• Stream gsplat LOD levels coarsest first across the whole view by @mvaligursky in #9694
• Keep the Node worker_threads require out of bundled worker code by @mvaligursky in #9656
• Keep the canvas resolution when its client size is zero by @mvaligursky in #9671
• Skip the MiniStats draw when it has nothing to render by @mvaligursky in #9672

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.23.1...v2.23.2

• Fix apps not being announced to the devtools hook from every build by @mvaligursky in #9646
• Keep MiniStats sized to the canvas when it resizes without a resizecanvas event by @slimbuck in #9661
• Do not fire tween events that have no name by @mvaligursky in #9650
• Resolve the inspector's engine peer to the linked engine by @mvaligursky in #9641

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.23.0...v2.23.1

• Add distanceSq by @AlexAPPi in #9313
• Add useFog/useTonemap to ParticleSystemComponent, deprecate noFog by @mvaligursky in #9340
• Load audio assets regardless of the URL's file extension by @mvaligursky in #9365
• Poll gamepads every frame without allocating by @willeastcott in #9470
• Run the engine headless in Node.js without jsdom by @willeastcott in #9504
• Replace batch.origMeshInstances[0] with sourceMeshInstance variable by @AlexAPPi in #9454

• Store mesh instance matrices in a persistent storage buffer on WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #9614
• Add a bloom threshold to CameraFrame by @mvaligursky in #9455
• Add per-attachment clear colors to the camera for multiple render targets by @mvaligursky in #9333
• Support stencil clears inside a render pass on WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #9612
• Allow camera viewports extending past the render target on WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #9516
• Add partial vertex and index buffer uploads by @mvaligursky in #9401
• Add screen_size to forward view uniforms and deprecate uScreenSize by @mvaligursky in #9331
• Pack forward view uniforms to reduce alignment padding by @mvaligursky in #9332
• Move per-pass uniforms into the view uniform buffer by @mvaligursky in #9582
• Move textureBias into the view uniform buffer by @mvaligursky in #9484
• Supply per-pass textures through the WebGPU view bind group by @mvaligursky in #9521
• Publish the scene environment textures under their own uniforms by @mvaligursky in #9364
• Add an opt-in std140 packing order to UniformBufferFormat by @mvaligursky in #9400
• Stop creating typed array views for every dynamic uniform buffer update by @mvaligursky in #9418
• Retain WebGPU render pipelines between draws by @mvaligursky in #9380
• Look the WebGPU render pipeline up only when its state changes by @mvaligursky in #9492
• Write WebGPU buffer data directly from its storage by @mvaligursky in #9379
• Pass WebGPU bind group dynamic offsets as a typed array by @mvaligursky in #9487
• Skip WebGPU vertex and index buffer binds the render pass already has by @mvaligursky in #9496
• Keep the backing store of the device vertex buffer list across draws by @mvaligursky in #9498
• Assign bind group slots by index during the update by @mvaligursky in #9425
• Split the bind group update into a scope path and an owner path by @mvaligursky in #9429
• Leave a texture out of the mesh bind group when a supplied group has it by @mvaligursky in #9436
• Let the graphics device own the built-in textures by @mvaligursky in #9438
• Rebuild layer mesh arrays lazily after removals by @mvaligursky in #9378
• Pack the mesh instance light mask into 8 bits, for 24 shader define flags by @mvaligursky in #9617
• Rename supportsUniformBuffers to usesMeshBindGroups by @mvaligursky in #9383
• Split WebGPU device creation from device initialization by @mvaligursky in #9483
• Ignore MeshInstance#setIndirect where indirect draw is not supported by @mvaligursky in #9462
• Remove obsolete immediate mesh rendering by @mvaligursky in #9385
• Remove the shader dump and precompile workflow by @mvaligursky in #9477
• Remove obsolete Mac Chrome blitFramebuffer workaround by @mvaligursky in #9318
• Remove obsolete Safari texture unit workaround by @mvaligursky in #9319

• Move light uniforms into the view uniform buffer, uploaded once per pass by @mvaligursky in #9482
• Give every light an absolute slot, shared by all light masks by @mvaligursky in #9475
• Dispatch the lights of a pass once, not per light mask by @mvaligursky in #9479
• Consolidate light slots into a LightList shared by renderer, shaders and lightmapper by @mvaligursky in #9481
• Make world-cluster allocation request/execute based by @mvaligursky in #9473
• Fade directional shadows at the far distance by @mvaligursky in #9417
• Skip shadow sampling beyond the far distance by @mvaligursky in #9419
• Request directional shadow culling from scheduled render passes by @mvaligursky in #9423
• Request local shadow culling from scheduled render passes by @mvaligursky in #9428
• Cull only requested directional shadow cascades by @mvaligursky in #9437
• Skip spot VSM blur when the shadow pass does not execute by @mvaligursky in #9440
• Set shadow caster material state once per material run by @mvaligursky in #9524
• Derive the normal matrix of shader materials in the shadow pass by @mvaligursky in #9585
• Give a mesh instance lightmap its own texture slot by @mvaligursky in #9415
• Bind only the lightmap slots a bake writes by @mvaligursky in #9420
• Fix shadow shader selection when changing cascade count by @mvaligursky in #9343
• Reset clustered shadow lights before preparing each frame by @mvaligursky in #9414
• Fix WebGPU shadow shader compile error for PCSS spot lights by @mvaligursky in #9545
• Pass an empty LightList, not 0, to the shadow pass shaders by @willeastcott in #9556
• Hidden mesh instances with culling disabled no longer cast shadows by @mvaligursky in #9606

• Add a material bind group slot and cached shader processing keys by @mvaligursky in #9370
• Hold the textures of a material in its own bind group by @mvaligursky in #9457
• Bind the material bind group at a material switch instead of at every draw by @mvaligursky in #9413
• Store StandardMaterial diffuse in a material-owned uniform buffer by @mvaligursky in #9381
• Store emissive color and intensity in the material uniform buffer by @mvaligursky in #9392
• Store the remaining StandardMaterial colors and numbers in the material uniform buffer by @mvaligursky in #9398
• Store the derived StandardMaterial uniforms in the material uniform buffer by @mvaligursky in #9402
• Store the texture map transforms in the material uniform buffer by @mvaligursky in #9405
• Store the cube map projection box in the material uniform buffer by @mvaligursky in #9406
• Copy the cube map projection box into the material instead of keeping a reference by @mvaligursky in #9411
• Support mesh instance overrides of material uniform buffer values by @mvaligursky in #9386
• Let a mesh instance override a texture of the material bind group by @mvaligursky in #9445
• Restore global scope values after mesh instance parameter overrides by @mvaligursky in #9588
• Warn in debug builds when a mesh instance override array changes in place by @mvaligursky in #9395
• Warn about material and mesh instance parameters of view uniforms by @mvaligursky in #9619
• Add support for all eight UV sets in StandardMaterial by @mvaligursky in #9376
• Make alphaTest an accessor of Material and retire the generic float property helper by @mvaligursky in #9408
• Separate sprite color from material uniforms by @mvaligursky in #9337
• Separate UI element colors from material uniforms by @mvaligursky in #9338
• Pass the model scale to dynamic refraction from the vertex shader by @mvaligursky in #9616
• Fix LitMaterial ambient by making the ambient tint a lit argument by @mvaligursky in #9538
• Fix StandardMaterial shader invalidation for environment textures and 0/1 number changes by @mvaligursky in #9359
• Fix StandardMaterial shader invalidation for refraction thresholds by @mvaligursky in #9363
• Make StandardMaterial texture map iteration ignore prototype properties by @mvaligursky in #9368
• Stop placeholder textures from forcing shader recompiles by @mvaligursky in #9592

• Make gsplat LOD distance-only, with target or limit splat budgets by @mvaligursky in #9584
• Only judge oversized gsplat LOD nodes by their middle by @mvaligursky in #9586
• Gsplat LOD: empty level for nodes without coarse data; distance default by @mvaligursky in #9326
• Load streamed gsplat LOD files nearest the camera first by @mvaligursky in #9520
• Update StreamedGSplat presets to use LOD falloff by @mvaligursky in #9369
• Stochastic alpha rendering for the GPU-sort gsplat renderer by @slimbuck in #9443
• Flat per-splat gsplat varyings and fix ComputeRadixSort reallocation on growth by @slimbuck in #9372
• Allow either provoking vertex for WGSL splat varyings by @mvaligursky in #9374
• Prefer first provoking vertex on WebGL by @mvaligursky in #9375
• Use a per-axis focal length for the gsplat footprint by @dfattal in #9486
• Skip compute work for cached Gaussian splat shadows by @mvaligursky in #9416
• Make Gaussian splatting GLB support tree-shakeable by @mvaligursky in #9327
• Make GSplat scene parameters tree-shakeable by @mvaligursky in #9328
• Avoid retaining GSplat work buffer shaders in container bundles by @mvaligursky in #9322
• Apply withCredentials to the gsplat loaders that stream with fetch by @mvaligursky in #9458
• Warn when gaussian splats render into a multisampled target by @mvaligursky in #9532
• Fix gsplat GPU sort flicker from sort key precision loss by @mvaligursky in #9493
• Fix mirrored gsplat footprints in flipped render targets by @mvaligursky in #9490
• Fix fisheye gsplats and sky in flipped render targets by @mvaligursky in #9495
• Correct gsplat spherical harmonics with orthographic cameras by @mvaligursky in #9531
• Fix NVIDIA GPU hangs during gsplat depth picking by @slimbuck in #9572
• Prevent gsplat crash after destroying a splat entity by @mvaligursky in #9522
• Prevent gsplat streaming crash after destroying a camera by @mvaligursky in #9533
• Render gsplats again after a camera re-adds their layer by @mvaligursky in #9535
• Keep gsplat placement changes made in frame:ready handlers by @mvaligursky in #9536
• Stop a gsplat from blanking for a frame when its asset is replaced by @willeastcott in #9610

• Add RigidBodyComponent#gravityScale by @willeastcott in #9465
• Add a hitBackFaces raycast option to skip mesh collider back faces by @willeastcott in #9506
• Tighten the public surface of the physics API by @willeastcott in #9519
• Harden physics raycasts and forward the Application physicsWorld option by @willeastcott in #9517
• Ship an Ammo build whose heap starts at 16MB and grows on demand by @willeastcott in #9488
• Route the Ammo internal tick callback through one dispatcher per module by @willeastcott in #9463
• Apply gravity to the physics backend on install and when it changes by @willeastcott in #9439
• Refresh Ammo broadphase bounds when a body is teleported by @willeastcott in #9489
• Mirror mesh colliders with negative scale factors by @willeastcott in #9499
• Keep the orientation of mirrored dynamic bodies across physics steps by @willeastcott in #9500
• Fix mesh colliders sharing a mesh at different scales and rebuild them on scale changes by @willeastcott in #9311
• Sync compound children from their own transforms, not the root's dirty flag by @willeastcott in #9456
• Rebuild a collision component as a trigger when its rigid body is removed by @willeastcott in #9464
• Give both entities of a contact the normal of the other surface by @willeastcott in #9450

• Stop a double XR start from leaving a broken session by @willeastcott in #9599
• Stop the app freezing when an XR session ends by @willeastcott in #9600
• Stop XR culling from using the previous frame's head pose by @willeastcott in #9601
• Remove XR event listeners that outlive their owners by @willeastcott in #9623
• Apply camera clip plane changes to a running XR session by @willeastcott in #9624
• Correct XR input source rays and velocities by @willeastcott in #9625
• Start XrSession sessions facing the way the camera looks by @willeastcott in #9626
• Keep removed XR planes and meshes readable, and harden hit testing by @willeastcott in #9627
• Keep XrControllers models loaded while input sources share them by @willeastcott in #9631
• Hide XrControllers models while their pose is not tracked by @willeastcott in #9635
• Stop XrNavigation teleporting on system menu gestures by @willeastcott in #9636
• Document the XR select events of ElementComponent by @willeastcott in #9633

• Warn when image materials have no opaque render pass by @mvaligursky in #9346
• Keep an element's position when it is added to an entity under a screen by @willeastcott in #9525
• Let ElementDragHelper drag an element that is a direct child of a screen by @willeastcott in #9551
• Update a scrollbar's handle when its track is resized by @willeastcott in #9573
• Fix layout group subscriptions when components change by @mvaligursky in #9399
• Build text meshes without a pass over empty arrays by @willeastcott in #9562
• Skip drawing text with an empty render range by @willeastcott in #9567
• Draw CanvasFont glyph cells fully transparent by @willeastcott in #9568
• Fix a markup parser crash when a tag name shadows hasOwnProperty by @willeastcott in #9468
• Correct UI component docs, the Spanish locale fallback and button examples by @willeastcott in #9552

• Restore WebGPU rendering resources after device loss by @mvaligursky in #9355
• Restore WebGPU profiling after device loss by @mvaligursky in #9357
• Fix WebGPU recovery for compute, readback and generated data by @mvaligursky in #9358
• Cancel WebGPU recovery when the device is destroyed by @mvaligursky in #9397
• Fix WebGPU resource cleanup on device destruction by @mvaligursky in #9394
• Restore the WebGL backbuffer before recovery callbacks by @mvaligursky in #9347
• Recover SOG streaming across WebGL context loss by @mvaligursky in #9350
• Restore procedural sky lighting after device recovery by @mvaligursky in #9351
• Add cross-backend debug device loss testing by @mvaligursky in #9353
• Restore generated HDR environments in examples after device loss by @mvaligursky in #9345
• Redraw the on-demand splat example after device recovery by @mvaligursky in #9348
• Rebake example lightmaps after device recovery by @mvaligursky in #9352

• Redesign MiniStats with compact and grouped profiling views by @mvaligursky in #9307
• Add collapsible MiniStats sections by @mvaligursky in #9361
• Add tracked resource counts to MiniStats by @mvaligursky in #9366
• Expose application performance statistics through AppStats by @mvaligursky in #9308
• Add user counters to AppStats by @mvaligursky in #9341
• Correct MiniStats timing and build availability documentation by @mvaligursky in #9310
• Add TextureRenderer for debug texture previews by @mvaligursky in #9382
• Add per-camera culling and display fixes to TextureRenderer by @mvaligursky in #9387
• Add a debug-engine draw limit for stepping through a render pass by @mvaligursky in #9501
• Add descriptive GPU profiling names for quad passes by @mvaligursky in #9329
• Track shaders on every graphics device by @mvaligursky in #9466
• Add a bare WebGL 2 device type for testing on constrained devices by @mvaligursky in #9471
• Announce apps to a devtools hook by @mvaligursky in #9618
• Add AppOptions#devtools to opt out of the devtools hook by @mvaligursky in #9637

• Add missing TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY entry to targetToSlot by @mvaligursky in #9321
• Fix sprite tint color space conversion by @mvaligursky in #9334
• Clear keyboard and mouse states on detach and focus loss by @mvaligursky in #9344
• Reset stale mouse movement deltas by @mvaligursky in #9349
• Fix WebGPU texture-formats-tier feature names and rename their flags by @mvaligursky in #9390
• Fix skydome depth of field with scene-pass depth by @mvaligursky in #9391
• Wait for container meshes before marking render assets ready by @mvaligursky in #9404
• Fix Picker readback rectangle in the top-left to bottom-left flip by @mvaligursky in #9441
• Reconstruct the picked world position at the pixel center by @mvaligursky in #9446
• Call super.frameUpdate() from RenderPassCompose by @mvaligursky in #9449
• Copy the render style onto a batched mesh instance by @mvaligursky in #9448
• Fix CameraComponent#setShaderPass() throwing when resetting the pass by @mvaligursky in #9451
• Resolve glb model resources against the directory of the glb by @mvaligursky in #9453
• Stop leaking a DrawCommands set per indirect draw per frame by @mvaligursky in #9459
• Fix bundle asset load retrying and error-response handling by @mvaligursky in #9460
• Fix the WebGL multi-draw fallback submitting no draws by @mvaligursky in #9461
• Treat every 2xx HTTP status as success by @willeastcott in #9507
• Accept status 0 responses from non-http schemes by @willeastcott in #9508
• Fix Curve.closest outside unit range by @humairaambreen in #9543
• Return the first key from Curve#closest for times before the curve by @willeastcott in #9544
• Accept mesh instances without a material in Layer#addMeshInstances by @mvaligursky in #9579
• Skip disabled entities in OutlineRenderer by @mvaligursky in #9452
• Fix OutlineRenderer shader errors when clustered lighting is disabled by @mvaligursky in #9590
• Fix OutlineRenderer material cleanup and frameUpdate listener leak by @mvaligursky in #9589
• Fix OutlineRenderer outlines missing with some CameraFrame settings by @mvaligursky in #9594
• Blur the TAA output in the camera frame's bloom and depth of field by @willeastcott in #9591
• Fix calculateNormals returning NaN for vertices with no triangle area by @mvaligursky in #9596
• Fix FloatPacking.float2Half corrupting values too large for a half float by @mvaligursky in #9595
• Clean up pole and tip triangles in sphere, capsule and cone geometry by @mvaligursky in #9597
• Keep screen-space particles square on any canvas aspect by @willeastcott in #9570
• Export skinned meshes to USDZ where their bones place them by @willeastcott in #9546
• Use the WGSL built-in saturate, fixing lightVertexColor on WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #9598
• Flip the vertex normal of back faces for two sided lighting by @willeastcott in #9559
• Initialize GraphicsDevice renderPassIndex to 0 by @mvaligursky in #9605
• Load cubemap faces given as URLs as sRGB color, not RGBP by @mvaligursky in #9607
• Fix Texture#lock on cubemap faces and mip levels by @mvaligursky in #9608
• Fix WebGPU stencil read mask, reuse pipelines across stencil refs by @mvaligursky in #9611
• Make createGraphicsDevice reject instead of hanging when no device can be created by @willeastcott in #9603
• Depth state fixes (depthTest, WebGPU depth bias, layer reset) by @mvaligursky in #9615
• Fix BlendState#setAttachment reviving overrides cleared by copy by @mvaligursky in #9620

• Restyle the examples browser by @mvaligursky in #9629
• Slim the collapsed code pane and hide the code minimap by @mvaligursky in #9632
• Open the PlayCanvas Inspector in the examples browser by @mvaligursky in #9621
• Serve the inspector loader as is in the dev server by @mvaligursky in #9638
• Link a whole examples category by URL by @mvaligursky in #9303
• Add category sharing and expand-all controls by @mvaligursky in #9356
• Reveal current example when clearing search by @mvaligursky in #9354
• Rebuild the UI button, panel, masking and custom shader examples by @willeastcott in #9565
• Rebuild the UI text examples by @willeastcott in #9566
• Rebuild the UI layout, image and world examples by @willeastcott in #9569
• Add the UI input, common widgets and drag and drop examples by @willeastcott in #9571
• Add a hidden test example for UI element states by @mvaligursky in #9580
• Add rendering without entities example by @mvaligursky in #9377
• Add environment sources test example by @mvaligursky in #9360
• Give the render to image example a knight of its own by @willeastcott in #9583
• Refresh the MiniStats example scene by @mvaligursky in #9309
• Migrate examples to TextureRenderer by @mvaligursky in #9384
• Load the VAT character data as a binary asset in the vat-characters example by @mvaligursky in #9518
• Render gaussian splat crop and depth-of-field examples without MSAA by @mvaligursky in #9634
• Restore the depth prepass in the gaussian splat depth-of-field example by @mvaligursky in #9639
• Apply area-picker example material changes via update() by @mvaligursky in #9497
• Remove no-op bloom.enabled writes from examples by @mvaligursky in #9476
• Replace the Arial and Courier fonts of the examples and tests with Roboto by @willeastcott in #9577
• Ship the Roboto ExtraLight license with the XR examples' font by @willeastcott in #9576

• Type Entity#addComponent options and result by component name by @willeastcott in #9320
• Type Asset#resource by asset type (Asset, AssetMap, AssetType) by @willeastcott in #9403
• Type the script lookup APIs against Script and return the class you pass in by @willeastcott in #9472
• Type element input events with the browser objects they carry by @willeastcott in #9527
• Add alpha option to createGraphicsDevice typings by @willeastcott in #9317
• Fix JSDoc types that disagree with runtime values, salvaged from #5817 by @willeastcott in #9469
• Fix Debug.assert and Texture levels JSDoc types by @willeastcott in #9491
• Clear all API reference build warnings and treat warnings as errors by @willeastcott in #9412
• Add a Framework category and home the uncategorised public classes by @willeastcott in #9421
• Rewrite Asset-related class overviews and document every resource handler by @willeastcott in #9409
• Rewrite the Math category class overviews by @willeastcott in #9410
• Rewrite the scene graph and render pipeline class overviews by @willeastcott in #9422
• Rewrite the material class overviews by @willeastcott in #9424
• Make the modern input system the Input category and describe its classes by @willeastcott in #9427
• Describe the modern animation classes and mark the legacy ones by @willeastcott in #9430
• Describe the sound classes and template the thin component system pages by @willeastcott in #9432
• Describe the Gizmo and TransformGizmo base classes by @willeastcott in #9433
• Use American spelling in the Material and LitShaderOptions overviews by @willeastcott in #9431
• Document which asset types fire the progress event by @willeastcott in #9474
• Correct RigidBodyComponent group/mask defaults and raycastAll sort order by @willeastcott in #9305
• Fix physics docs for impulse points, kinematic velocity and contact results by @willeastcott in #9515
• Improve OutlineRenderer API documentation by @mvaligursky in #9587
• Correct typos and British spellings across the engine source by @willeastcott in #9547
• Correct typos and British spellings in examples, scripts and tests by @willeastcott in #9550
• Add a context7.json so Context7 indexes usage docs and agent rules by @willeastcott in #9478
• Point the Context7 rules at the llms.txt indexes by @willeastcott in #9503

• Update dependency sharp to v0.35.4 [SECURITY] in #9330
• Update all npm dependencies in #9434
• Update dependency mocha to v12 in #9435

• @AlexAPPi
• @dfattal
• @humairaambreen
• @mvaligursky
• @slimbuck
• @willeastcott

• @dfattal made their first contribution in #9486
• @humairaambreen made their first contribution in #9543

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.22.6...v2.23.0

• Fix acceptance of mesh instances without a material in Layer#addMeshInstances by @mvaligursky in #9579

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.22.5...v2.22.6

• Fix element position when added to an entity under a screen by @willeastcott in #9525
• Prevent NVIDIA GPU hangs during gsplat depth picking by @mvaligursky in #9575

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.22.4...v2.22.5

• Fix gsplat GPU sort flicker from sort key precision loss by @mvaligursky in https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/pull/9494

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.22.3...v2.22.4

• Fix skydome depth of field with scene-pass depth by @mvaligursky in #9391
• Fix WebGPU resource cleanup and recovery cancellation on application destroy by @mvaligursky in #9396
• Fix reset of clustered shadow lights before frame preparation by @mvaligursky in #9414

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.22.2...v2.22.3

• Fix selection of correct shadow shader when changing cascade count by @mvaligursky in #9343
• Fix StandardMaterial texture map iteration ignoring prototype properties by @mvaligursky in #9368

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.22.1...v2.22.2

• Gsplat LOD: empty level for nodes without coarse data; distance default by @mvaligursky in [#9326]
• Correct RigidBodyComponent group/mask defaults and raycastAll sort order docs by @willeastcott in [#9305]

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.22.0...v2.22.1

• [BREAKING] Store frustum planes in a typed array by @mvaligursky in #9196
• [BREAKING] Remove wire drawing methods from AppBase by @mvaligursky in #9289

• Remove Scene#forcePassThroughSpecular compatibility flag by @mvaligursky in #9250
• Remove passive event listener detection and platform.passiveEvents by @willeastcott in #9252
• Remove unused BatchManager#clone method by @mvaligursky in #9106
• Add dual-source blending support by @mvaligursky in #9096
• Add Camera.projectionOffset for off-center (shift lens) projection by @mvaligursky in #9098
• Add RenderTarget origin option, deprecate flipY by @mvaligursky in #9101
• Expose Bayer 2/4 dither modes and add Bayer 16 dither mode by @mvaligursky in #9117
• Add shadow pass support for ShaderMaterial using #include by @mvaligursky in #9116
• Cull omni shadow casters against all six faces in a single pass by @mvaligursky in #9194
• Cull mesh instances by their bounding box instead of bounding sphere by @mvaligursky in #9197
• Add flat shading support by @mvaligursky in #9191
• Flat shade glTF primitives without vertex normals by @mvaligursky in #9193
• Add shadowCascadeMask to the render component by @mvaligursky in #9195
• Add shadowCascadeMask in batch by @AlexAPPi in #9104
• Configurable maximum number of clustered lights by @mvaligursky in #9188
• Add volumetric fog support for clustered omni and spot lights by @mvaligursky in #9137
• Support refraction without the metalness workflow by @mvaligursky in #9147
• Add independent blending for multiple render targets by @mvaligursky in #9140
• Add per-attachment clear colors for multiple render targets by @mvaligursky in #9142
• Add clear support for integer format color attachments by @mvaligursky in #9143
• Render the scene depth from the scene pass, replacing the depth prepass where possible by @mvaligursky in #9174
• Support writing the scene textures from the forward pass by @mvaligursky in #9166
• Add SceneDepthReader for reading a camera's scene depth to the CPU by @mvaligursky in #9274
• Add a scene depth mode to CameraFrame debug rendering by @mvaligursky in #9182
• Wire alphaToCoverage into the WebGPU render pipeline state by @mvaligursky in #9208
• Add sample_mask builtin support to WGSL fragment shaders by @mvaligursky in #9222
• Add samples option to Texture for multisampled textures on WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #9217
• Support multisampled texture bindings in WGSL reflection and bind groups by @SashaRX in #9167
• Support multisampled color buffers and custom resolves on RenderTarget by @mvaligursky in #9221
• Support multisampled depth buffers and depth resolve targets on RenderTarget by @mvaligursky in #9230
• Add RenderTarget.depthResolveMode controlling multisampled depth resolve by @mvaligursky in #9226
• Support blendable and R/RG float formats in getRenderableHdrFormat by @mvaligursky in #9164
• Expose textureFloatBlendable capability on all devices by @mvaligursky in #9160
• Support the RG32F texture format on WebGL by @mvaligursky in #9218
• Add readonly detection for the WebGPU subgroup-size-control feature by @mvaligursky in #9158
• Fix parallax mapping correctness and promote to public by @mvaligursky in #9207
• Add parallax occlusion mapping as an opt-in parallax mode by @mvaligursky in #9213
• Add soft self shadowing to parallax occlusion mapping by @mvaligursky in #9225
• Add heightMapBase to unify the parallax zero level across modes by @mvaligursky in #9245
• Add WireRenderer for wireframe debug shapes and a debug examples category by @mvaligursky in #9288
• Add AppOptions.physicsWorld for explicit physics backend selection by @willeastcott in #9266
• Add timeScale and public step() to RigidBodyComponentSystem by @willeastcott in #9300
• Wake constrained bodies when a joint constraint is created or destroyed by @willeastcott in #9177
• Add justified text support to text elements by @mvaligursky in #9185
• Allow typed arrays in geometry and mesh data APIs by @mvaligursky in #9121
• Add support for transform feedback separate buffer mode by @AlexAPPi in #9109
• Support multiple transform feedback buffers by @mvaligursky in #9131
• Add rotation attribute to the ProceduralSky script by @mvaligursky in #9150
• Detach element component graph nodes on destroy by @mvaligursky in #9183
• Release application references on destroy by @mvaligursky in #9190
• Destroy the asset registry with the application by @mvaligursky in #9189
• Relocate deprecated API shims so the ESM engine tree-shakes by @willeastcott in #9251
• Remove WebGL1-era POT checks from texture mipmap upload and gpuSize by @willeastcott in #9262
• Use Geometry#calculateTangents in procedural geometry subclasses by @willeastcott in #9253
• Stop the Shader constructor modifying the supplied definition by @willeastcott in #9281

• Error-driven GSplat LOD selection with a derived fallback by @mvaligursky in #9233
• Add a LOD mode and per-splat detail falloff for streamed GSplats by @mvaligursky in #9267
• Gaussian splats write the scene depth by @mvaligursky in #9175
• Add scene.gsplat.useTonemap to opt GSplats out of tonemapping and exposure by @mvaligursky in #9229
• Use shadowCasterPS chunk for gsplat shadow output by @mvaligursky in #9119
• Fix unified CPU splat sort for non-uniformly scaled splats by @AriaLian in #9268
• Fix stale gsplat projector pipeline after a dataFormat swap by @mvaligursky in #9269
• Fix gsplat rendering on Firefox/Windows WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #9148
• Fix SOG parsers throwing when a load completes after app teardown by @mvaligursky in #9232
• Fix radix sort value buffer rotation with initial values by @slimbuck in #9276
• Fix blending disabled when generating SOG centers into an integer render target by @slimbuck in #9224

• Fix inverted normal mapping on WebGPU (derivative TBN) by @mvaligursky in #9099
• Fix MSDF coverage ramp exceeding field range at small sizes by @willeastcott in #9100
• Fix reported WebGPU sampled texture limit by @mvaligursky in #9103
• Discard out of range depth in VSM shadow casters by @mvaligursky in #9124
• Fix textureBias redefinition in tiled nine-slice shaders by @mvaligursky in #9129
• Fix the bright outline around MSDF text glyphs by @mvaligursky in #9139
• Fix vertex array object cache key collisions by @mvaligursky in #9127
• Fix instancing/draw-commands mismatch skipping indirect draws by @mvaligursky in #9159
• Fix phantom sampler binding for a trailing texture in WGSL reflection by @mvaligursky in #9198
• Fix ScriptComponent clone dropping scripts awaiting their script type by @mvaligursky in #9200 #9201 #9202 #9203 #9204
• Fix AnimationComponent leaking asset event handlers by @mvaligursky in #9141
• Fix component event leak when removing an enabled component by @mvaligursky in #9145
• Fix layer event leak when the scene layer composition is replaced by @mvaligursky in #9146
• Fix XrMenu rendering outside of XR sessions by @willeastcott in #9155
• Fix looping sounds that specify a start time and duration by @willeastcott in #9231
• Correct sound duration and playback timing by @mvaligursky in #9249
• Fix inverted entity name guard in AnimComponentBinder by @willeastcott in #9187
• Fix volumetric fog missing for one frame after a canvas resize by @mvaligursky in #9283
• Fix 'set:outline' event reporting the text color by @willeastcott in #9260
• Handle mapAsync rejection when the WebGPU device is lost by @mvaligursky in #9115
• Fix ComponentSystemRegistry.remove leaving the system in the list by @willeastcott in #9280
• Settle the WebGL texture read when the device is destroyed by @mvaligursky in #9275
• Recalculate particle local bounds when the spawn volume changes by @mvaligursky in #9192
• Anchor the AppleWebKit 15.4 antialias workaround UA match by @willeastcott in #9265

• Add VAT character crowd rendering scripts and example by @mvaligursky in #9123
• Add catapult siege demo example by @mvaligursky in #9130
• Add a parallax terrain example by @mvaligursky in #9223
• Support multiple transform feedback buffers and add a visual example by @mvaligursky in #9131
• Point the downtown example at a single full-scene streamed SOG bundle by @mvaligursky in #9290
• Make the examples MiniStats toggle drive example-owned instances by @mvaligursky in #9292
• Fix painter example render target orientation across APIs by @mvaligursky in #9108

• Update all npm dependencies (major) by @renovate[bot] in #9056

• @AlexAPPi
• @AriaLian
• @kpal81xd
• @mvaligursky
• @SashaRX
• @slimbuck
• @willeastcott

• @SashaRX made their first contribution in #9167
• @AriaLian made their first contribution in #9268

Full Changelog: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/compare/v2.21.4...v2.22.0