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MAJOR FEATURES + CHANGES
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Change 2717513 on 2015/10/06 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_EGUK_M1
GC and WeakObjectPtr performance optimizations.
- Moved some of the EObjectFlags to EInternalObjectFlags and merged them with FUObjectArray
- Moved WeakObjectPtr serial numbersto FUObjectArray
- Added pre-allocated UObject array
Change 2716517 on 2015/10/05 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_EGUK_M1
Make SavePackage thread safe UObject-wise so that StaticFindObject etc can't run in parallel when packages are being saved.
Change 2721142 on 2015/10/08 by Mikolaj.Sieluzycki@Dev-Core_D0920
UHT will now use makefiles to speed up iterative runs.
Change 2726320 on 2015/10/13 by Jaroslaw.Palczynski@jaroslaw.palczynski_D1732_2963
Hot-reload performance optimizations:
1. Got rid of redundant touched BPs optimization (which was necessary before major HR fixes submitted earlier).
2. Parallelized search for old CDOs referencers.
Change 2759032 on 2015/11/09 by Graeme.Thornton@GThornton_DesktopMaster
Dependency preloading improvements
- Asset registry dependencies now resolve asset redirectors
- Rearrange runtime loading to put dependency preloads within BeginLoad/EndLoad for the source package
Change 2754342 on 2015/11/04 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_Stream1
Allow UnfocusedVolumeMultiplier to be set programmatically
Change 2764008 on 2015/11/12 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_Stream1
When cooking, don't add imports that are outers of objects excluded from the current cook target.
Change 2755562 on 2015/11/05 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
Inline storage for TFunction.
Fix for delegate inline storage on Win64.
Some build fixes.
Visualizer fixes for new TFunction format.
Change 2735084 on 2015/10/20 by Jaroslaw.Surowiec@Stream.1.JarekSurowiec
CrashReporter Web - Search by Platform
Added initial support for streams (GetBranchesAsListItems, CopyToJira)
Change 2762387 on 2015/11/11 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
Unnecessary allocation removed when loading empty files in FFileHelper::LoadFileToString.
Change 2762632 on 2015/11/11 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
Some TSet function optimisations:
Avoiding unnecessary hashing of function arguments if the container is empty (rather than the hash being empty, which is not necessarily equivalent).
Taking local copies of HashSize during iterations.
Change 2762936 on 2015/11/11 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
BulkData zero byte allocations are now handled by an RAII object which owns the memory.
Change 2765758 on 2015/11/13 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
FName::operator== and != optimised to be a single comparison.
Change 2757195 on 2015/11/06 by Jaroslaw.Surowiec@Stream.1.JarekSurowiec
PR #1305: Improvements in CrashReporter for Symbol Server usage (Contributed by bozaro)
Change 2760778 on 2015/11/10 by Jaroslaw.Surowiec@Stream.1.JarekSurowiec
PR #1725: Fixed typos in ProfilerCommon.h; Added comments (Contributed by BGR360)
Also fixed starting condition.
Change 2739804 on 2015/10/23 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_Stream1
PR #1470: [UObjectGlobals] Do not overwrite instanced subobjects with ones from CDO (Contributed by slonopotamus)
Change 2744733 on 2015/10/28 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
PR #1540 - Specifying a different Saved folder at launch through a command line parameter
Integrated and optimized.
#lockdown Nick.Penwarden
[CL 2772222 by Robert Manuszewski in Main branch]
UEB-261 - Ensure that compiling AutomationTool in VS will compile all other Automation Projects
* Just set AutomationTool as your startup project and pass the command to execute.
* VS will build the script modules at build time, instead of every time at runtime.
* To make this happen, "UBT.exe -ProjectFiles" now generates a companion AutomationTool.csproj.References that make AutomationTool depend on all Automation modules.
* AutomationTool.exe defaults to not building script modules at runtime. Pass -compile if you want to dynamically build them.
* Without the .references file, AutomationTool will only build itself and you will need to pass -compile.
* RunUAT.bat still works that same, defaulting to runtime compilation and supporting -nocompile flag. It then passes -compile (or nothing) to AutomationTool.
Other
* All Automation projects target .Net 4.5. Some already were and had hard dependencies on them (Rocket and SyncGithub -> Octokit). Now that AutomationTool directly depends on them, everything had to use .Net 4.5.
* Decoupled logic for -NoCompile and -NoCompileEditor. The flags are still confusing, but -NoCompile is no longer linked to -NoCompileEditor.
* Had to leave in stub support in UAT for -NoCompile else RunUAT.bat passes it along and UAT complains that it doesn't understand it.
* Added a CommandUtils.Run option to support run command, but still output the run duration.
* Reduced the verbosity when UAT.proj is run from dozens of lines per module to a single Module -> Output line. It was looking like there were problems, but it was just msbuild spew.
#codereview:ben.marsh
[CL 2615060 by Wes Hunt in Main branch]
Not compatible with users who have no source, but may have visual studio installed.
#CodeReview Mikolaj.Sieluzycki
[CL 2565055 by Terence Burns in Main branch]
- Rocket doesn't bundle Linux libs, making code-based projects (and projects with third-party plugins) fail during compilation.
- Updated messaging to reflect this.
- Also added a SDK check for Linux and a 'getting' started UDN page.
- Updated Linux README for 4.8.
#codereview Peter.Sauerbrei, Ben.Marsh, Jeff.Wilson
[CL 2543338 by Dmitry Rekman in Main branch]
Newly installed versions of the engine will now attempt to copy the project-agnostic config settings from a previous engine installation. This happens by way of a versioned manifest that copies old versions when the manifest does not exist, or is a different version. This code path is benign for non-installed versions of the engine (or FPaths::ShouldSaveToUserDir() is false).
EditorGameAgnosticSettings and EditorUserSettings ini paths have been renamed to EditorSettings and EditorPerProjectUserSettings respectively to better convey their purpose. In general, most settings should be saved in EditorSettings (project-agnostic) so that they apply regardless of which project is open. We have some way to go migrating existing settings for this to be the case, however.
Some previously per-project configuration files are now project-agnostic (such as Editor.ini, EditorKeyBindings.ini, and EditorLayout.ini)
GEditor->Access...Settings and GEditor->Get...Settings have been removed in favor of direct access of the CDO through GetMutableDefault<> and GetDefault<> respectively. Global config ini filenames that are not set up are now neither loaded nor saved on build machines, to handle the problem of indeterminate state more generically.
This addresses UETOOL-270 (Most editor preferences should be project-agnostic)
[CL 2517558 by Andrew Rodham in Main branch]