3.1.3

PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin — v3.1.3 (GA)

Release Date: August 20, 2026
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
GDK Requirement: Microsoft Gaming Development Kit (GDK) — 2604 Update 2 (260402)

Overview

Release of the PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin adding Unreal Engine 5.8 support, multiple concurrent sessions, per-session PlayFab Party networks, and expanded dedicated-server support.

✨ What's New

• Unreal Engine 5.8 support
• Support for multiple simultaneous named sessions, allowing for separate social and gameplay sessions
• Per-session PlayFab Party networks with one selectable voice-enabled session
• Dedicated-server creation and ownership of PlayFab lobbies
• Configurable searchable session settings for filtered lobby discovery
• GDK friend-lobby discovery, modern game-invite activation, and single-instance PIE support

🐛 Fixes & Improvements

• Prevented authentication retry storms with bounded retry backoff
• Improved lobby creation reliability and concurrent session operations during matchmaking
• Fixed and expanded Game Save results, callbacks, threading, rollback, and cloud-state handling
• Improved session, Party, voice, editor-lifecycle, non-unity, and non-PCH stability

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Voice must be requested with bUseLobbiesVoiceChatIfAvailable and can be active for only one session
• Game Save UI completion delegates now return structured result enums and an error message
• GetLoginStatus now reports PlayFab authentication status rather than native-platform login status
• Entity handles must be retrieved when needed instead of cached across re-authentication
• Direct Party-network call sites must use the session's FPlayFabPartyNetwork object

📦 Components

• PlayFabUnreal Plugin — 3.1.3
• OnlineSubsystemPlayfab Plugin — 3.1.3

⬆️ Upgrading from 3.1.2

• Unreal Engine 5.8 uses GDK 2604 Update 2 (260402) by default. Confirm that your engine and installed GDK versions are compatible.
• Review the voice, Game Save delegate, login-status, entity-handle, and Party-network API changes above before upgrading.

🚀 Getting Started

• Getting Started Guide
• Code Examples

3.1.2

PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin — v3.1.2 (GA)

Release Date: July 2, 2026
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
GDK Requirement: Microsoft Gaming Development Kit (GDK) — 2604

Overview

Release of the PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin adding Nintendo Switch 1 and Switch 2 platform support, along with fixes and improvements.

✨ What's New

• Nintendo Switch 1 platform support
• Nintendo Switch 2 platform support

🐛 Fixes & Improvements

• Improved OnlineSubsystemPlayFab login flow on PS4 and PS5
• Fixed non-unity and non-PCH builds on all supported platform

3.1.1

PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin — v3.1.1 (GA)

Release Date: May 15, 2026
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
GDK Requirement: Microsoft Gaming Development Kit (GDK) — 2604

Overview

Hotfix for CreateSession failing on GDK platforms.

🐛 Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed CreateSession failing on GDK platforms

3.1.0

PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin — v3.1.0 (GA)

Release Date: May 13, 2026
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
GDK Requirement: Microsoft Gaming Development Kit (GDK) — 2604

Overview

Major feature release of the PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 platform support, Steam authentication improvements, and significant multi-session architecture refactoring.

✨ What's New

• GDK 2604 Support
• PlayStation 4 (Unified SDK) support
• PlayStation 5 (Unified SDK) support

🐛 Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed non-unity build compile errors for GDK and PlayStation platform
• Auth fixes and find session auth deferral
• Updated API spec — regenerated SDK from latest PlayFab API specification
• Registered lobby delegates once instead of per-session

📦 Components

• PlayFabUnreal Plugin — 3.1.0
• OnlineSubsystemPlayfab Plugin — 3.1.0

⬆️ Upgrading from 3.0.2

• Both plugins now share a unified 3.1.0 version number
• Minimum GDK version raised to 2604. Update your GDK installation before upgrading to v3.1.0

🚀 Getting Started

• Getting Started Guide
• Code Examples

3.0.2

PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin — v3.0.2 (GA)

Release Date: February 27, 2026
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
GDK Requirement: Microsoft Gaming Development Kit (GDK) — 2510 Update 1

Overview

First GA release of the PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin. Builds on the
3.0.x preview line with platform support additions, stability fixes, and
packaging improvements.

✨ What's New

• Win64 + Microsoft Gaming Runtime (MSGamingRuntime) plugin support.
• Restored a missing submodule and updated README for clarity around GDK
  setup and Game Saves terminology (no XUser dependency).

🐛 Fixes & Improvements

• Stability bug fixes across PlayFab Core and OnlineSubsystemPlayfab.
• General code cleanup and removal of files left over from the migration.

📦 Components

• PlayFabUnreal Plugin — 1.0.2
• OnlineSubsystemPlayfab Plugin — 2.3.8

Component versions above are illustrative — please confirm and replace with
the actual versions shipped in this tag before publishing.

⬆️ Upgrading from 3.0.1

• Update your GDK to 2510 Update 1.
• Re-run SetupPrivateOSS to pick up the SDK-version fix.
• No public API breaking changes.

🚀 Getting Started

• Getting Started Guide
• Code Examples

3.0.1

PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin — v3.0.1

Release Date: November 27, 2025
Release Type: Patch (Preview)
GDK Requirement: Microsoft Gaming Development Kit (GDK) — 2510

Summary

Maintenance update to the 3.0.0 preview that re-publishes the release with the
plugin submodules correctly initialized. No functional or API changes from
3.0.0.

What's Changed

• 📦 Re-packaged release with required Git submodules included (fixes broken
  out-of-the-box clone/build for users who consumed 3.0.0).
• No changes to plugin source, public APIs, or supported platforms.

📦 Components

Identical to 3.0.0:

• PlayFabUnreal Plugin — 1.0
• OnlineSubsystemPlayfab Plugin — 2.3.6

Upgrade Notes

If you cloned 3.0.0, replace your working tree with 3.0.1 (or run
git submodule update --init --recursive) to pick up the missing submodules.
Update your GDK to 2510 if you were previously on the 2510 August Preview.

🚀 Getting Started

• Getting Started Guide
• Code Examples

3.0.0 (Preview)

PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin — v3.0.0 (Preview)

Release Date: September 23, 2025
Release Type: Preview / Pre-release
GDK Requirement: Microsoft Gaming Development Kit (GDK) — 2510 August Preview

Overview

First preview release of the PlayFab Unreal Engine Plugin — a comprehensive
integration that brings PlayFab's backend services to Unreal Engine. This
preview is intended for early evaluation and feedback ahead of the GA release.

📦 Components

• PlayFabUnreal Plugin — 1.0
  Core PlayFab functionality: Authentication, Telemetry, Services, Game Saves,
  and Shared utilities.
• OnlineSubsystemPlayfab Plugin — 2.3.6
  Networking and multiplayer: PlayFab Party (voice/networking), Matchmaking,
  and OSS integration.

PlayFabUnreal modules

• PlayFab Core — Authentication and event/telemetry pipeline
• PlayFab Services — Leaderboards, Economy, Player Data, Statistics, Catalog
• PlayFab Game Saves — Cross-platform cloud saves
• PlayFab Shared — Common utilities and base types

OnlineSubsystemPlayfab modules

• PlayFab Party — Voice chat and networking
• Multiplayer — Matchmaking and session management
• OSS Integration — Hooks into Unreal's Online Subsystem framework

⚠️ Known Limitations

• Preview build — APIs may change before GA.
• Validated only against GDK 2510 August Preview.

🚀 Getting Started

• Getting Started Guide
• Code Examples