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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.

180528 Date: 2018-05-28

API Changes:

• New API Methods
  • Admin.GetPlayedTitleList
  • Admin.DeleteMasterPlayerAccount
  • Admin.ExportMasterPlayerData
  • This is a part of the new GDPR launch. See our blog here
• Updated Error codes in a variety of API methods
• New PlayStream Event:
  • player_data_exported

180514 Date: 2018-05-14

XPlatCppSdk Specific Changes:

• Fixes in JSON serialization

180507 Date: 2018-05-07

API Changes:

• New API Method:
  • entity.GetProfiles
• New PlayStream Events:
  • entity_executed_cloud_script
• Updated API Method:
  • client.RegisterPlayFabUser now returns result.EntityToken

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

180414 Date: 2018-04-14

Unreal Cpp Sdk HotFix:

• Issues were discovered in the Entity API release for Unreal Cpp Sdk. These are hotfixed, and the Entity API should now work as expected.

180409 Date: 2018-04-09

API Changes:

• HotFix
  • Only the date was updated, not the major/minor version numbers
• Guilds:
  • client.GetAccountInfo.UserInfo.TitleInfo.TitlePlayerAccount now contains the required information to identify other players and add them to your guild/group
  • The same information can also be found with admin.GetUserAccountInfo and server.GetUserAccountInfo

UnitySdk Specific Changes:

• Performance improvement for default HTTP settings (UnityWWW), for long-running processes

180403 Date: 2018-04-03

Unreal SDKs Updated to support v4.17 thru 4.19:

• Removing support for UE 4.14 thru 4.16 (Please update!)

180329 Date: 2018-03-29

Unreal SDKs Updated to support Entity APIs:

• Sorry for the delay!
• This release still targets UE 4.17, and not 4.18 or 4.19. We are in-progress working on updating versions

180316 Date: 2018-03-16

API Changes:

• Entities! Blog! Guide!
  • All Client login methods return Entity credentials if request.LoginTitlePlayerAccountEntity is set to true
• Guilds! Blog! Guide!
• Error Codes for many API methods updated for accuracy (Dozens!)

New API Methods:

• admin.RevokeInventoryItems and server.RevokeInventoryItems
• A whole new Entity API
• Many new Entity PlayStream Events (search for "entity" on linked page)

Most SDKs Updated to support Entity APIs:

• Full Support: UnitySdk, JavaScriptSdk, ActionScriptSdk, CSharpSdk, NodeSdk, PostmanCollection, WindowsSdk, Cocos2d-xSdk, JavaSdk, LuaSdk (Including Corona and Defold), PhpSdk, Cloud Script
• Will Support Soon: Unreal Bb and Cpp (Sorry, delayed due to technical difficulties!)

180213 Date: 2018-02-13

API Changes:

• SendAccountRecoveryEmail now supports custom account recovery email templates when a custom account recovery email template ID is passed in with the request parameters.
• All Client Login Mechanisms can now optionally return Entity API credentials
  • (This is part of a coming-soon feature)

UnitySdk Specific Changes:

• We are dropping support for older Unity versions, see our blog post
• Build files are now published using Unity version 2017.3.0f3

180131 Date: 2018-01-31

JavaSDK Changes:

• Java is now published to Maven

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