5.0.0

Major updates

Updates

General

Added static CenterToRef for vectors 2/3/4 (aWeirdo)
Added ability to view images (ktx2, png, jpg) to the sandbox. (bghgary)

Loaders

Added support for EXT_meshopt_compression for glTF loader. (zeux)

Navigation

Added support for thin instances in navigation mesh creation (CedricGuillemet)

Materials

Added an OcclusionMaterial to simplify depth-only rendering of geometry (rgerd)

Inspector

Added support for sounds in the inspector (Deltakosh)

NME

Added ability to make input node's properties visible in the properties of a custom frame (msDestiny14)

GUI

Added a FocusableButton gui control to simplify creating menus with keyboard navigation (Flux159)
Added focus() and blur() functions for controls that implement IFocusableControl (Flux159)

WebXR

A browser error preventing the emulator to render scene is now correctly dealt with (RaananW)

Bugs

Fix issue with the Promise polyfill where a return value was expected from resolve() (Deltakosh)
Fix ArcRotateCamera panning with axis decomposition (CedricGuillemet)
Fix an issue with keyboard control (re)attachment. (#9411) (RaananW)
Fix issue where PBRSpecularGlossiness materials were excluded from export #9423(Drigax)
Fix direct loading of a glTF string that has base64-encoded URI. (bghgary)

Breaking changes

List of breaking changes introduced by ou compatibility with WebGPU
- ReadPixels and ProceduralTexture.getContent are now async
- Shader support differences
Use both mesh.visibility and material.alpha values to compute the global alpha value used by the soft transparent shadow rendering code. Formerly was only using mesh.visibility (Popov72)
The Texture.hasAlpha property is automatically set by the KTX2 loader if the texture has an alpha channel (Popov72)
Depth renderer: don't render mesh if infiniteDistance = true or if material.disableDepthWrite = true (Popov72)