SIG-Core 11/30 release notes

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Please fill any info related to the below for the 11/30 release notes: Note this has a due date of Friday Nov 12th, 2021

Features

Bug fixes (GHI list if possible)

Deprecations

Known issues

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O3DE as an SDK

Features

• Added Engine SDK layout support for Linux and Mac: [Linux] Create an Engine SDK Layout that contains the debug, profile and release configurations o3de#3189, [MacOS] Create an Engine SDK Layout that contains the debug, profile and release configurations o3de#3192
• Added support for installing non-monolithic and monolithic artifacts into the same Engine SDK layout: Add support for installing Monolithic and Non-Monolithic configurations into the same SDK layout o3de#3227
• Added support for installing a Project Game Release Layout(Windows, Linux, MacOS): Create a Project Game Release Layout o3de#3201
• Added ComponentApplication Lifecycle Events to facilitate startup configuration for the GameLauncher: o3de/o3de@b3b646d
• Updated the AssetBundler to use AZ::IO::Archive for creation of Pak Files: Update AssetBundler to use AZ::IO::Archive for creating PAK files o3de#3419
• Improved Error messags in the project's EngineFinder.cmake to help with indicating why the project could not locate the engine: Improve the errors in EngineFinder.cmake o3de#4713
• Added Multi-Config/Multi-Permutation support to the installer. This adds support for build configurations like debug, profile, release can be placed in the same installer. This also allows non-monolithic(Default) and monolithic(Monolithic) permutations to be added to the installer: Adding support for multi-config/multi-permutation installer o3de#5062
• Limit the configuration types available in the Engine SDK layout to only the configurations that were built. i.e If the SDK was only built with the profile configuration, only the profile configuration will be available when using the SDK with a project: Build: Limit cmake build types based on Engine SDK build type o3de#2526
• Added support for importing Json files. Support for importing Json files o3de#4609

Bug fixes

• Resolved issues with required gems not being treated as required when using an Engine SDK: Required Gems are not set as required in the SDK Layout build o3de#3430
• Fixed issue "Relocating the Project Game Release Layout outside of the install directory fails to initialize": o3de/o3de@6270128
• Fixed for launching the Editor through ProjectManager on Mac as well as other miscellaneous Project Manager fixes.: [MacOS] Launching Editor from ProjectManager and other misc. fixes o3de#5264
• Fixed level creation on Linux: Fix level creation on Linux o3de#3488
• Fixed rpaths when using an Engine SDK layout on Linux: Fix rpaths during o3de sdk install on Linux o3de#3370
• Added fix for Android Monolithic release builds: Android release/monolithic-release fixes o3de#3788
• Fixed issue where CMake targets which were wrapped in two layers of generator expressions could not be added as dependencies when using an Engine SDK layout: https://github.com/o3de/o3de/pull/2337/files

Deprecations

• Updated the FileIO Aliases to provide more accurate descriptions of the paths they represent: Update FileIOAliases to be more accurately indicate which kind of paths they refer to o3de#4183, Impactful Change link: https://discord.com/channels/805939474655346758/852574203437121586/895059153247170590
• The AssetProcessor Exclude Filters are now treated relative to the Scan Folder: Reserved keywords in the project path o3de#4044 Impactful Change link: https://discord.com/channels/805939474655346758/852574203437121586/902248898683363400
• The --project-path parameter is now treated relative to the current working directory in C++ Applications: Update how Project Filepaths are calculated when not supplied via command line o3de#5194 Impactful Change link: https://discord.com/channels/805939474655346758/852574203437121586/905874057998766161
• Rewrote the AzToolsFramework ArchiveComponent to use the AZ::IO::Archive instead of 7za.exe. 7za.exe has been removed from the code base Archive Component - Rewrite and additional work on Archive and Asset Bundler o3de#4332

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Features

• Better compiler detection on Linux. Passing CMAKE_C_COMPILER and CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER is no longer required. Better compiler detection on Linux o3de#5376
• Support for multiple configurations and monolithic into the SDK Adding support for multi-config/multi-permutation installer o3de#5062
• Adds stack traces to exception handling Adding stack traces to exception handling in unit tests o3de#4708
• Enabled override/virtual warnings Enables override/virtual warnings o3de#4071
• Limit configuration types a project sees when using an engine SDK Limits configuration types a project sees when using an engine SDK o3de#4033
• Enabled format securty warnings Enabling warnings around format security o3de#3937
• Set MSVC compiler into permissive mode Setting /permissive- to make MSVC more "standard" o3de#3701
• Improvements to input dependency tracking in runtime dependencies Improves runtime dependencies input dependency o3de#3665
• Enabled multiple warnings in MSVC and Clang Enabling several warnings on MSVC that are not enabled by default and are good to have o3de#3378 Linux/Clang fix warn-unused and related o3de#3376 Enable warning MSVC 4296: 'operator': expression is always false o3de#3352 SPEC-2513 Last warnings to get to Warning Level 4 o3de#3033 SPEC-2513 Fixing w4018 o3de#2925
• Adds support to compile with ASan Adding support for ASan (Windows/MSVC) and fixing AzCore o3de#3292
• Adds helper RUN targets in project-centric workflow Create RUN target as helpers for the project-centric workflow (#2520) o3de#2635

Bug fixes

• Fixes for CMake 3,22rc Fixes for CMake 3.22rc o3de#5314
• LuaIDE->GridHub dependency added Adds LuaIDE->GridHub dependency o3de#5229
• Editor->LuaIDE dependency added Makes Editor depend on LuaIDE o3de#4514
• XCode generation fails [MacOS] Generating XCode solution fails o3de#3832
• It is not possible to create new Projects It is not possible to create new Projects o3de#3443
• runtime dependencies do not add target file dependencies ly_add_target RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES and ly_add_target_files does not add file dependencies on the TARGET o3de#3391
• Jinja files are not being copied to install layout Jinja files are not copied over to the INSTALL install laoyut when they are PUBLIC files o3de#2517
• Some projects are being re-processed in VS despite being clean Some projects are re-processed in VS despite being clean o3de#2288
• PhysX Gem can't be used as build dependency in engine SDK PhysX Gem can't be used as build dependency in engine SDK Part 2 o3de#2126
• 3rdParty runtime dependencies copied multiple times 3rdParty runtime dependencies copied multiple times o3de#2045 PhysX Gem can't be used as build dependency in engine SDK o3de#1971

Deprecations

• Removes VTUNE profiler hooks from Cry Removes VTUNE profiler hooks from Cry o3de#5291
• Removes cry load dll functions Cleanup: Remove cry load dll functions o3de#5295
• Renamed PHYSX_ENABLE_RUNNING_BENCHMARKS to LY_PHYSX_ENABLE_RUNNING_BENCHMARKS Renamed physx trait to make it consistent and show properly in cmake-gui o3de#5118
• Removes old "Integ" type of tests Remove old "Integ" functionality from tests o3de#4688
• Removes crcfix Remove crcfix o3de#3294
• Changed LY_UNITY_BUILD default to ON Change LY_UNITY_BUILD default to "ON" o3de#3244
• Removes CryString and related classes Removal of CryString and related files/classes o3de#2757