when building UnityScript and Boo projects. (850350)
  • Shadows: Fixed a memory leak and assert when shadows are cast from lights with specific properties and in a specific scene setup. (764734)
  • UI: Fixed Sprite Packer not packing sprites with ETC1 when compressing sprites for android. (845448)
  • UI: Fixed threading problem when computing bounds which could lead to an infinite loop in the UI system. (846096)
  • UI: Fixed Transparency not being applied to UI Elements if ETC1 compression is used combined with having specified a Packing Tag. (721071)
  • WebGL: Fixed crash when user writes a file using custom ArrayBuffer. (847853)
  • WebPlayer: Fixed compression settings for WebPlayer when building from command line. (813101)
  • Windows Store Apps: Fixed Unity C# projects when there was dependency among them. (855881)
  • Windows Store: Fixed a crash in multi scene system caused by internal managers being garbage collected. (821570)
  • Windows Store: Fixed a rare hang when alt tabbing during level load. (856362)

New Fix in 5.3.8f2

  • WebPlayer: Make sure that IME is enabled only when focused on a text field on Windows (891264)

Revision: 0c7e33ff9c0e

Note that this is an updated version of 5.3.8f1 with revision 9886e74732cf, with only one fix for (891264)

Changeset: 0c7e33ff9c0e

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