Changelog

Changelog format is based on Keep a Changelog.

Types of changes

• Added for new features.
• Changed for changes in existing functionality.
• Deprecated for soon-to-be removed features.
• Removed for now removed features.
• Fixed for any bug fixes.
• Security in case of vulnerabilities

Please, always remove previous plugin version before updating!

[2.3.5] - 2026-10-11

Fixed

• Invalid Renderer Batching detection now reads the static batching setting through the public API on Unity 6, avoiding the internal API affected by Unity 6.6's dynamic batching removal. Earlier supported editors retain the existing fallback.

Changed

• Raised the minimum supported Unity version to 2022.3 and removed compatibility code for older editors.

[2.3.4] - 2026-07-10

Fixed

• Fix Find References, Find Issues, and other selection-based menu items and hotkeys staying permanently disabled on Unity 6000.4/6000.5, caused by the 2.3.3 EntityId fix silently truncating object ids to 32 bits
• Fix References Finder reveal/select using a mismatched id space on Unity 6000.4/6000.5, causing it to resolve the wrong (or no) object

[2.3.3] - 2026-06-30

Fixed

• Add Unity 6000.5 support: fix compile errors from the removed EntityId↔int cast (CS0619)
• Add map data versioning to automatically trigger full Assets Map rebuild when map processing logic changes between updates
• Speed up missing component removal by using Unity's built-in API as fast path and skipping already-processed prefabs during batch fix

[2.3.2] - 2026-02-19

Fixed

• Fix spurious "Failed to clear session cache" warning on Windows when session cache version mismatches (e.g. after switching git branches)
• Prevent auto-generate lighting from rebaking lightmaps and reflection probes during scene scanning
• Fix excessive memory consumption on large projects causing system freeze during scanning
• Fix SerializedObject native memory leak during property traversal
• Fix O(n²) performance in recursive reference graph walks
• Fix UX issues after no results operations (i.e. no issues found)

[2.3.1] - 2026-02-13

Added

• Add Rate us widget

Fixed

• References Finder: invalidate cached asset object IDs after asset move to prevent false 0 references.

[2.3.0] - 2026-02-03

Added

• Assets Map: add VFX Graph dependency parsing support

Changed

• Improve Unity 6.4 compatibility

[2.2.0] - 2025-12-30 🎅 HO-HO-HO 🎄

Added

• Issues Finder: detect deleted scenes referenced in Build Settings

Changed

• Add progress bar support to SaveIntArray and LoadIntArray methods
• Reduce memory usage in some scenarios
• Improve exception handling in assets map serialization

Fixed

• Fix UI briefly breaks when clicking Reveal button in any module
• Prevent NullReferenceException when checking asset references list
• Add type compatibility validation before deserialization to prevent silent data loss
• Batch GUID cache invalidation to improve performance when processing many assets
• Fix UI lists breaking with errors after code recompilation
• Fix script icon references not detected in Unity 6
• Fix revealing in prefabs with UI didn't work correctly in some edge cases

[2.1.1] - 2025-12-05

Changed

• Improve Unity 6.3 compatibility

[2.1.0] - 2025-12-04

Added

• Issues Finder:
  • Add StartSearchInPath() API for scanning specific files or folders
  • Add StartSearchInPaths() API for scanning multiple files/folders efficiently
  • Add 🐛 Find Issues context menu item for project assets and folders

Changed

• Implement incremental Asset Map caching, making repeated Maintainer scans ~90% faster on average (up to 95% faster).
• References Finder: apply sorting to nested items when expanding assets

[2.0.1] - 2025-10-10

Fixed

• Fix Issues Finder now properly scans embedded packages

[2.0.0] - 2025-08-22

Added

• Issues Finder:
  • Add extension API allowing custom issues detection, see docs for details
  • Add Invalid Sorting Layer issue detection
  • Add Invalid Renderer Materials issue detection
  • Add Invalid Renderer Batching issue detection
• References Finder:
  • Add Find Dependencies References menu item
• UX: Add Highlighter for better results navigation in Unity 2021.3 or newer
• UX: Add collapse / expand left panel feature

Changed

• Improve Assets Map creation performance dramatically (one phase got 400x speedup with 40% mem usage reduction)
• Improve Assets Map update performance
• Improve Unity 6 / 6.1 / 6.2 compatibility
• Update minimum supported Unity version to 2020.3.0f1
• Improve Issues Finder settings UX
• Skip hidden components when revealing a reference

Removed

• Remove legacy .NET 3.5 support

Fixed

• Fix Inspector might not show up while navigating results in some scenarios
• Fix Discord icons might not show up in some scenarios
• Fix deleted prefab / scene reveal might break UI (thx Paul Dyatlov)
• Fix console errors while revealing references (thx Pishi)
• Fix object-level reveal lead to Can't show it properly message
• Fix UI exception when clearing results in some cases
• Project Cleaner:
  • Fix BuildProfile assets now properly auto-ignored to prevent false unused asset detection
  • Fix asset size calculation inconsistency across multiple runs that could show incorrect total sizes
  • Fix assets referenced from project settings now properly treated
  • Fix HDRP default resources folder now automatically excluded
• Issues Finder:
  • Fix rare console exception when switching to module tab
  • Fix missing reference reset didn't work in few edge cases (thx Alex)

[1.17.1] - 2024-11-22

Fixed

• Fix lightmapper warning from Demo scene on Mac
• Fix disabled filters could break search in some cases

[1.17.0] - 2024-11-20

Added

• Add demo scene at Maintainer/Demo/Maintainer Demo.unity

Fixed

• Fix deprecated API warnings in Unity 6 LTS (thx Makaka Games)

[1.16.3] - 2024-09-04

Changed

• Improve Unity 6 compatibility
• Dramatically improve Assets Map update time in some scenarios by magnitude of 5

Fixed

• Fix records tabs layout
• Fix GUI Layout errors in Console when Maintainer is opened first time

[1.16.2] - 2023-06-07

Changed

• Improve exceptions handling at the Issues Fixer
• Improve Issues Fixer performance (thx Mattis)

[1.16.1] - 2023-04-14

Changed

• Multiple managed references to the same instance in one SerializedObject are now traversed only once in Unity 2021.2 or newer

Fixed

• Fix infinite [SerializeReference] recursion could lead to freeze (thx Makaka Games)
• Fix null ref when dealing with files without asset importer (thx CDF)
• Fix few harmless errors in Console when revealing Issue

[1.16.0] - 2022-09-18

Added

• Add Deep search option to the References Finder

Changed

• Improve Assets Map generation performance (thx Adam Kane)
• Reduce Assets Map file size
• Reduce References Finder UI CPU overhead
• Nicify property path at the Hierarchy Reference Finder results

Removed

• Remove few obsolete APIs

Fixed

• Fix reveal in prefabs could work incorrectly

[1.15.0] - 2022-08-05

Added

• Add support for SerializeReference attribute (thx CanBaycay)

Changed

• Improve Duplicate component search accuracy

[1.14.3] - 2022-06-24

Fixed

• Fix scripts references might not appear in References Finder (thx CanBaycay)

[1.14.2] - 2022-06-21

Fixed

• Fix Addressable folders dependencies processing (thx sebas77)

[1.14.1] - 2022-04-11

Changed

• Improve Unity 2022.2 compatibility

[1.14.0] - 2022-02-05

Added

• Add "Ignore Editor assets" option (on by default) to Project Cleaner
  • In addition to Editor-only special folders, it now ignores assets under editor-only Assembly Definitions

Removed

• Remove 'Editor Resources' and 'EditorResources' folders from the Project Cleaner builtin ignores

Fixed

• Fix redundant .asmdef ignore added to the Project Cleaner while migrating from < 1.4.1 version
• Fix icons rendering performance degradation regression

[1.13.2] - 2022-01-19

Changed

• Improve few built-in icons rendering

[1.13.1] - 2022-01-17

Fixed

• Fix possible exception while scanning for missing references

[1.13.0] - 2021-10-04

Added

• Add automatic IDependenciesParser implementations integration in Unity 2019.2+
• Add Filters count to the filtering tabs titles
• Add Tools > Code Stage > Maintainer > Find Issues In Opened Scenes along with new StartSearchInOpenedScenes API
• Add Game Object > Maintainer > Find Issues In Opened Scenes menu
• Add MaintainerExtension base class for extensions
• Add DependenciesParser base class for dependency parsing extensions
• Add items count to the Issues Finder and Project Cleaner reports
• Add new support contact, let's chat at Discord!

Changed

• Improve Project Cleaner ignores context menu UX
• Allow searching issues at the unsaved Untitled scene
• Previous search results do not clear up anymore if new search was cancelled
• Improve Unity 2022.1 compatibility
• Make AssetInfo class public
• Change IDependenciesParser.GetDependenciesGUIDs signature to allow more flexibility:
  • accept AssetInfo instance
  • return IList
• Utilize IDependenciesParser for settings dependencies processing

Deprecated

• Starting from Unity 2019.2+, deprecate redundant AssetDependenciesSearcher.AddExternalDependenciesParsers API
• Deprecate legacy .NET 3.5 (to be removed in next major upgrade in favor of newer .NET version)

Fixed

• Issues Finder:
  • Fix some Game Objects still could be analyzed with Game Objects option disabled
  • Fix missing components reveal didn't properly fold inspectors
  • Fix Game Object context menus were active for non-GameObject selection
  • Fix checking scenes and Game Objects with disabled corresponding options regression
  • Fix rare case with duplicate issues in prefab variants without overrides
• References Finder:
  • Fix search terms were not reset after Unity restart causing a confusion
  • Fix rendering settings path in Exact References at Unity 2020.1+
• Fix possibility of rare filtering issues when having "Assets" in the project path
• Fix fallback fonts were not tracked properly leading to inclusion at the Project Cleaner
• Fix reveal in Prefab Variants didn't set proper Selection
• Fix window notification could not show up after window activation
• Fix minor UI issues
• Fix other minor issues

[1.12.2] - 2021-08-18

Fixed

• Fix possible NullReferenceException at scene settings processor (thx thygrrr)

[1.12.1] - 2021-07-31

Fixed

• Fix possible NullReferenceException at Issues Finder (thx NIkoloz)

[1.12.0] - 2021-06-28

Added

• Project Cleaner:
  • Add new quick way to treat all scenes in project as used (thx Makaka Games)
  • Add new context menu action for found unused scene assets to treat them as used

Changed

• Improve errors reporting and exceptions handling
• Project Cleaner: improve used scenes filtering UX

Fixed

• Issues Finder: fix minor issues at missing references algorithm

[1.11.0] - 2021-06-23

Added

Issues Finder

• improve generic missing references lookup in file assets
• add MonoScript missing default properties lookup support
• add Materials missing texture references lookup support (thx Makaka Games)

Removed

• Remove additional path restrictions when dropping assets to path filters

Fixed

• Issues Finder: fix minor UI issues

[1.10.2] - 2021-06-17

Changed

• Make References Finder take embedded packages into account (thx Mr. Pink)

Fixed

• Fix subfolders processing at References Finder

[1.10.1] - 2021-06-16

Changed

• Switch from plain text changelog to markdown-driven format

Fixed

• Fix References Finder picked more source assets then looking in folders in some cases
• Fix asset selection on reveal when using two-column Project Browser

[1.10.0] and older

See older versions changelog in legacy text format here