Version 4.0.0 Released

Major Features

• Guilds & Alliances are a group management system you can use in game logic to determine membership
• Players can now create ephemeral Parties to stay together in queuing and matchmaking
• We now deploy a Text Chat server with Redwood with several room types
• You can automatically synchronize GAS abilities, effects, and attributes with GAS Persistence
• SendGrid no longer offers a free tier, so we added the ZeptoMail email provider
• HCP Vault was discontinued so we added many more secrets providers
• We finally support more than DigitalOcean hosting by supporting deploying to any Kubernetes cluster

Minor Features

• Added a maintenance mode for realms
• PlayerIdentity now has an optional data column which is available in URedwoodCharacterComponent::PlayerData if you have data that stays the same for all realms/characters
• Added an optional persisted URedwoodCharacterComponent::AbilitySystem field if you want to manually persist ability details without using GAS persistence
• Added an optional persisted URedwoodCharacterComponent::Progress field if you want to store character progression
• Added the flag in the <realm-instance-config>.game-servers.local.log-to-terminal flag which defaults to false
• Allow Docker Desktop to be used in the local Kubernetes cloud provider
• Updated pulumi
• Updated TypeScript

Bug Fixes

• MAJOR BUG FIX: We fixed Kubernetes deployments which had image pull errors due to Bitnami, a large Docker image & Helm chart provider, moving non-latest images to a legacy account. We'll be considering how best to provide Redis and Postgres images in future releases
• MAJOR BUG FIX: We fixed several errors in the Redwood plugins that would cause UObjects to get garbage collected too early
• We fixed several security vulnerabilities introduced in dependencies, including all High and Critical ones
• Reduced frequency of over-reported Invalid zone shard... errors
• Third party licenses are now included
• Fixed PIE & World Partition errors for UE 5.6+ by adding the -pieviaconsole arg to all local UE game servers (so you don't need to manually add it)

Breaking Changes

As applicable, we provided Core Redirects so you can open Blueprint classes that inherited from the old names, but C++ classes will not compile until you update the names yourself.

• We upgraded from Yarn v1 to v4, which you should be able to retrieve with the command corepack enable in the RedwoodBackend directory
• idem matchmaking provider was removed as the service was discontinued
• hcp-vault secrets provider was removed as the service was discontinued
• digitalocean cloud provider was removed in favor of the agnostic custom provider
• URedwoodClientInterface::ListServers was renamed to URedwoodClientInterface::ListProxies
• URedwoodClientInterface::CreateServer was renamed to URedwoodClientInterface::CreateProxy
• URedwoodClientInterface::JoinServerInstance was renamed to URedwoodClientInterface::JoinProxyWithSingleInstance
• URedwoodClientInterface::StopServer was renamed to URedwoodClientInterface::StopProxy
• URedwoodClientGameSubsystem::ListServers was renamed to URedwoodClientGameSubsystem::ListProxies
• URedwoodClientGameSubsystem::CreateServer was renamed to URedwoodClientGameSubsystem::CreateProxy
• URedwoodClientGameSubsystem::JoinServerInstance was renamed to URedwoodClientGameSubsystem::JoinProxyWithSingleInstance
• URedwoodClientGameSubsystem::StopServer was renamed to URedwoodClientGameSubsystem::StopProxy
• FRedwoodCreateServerInput was renamed to FRedwoodCreateProxyInput
• FRedwoodListServersOutput was renamed to FRedwoodListProxiesOutput
• FRedwoodListProxiesOutput::Servers was renamed to FRedwoodListProxiesOutput::Proxies
• FRedwoodCreateServerOutput was renamed to FRedwoodCreateProxyOutput
• FRedwoodCreateProxyOutput::ServerReference was renamed to FRedwoodCreateProxyOutput::ProxyReference
• FRedwoodFriend was renamed to FRedwoodPlayer
• FRedwoodPlayer::State was renamed to FRedwoodPlayer::FriendshipState
• FRedwoodListFriendsOutput was renamed to FRedwoodListPlayersOutput

EULA Changes

Starting in 4.0 we'll be adding the below information to our analytics collected from the backend:

• The Unreal Engine version you're using. This will help us make the decision whether or not to upgrade the version we test on (currently 5.4).
• The basename of the value of the game-servers.local.project config variable from each of your realm instance configs to help us better identify unique projects (or simply, the filename of your uproject).

You can read the full details of the changes in Section 17(b) in the EULA.