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The back button in the toolbar of the search friends screen will now take users back to the screen they were previously viewing.

Developers will no longer be able to enable/disable team create while testing.

The function xpcall() now accepts function arguments similarly to pcall().

Marked Glue and JointsService as deprecated.

Relative paths will no longer allow navigating out of the content sandbox, even a relative path eventually returns to the sandbox.

New “update” option in Studio Localization Plugin allows updating/adding translations to the cloud table without replacing the entire thing.

The “Restart” dialog after changing settings now offers a control to actually do the restart for you, and it will re-open your currently opened place.

Created new API UserInputService/GetStringForKeycode to allow help text for keyboard actions to be localized based on the user’s keyboard layout.

Added new StarterPlayer|StarterPlayerService properties ‘StarterPlayer/CharacterUseJumpPower’, ‘StarterPlayer/CharacterJumpPower’, ‘StarterPlayer/CharacterJumpHeight’, ‘StarterPlayer/CharacterWalkSpeed’, and ‘StarterPlayer/CharacterMaxSlopeAngle’.

Updated reflection to accurately reflect that Joint.Active is not replicated or serialized.

Fixed when TeleportService/TeleportPartyAsync was missing Player/GetJoinData|GetJoinData.

Fixed locking issue related to opening places with many packages.

Fixed crash for importing empty FBX files with Avatar Importer.

Improvements to the Toolbox in Studio.

Improved text rendering for Traditional Chinese on iOS devices.

Allow ScreenGui/DisplayOrder to be set to negative values.

Added the ability for the Animation Editor to scroll when dragging mouse past the edge of the window.

Client/Studio icons pinned to the taskbar will now be updated when the client/studio is updated to correctly point to the new location.

Fixed breakpoint lines not being highlighted until manually scrolling editor when they were originally off-screen.

Fixed issue with Save To Cloud where users in Team Create would not be able to publish twice.

Fixed leaderstats sometimes not displaying in the top bar.

Fixed input for ScreenGuis inside Folders sometimes being processed out of order.

Fixed several bugs with ScrollingFrame|ScrollingFrames.

Fixed a bug where the joint panel in world space was showing incorrect values.

Developers will no longer be able to enable/disable team create while testing.

Changed default dark theme colors to make finding and selecting text more readable.

Jumping to a breakpoint focuses it in the center of the screen instead of at the edge.

BillboardGui/Active defaults to true in Studio.

The GuiObject/MouseEnter and GuiObject/MouseLeave events will no longer fire for Touch input.

Deprecated UIGridStyleLayout/ApplyLayout, which is a no-op unless you are using the already-deprecated UIGridStyleLayout/SetCustomSortFunction API.

Add “View Selector” that replaces “Display Axis” tool in studio.

Improved line breaking for CJK text.

The Game Settings now have a new World panel for various world and avatar related settings.

Optimized the Animation Editor to run faster with many keys.

New AngularVelocity constraint that maintains a constraint angular velocity on a body.

It is no longer possible to deselect all filters in the developer console log.

Scripts will no longer have numbers added to them showing how many unsaved scripts you have.

Separated Ctrl+W/Ctrl+F4 combined shortcut to Ctrl+W=close current tab & Ctrl+F4=close file. Closing the current tab will not do anything if the place is the active tab, preventing accidental place closes with Ctrl+W. Use Ctrl+F4 to close the place.

Fixed breakpoints being treated as invalid on valid lines.

Fixed a bug where moving keys in Animation Editor would clear out copy clipboard.

Fixed a bug where animation event names from one animation were carried over to another in Animation Editor.

The tostring function no longer works on normally restricted Instances.

Fixed a bug where joints would not always disable collisions if a joint that does not disable collisions was enabled first.

Correct some error messages about MessagingService.

The dropdown menus for the developer console will no longer appear behind the developer console.

It will no longer be possible to open the non-functional server view if the developer console in games where you are not the developer.

Fixed a bug where Terrain load optimization was causing buoyancy to not work in deep water.

Added the function TweenService/GetValue|GetValue() to TweenService, which can be used to transform a linear alpha from 0 to 1 into any EasingStyle/EasingDirection combination.

Improved UX for middle mouse panning with Studio camera so it feels better.

Improved large-terrain map loading in Studio and Servers. Requires to open and save map in Studio to see improvement first.

Game Settings for the avatar can now be set on unpublished places.

New Humanoid CollisionType property which adds support for using InnerBox collision mode for R15/Rthro non-player characters.

Corrected the “Send” field as “Sent” in the table argument of the MessagingService/SubscribeAsync callback.

Reduced the size of the dollying cursor.

Added a Lua API for retrieving the Studio icon (seen in the Explorer widget) for any Roblox class.

Renamed auto-save to auto-recovery to distinguish it from saving to the cloud.

Now packages can revert to a specific version.

Removed internal GuiItem, GuiRoot, and ButtonBindingWidget classes. Change base class of Backpack, BackpackItem (Tool base class), and StarterPack from GuiItem to Instance.

Reconnect will now connect you back to the starter place of the current game.

The new game settings world panel can be used to set gravity, player avatar jump power, jump height, walk speed, and max slope angle.

New World panel in Game Settings for the various world and avatar related settings.

New props on Humanoid can be used to set jump height and whether to use jump height or jump power.

Game Settings for the avatar can now be set on unpublished places.

Optimized the Animation Editor to run faster with many keys.

The feature which allows you to dolly the camera with the middle mouse button will no longer work on camera’s with a CameraType of Scriptable.

Fixed raw strings IDs being shown for Studio users having the Danish locale.

Fixed incorrect mesh version insertion after removing and importing a mesh with the same name.

Fixed issue with Team Create places sometimes being unable to publish when there are Packages in the place.

Avatar page in the Game Settings now has the correct colors for dark and light themes.

Fixed an issue with some mp3 audio files being decoded incorrectly.

Fixed warnings when the Data Store queue is exceeded to include the key.

Made a small change to the scale tool that should only prevent edge cases related to resizing rotated parts.

Fixed raw strings ids being shown for Studio users having Danish locale

Fixed crash when using "" as a separator to luadocs/string|string.split().

Fixed issues caused by setting UIScale to 0.

Enabled “Copy Texture ID to Clipboard” context menu.

Changed text of open/save options under file menu to reflect where the open/saves are coming from. Removed “Published as” from the title bar.

Renamed auto-save to auto-recovery to distinguish it from saving to the cloud.

Can now enable diff view from script recovery view

The bulk importer now fails immediately when the daily upload limit is reached instead of retrying indefinitely until a timeout is reached.

Option to import mesh files with multiple meshes as a single mesh vs importing each as a different mesh has moved from Studio settings to import dialog. This option can now be configured per-file.

Added a function for packages to undo local changes.

Now the chat’s system messages will be automatically localized if you never fork the following module: SystemMessage.lua.

Improved performance when a large minimum radius is used with streaming enabled games.

Updated LocalizationService/GetEntries to be non-yielding.

Check if friend request has been sent already on game join.

Game Settings for the avatar can now be set on unpublished places.

Animation Editor no longer prompts user about unsaved changes if there are none.

Physics constraint icons will now indicate that they are disabled by appearing in grayscale.

When dollying the camera via middle mouse click, the mouse icon will change to a hand with arrows.

Disabled scripts will now be gray-scaled to help distinguish them.

Improvements to text rendering for Simplified Chinese.

Removed start screen from animation editor. Users can now switch between rigs while editor is open.

Improved large-terrain map loading in Studio and Servers. This requires the map to be opened and saved in Studio first for the improvement to be seen.

PlayerGui cannot be Parented to an Instance that is not a Player.

KeyframeSequence/AddPose, Pose/AddSubPose, KeyframeSequence/AddMarker, KeyframeSequence/AddKeyframe now have the same restrictions as using x.Parent = y.

The SoundGroup property of a Sound would sometimes get changed to nil if an ancestor of the Sound was changed to nil. Now the property will not get reset if an ancestor becomes nil.

Fixed a bug where poppercam didn’t account for CameraMinZoomDistance correctly.

Fixed AbsoluteContentSize sometimes becoming NaN.

Player/LoadCharacterAppearance|Player:LoadCharacterAppearance() is deprecated.

Allow characters to climb ladders on moving platforms/vehicles/boats without falling off the ladder if it moves away from them.

Added code to force PGS and remove Workspace/TemporaryLegacyPhysicsSolverOverride after March 1st.

Fixed a bug where NPCs would teleport when changing ownership while standing on a simulated platform.

Updated Player/IsFriendsWith implementation to use friends API instead of HandleSocialRequest.ashx for better caching and less requests.

Added Copy ID to Clipboard Entry to the context menu of Mesh objects in the Game Explorer.

Now the functions Player/IsInGroup, Player/GetRankInGroup, and Player/GetRoleInGroup will all cache for 1 minute.

Added support for IMEs for the Windows client, allowing CJK users to type in their native language, and making the built-in emoji picker work.

Removed start screen from animation editor. Users can now switch between rigs while the editor is open.

LocalizationService/GetTableEntries is a new API that will return a list of lists of LocalizationTable entries. Each item of the returned list will correspond to the list of LocalizationTable entries for one of the LocalizationTable|LocalizationTables considered in the auto-translation path of a string. The order of items in the returned list indicates the priority of that list of entries when performing auto-translation.

Stud grid precision has been increased to three decimal points.

Collision Groups Editor now respects Undo and Redo.

Transform tool no longer leaves artifacts in Workspace after certain circumstances.

Fixed an issue with Team Create places sometimes being unable to publish when there are Packages in the place.

Fixed performance of in-game chat.

Fixed a bug when setting LayoutOrder on an element in a layout sorted by Name

Fixed a bug where Animation Event tooltips were appearing in random locations.

Fixed a bug where animation scaling bars would not move properly when animation editor was scrolling.

Fixed an issue with the Workspace/StreamingEnabled property so it will now replicate, allowing clients to see the server value consistently.

Fixed the incorrect triggering of Changed event for SideChain when a CompressorSoundEffect has a parent added or is set to nil when already nil.

Renamed LocalAsset API to File API.

Chinese languages and Korean in the localization plugin in Studio

Studio’s zoom to mouse position feature is now on by default.

PluginToolbar/CreateButton takes 4 arguments. In order:

• id: Some unique id for the button. Must be unique within the scope of the parent toolbar.
• tooltip: User-facing tooltip text.
• icon
• text User-facing button text.

If the final argument is missing, we default to using the buttonId as text.
This is bad practice though: if you want to internationalize your plugin, you’ll want to cleanly separate the ID, which should be the same in all languages, and the user-facing text, which will change.

Non-hidden Explorer items are no longer obscured by hidden Explorer items when shown. Now, hidden items default to the bottom of the Explorer.

Added a setting “Show Everything in Explorer” to Studio to show hidden objects unconditionally.

New property Players/RespawnTime allows you to change the time it takes for a player to respawn.

A new StarterGui/SetCore API that allows you to customize the look and feel of the Avatar Context Menu to better suit your game.

The appearance of the user currently logged in on Studio will now be applied to test players in local test servers.

New “Perpendicular” mode for Align Orientation Constraint for aligning principal axes. This allows the creation of rotational constraints with 2 degrees of rotational freedom - as opposed to 1 DOF for current “Parallel” mode. Useful in creation of “upright” constraint for bicycles, allowing yaw and pitch but not roll.

Fixed a bug where all DataStore error message became “508: Exhausted all retries for key: %s”.

Camera behavior during server-only tests is now back to normal.

The 3d view will no longer get stuck in panning mode when a dialog box interrupts a panning action.

Split meshes are now rescaled together.

Fixed duplicate results for native Studio widgets in the Quick Access Menu search.

Fixed performance issue with setting the Text property.

Fixed bug where Humanoid/ApplyDescription would sometimes reset the avatar,

Changed the text of open/save options under the File menu to reflect where the open/saves are coming from. Also, removed “Published as” from the Title bar.

Change the default size of spawn locations inserted in Studio to 12x1x12.

Allow serializing Color3s with component values greater than 1 in the XML format.

Introducing SocialService - A service to facilitate social functions that impact relationships made on the Roblox platform.
Developers will be able to prompt their players to send game invitation requests to their friends.

It is now possible to publish Game Icons and Image Thumbnails directly from Game Settings in Studio.

Non-hidden explorer items are no longer obscured by hidden explorer items when shown (hidden items now default to the bottom of the explorer).

Context menu options for Packages will now only be visible if they are valid options.

An option to disable team create on Studio’s start page has been added. Click on the context menu on a game’s icon to disable.

Freecam can now be used in Studio test servers.

Added property Humanoid.BreakJointsOnDeath.

Installing Roblox as an administrator should result in more predicable behavior.

ChatService method Chat/CanUsersChatAsync will internally check the target player’s block list in addition to their privacy settings to determine if the message should be visible to them.

Fixed Toolbox contextMenu error.

Studio box select no longer selects attachments that aren’t descendants of Workspace.

Fixed a bug where Freecam sometimes wouldn’t activate.

Fixed a bug where Freecam would sometimes break the camera.

Fixed Motor and Motor6D movement speed being affected by framerate.

Fixed .fbx files not converting axes.

Fixed bug where editor flickers before prompt appears to close it.

Fixed an issue where the Studio would crash if you hovered over a constraint with the Alt key pressed.

Fixed a crash where turning on Grid Material overlay would crash Studio when the place file had a fully transparent decal on a SpecialMesh.

Made SliceScale fire Changed event, fixing undo/redo and not updating after changing the value.

Changed the Velocity and RotVelocity setter to always set velocity on the same rigid body as the part instead of the mechanism root, which could be a different rigid body in some cases.