June 7th, 2022

Deprecations #

• Upgrade the listed Inventory RPC calls to their new versions to support hidden inventory.

  • Description: To support the new hidden inventory feature, the following InventoryRpc calls have been updated to partition data into player and hidden sections.

  Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
  InventoryRpc.UpdateItemsPartnerV1	InventoryRpc.UpdateItemsPartnerV2	0.0.73
  InventoryRpc.UpdateItemsServiceV1	InventoryRpc.UpdateItemsServiceV2	0.0.73
  InventoryRpc.ServiceGetInventoryV1	InventoryRpc.ServiceGetInventoryV2	0.0.73
  InventoryRpc.GrantItemsServiceV1	InventoryRpc.GrantItemsServiceV2	0.0.73

• Upgrade to MatchProcessedV3Notifications to prepare for the removal of the Progression service.

  • Description: In preparation for the removal of Progression service, MatchProcessedV2Notifications are being deprecated. By release 0.0.73, you must have updated to the MatchProcessedV3Notifications.

  Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
  Unity: OnMatchProcessedV2Notification	Unity: OnMatchProcessedV3Notification	0.0.73
  Unreal: OnMatchProcessedV2	Unreal: OnMatchProcessedV3	0.0.73

  • Integration steps:

    • A feature toggle in MatchLifecycleService can be configured to switch to V3 once you’re ready:

    game:
      serviceConfigs:
        MatchLifecycleServiceConfig:
          sendMatchProcessedV3Notification: true
    

    • Once you’ve successfully switched over to V3, be sure to update any references to the new version.

Integrations #

• Remove all uses of PartyPlayer.progression in the PartyPlugin functions.
  • Description: As part of the Progression service deprecation, we’re removing all progression data from interservice calls and plugins.
  • Integration steps:
    • Audit your use of these functions to ensure that you are not using PartyPlayer.progression:
      • initializeParty
      • recreateParty
      • onAddPlayer
      • onRemovePlayer
      • updatePlayer
      • updateParty
      • buildMatchmakingKey
      • buildExtEnterMatchmakingV2Request
• Update MatchLifecycle.MatchEndV4Request to use new itemServerGrants field.
  • Description: MatchLifecycle.MatchEndV4Request is being changed to use the itemServerGrants field instead of itemGrants to better reflect the fact that these grants are coming from the server and are trusted.
  • Integration steps:
    • Assign any item grants in PlayerMatchEndV4 under the itemServerGrants field.

    Original	Replacement
    itemGrants: List<inventory.ItemGrantV2>	itemServerGrants: List<inventory.ItemServerGrantV1>

Bugs and Fixes #

• Unreal SDK: Fixed issue with core SDK always invalidating the Makefile. This should decrease build times by a few seconds.

Docs #

• [Updated Services Guide] New sections have been added to the Party Services Guide for custom Party behavior, along with a related Quick Guide.