Updating from earlier versions: Close Unity, delete the Asset Inventory folder, restart Unity and import the new version. Database and settings are compatible.

## [3.6.0] - 2025-12-09

- Custom Actions

- New action step: Set Text Variable and allow referencing variables via $varname later

- Support predefined variables in custom actions: Application, SystemInfo, Environment, Config, DateTime, PlayerSettings, EditorApplication, BuildTarget, QualitySettings, Screen

- SFTP support for FTP Upload Action

- New action step: FTP Delete Folder

- Support aborting custom actions upon errors

- HTML Export

- Do not export sub packages via HTML template

- Add third party dependency: SSH.Net

- Allow cancelling FTP uploads

- Fix HTML export action not working if first template is selected

- Searching

- Allow searching also in group names in package search

- Support variables inside asset search to reuse and easily parameterize saved searches

- Support overriding saved searches with current search setup

- Support combining tag tokens in search via and/or/not

- Minor UI fixes

- Misc

- Fix media size not stable while loading

- Fix sort by asset rating and review count

- Fix new method for fetching asset details failing in newest Unity 6.3

## [3.5.0] - 2025-10-21

- New asset details update method, greatly reducing time needed to fetch updates

- Automatically update asset details in the background regularly, making sure available updates are showing up quickly

- Performance

- Greatly improve texture memory management

- Greatly improve memory consumption and performance of indexing and previewing audio assets by activating streaming

- Speed up dependency analysis using render pipeline flags to identify support packages

- Dramatic media loading and memory consumption improvements by loading full media only ondemand

- Small performance improvements all over

- Improve cache limiter performance and error handling

- Custom Actions

- New action steps: Compress Folder, Extract Folder

- New action step: Export HTML template

- New action step: FTP Upload

- Allow Delete Folder action step to also delete folders outside current project

- Allow running also predefined actions in Run Action step

- Incompatible change: Actions using Run Action need to be resaved

- Running custom actions now show progress

- Handle custom action deletion issues gracefully

- HTML Export

- Automatically embed original previews back into Previews folder when exporting to HTML

- Treat HTML package search the same in grid and list view

- Create Previews folder on the fly if missing in HTML export target directory

- Fallback to cover image in HTML export if there are no media images available

- Align rendering of stars in HTML to be identical in static and dynamic search mode

- Show only media in HTML export carousel that is viewable

- Fix media carousel not being shown in html export

- Fix HTML search always showing "Searching..." when no files are present

- Previews

- Improve downloading during preview pipeline

- Allow showing all affected assets for specific preview states directly from preview wizard

- Make wait time for Unity previews configurable

- Add has-preview filter to search integration and API

- Allow deactivating preview error logs

- Automatically clean-up corrupted preview files that cannot be loaded from Previews folder

- Support custom archive & package preview icons through a png file next to the actual package

- Show scheduled previews broken down by types

- Allow removing specific types from the preview queue

- Confirm preview rescheduling for selected types

- Clean preview queue of items that accidentally got in and cannot yield results (script files, documents...)

- Skip preview recreation for items in support packages incompatible to the current render pipeline (hdrp packages in an urp package and vice versa)

- Fix downloads not working reliably during preview recreation

- Search

- New setting to exclude packages in asset search not matching current SRP (on by default)

- New validator: Set correct render pipeline compatibility flags for sub-packages

- Improve formatting of durations to cover long audio lengths

- Detect more support sub-packages correctly leading to better dependency resolution

- API search example

- Media

- Many media column customization options

- Use rounded corners for media images and allow setting for search results as well

- Remove flickering of media images when selecting items in the packages list

- Allow setting corner radius of media images and search previews

- Allow copying media URL to clipboard when right clicking external media

- Fix media section getting hidden when scrolling selected item out of view with media column visible

- Misc

- New management UI under Settings/Locations to configure FTP connections

- Additional items added to exclusion list which can only be imported into the root (5 total now)

- Improve package deletion with a dedicated deletion UI

- Allow excluding extensions also in archives

- Support foreign Id in override files

- Improve error logging for downloads

- Cleanup failed downloads

- Reduce locking of files by the tool, enabling more concurrent usage

- Handle insufficient disk space gracefully

- Set a sensible min size for tag management UI

- Unity 6.4 compatibility

- Fallback to legacy asset details refresh if new method does not work (Unity 6.4a)

- Fix incorrect materialization of dependencies from additional folders during previews creation leading to locked files

- Fix SQLite not finding columns in case of spelling differences

- Fix downloader trying to download sub, outdated or abandoned packages

- Fix download error message spam appearing on Mac

- Fix seldom file access race condition in copying assets to project

- Fix parallel calls to dependency analysis resulting in potentially corrupt analysis

## [3.4.0] - 2025-09-26

- New package list column: Media (showing screenshots of the package right in the table)

- Bigger package icons and wrapped names when media images are displayed

- New shortcut to import + add prefabs directly to scene in one go

- Integrations

- Context menus for search results and packages view

- Integrate into main toolbar (Unity 6.3+)

- Unity Search integration

- Previews

- Preview enhancement for small image files in additional folders: Use directly as preview without copying, saving time and space

- New validator: previews that can be deleted and originals used instead

- New validator: Previews that should be cached instead of using the original only

- Show validators based on current configuration

- Reset AI caption after preview recreation

- Misc

- Exception list for assets that need to be in the project root (due to hard coded paths etc)

- Show welcome dialog

- Allow specifying sub-second breaks for AI processing

- Support for programmatic search through API

- New validator: Outdated in cache

- Improve about page layout

- Reorder package actions for better clustering

- Spelling fixes

- Add multiple missing UI customization blocks

- Align UI customization colors for sections

- Make deleting packages not abort when file access is denied

- Disable bulk selection in programmatic search mode

- Disallow selecting root folder as database location

- Recover gracefully if UI state got lost during recompilations

- Fix seldom appearing UIStyle initialization issues (lazy initialize now)

- Fix endless details refresh for deleted packages in inspector

- Fix dependency import failing if dependency is materialized in a package already

## [3.3.2] - 2025-09-10

- Faster persistence of asset purchases

- Fix directory/cache deletion sometimes not working

- Fix dependency scan hanging upon files that cannot be copied

- see https://wetzold.com/tools/assetinventory/CHANGELOG.md

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