Highlights

• Major improvement: Optimized MetaplaySDK Initialization on Unity improves application start-up speed significantly. This is especially noticable on Unity versions where reflection performance has regressed.

Breaking Changes

• Dockerfiles now target .NET SDK 6.0 instead of specific patch release to make sure each server build is made with the latest security patches for the platform.
  • Action required: Make sure docker builds are invoked with --pull switch to keep base-images up-to-date.

Notable LiveOps Dashboard Changes

• If a session expires while the dashboard is open, a dedicated error modal is shown that requests user to log in again.
• Fixed multiple issues that could cause Dashboard not build or install properly on Windows.

Notable Under-the-Hood Changes

• Fixed websocket connection failure if TLS was enabled.
• Fixed Dashboard End-to-end Cypress tests failing with a mkdir failure on Windows.
• Fixed a validation error in Push Notification Campaign page preventing the creation of new campaigns.

Version Compatibility

Infrastructure and Helm chart compatibilities for this release:

• Minimum version requirements
  • Requires infra-modules version 0.2.0 or later for infrastructure
  • Requires metaplay-gameserver Helm chart version 0.4.0 or later for deployment
• Suggested versions
  • Recommended infra-modules version 0.2.3 or later for infrastructure
  • Recommended metaplay-gameserver Helm chart version 0.4.2 or later for deployment

Change Log

Breaking

• Dockerfile dotnet base-images are no longer pinned and can become out-of-date if an old base-image is cached on build agent.
  • Action: Make sure docker builds are invoked with --pull switch to keep base-images up-to-date.

Added

• Samples: Wordle sample project has been extended to showcase the integration and the usage of Game Configs.

Changed

• Target .NET SDK 6.0 in Docker builds instead of specific patch release to make sure each server build is made with the latest security patches for the platform.
• SDK: MetaSerializerTypeRegistry contents are now preprocessed as part of the Metaplay.Generated.dll generation and game builds initialize the registry from the preprocessed data. This eliminates the bulk of the need to use C# reflection for Metaplay-specific type info. As a result, the Metaplay SDK initialization time is significantly reduced especially with Unity versions that suffer from bad performance of GetCustomAttribute calls.

Fixed

• SDK: Fixed websocket connection failure if TLS was enabled.
• SDK: Fix accidental usage of WebGL-only code in Unity Editor when the WebGL platform is selected.
• Dashboard: Fixed Dashboard End-to-end Cypress tests failing with a mkdir failure on Windows.
• Dashboard: Added a dedicated modal to alert users when a session has expired.
• Dashboard: Fixed SDK installer generating a non-functional dashboard project folder if SDK was installed on an empty Unity project.
• Dashboard: Fixed a validation error in Push Notification Campaign page preventing the creation of new campaigns.

Release 20.1+Web3

Added

• Dashboard: Show on dashboard recent tokens that have been minted on IMX but haven't been initialized on the server yet.