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3.5.17

- Changed referencing so that in most cases it will find any reference manager if it can't find one in the relevant scene and outputting a warning when this happens.

3.5.16

- Moved methods in ES3.cs inside of DISABLE_ENCRYPTION define so they are also stripped accordingly.

3.5.15

- Resolved issue where a scene not in the build list could cause the Prefabs window to fail to open.

3.5.14

- Resolved issue on some versions of Unity where the Editor would throw a harmless MissingReferenceException after removing an Easy Save 3 Manager.

3.5.13

- Resolved issue where adding a manager to scene or enabling Auto Save would throw a NullReferenceException.

3.5.12

- References in DontDestroyOnLoad are now added to the first available reference manager rather than requiring it's own manager.

3.5.11

- GameObjects and Components are now added to their scene's reference manager when using additive scenes.

- Resolved issue where enums were incorrectly generated in ES3Types due to the type list not being initialized intermittently.

- Resolved harmless bug where an ArgumentException is thrown when trying to add scene which has already been added to scene manager.

3.5.10

- Resolved issue where loading a value with a dervied type using caching would cause it to be loaded as it's parent type.

3.5.9

- Added support for Unity 6.

3.5.8

- Separated Add References to Mgr into Add References to Mgr and Add Dependencies to Mgr.

- Resolved issue where references were added to manager when Auto Add References was disabled as Component was created in scene.

- Resolved issue in some cases where Optimize would not remove cached references to deleted objects.

- Resolved issue where creating an ES3Type for an object which has generic collection field with an element of the same type as itself would cause a stack overflow in certain edge cases.

3.5.7

- Removed legacy dependency-gathering code which requires the UnityEngine.UI library.

- Resolved issues where ES3UserTypes aren't added to the reference manager on occasion.

- Reference managers are now no longer merged when using additive scenes.

- Worked around bug at Unity's end causing the Auto Save window to throw errors on Unity 2021.

- Resolved issue where ES3Prefab would throw an ArgumentException for writing the same item in the localToGlobal Dictionary.

- Resolved issue where saving primitives using PlayMaker actions with caching would cause a format error.

- Worked around issue with PlayMaker where assigning NULL to a GameObject invalidates the type of the FsmVariable.

- Made a change to ES3Cloud so that an error is manually sent when misconfigured servers reject POST parameters but continue to execute the PHP script.

- Resolved issue where priority of built-in types conflicted with user-generated types.

3.5.6

- ES3GameObject Component is now automatically moved to end of Components List to ensure that it's loaded after the Components it references.

- Resolved merge issue where cached data was being stored with it's generic type rather than actual type.

- Resolved issue where private members of inherited types wouldn't be saved in specific circumstances.

3.5.5

- References are now gathered when saving a scene and when changes are made in a scene, not when entering playmode.

- Added option to refresh reference managers in all scenes (Tools > Easy Save 3 > Refresh References for All Scenes).

- Added option to exclude references from being added to the manager (right-click > Easy Save 3 > Exclude Reference(s) from Manager).

- Added GetColumnLength and GetRowLength methods to ES3Spreadsheet.

- Resolved issue where enums would cause a FormatException when they were fields of a class with an ES3Type.

- Worked around Unity bug where initialisation events are sometimes not called when importing Easy Save.

- Worked around Unity bug where GetDirectoryName fails to work with a path to a file.

- Auto Saves are now processed in order of their position in the hierarchy.

- Resolved issue where members would be serialized twice when it was marked as ES3Serializable in both concrete and base classes.

- Worked around Unity bug where Unity would throw an error when trying to set a scripting define symbol for Stadia.

- Accounted for change in 2022.3 LTS where Unity have fixed a typo in their Editor API ("ToolbarSeachTextField")

3.5.4

- You can now enable Assembly Definition Files for Easy Save by going to Tools > Easy Save 3 > Enable Assembly Definition Files.

- Accounted for edge case where ES3File would be merged rather than overwritten, preventing keys from being deleted from the stored file.

- Resolved issue where reference collection can cause an InvalidOperationException (Collection was modified).

- Worked around bug with Unity Runner Template which prevented Easy Save types from loading.

- overrideSprite is no longer saved when saving UI.Image as Unity now returns the Sprite rather than null when this is unassigned.

- Resolved issue where Auto Save's events sometimes did not update when changing the active scene in the Editor.

3.5.3

- Attempting to save a Material with a RenderTexture will now throw a warning indicating that the RenderTexture won't be saved.

- Added filtering by tag in the Auto Save window by prefixing 'tag:' to the search query.

3.5.2

- Resolved issue where RectTransform was loaded incorrectly as parent is deserialized before anchoredPosition.

- Removed warning regarding Transform parents being set using the accessor rather than the SetParent method.

- ES3.CopyFile now automatically creates the target directory if it doesn't exist.

- Added an option to encrypt/compress raw cached data if the setting is defined for the cached file (postprocessRawCachedData).

- 'Add References to Manager' now permanently adds prefabs to the manager if 'Auto Add Prefabs to Manager' is enabled.

- Assembly names are now in alphabetical order so changes in order aren't registered as a change in version control.

- Using 'Add References to Manager' on a folder now adds all supported assets in that folder to the reference manager.

3.5.1

- Reverted changes to LoadRaw methods when using Cache as it caused regression issues.

3.5.0

- Added support for NativeArray.

- Managed case where ES3.EncryptBytes/DecryptBytes encountered an encoding issue.

- Worked around Unity bug where invalid assembly list would cause issues when exceptions are disabled.

- Worked around bug at Unity's end where unloaded scenes are returned by their methods.

- Resolved issue where scripting define symbols were overwritten on older versions of Unity.

- Worked around bug where inertia tensor value is rejected even when set as it's default upon loading.

- Most Material properties can now be saved, including custom properties.

- When saving a parent GameObject, children automatically have their parent set to the parent GameObject rather than loading this value by reference.

- Support added for Tuples.

- Added overload for AppendRaw which accepts a string and a filename.

- Worked around Unity bug where EventType.Layout isn't called when moving tabs for first time, causing Types pane recent types to be uninitialised.

- Worked around Unity bug which infrequently prevented Auto Save changes from persisting.

- Added ES3.Compress and ES3.Decompress methods.

- Performing 'Add Reference(s) to Manager' for a Texture2D will also add it's Sprite if one is present.

- Classes without parameterless constructors can now be serialised (note that their constructor will not be called).

- Resolved issue where an unloaded scene warning was thrown when scene is open but manually marked as unloaded in the Editor.

3.4.2

- Resolved issue where Unity Visual Scripting defines were not present on some versions of Unity.

3.4.1

- Added support for Particle System Bursts

- Resolved issue where Auto Save would sometimes save all Components regardless of settings.

- Resolved issue where Auto Save icon would not highlight when fields are selected.

- Structs with private properties or fields can now be serialized.

- Loading a blank string from a spreadsheet now returns a blank string rather than null.

- The reference manager will only collect references up to 3 levels deep to improve performance.

- System.Random support has been dropped due to Unity's implementation changing, making it non-serializable.

- ES3Ref is no longer stored twice for ScriptableObjects.

- Added support for Numerics.BigInteger.

- Internal fields of the ES3AutoSave Component are no longer displayed in the Editor.

- If a reference ID for a Component exists, it now ignores the GameObject ID so that a new GO instance is not created.

- Added a Get Streaming Assets Path action for Playmaker.

- Added non-generic versions of the ES3Spreadsheet methods to work around issue with Bolt.

- Worked around issue with Bolt where it would crash if you have two methods with the same parameters but one is generic.

- Resolved issue where Components marked as destroyed but not yet destroyed would cause unexpected behaviour.

- Auto Save will now work for additive scenes.

- Resolved issue where reference manager wasn't automatically updated when scene was open additively prior to runtime.

- Support added for Unity Visual Scripting.

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