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Unless otherwise noted, no change will ever affect an existing title. Upgrade warnings are notes about less-than-trivial changes to the sdk which may cause minor compiler errors if you change/upgrade your PlayFab SDK version.

180809 Date: 2018-08-09

API Group Changes:

  • We have separated the Entity API Group into multiple new Api Groups
  • This is a big SDK Breaking change for anybody using the former Entity Api
  • See our Blog!
  • See our Upgrade Guide!
  • (Please note, the links for blog and upgrade guide may not work yet, they're almost done)

API Changes:

Unreal (multiple SDKs) Specific Changes:

  • Minor updates to both SDKs/plugins leading to a final merge to the Markeplace plugin (Coming soon!)

PythonSdk Specific Changes:

  • Bugfixes and improvements

UnitySdk and CSharpSdk Specific Changes:

  • Added a new structure called Plugin Manager. For now, this is just a foundation for future changes. Some old function signatures have been marked as obsolete, and should be updated. (No breaking changes though)
  • Found and resolved multiple issues with HTTPS.Put, which makes Entity Files more accessible on more platforms.
  • Bugfixes in the ScreenTime feature


180716 Date: 2018-07-16

UnitySDK Changes:

  • Fixed minor issues with ScreenTime under some rare circumstances

CSharpSDK Changes:

  • Added Plugin Manager API to C# SDK to support optional custom implementations of JSON Serializer and HTTP client

UnrealCppSdk:

180710 Date: 2018-07-10

Unity Hotfix Release:

  • Further refinements and optimizations to the Screen-Time events

180709 Date: 2018-07-09

Hotfix Release:

  • Fixing some minor issues with last week's deployments
  • Everything in last week's release notes should now actually work as promised

180706 Date: 2018-07-06

API Changes:

UnitySDK Specific Changes:

  • Screen-time tracking, described in the previous release is no longer Beta-only

180705 Date: 2018-07-05

API Changes:

New PythonSdk!

  • tested with 2.7

UnitySDK Changes:

  • Wrapped some utilities in a namespace to avoid 3rd party conflicts
  • Editor Extensions should misbehave less, and display fewer warnings
  • New Feature - read the blog

JavaScriptSDK Changes:

  • customData relay parameter should now work for Login functions

XPlatCppSdk Specific Changes:

  • Large results will now be parsed correctly


180618 Date: 2018-06-18

API Changes:

  • Added new error codes in a variety of API methods
  • Multiple entity-related PlayStream events now describe their EntityLineage

180528 Date: 2018-05-28

API Changes:

180514 Date: 2018-05-14

XPlatCppSdk Specific Changes:

  • Fixes in JSON serialization

180507 Date: 2018-05-07

API Changes:

UnitySdk Specific Changes:

  • HttpWebRequest certificate validation security has been improved
    • No longer default to ignoring all certificates
    • Customers are expected to implement their own certificate validation, or call PlayFab.Internal.PlayFabWebRequest.SkipCertificateValidation()

WindowsSdk Specific Changes:

  • Fixed hundreds of Level 4 warnings
  • The version number published in PlayFabSettings.cpp has been corrected
    • Most previous versions will have all had the wrong version number embedded in-code, and in call headers

XPlatCppSdk has been created:

  • Currently in beta
    • Built using WindowsSdk as a template
    • May become a replacement to WindowsSdk (At least several months away)
    • Upgrade should require almost no breaking changes
      • Some cpprestsdk strings should be converted to std::string
      • some web::json::value types have been converted to json::value
    • timestamps are not fully tested in Linux
  • NuGet package
  • Uses lighter weight dependencies
    • Specifically jsoncpp and curl, rather than cpprestsdk
    • uses std::string everywhere, rather than a mix of 2 string types
  • Adds Linux Support

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