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Weekly Changelog

This is where you will find our log of changes to the APIs, SDKs, the Console and any other services LootLocker provides.

2023-06-09 - Changelog

Web Console

Bug Fixes

  • Corrected issue where inactive assets were not filtered out when granting an asset to a players inventory.

2023-05-26 - Changelog

Web Console

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where searching in the player list would not return correct info on exact matches.
  • Fixed a bug related to rendering drop tables in game merging, causing the entire page to crash.

Admin API

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where sometimes game merging would report with no changes even if there were changes to merge.

2023-05-19 - Changelog

Web Console

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug with progression tiers incorrectly counting the next step and points

2023-05-12 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Multiple types of OAuth2 Client ID’s can now be configured for Google Sign In in the platform settings.
  • AngularJS removed - the console now runs only on React/NextJS.
  • Character Classes had a facelift from AngularJS to React.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with switching environment on Asset pages.
  • Fixed an issue with ordering of assets on the Asset page.

Unity SDK

Release v1.2.2

Changes

  • Apple Game Center: The SDK now supports using Apple Game Center as authorization system.
  • New samples for using the fresh progressions system.
  • Expired sessions will now automatically try to refresh if there is a refresh token.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes for GetPlayerStorage.
  • Fixes for incisistent line endings warnings.

Game API

Changes

  • Google Sign In now supports multiple types of OAuth2 Client ID’s.

2023-04-28 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • You can now delete your own games. Find it in Game Settings.

Unity SDK

Release v1.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the build errors of namespace Plastic not existing. We have moved to using an internal JSON library which you can find here: This removes the reliance on Newtonsoft all together. Please be vigilant for any bugs or errors that are caused by JSON parsing in the next few weeks and let us know.

2023-04-21 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Released small UI revamps for Segments, Heroes and Missions
  • We have removed the Metrics page from the Web Console. It was part of our legacy feature set and most of the numbers were inaccurate

Unity SDK

Released v1.1.48

Changes

  • Adds possibility to get persistent storage as dictionary
  • Adds ability to update public key values for a player
  • Makes client side timeout limit configurable

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the Newtonsoft compiler errors when adding the SDK to Unity
  • Adds safeguard to avoid uploads of null files

2023-03-31 - Changelog

Web Console

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the player pages, where players from Google and Epic Games would break the frontend.
  • Fixed an issue where Asset ULIDs would show up as changes in Game Merge, when it shouldn’t
  • Fixed an issue where creating a context, but using the default complexity, would set the wrong complexity in the backend. Issue is resolved and data has been updated for existing games which encountered this issue.

Unreal SDK

Changes

  • Epic Sign In - Added methods StartEpicSession and RefreshEpicSession, for more information go to our documentation
  • All LootLocker Responses now have an Error property (if there is an error) that is a cleaned up version of the FullTextFromServer property

Unity SDK

Changes

  • Epic Sign In - Added methods StartEpicSession and RefreshEpicSession, for more information go to our documentation
  • Added a method to register a progression without adding points to it

Bug Fixes

  • Added a client side rate limiter to avoid being blacklisted due to improper usage

Game API

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where starting sessions for Google and Epic required you to send development_mode in the request, this is no longer the case

2023-03-24 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Messages, Mission settings, asset rarirites, context settings and DLCs have had a facelift from old Angular to new React
  • Asset filters now auto-open when you add a new one
  • You can now require players to have unique names in your game. Change it in your games settings

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with adding lootboxes to assets

Game API

Changes

  • Added support for Epic Games Sign in
  • If you have Unique Player Names enabled in your games settings, you will now receive an error if you try to set a name that is already taken

2023-03-17 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • The old progressions system has been hidden from the user interface.
  • We’ve colour coded the sidebar to make it more identifiable when you’re in staging and live. Stage mode remains green, and Live presents as Orange. Let us know what you think!

Bug Fixes

  • Leaderboards will now warn you if you try to create one with a conflicting key
  • Fixed an issue where clicking save on Image Types would create multiple
  • Fixed an issue allowing collectables to be created in Live mode
  • Fixed an issue with the validation of Max Title and Max Summary lengths
  • Fixed an issue with collectables sometimes returning an error
  • Fixed an issue allowing triggers to be created in Live mode
  • Fixed an issue with Nintendo icon on players

Game API

Changes

  • We’ve decided to turn on player verification for all new games, for Steam and PlayStation sessions. This means all sessions created for these platforms will need to be verified before the session can start. If you want to have this enabled for your existing game, please reach out on our discord or on email.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where some errors were not being returned correctly when starting guest and steam/psn/android sessions. It should be easier to figure out what an error is now.

2023-03-10 - Changelog

Unity SDK

Changes

  • The SDK now supports Google Sign In
  • The SDK will now automatically resolve and use the domain API if the domain key is set
  • The SDK will now store and automatically use the Apple and Google refresh tokens if not done manually

Bug Fixes

  • The SDK now supports Enter Play Mode Options allowing you to speed up your development process
  • The SDK will now now relies on a newer version of Newtonsoft
  • The SDK will no longer silently discard requests with an expected body that is null
  • Player and Asset Reports now have a message instead of a text
  • Requests are now allowed to timeout
  • Local session data is now cleared upon ending a session and deleting a player

Unreal SDK

Changes

Bug Fixes

  • StartSteamSession now sets the correct platform
  • Fixed Critical WhiteLabel bug that caused white label sessions to fail for old Unreal projects

Game API

Changes

  • Google Sign In - Game API now supports starting player sessions using Google ID tokens

2023-03-03 - Changelog

Web console

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue making it impossible to clear leaderboards
    • We still have a known issue where the UI won't show success when clearing leaderboards, but it does work

2023-02-24 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

Your asset page has had an overhaul! With an updated design more in line with the rest of the web console, you’ll also find some stability improvements. We’re not perfect however, and if you find something not working as it should, you still have access to the legacy page for now.

2023-02-17 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Overhauled Progression System: We're excited to give you a new feature. Learn more under Progressions.
  • Platform keys and other sensitive information are now behaves like a password input, with toggleable visibility, except the first four characters are visible for easy identification.
  • Assets in the asset list and grid views are now able to be filtered by their context type eg. Soft Currency Package, Feature Unlocks, or any of your custom contexts.
  • You can now see player file revisions in the Player files section and revert to previous versions of the file.

Unreal SDK

Changes

  • Overhauled Progression System: We're excited to give you a new feature. Learn more under Progressions.
  • Major overhaul of LootLocker settings
    • Deprecated Platform selector: No need to set the platform here, instead you should use the appropriate StartSession method for your platform.
    • Deprecated legacy API keys (that don't start with dev or prod): If you're on one of those, generate new keys and use those instead
    • Clarified descriptions
  • Added method to update player files
  • Added method that allows a player to delete themselves
  • Added a single method combining WhiteLabel Login and Start Session -> WhiteLabelLoginAndStartSession
  • Added methods to handle heroes with variations

Bug Fixes

  • Avoid logging sensitive information, especially outside the editor
  • Fixed bug that broke White Label login

Unity SDK

Changes

  • Overhauled Progression System: We're excited to give you a new feature. Learn more under Progressions.
  • Major overhaul of LootLocker settings
    • Deprecated Platform selector: No need to set the platform here, instead you should use the appropriate StartSession method for your platform.
    • Deprecated legacy API keys (that don't start with dev or prod): If you're on one of those, generate new keys and use those instead
    • Clarified descriptions
  • Added method to update player files
  • Added method that allows a player to delete themselves
  • Added a single method combining WhiteLabel Login and Start Session -> WhiteLabelLoginAndStartSession
  • Updated LootLockers logging system and allowed for more granular control of what's logged.
  • Obfuscate sensitive information in logs

Bug Fixes

  • GetOtherPlayerXPAndLevel is no longer broken
  • The SDK now registers as initialized even when manually initialized
  • The SDK now logs errors as errors ;)
  • EndSession will no longer throw an error if no session exists
  • Fixed bug that broke White Label login

Game API

Changes

  • Overhauled Progression System: We're excited to give you a new feature. Learn more under Progressions.
  • Added an endpoint for updating Player Files.

Server API

Changes

  • Overhauled Progression System: We're excited to give you a new feature. Learn more under Progressions.
  • Added an endpoint for updating Player Files.

Admin API

Changes

  • Overhauled Progression System: We're excited to give you a new feature. Learn more under Progressions.
  • Added an endpoint for updating Player Files.
  • Added an endpoint for reverting to previous revisions of Player Files.

2023-02-10 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Leaderboards now tell users if they are on the wrong environment (stage/production) when trying to view a particular leaderboard.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where it wasn’t possible to save White Label Platform settings if you had enabled player verification

Game API

Changes

  • Added endpoint to allow players to delete themselves. This lets iOS games comply with updated requirements from Apple.
  • Added an endpoint for getting player persistent storage for multiple players

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug causing players on the guest platform without names to not be returned in the lookup endpoint.

Server API

Changes

  • Added an endpoint for getting player persistent storage for multiple players

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug causing players on the guest platform without names to not be returned in the lookup endpoint.

2023-02-03 - Changelog

Unity SDK

Release: v1.1.43 of the Unity SDK - https://github.com/LootLocker/unity-sdk/releases/tag/v1.1.43

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug with the LootLocker Samples using the wrong assembly definition file
  • Added a namespace for LootLocker samples to remove warnings when installing

Admin API

Bug Fixes

  • Uploading files to players will now return those files when listing a players files in all APIs

2023-01-27 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Users are now able to add scores to players in leaderboards
  • Metadata added to scores in leaderboards is now visible, and updatable
  • You can now block white label users from leaderboards if they haven't verified their email
  • When creating an Asset we now remember the last Context used, making it easier to create multiple Assets in a row with the same Context

Bug Fixes

  • Improved Player list pagination positioning for better visibility
  • Improved API Key descriptions for clarity
  • Fixed issue when adding scores to generic leaderboards
  • Fixed issue where refund button was cutoff in some scenarios
  • Fixed issue where it wasn't possible to delete messages
  • Fixed an issue where you wouldn't be shown the MFA recovery code after enabling it
  • Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to use MFA recovery codes

Game Maker Extension

Changes

  • Added a new function to include metadata when uploading a score; LootLockerSubmitScoreMetadata("leaderboardID", "score", "metadata")

Game API

Changes

  • Player names will be returned when a new game session is registered (if the user has set a name)

Bug Fixes

  • Requesting a verification email for white label users now works again, and can be requested with the users email, and not just ID like before
  • Improved error message when trying lookup a player on playerID, but sending a string
  • Improved errors when sending invalid version number in session registration

Server API

Bug Fixes

  • Improved error message when trying lookup a player by playerID, but sending a string

LootLocker.com Website

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue with price calculator price using incorrect formatting
  • Fixed issue where images were covering up some text

2022-12-16 - Changelog

Web Console

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a few broken links in the getting started section. Thanks to Discord user @LegendarySwordsman2 for reporting this!

Unity SDK

Changes

  • Deprecated leaderboard functions that uses leaderboardID -> use the same functions but with leaderboardKey instead

Bug Fixes

  • Updating LootLocker will no longer remove the API-key and LootLocker settings
  • Fixes for the Unity asset-store

2022-12-09 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Brand new merging interface rebuilt in React for viewing and selecting changes from your staging environment to your live.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the action button on the asset list would sometimes be half way cut off.

Game API

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug causing Player Storage to silently fail to save if the value was above 260 characters, but below 15000. The actual length limit is now 1500 characters.

2022-12-02 - Changelog

Game Maker Extension

Bug Fixes

  • LLPlayerRank(), LLPlayerScore() now returns their correct values

Admin API

Changes

  • We added an brand new endpoint for listing players for your game, which should be much faster for games with large player bases than the old search endpoints "recent" option.

2022-11-25 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where creating a context would not respect user facing and detachable

Admin API

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where creating a context would not respect user facing and detachable

2022-11-18 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Added the option to clear an entire leaderboard of all of it's data from the leaderboards page.
  • Added support for multiple API keys. You can now create multiple API keys for your game
  • We now show the variation ID for each variation, on the asset page

Game API

Changes

  • Player name lookup endpoint now also returns players who don't have a name set

Bug Fixes

  • Fix issue with starting session for games using a string in the value for development_mode

Server API

Changes

  • Player name lookup endpoint now also returns players who don't have a name set

Admin API

Changes

  • Prevent users with unverified email addresses to invite users to organizations

2022-11-11 - Changelog

Web Console

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where wrong 1st party platform id is returned instead of XBox id on player 1st party platform lookup endpoint.

Admin API

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue where sending demo: false when creating a game would still create a demo game.
  • Fixed a security issue where Two-Factor Authentication could be circumvented.

2022-11-04 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Added the ability to show Asset ID in asset lists.

Unity SDK

Changes

  • Summaries added to all public functions in LootLockerSDKManager
  • Renamed functions in LootLockerSDKManager, and old ones marked as deprecated, will be removed at a later stage;
    • GettingAllMissions -> GetAllMissions
    • GettingASingleMission -> GetMission
    • StartingAMission -> StartMission
    • FinishingAMission -> FinishMission
    • GettingAllMaps -> GetAllMaps
    • PollingOrderStatus -> PollOrderStatus
    • ActivatingARentalAsset -> ActivateRentalAsset
    • GettingCollectables -> GetCollectables
    • CollectingAnItem -> CollectItem
    • TriggeringAnEvent -> ExecuteTrigger
    • ListingTriggeredTriggerEvents -> ListExecutedTriggers

Bug Fixes

  • Imported samples has missing references to their scripts
  • Fixed all warnings when installing the SDK

Game API

Changes

  • Added is_public as input when uploading files to players to make API usage easier.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bad error message returned for White Label Login signups when an invalid domain key was supplied. (Thanks to Discord user @DexTex for reporting)

2022-10-28 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • Created a new UI for the assets page and User content pages
    • Revamped looks
    • You can now filter results
    • Possible to deactivate/activate multiple assets at the same time
    • Added a card view toggle
    • The UI is now full width to support showing many columns
  • Moved the User content moderation to a new main menu item
  • Search field doesn’t expand it’s bounds on focus
  • Moved the environment selector in platform settings, so it's in line with how you switch in other places
  • Added URL's for each tab in the player page, to make it easier to link to
  • Removed the possibility of flagging UGC assets

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue where we would link to player on member type leaderboards, even though that's not possible

Unity SDK

Released v1.1.39

Changes

  • Apple Refresh tokens - Signing in with Apple now returns a refresh token that can be used to refresh the sign in until it expires instead of doing the full sign in flow.

Bug Fixes

  • When a request fails, the HTTP Status Code will now be returned for inspection
  • EndSession no longer fails if called when no session is active
  • Stability work to White Label methods, also updated documentation of the methods
  • GetAssetInformation now works

Deprecations

  • Deprecated GetAssetInformation(string assetId, Action onComplete), is replaced by new method GetAssetInformation(int assetId, Action onComplete)
  • Deprecated StartWhiteLabelSession with password as an argument

Game API

Changes

  • Add support for Asset Variations for Heroes. This allows for using variations on Heroes.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue where deleting a player's profile did not delete the player's name (if provided).
  • Fixed issue resulting in moderation reports not being created

Server API

Changes

  • Add support for Asset Variations for Heroes.

Admin API

Changes

  • Added endpoint for getting leaderboard by ID

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue where activating asset using /activate endpoint would not clear cache for asset list endpoints

2022-10-21 - Changelog

Unity SDK

Bug Fixes

  • GetAssetInformation is now working as intended.
  • Links inside asset-variations now return correctly.

Server API

Changes

  • Universal Assets are finally available in the Server API!
  • All Asset Instance endpoints from the Game API are now available in the Server API too.

2022-10-14 - Changelog

Web Console

Changes

  • We're now showing the players names on the list of leaderboard scores, with a link to the player page.
  • User scores can be updated and deleted from the Leaderboard tab on the Player page.
  • Users can clear search boxes.

Admin API

Changes

Bug Fixes

  • Squashed a bug that made it impossible to have multiple Attachment Types for assets in some situations.

2022-09-30 - Changelog

This week is a little short on changes, but a lot of preparations and behind the scenes things are going on to allow us to move fast in the coming weeks.

Web Console

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with removing progression rewards.

2022-09-23 - Changelog

Happy Friday! Here are new changes and bug fixes that were released this week.

Web Console

Changes

  • We've updated the UI for Collectables to use our new frontend framework.
    • Also added the ability to delete collectables.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue making it impossible to remove collectable groups.

Unity SDK

Changes

  • Added CI tests.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with rental assets not returning the correct information.
  • Fixed bug with Triggers not returning information about granted assets.
  • Bug fixes in sample scene, missing meta-files.

Game API

Changes

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with listing leaderboards causing errors when pagination parameters are out of bounds.

Admin API

Changes

  • Added documentation for all Collectables endpoints.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue making it impossible to remove collectable groups.

2022-09-16 - Changelog

Unity SDK

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with GetAllMemberRanks method

2022-08-19 - Changelog

Unity SDK

  • Updated SDK description
  • Added MIT License
  • Added samples for common use cases