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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.

190205 Date: 2019-02-05

API Changes:

  •  Updated obsolete documentation meta data
  •  Added TypeString as an Alternate name for Type in most APIS
  •  Added AddLocalizedNews to the Admin API
  •  Added GetPlayFabIDsFromPSNAccountIDs to the Server API


190123 Date: 2019-01-23

API Changes:

  • Added another MatchmakingEntityInvalid reason - NoLeaderboardForStatistic
  • Added CurrentServerStats to Multiplayer Models
  • Various bug fixes across Unity 

Xbox xplat nugets are also available: https://www.nuget.org/packages/com.playfab.xplatxboxsdk.v141/

181218 Date: 2018-12-18

XPlatCppSdk Specific Changes:

  • SDK Breaking Change: Updated the folder structure for the XPlatCppSdk repo. If you are using the SDK with project references, an update to vcxproj files path would be required.
  • Adding Xbox support to the XPlatCppSdk. Refer to the XPlatCpp Getting Started Guide for Xbox.
  • New API :
    • Added PlayFabEventApi to support Heavyweight (low throughput) and Lightweight (high throughput) custom events.

UnrealMarketplacePlugin Specific Changes:

  • Adding support for Unreal Engine 4.21

181204 Date: 2018-12-04

XPlatCppSdk Specific Changes:

  • Added support to build external dependencies
  • Updated nuget composition. This is not a breaking change. Added binaries for the external dependencies to the nuget and updated the properties sheet.
  • Bug fixes for QoSAPI.

CSharpSDK Specific Changes:

  • Added .NET Standard 1.1/2.0 (plus .Net Core) support.
  • Updated nuget composition. The package now contains binaries for .Net Standard 1.1/2.0 and portables also.
  • Migrated VS project files to VS 2017 standard.

UnitySDK Specific Changes:

  • SDK Breaking Change: The SimpleGet success callback signature has changed, and now must accept a new single parameter of a byte[]
  • Added SimplePost.

181114 Date: 2018-11-14

Multiplayer API:

  • AzureVmSize enum values are updated

XplatCppSdk:

  • Updated to provide instructions and a script to build dependencies from source code via git submodules on Windows

181105 Date: 2018-11-05

API Changes:

  • PlayFab now supports login and account-linking with OpenID
  • Additional XboxLive ID support, and enabling Xbox login via server

In preparation for wider release of the service, we are rolling out PlayFab Multiplayer Servers 2.0 APIs.

See http://aka.ms/PlayFabMultiplayer for more information

181001 Date: 2018-10-01

API Changes:

  • A variety of deprecations have taken effect, and those elements have been removed from SDKs and documentation
    • Some Admin API methods related to unreleased features have been hidden
    • server.DeleteUsers deprecation has taken effect
    • A field deprecation for "ServerHostname", spread across a variety of matchmaking related calls in admin, client, matchmaker, and server APIs has taken effect. "ServerIPV4Address" is the replacement.

UnitySdk Changes:

  • Minor fixes/improvements to ScreenTime analytics

All SDKs:

  • The automated-build branch structure for GitHub repos is changing
    • The normal customer facing branches, "versioned" and "master" will be unchanged

180924 Date: 2018-09-24

API Changes:

Adding Metadata to the DeleteMasterPlayerAccountRequest Model

Bug fixes in the Unreal Marketplace Plugin to expand supported versions


180917 Date: 2018-09-17

API Changes:

Unreal Marketplace Plugin:

180906 Date: 2018-09-06

New API:

New PlayStream Event Documentation:

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