Following on the first ever Unity Alpha release, Unity have just released the first beta of 2019. This release contains a massive number of fixes and improvements as detailed in the release notes. The major new features of 2019.1 have been summarized on the Unity forums:
- New Keyboard Shortcut Manager configuration interface
- More GPU Lightmapper Functionality:
- Support for double sided GI flag on the materials
- Support for shadow casting and receiving on meshes
- Android: Added OpenGL ES 3.2 support
- Graphics: Native rendering plugin support for Vulkan
- Physics: Added methods to determine the closest point to a Collider2D
- Particle System Improvements
- Android Package Patching
- Incremental Garbage Collection (Preview)
- Scene Visibility
- Timeline signals
In our 2019.1 alpha coverage we took a look at the new Shortcut Manager and we have already done a video covering the new incremental garbage collection preview.