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We have been promising a large v5.0 for awhile now. That is still coming, but is now versioned as v6.0 since we needed to do this substantial breaking change release in the meantime. v6.0 still coming soon™️!

Version 5.0.0 is a backend-only release. It bumps the major version because of two breaking changes: we upgraded the backend to Node.js 24 and we removed the obsolete Hathora game server provider. The Unreal plugins and templates are unchanged from 4.2.3, so you only need to update your RedwoodBackend directory.

Bug Fixes​

• Fix more errors for 5.8

Bug Fixes​

• IMPORTANT: Fix very old bug where the wrong schema version is being used for URedwoodCharacterComponent's PlayerData and CharacterCreatorData
• Prevent stale/unhydrated URedwoodCharacterComponent from persisting empty data
• Fix compiler errors for 5.8

Breaking Changes​

We normally don't release breaking changes without bumping the major version, but due to some upcoming changes to Redwood, we're making an exception due to the low impact.

• The FRedwoodPlayerInventoryChanged struct now uses URedwoodPlayerStateComponent instead of ARedwoodPlayerState
• Deploying to staging or production like environments will now fail if you have not changed default secret config vars. You can test whether or not it'll fail (and which variables need to be changed) with the new yarn check-secrets <config-env> command. This is to help prevent you from shipping vulnerable secrets.

Bug Fixes​

• We've implemented an extensive suite of security fixes after doing a large audit of Redwood systems
• More config variables can now be used in the secrets system (search for This can be a secret in the secrets provider in config/node/default for all instances)
• Updated dependencies for CVE vulnerabilities
• Fixed sync items
• Fixed zone data
• Fixed bugs related to using the Queue provider with AGameMode
• Fixed issues with the local secrets provider
• Fixed regex for private IP detection (primarily impacted with some environments like Azure)

Features​

• Better support for configuring Redwood in team environments
• Edgegap game server hosting provider added
• Added a list-proxies CLI command which shows not-ended proxies (proxies may be stopped but not ended)

Bug Fixes​

• Fix Redis memory leak (impacts all prior versions and is important for production environments)
• Add better recovery and logging in Redwood services if Redis fails
• Removed the Kubernetes Dashboard (an undocumented, opt-in dependency) since it was discontinued
• Important Redwood spawn errors now show up as editor error alerts in PIE for better visibility
• Fixed persistence of stack count for UGameplayEffects
• Fixed a crash caused when placing a URedwoodAbilitySystemComponent on an AAIController
• Fixed issues with synchronization of world/proxy and zone data

Minor Features​

• Added Redwood editor settings (e.g. Use Backend in PIE) in the PIE play menu for easy accessibility

Major Features​

• Epic Games, Discord, Twitch, and JWT authentication providers added
• Text Chat now includes a Realm chat room that spans all GameServerProxy's in the realm
• You can allow players to create custom chat rooms
• Source-code users can define a custom ticketing flow
• We introduced a "Realm contact" so players can favorite other PlayerCharacters
• Guilds/alliances can be opted-in to use scoped to realms instead of the director
• You can now have zone-specific server game data
• You can now have global director and realm data
• Introduced URedwoodPlayerStateComponent which replaces ARedwoodPlayerState to allow flexibility with other gameplay systems. ARedwoodPlayerState will continue to work until v5.0.0, but it is deprecated with a warning.

Bug Fixes​

• [RPG Template] Turned off bFollowPawn in B_OverworldPlayerState, which is the default setting; it was enabled in a prior release by accident
• [Plugins] Fixed issues with running PIE without the backend
• [Plugins] Fixed RedwoodChat compiler error for UE 5.7

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed UE sometimes crashed when stopping PIE
• Fixed UE sometimes crashed after sync items were despawned and garbage collected
• Fixed running yarn issue for Standard licensees

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