v3.2.0

Added

• Added Unity CLI commands (netcode.gameobjects groups) to set up NetworkManagers and network prefabs, start and stop sessions, inspect clients and spawned objects, spawn, despawn and change ownership, simulate network conditions and sample network traffic. They are available when the project has com.unity.pipeline 0.9.0-exp.1 or later. (#4210)
• Added alignment of the Netcode for Entities tick rates with NetworkConfig.TickRate when a session carrying GhostObject prefabs is started, so GhostObject updates land on the same interval as the rest of Netcode for GameObjects. (#4144)
• Added NetworkConfig.AutoConfigureSnapshotSize, enabled by default, which sets the Netcode for Entities snapshot packet size to 4096 bytes when a session carrying GhostObject prefabs is started. Netcode for Entities defaults to a single MTU, which updates GhostObjects well below the tick rate at the instance counts Netcode for GameObjects projects typically run. Disable it to manage the value yourself. (#4144)

Changed

• A hybrid mode session now disables NetcodeConfig.AutomaticStateReplication at runtime, as Netcode for GameObjects puts each connection in game once the client has synchronized. (#4209)
• Renamed the Editor assembly definition files to match their assembly names. Assembly names and GUIDs are unchanged. (#4187)

Fixed

• Issue where NetworkTime reported a TickOffset of almost a whole tick, instead of zero, for some times that land on a tick (for example 0.3 at a tick rate of 10), which put TickWithPartial one tick ahead or, in long sessions, Tick one tick behind. Times between minus one tick and zero now report tick -1 with a positive TickOffset, as other negative times do. (#4228)
• Issue where bits written with BitWriter were lost when a later BitWriter.TryBeginWriteBits call in the same bitwise context grew the FastBufferWriter. The bytes written earlier in that context were replaced with zeros or uninitialized memory. (#4226)
• Issue where a growable FastBufferWriter created with a size of 0 never returned from its first write or TryBeginWrite call that needed the buffer to grow. (#4224)
• Issue where a FastBufferReader created with an offset and the default length of -1 read past the end of its source. The ArraySegment<byte> overload that takes an offset now applies it from the start of the segment. (#4222)
• Issue where a client synchronized while a NetworkList<T> still had unsent changes applied those changes twice, resulting in duplicate entries and index-based events landing on the wrong elements on that client. (#4216)
• Issue where showing a NetworkObject with NetworkShow while its NetworkVariable updates were held back by NetworkVariableUpdateTraits stopped those pending changes from being sent until the variable was modified again. (#4216)
• Issue where a client promoted to session owner could throw an exception when synchronizing a newly joining client. (#4214)
• Issue where NetworkManager.OnNetCodeDisconnect was not invoked when a connection closed during a hybrid mode session, only when the session shut down. (#4209)
• Issue where a rejected parent change, for example one made by a client without parenting authority, restored the NetworkObject's parent but left it at the moved position when the change was made with worldPositionStays disabled. The original position, rotation and scale are now restored. (#4202)
• Issue where a client's clock kept alternating between running slightly fast and slightly slow on every frame, even after it had synchronized with the server. Interpolated objects juddered (a periodic motion artifact caused by mismatched frame rates): they moved in uneven steps instead of smoothly. Barely noticeable at the default NetworkTimeSystem.AdjustmentRatio, and clearly visible at higher values. (#4195)
• Issue where the IL post-processor could not resolve core library types, such as Guid and List<T>, in assemblies compiled against .NET reference assemblies, for example when targeting .NET 10. Those split the core library across System.Runtime, System.Collections and other assemblies. (#4188)
• Fixed issue where a prefab added to a NetworkPrefabsList while a session was running was registered more than once and logged a duplicate GlobalObjectIdHash error. (#4184)
• Issue where moving a NetworkObject into another scene made the clients that did not observe it log "Trying to synchronize NetworkObjectId but it was not spawned". The scene migration is now only sent to the clients that observe the NetworkObject. (#4176)
• Issue where a NetworkObject that was moved into another scene while hidden from a client spawned in that client's active scene when it was shown with NetworkShow, instead of the scene it is in on the server. (#4176)
• Fixed an issue where mixed authority nested NetworkTransform instances could stop child/nested instances from updating because an authoritative NetworkTransform (root or otherwise) would remove the NetworkObject from the update group, preventing non-authoritative instances from updating their state on the authority side. (#4169)
• Issue where the hybrid mode NetcodeConfig validation messages were not interpolated, so they reported placeholders instead of the setting that was wrong. (#4144)
• Issue where a hybrid mode session failed to start unless NetcodeConfig.EnableClientServerBootstrap was set to DisableAutomaticBootstrap. Netcode for GameObjects creates the world itself and no longer needs that setting changed. (#4144)