Roblox

Added support for Deep Links for mobile apps using custom URL schemes “robloxmobile:” and “roblox:”.

Now, the save as local plugin always saves using the .rbxm file format. You no longer need to make a non-script parent element to have model or GUI elements in plugins you write locally.

Added support for PointerActions to PlayerScripts.

New ContentId type to allow easy loading of thumbnails.

Improved interpolation on some complicated mechanisms.

Interpolation should now run on multiple cores.

Fixed a bug that user cannot open local places that contain packages.

Fixed a crash in Studio when displaying tooltips on OSX.

Updated the Terrain Tools UI.

Comment Selection and Uncomment Selection will no longer be available in favor of having one button for Toggling comments. (Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+c)

New ContentId type to allow easy loading of thumbnails.

Added a method to disable the gameplay paused GUI.

The loading screen will not default to landscape orientation. Instead, it will start as the phone’s orientation, then when the game loaded, change to whatever the game supports.

Added UserInputService/PointerAction.

Under a Studio setting, print some diagnostic information about game joins to the Studio output window. Diagnostic information helps provide some information about how much data is sent from the server to join the game. Note that for games with StreamingEnabled set to true the reported Terrain bytes will always be 0 because of the timing of how Terrain is sent in StreamingEnabled games.

CollisionFidelity is now scriptable in the Studio Command Line and Plugins.

Calling functions from bit32 library is now substantially faster with new Lua VM (minor exception: lshift/rshift/arshift expect arguments in [0…31] range, larger or negative arguments prevent the optimization from happening; extract/replace expect explicitly specified width argument).

Now, calling functions from the math library as well as assert is now substantially faster with new Lua VM (except for math.random/math.randomseed and Roblox extensions, math.noise/math.clamp/math.sign).

Beta Feature - Removed the “Surface” option from the enum/JointCreationMode dropdown in Studio, consolidating the option to simply being ‘on’ or ‘off’. This means if Surface Joining is on, all parts will join with a ManualWeld if flat coplanar sides are touching, regardless of surface type. Exceptions are for Hinge, Motor, and SteppingMotor surfaces.

Fixed being unable to click output logs to open the source script/line.

Fixed auto-closing bracket commenting.

Fixed several bugs in ScrollingFrame|ScrollingFrames.

Fixed a studio bug that resulted in the chat window taking up over half the screen and overriding developer input.

Fixed a bug where parts would still float/collide with terrain water even if set to ignore the collision via Collision Groups or NoCollisionConstraint. Also, fixed an issue where a canCollide=false part would still collide with water if listening on a touch event.

Fixed a crash on the Apple Intel HD 3000.

Fixed a bug where parts were sometimes not selectable within the animation editor.

Streaming Pause UI is no longer shown on the first occurrence to avoid displaying over the loading screen.

Fixed a bug where AnalyticsService/ApiKey was unable to be saved while in TeamCreate mode.

Fixed graphics stability issues on some Huawei phones.

Fixed LOD distance to be calculated from camera focus.

Fixed issue where the R6 HumanoidRootPart failed to collide with walls.

The quick find script function can now be accessed via <Ctrl+P> or an icon indicating the type of script to the left of the script name.

The script editor now supports replacing strings in all scripts (<Ctrl+Shift+H> and <Ctrl+Shift+F>). You can choose to open scripts when replacing for the option to undo your changes. The Find Widget works on replaced results and updates accordingly.

The quick find function (filter function) is available with <Alt+F> and in the script editor context menu. It now shows functions across all scripts and can jump between scripts. Each function item also shows a corresponding path name which is also visible by hovering over an item.

Added a new property GuiObject/BorderMode that allows developers to specify how the border is positioned for the GuiObject.

Now the new Lua VM optimizes loops in the form of for k,v in next, table and for k,v in p(table) where p is a local variable initialized with pairs (or ipairs).

Fixed graphics stability issues on some Huawei phones.

Fixed holding backspace and arrow keys to delete/move multiple characters in textboxes.

Fixed a bug that auto-update doesn’t uncheck when user makes modification to a package.

Fixed the game settings panel to close properly with the “X” button after exiting play solo.

Fixed EasingStyle Back for EasingDirection InOut.

UI elements with zero size are allowed to be resized by the UI editor.

Fixed multiline parsing under some conditions in the new Lua VM.

Fixed “Massless” property not being respected by Inertia calculations.

Fixed register allocation issues in the new Lua compiler when compiling sequences of hundreds of chained calls (obj:Method1():Method2():…).

Moved items around on the top of the Studio start page.

Intellisense should now turn off autocomplete suggestions when a closing bracket is inserted.

UX improvements to output. Fixed snapping to the bottom when a new message is logged, selection being dragged to the bottom of the output while messages were being logged, and Clear not resetting the duplicate message counter.

Improved the speed of Publishing & Saving to the cloud is to be much faster.

Users are allowed to quickly open a script from an existing script by using the Ctrl+P shortcut.

Made easing styles more consistent.

Added a new CoreGUI that is displayed to players when they have a poor connection.

Added UIGridLayout/AbsoluteCellSize and UIGridLayout/AbsoluteCellCount to UIGridLayout.

Now, HttpService/JSONEncode and HttpService/Decode support top level primitives.

Removed Workspace/AutoJointsMode and Enum/AutoJointsMode.

Fixed crashing when restarting Studio from the start menu.

Allowed developers to override backpack bindings through ContextActionService.

Fixed issues with the rendering of decals and boxmapped textures in ViewportFrame|ViewportFrames.

Fixed issues with auto-closure of bracket comments.

Added three additional easing styles. Circ, Expo, and Cubic.

Added additional shortcuts to text boxes. Home will jump to the start of the current line. End will jump to the end of the current line. CTRL + Left Arrow will jump to the start of the current word. CTRL + Right Arrow will jump to the start of the next word.

HttpService/JSONEncode and HttpService/JSONDecode now support top level primitives.

DataModel/JobId is now set on Client, although it can still be empty in Studio.

Made the LDL-PGS solver multi-threaded.

Disabled camera movement while editing text with the UI editor.

Fixed issue where we were not prompting developers on dirty quit.

Fixed Crash on restart from the start menu.

Fixes to cut command freezing key input in text boxes.

Fixed textboxes so that they will not occasionally replace all text with a paste clipboard with v.

Fixed keys so that they do not get stuck when switching window focus.

Fixed game icons in Game Settings always showing as moderated.

Fixed a crash in Roblox Studio involving mock purchases of products that are free or not for sale.

Rthro heads’ part should not be bigger than (2, 1, 1).

Fixed issues with rendering of decals and boxmapped textures in viewPortFrames.

Fixed a bug where sometimes Mechanisms look disassembled when joining a game.

Now, the scale of an anchored humanoid will sync between client and server.

Fixed a corner case in global access in Lua where foo.bar would resolve to nil instead of failing when foo was an unassigned global.

Implemented table.pack / table.unpack from Lua 5.2:

• https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-table.pack
• https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-table.unpack

Fixed os.date("*t", -1) returning nil on Windows but a valid result on Mac (it will now always return nil)

With the removal of the Context Help Widget, Plugins that utilize the OpenWikiPage API will now redirect the URL to an external browser.

With the removal of the Contextual Help widget, Script Analysis warning hyperlinks will now open in an external browser.

The “Help” context option in the Team Create widget now redirects to an external browser instead of showing the Context Help widget.

Removing the Context Help Widget and Ribbon Item because it was intrusive and not helpful.

Comment Selection and Uncomment Selection will no longer be available in favor of having one button for Toggling comments. (Shortcut <Ctrl+Shift+c>)

Sections of elements that have been clipped by ClipDescendants will no longer be selectable in the UI editor.

Added new Terrain/FillCylinder (CFrame, height, radius, material) API.

Added text selection and Ctrl+C to copy for TextBox.

Closing quotes and brackets will be skipped when the user types the closing character and is to the left of that character.

An open quote and a closing quote should be closed automatically.

An open bracket and a closing bracket should be closed automatically.

Introduced a native captcha in Studio.

Set LayoutOrder as the default of SortOrder for UIGridStyleLayout when inserting it in Studio.

Characters are now spawned directly above spawn locations, rather than dropping down on to them from several studs above.

Fixed Humanoid stepping while outside of Workspace. It was only doing a ndFirstAncestorOfType("Workspace") check and exiting in that case, but this could add up if there are many Humanoids outside of Workspace.

Added bit32 library to Lua (https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#6.7).

Fixed os.date("*t", -1) returning nil on Windows but a valid result on Mac (it will now always return nil).

Now, printing a table (ex: print(_G)) will print a value that is formatted similar to a 64b pointer but is not a 64b pointer.

Updated microprofiler labels for the physics job. The frame job label Physics was often misleading; that job includes a lot more than just physics!

• Renamed the Physics job to Simulation to better reflect its broad scope
• Added physicsStepped label to cover the actual physics simulation
• Renamed doWorldStep to worldStep
• Renamed updateNetworkedObjects to interpolateNetworkedAssemblies
• Added handleFallenParts label

Also changed labels under gameStepped and Heatbeat for clarity.

• Renamed Stepped to stepLegacy (specifically covers Humanoids, Rockets, BodyPositions, FlagStands, Skateboards, and Explosions…)
• Added stepLegacyControllers (splitting Controller updates from stepLegacy)
• Renamed Animation to stepAnimation
• Renamed Script to RunService/Stepped (more specific and easier to identify)
• Added heartbeatInternal and RunService/Heartbeat labels
• Added RunService/RenderStepped and fireBindToRenderSteppedCallbacks labels

BasePart/CanCollideWith (Instance part) will now correctly return false for two parts connected by constraints that do not allow collisions (HingeConstraint, BallSocketConstraint, NoCollisionConstraint).

Emotes Menu will only be shown when the Animate script in the players Character supports Emotes.

Corrected the “Send” variable as UTC time in the callback of MessagingService/SubscribeAsync.

Fixed some crashes that occur while closing a place.

Fixed the Toolbox button in the View tab from being disabled when a script is open.

Now, the Keypad period should appear when typing in textboxes with numlock on.

Fixed keys getting stuck in the down state when switching between windows.

Fixed bug where imported multi-mesh can have wrong locations for some objects.

Currently, there is a bug where if you store a value between (2 ^ 63) and (2 ^ 64 - 1) in datastores it will fail to read and will be read as nil. Fixed this defect so that those values will be read. As always, all numbers larger than 2 ^ 53 will be subject to limited precision (this is unchanged):

print(2^53 == 2 ^ 53 - 1)
false
print(2^53 == 2 ^ 53 +1)
true

ChatService/FilterStringAsync and ChatService/FilterStringForBroadcast are now rate-limited when called from Client.

Removed the keybinds that open the Emotes Menu.

Removed the Context Help Widget and Ribbon Item.

From now on, scripts that have “[Embedded]” in the LinkedSource value field will have the LinkedSource property hidden. Developers are encouraged to use Packages in place of Linked Scripts.

The ‘Scripts’ directory of the Game Explorer will no longer be visible if that Game does not have any Linked Scripts. Games that have Linked Scripts will be unaffected.

The ‘Enable Autocomplete’ option will now show up in the Script Editor section of Settings instead of the Advanced section.

Fixed the “Send” variable as UTC time in the callback of MessagingService/SubscribeAsync.

Fixed squish test for zooming in the Script Editor.

Fixed several ScrollingFrame bugs.

Fixed issues caused by setting UIScale to 0.

Now, any modifications to CustomEvent receiver connections will not be reflected while CustomEventReceiver/SourceValueChanged is being called for each receiver due to setting value.

Released AnalyticsService which provides Roblox developers with out-of-the-box analytics so they can improve their games.

Released a new Terrain Tool for importing height and color maps.

Added text selection and Ctrl+C to copy for TextBox.

Now you can add unofficial supported languages to the cloud by updating cloud translation tables.

Reduced the amount of memory required for Roblox userdata objects (e.g. Lua storage for Instance handles is 1.5x smaller on 64-bit platforms).

Added support to auto capture date and time format. For example:

• Today is 6/14/2019. -> Today is {date1}.
• Now is 11:30 am -> Now is {time1}.
• Datetime 2019-6-14 11:30 -> Datetime

Introduced Texture/OffsetStudsU and Texture/OffsetStudsV to control UV offset of texture objects.

Moved the placeholder image on newly inserted ImageLabel|ImageLabels and ImageButton|ImageButtons from being a web asset to the content directory.

The second chat icon on mobile has been removed.

Changed ContextActionService to now send Cancel inputs when a enum/KeyCode is bound over by a related enum/UserInputType.

Fixed zooming issues with the Script Editor.

Fixed “too many constants” error when compiling large scripts.

Fixed a bug in physics data computation for MeshPart|meshParts with LoDs.

Restricted playback speed to be less than or equal to 18 to fix improper looping and playback.

Characters are now spawned directly above spawn locations, rather than dropping down on to them from several studs above.

Improved rendering of stroked text on BillboardGui / SurfaceGui on high retina devices.

Now, Automatic Text Capture uses named parameter.
Examples:

• {1} joined game. -> {player1} joined game
• {1} apples -> {number1} apples

Added an option found in Beta Features menu to enable the new Lua VM for Studio only.

The receipt in MarketplaceService/ProcessReceipt is cached to prevent it from being processed successfully multiple times in some corner cases.

Deprecated Instance/DataCost.