v158.0.0

158.0.0 (2026-05-24)

• feat!: new NetworkSceneLoader as simple example for how to load scene and spawn characters (e90bf7e)
• refactor!: moving CharacterSpawner and NetworkSceneManager to samples folder (0c03a49)
• refactor!: moving NetworkAnimator to samples folder (f9fde9b)
• refactor!: moving scene events to legacy NetworkSceneManager (4ac7d3f)

Bug Fixes

• adding checked for reader lengths (293e4f2)
• fixing edge case where developer calls disconnected from server.connected (0711f28)
• fixing LoadSceneAsync await for unity 6 (d51999f)
• fixing LoadSceneAsync await for unity 6 (c93cf00)
• validating sender for return RPC (7265e08)

Features

• adding PlayerErrorFlags.InvalidState for when state is incorrect and message can't be handled (839b4e5)

Performance Improvements

• removing allocation when receiving fragmented packets (b4db627)
• reusing allocations from ackSystem (8d983c5)

BREAKING CHANGES

• • SceneChangeFinishedEvent moved to LegacySceneLoading Sample

• SceneChangeStartedEvent moved to LegacySceneLoading Sample
• PlayerSceneChangeEvent moved to LegacySceneLoading Sample

• • NetworkSceneLoader is now added to NetworkManager instead of NetworkSceneManger

• SceneMessage now only has ScenePath field

• • CharacterSpawner is no longer in Components, and must be manually imported from Samples

• NetworkSceneManager is no longer in Components, and must be manually imported from Samples

• • NetworkAnimator is no longer in Components, and must be manually imported from Samples